Here are some more fun Bento lunches for kids:
Apple Chicken Salad Bento Lunch
Minion Lunch with Blueberry Overalls
You will find more bento lunch ideas on my Food Creations board on Pinterest.
Lunch for Kids- Scarecrow’s Harvest Lunch
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Little Owl’s Night Craft and Snack Ideas- Read.Explore.Learn.
We created a torn paper owl with cupcake liner eyes! The torn paper was added to cut-out of an owl to make him look like he has feathers. Then a piece of orange paper was used to give the owl a beak and claws. After gluing on two cupcake liners yellow circles and smaller black circles were added to complete the owl’s eyes.He looks ready to take in all the late night creatures and events. I love the texture the torn paper adds to the owl!
When the owl was dry, he was glued to a piece of black paper. The paper makes the various colors of the owl pop!
Owl Sandwich
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14 Halloween Meals for Kids
Halloween Meals for Kids
If you see one that you like, please click on its link below and you will be taken to the meals’ original post.
We have just started having bento meals this fall. JDaniel takes them to school once a week when he has late stay.
The first bento lunch in the collage is one he took to school just a few weeks ago it appeared in a post called Pumpkins Galore. Ham and cheese pumpkins were served without bread and pumpkin cream cheese rolls were served in a tortilla.
The second lunch in the top row is one that never had its own post. JDaniel took it to school two weeks ago. It was filled with a batwich, apple bats, and chow mein noodles (JDaniel loves to snack on them.) with cranberries.
The bento in the bottom row has various symbols of Halloween. There are cheese and cracker spiders, neon green pickle cats and spooky sections of a Full Moon Brownie from Clif Kids. It was created for a Clif Kids Giveaway I hosted.
We had the best time making the food creation in the upped left hand corner of the Halloween Food Creation Meal collage. JDaniel and I visited the salad bar at Whole foods and he picked out of the food elements he used for crafting a pumpkin salad.
I just made this owl sandwich for JDaniel to have when he came home from preschool for lunch. It is a simple cheese sandwich, but I think it ended up looking pretty cute.
The lunch in the bottom row is supposed to be a scarecrow’s harvest lunch. The scarecrow came out pretty scary looking. I guess that it he would really scarecrows. JDaniel love the french fry corn stalk bundle in this lunch.
We started out our creative lunch journey by having muffin tin lunches. We linked them up to the Muffin Mom. As you can see a simple light blue muffin tin appeared in several Halloween meals.
The first lunch in the upper left hand corner is from a post called Muffin Tin Monday- Halloween. It was filled with wonderful fall foods. There was pumpkin chili served in a cornbread muffin, apple shaped pumpkins, pumpkin dip, carrots, cheese shaped pumpkins and sweet potato tater tots.
Two Spiders Have Lunch was one of my first muffin tin meal attempts. There was a web of sour cream nachos, spider biscuits, an aging apple slice pumpkin and some carrots. The web was so hard for me to create. The noodles seemed to have a mind of their own. This was one of those Halloween meals for kids that I thought would be easier to make that it turned out to b.
The meal on the middle row was featured in the Pumpkins Galore post. JDaniel had it for breakfast one morning a few weeks ago. He loves tortillas and cheese for breakfast so, I made him a pumpkin tortilla with cheese. He also had sweet potato french fries, pumpkin marshmallows, grapes, Raisin Bran, and a frozen yogurt pumpkin in this meal.
I saw the pumpkin face craved in a orange online and decided to fill it with fruit in this lunch from a post called A Great Pumpkin? Beyond the fruit salad pumpkin this lunch was filled with foods JDaniel loved as a two year old.
The last muffin tin is from a lunch called Boo! for Lunch. The title didn’t come from the ghost shaped bagel. It came from the fact that the tuna and cucumbers were booed by JDaniel. He loved the mac and cheese, marshmallows and bagel though.
I hope you have enjoyed visiting our Halloween meals for kids from long ago and just a few days ago. I had a great time seeing what JDaniel has been served in the past.
Bats for Kids- Baby Bat’s Lullaby Activities
This lovely book’s words flow as you read and the rhyming text draws you into their day. I love how the mother bat loves her baby. The pictures and the words both share that message.
Bats for Kids Activities
I created a bat text guide for JDaniel to use while we read the book. We used the guide in several different ways. His first job to turn the guide sideways and pull in under the text as I read the story.
Alphabet Bats
Here are some wonderful book exploration posts from last week:
Reading Confetti created an amazing paper Light Up Pumpkin to go with the book Spooky Boo!
Halloween Safety Rules and Ways to Review Them
Here are the ones I chose to cover with JDaniel:
Halloween Safety Rules
1. Children should never trick or treat alone
2. Parents need to check children’s candy before you eat it.
3. Children don’t have to talk to every stranger they meet.
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4. Cross the street at the corner or the crosswalk.
5. Walk close to the curb if your neighborhood does not have sidewalks.
6. Visit houses with lights on.
7. Don’t play near a lit pumpkin.
8. Don’t push to the front of the group to get your candy first.
9. Say please and thank you.
10. Accept your treat at the front door. Don’t go in a stranger’s house.
11. Check your costume and make sure it isn’t too big or too long to walk in.
12. Make sure you can clearly see out of a mask if you costume has one.
Halloween Safety Rule Activities
JDaniel loved this game so much we ended up taking it to a restaurant and playing it before our meal came. The rules are in the pumpkin cup.
Then we gathered together items that we could use to play and review the safety rules in a sensory bin.
Here is what we used to review Halloween Safety:
-We used some train track that has a road side to be the road we walk on while trick or treating.
-I found a small pre- lit pumpkin light to represent the pumpkin children shouldn’t play near.
-My sister Kate just sent us the train station we used to represent the house we would visit while trick or treating.
-An odd assortment of characters from JDaniel’s Star Wars collection and his Playskool set also helped represent trick or treaters, the homeowner and a parent.
-I added leaves and small decorative pumpkins to the sensory bin too.
We had a great time sitting at the kitchen table pretending to trick or treat and reviewing the rules.
I hope you will take a moment or two to go over Halloween safety rules with your children. I found going over them while playing helped JDaniel remember them. I bet you can find fun ways play to review them at your house
I hope you will take a moment or two to go over Halloween safety rules with your children. I found going over them while playing helped JDaniel remember them. I bet you can find fun ways play to review them at your house.
This post is linked to Mrs.Matlock’s Alphabe Thursday.
Some of My Guest Posts from Other Sites for September
Guest Posts from Other Sites
Guest Posts for Kiwi Crate
I don’t think I mentioned that I have started working with the Kiwi Crate to contribute to their Recipes for Fun database. Here are some of the activities I have contributed to them:
A fall harvest-themed bento with a harvest moon and fruitful tree. I walk you through how to create this meal on the Recipes for the Fun site.
Here are some posts from right here on JDaniel4’s Mom that I think you will love:
Roll and Cover Corn Mat
Corn and Pumpkin Weaving
Driving on a Corn Stalk
Is it Santa’s birthday too?
What Are Your Christmas Morning Traditions?
I love holiday traditions. One of the ones I remember from my childhood is opening presents on Christmas morning as a family. Presents would be distributed into piles. My mom, two sisters, and I would each take a turn opening one of our presents. It was great to get to see what others were opening as well as have everyone watching me when it was my turn.
This year for the very first time JDaniel will be able to get out of bed Christmas morning and head downstairs to the Christmas tree all by himself. I am a little nervous about what might happen to the presents under the tree.
JDaniel climbed out of his crib only two or three times while it was in his sleeping place and that was when he was nearing his third birthday. I know many of you have children that climbed out of bed much early than that! Given that he stayed in his crib and that we didn’t need the crib for another child it seemed to be a good place for him to stay. He slept well in there and we slept well while he was in there. We all did great sleeping in the crib years. (Most of the time.)
The move to a bed without sides has changed everything. It has to lead to visits to our room during the night. I have awakened to a set of eyes staring at me at all hours of the night. Recently I found him sleeping on the floor at the end of our bed with our comforter pulled all around him.
Things have started moving around during the night at our house too. Pillows from the couch in the guest room, towels from the hall bathroom, and toys from around his room have all been found in his bed in the morning.
Many of you have been through this for years and are veterans of Christmas morning. I need your help to calm my mind and draw plans for successfully opening presents together on Christmas day!
How do you keep a three-year-old from getting up and beginning Christmas without you?
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Muffin Tin Monday- A Breakfast Turkey
I decided to serve a turkey for dinner last week. It was such fun to put together and so simple. The turkey has sausage and bacon feathers along with sausage feet. His body is made of pumpkin spice pancakes. He has an apple and grape eye and a cantaloupe beak.
We had a stack of pancakes that didn’t end up on the platter but did end up in our bellies.
JDaniel had a muffin tin filled with leftover turkey parts for lunch the next day. He did request cheese be added to the tin. Cheese is his favorite food right now. He asks for it at every meal. I also added scrambled eggs to the tin and biscuits.
Muffin Tin Monday- Thanksgiving with Sweet Potato Casserole and More
We love sweet potatoes for dinner. When my friend Kathleen posted her version of Boston Market’s Sweet Potatoes, I knew we would be trying it.
My guys loved it. Both wanted seconds.
List of Ingredients
6 cups of mashed sweet potatoes
3/4 cups of dark brown sugar
1/2 cup of plain yogurt
1/4 melted butter
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon of pumpin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon of allspice
Topping Ingredients:
2 cups of minimarshmallows
1/4 cup rolled oats
1 tablespoon all purpose flour
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
2 tablespoon cold butter
Instructions:
- Rub a little olive oil on the skin of each sweet potato and bake them in a preheated 400 degree oven for 60 to 70 minutes or until they are tender. When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, scrape out the insides and use an electric mixer on high speed to beat the potatoes until they are mashed.
- Add 3/4 cup brown sugar, heavy cream, melted butter, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, allspice and cloves into the sweet potatoes and mix well with the beater until all the ingredients are incorporated. Pour this mixture into an 8×8-inch baking dish.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Make the oatmeal streusel by grinding the rolled oats to a fine flour using a food processor. Using a blender will also work.
- Combine the oat flour with 2 tablespoons brown sugar, all-purpose flour, and 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon in a small bowl. Cut the cold butter or butter replacement into the dry mixture using a pastry knife or a fork. You should have a crumbly mixture with pea-size bits. Sprinkle this oatmeal streusel over the sweet potato mixture and pop it into the oven for 70 to 80 minutes or until the top begins to brown slightly.
- When you remove the casserole from the oven immediately spread the marshmallows over the top. Let this sit for about 10 minutes. The heat from the casserole will melt the marshmallows, and then it’s ready to serve.
