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There are wonderful bonding moments and beautiful views of nature that you are going to want to capture.
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The butterfly’s wing design was made using pepperoni and tomatoes layered. JDaniel really isn’t into lunch meat right now. I do still include it in lunches just encase he decides he likes it again. The body of the butterfly is made of a slice of cheese cut into the body of the butterfly. Small pieces of cheese are the butterflies antennas.
There is also a small butterfly created using a clementine orange and a blueberries. If you follow this blog regularly, you know that JDaniel hasn’t been big on carrots. I do keep trying to put them in snacks and lunches. This time the carrot was paired with a slice of cucumber.
This snack Bento isn’t filled to the brim with food and I did that on purpose. A small snack seems to leave JDaniel hungry for lunch or dinner later. If this snack had included a whole clementine with 12 blueberries, carrots with dip and a fully decorated butterfly, JDaniel would have been full at mealtime.
If JDaniel is full at meal time, he tends to want to take tiny bites of food and then flutter around the room. I would rather that he eat his meal and nibble on a snack.
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You will find more wonderful healthy snack for kids ideas on my Food Creations Pinterest board.
I think he bought it. Why? The next day without thinking I hid a bag of jelly beans in the same cabinet behind the mixing bowls and several bottles of olive oil right beside the bunny cookies and fruit chews. JDaniel headed straight for them at breakfast the following morning while I was getting dressed. He came to the bedroom door and announced that the Easter Bunny must be leaving new things everyday. This time I thought before I spoke! “Wow!” I said, “He must know that is where I am storing things to take on our trip!” “Yep!” he said, “He is one smart bunny!”
Does he really think the bunny is coming early? I don’t really know. JDaniel is a wise little man. I do know that he believes there is an Easter Bunny and that he know just what JDaniel likes.
I just have to hide they Easter things in some place that isn’t on his level, isn’t where he looks for snacks, and isn’t wear he hides in Hide and Seek. I thought about moving them into a suitcase in the bonus room under a pile of other bonus room treasures. They would be surrounded by the ancient golf bag, an old end table, and a box of Christmas ornaments. I ended up moving them into my husband’s side of the walking closet in our bedroom.
This post was written last Thursday before we headed out to spend Spring Break with family. I will let you know how it went when I come back.
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I made JDaniel and I both Easter Bunny Salad Bento. They were filled with delicious salads that contained dyed Easter eggs, fresh spinach, bacon, egg shaped American cheese pieces, and bunny shaped toasted croutons.
The lunch also included bunny shaped marshmallows and a bunny trail mix. The marshmallows disappeared first. I bet you knew that they would. The croutons went next although JDaniel announced they didn’t taste as good as the ones that come in a box. (I guess I need to work on that.) The trail mix of three types of raisins, tropical dried fruit and Annies Bunnies cookies went next.
Maybe he was full. He did eat all of his dessert first. Next time I need to save the dessert for later. I ate my dessert after my salad, but I guess five year old boys just don’t do that. I confess I felt full after eating the trail mix and the marshmallow for dessert. Maybe I put too much of it in our bentos. Oh! Well, I will have to try it a little bit differently next week.
I am thinking a boring dessert and an exciting main dish. Stop by next week to see what I end up serving JDaniel for lunch.
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I hope you will make a chalk bunny template and have a bunny hop of your own. Your children will probably love playing this Easter game too. You will find more Easter related games and activities on my Easter Pinterest board.
Experiments with Egg Parachutes
I decided the poem would have more meaning if I created a teaching tool to go along with it. JDaniel could easily have made this hand print craft on this own and would have if we hadn’t had a lot of things going on to get ready for our Spring Break trip.
What does each painted element stand for?
For more Easter activities for kids please check out my Easter Crafts, Snacks and Activities Pinterest board.
Deirdre is a stay at home mom. Prior to staying home she worked as an elementary school teacher and technology integration specialist for over twenty years. She hold an Early Childhood degree and a Masters in Developmental Reading. She is the blogger behind JDaniel4’s Mom, a site focused on sharing ways to learn and grow beside your children.
A cheese and flour tortilla or a cheese taco as JDaniel calls it is what he wants for breakfast every morning. He strolls into the kitchen in the morning and makes it himself. Although he really loves it, I have been thinking about ways to add a little something to his breakfast food of choice. A friend mentioned adding an egg to his cheese taco each morning when I was talking to them about it. An egg sounded like a great idea. JDaniel will eat scrambled eggs most of the time. My husband loves them too. When I was contacted by Eggland’s Best about creating brunch items, I decided it was time to try creating some wonderful breakfast tortillas with eggs.. ( If I was going to add an egg, I thought maybe I should add something else too.
I decided to head over the Eggland’s Best website and look for breakfast ideas featuring tortilla recipes. They have a wonderful recipe area on their site. While there I found a breakfast burrito that sounded great for my husband, but I wasn’t sure JDaniel would like the salsa and peppers in it.
The breakfast burrito was a great inspiration for me. It got me thinking of foods I know JDaniel likes that I could put into a burrito or taco for him. After making a list of possible food combinations, I set out to test them out on him.
Mother and Father Rabbit really want their son John to eat carrots. His brother and sister eat theirs. They try everything they can think of to get him to eat them. They even resort to having Uncle Bunny come to their house so he can show him much he loves carrots.
There is one problem with that idea! Uncle Bunny doesn’t like carrots either. He hides them in plants and under his napkin.
He is a fun uncle though. He makes baked potato rabbits for the little bunnies to eat. (His potato lacks the carrot ears though. ) He takes them on hikes. He lets them feast on foods that they like.
After their feast, Uncle Bunny heads to the kitchen to eat what is left to eat and all that is left are carrots. He tries some and really likes them. He really does.
I love how this book about two picky eaters ends. What a fun book!
It was so easy. JDaniel helped chop up the parsley and scallion for it and then put it in the blender. He cut them into chunks rather than fine pieces and that actually gave the dip some texture.
We will be making this dip again. He really likes it and I love that he eats carrots with it.
Carrot Number Activity
This activity not only helped he work on forming letters. It reviewed counting skills as well as working with viewing numbers with concrete materials.
I need to confess that he still doesn’t like to write numbers and some are a little backwards. He did like getting to use the chopstick and salt to write them. I think we will be doing this activity again too.
