Mariah's Fun Lunches - Princess and Minnie Mouse

Last week I was able to have my cute friend, Mariah over to play a few days while her mom was out of town.  

While she was here I made some fun lunches for her.  I showed her some pictures of lunches I have made for the kids before and she thought the princess sounded like a god idea, so on Wednesday that is what we made.

She had a Ham, Turkey and Cheese Sandwich Princess.  I cut a circle and a crown shape then added some cheese for hair.  I used a toy ring and some princess gummies for jewels in the crown.  I used food markers to color the eyes blue like Mariah's and I also used the food markers to draw the nose and mouth.  I made a sceptor for the princess with a Pocky Stick and some fruit leather cut into a  heart shape.  Mariah also had some princess gummies, goldfish crackers and grapes as her jewels.  I put a few princess cupcake picks in her grapes too.

She was so excited and could not believe her eyes when I showed her her lunch.  She was very hesistant to even eat the sandwich because she didn't want to mess it up.  It was fun to make her a surprise lunch!

On Friday she came to play again and this time I suggested we have a Minnie Mouse lunch.  I have had this Mickey Mouse Cookie cutter for a long time and have never used it.  I am not even sure where I got it.  

It is a little bigger than a slice of bread, so I made a ham and turkey quesadilla and then cut it out of that.

I served it to Mariah with some grapes, goldfish and some princess gummies.

I had the leftover parts of the quesadilla and decided it would be fun to make the cut out look like Mickey Mouse

I used grapes for the ears and a food marker to write on the plate for the face.

Thanks for spending a few days with me, Mariah!  I sure loved having you :)

Some of the Products used to make these fun lunches:

Community Pumpkin Carving

Each year a group of students at the local College that Dave works at hosts a Community Pumpkin Carving day.  You can come and get a pumpkin and carve it there.  So not only do you get a free pumpkin, you don't have a mess to clean up at your own house after carving pumpkins!  Win-win!

This was actually the first year that we have gone to it.  I wasn't aware of it until last year and I assumed it would be super crowded and crazy, but it wasn't too bad!  There were plenty of pumpkins and while we did have to share tools, we didn't have to wait too long for them.

Its fun now that the older kids are able to carve their own.  They really enjoy planning out their design and cutting it themselves.  

Evy had fun crawling around with the pumpkins.  I couldn't resist taking more pictures of her with them.  I will spare you and only post this one!  She sure is a cute little pumpkin!

We carved a little pumpkin for her and she had fun holding the lid.  

Like most things she picks up, she had to put it in her mouth.  She actually thought it tasted pretty good and kept sucking on it.

Yumm!  A pumpkin Lollipop!

See how the Jack O' Lanterns turned out after the jump!

Turkey Lunch

It's the first day of November!  Time to start packing Thanksgiving lunches for the kids!  

Today Ady wanted to eat the school lunch, but Tayden decided to take his lunch.  He thought Ady's Batty lunch from yesterday was pretty awesome and wanted something fun like that.  I suggested a Turkey and he thought that would be fun.

I made a turkey and cheese quesadilla and then cut it out with a turkey cookie cutter.  I actually was able to cut out two turkeys so they are stacked together.  I used food markers to color it in a little.  The turkey is on a bed of spinach that Tayden will probably not eat, but a little of it might get stuck to the turkey ;)  {I actually was surprised this week when I made Super Green Smoothies (frozen banana and spinach) and he liked them!  Maybe he is developing a taste for spinach after all!}

I also cut out some apples to be fall leaves.  They ended up looking a little like bats, so I used food markers on those as well to make them look more distinct.

Tayden wanted to take a piece of his Halloween Candy and then I also gave him some Rainbow Goldfish crackers, which have nice fall colors.

Here is a close up of the Turkey

I included a Thanksgiving Lunchbox Note that I found on Crafts and Sutch last year.  I am working on some more lunchbox jokes of my own that I will share soon, so stay tuned!  And if you are looking for other love notes to include in your little one's lunch, check out my Pinterest board full of printable lunch box love here!

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Halloween Class Party Treats

On Monday I took treats into Ady's class and helped with a Class party for Halloween.  I took in some grapes in little witches cauldrons with Halloween picks in them.  I thought it would be nice to have something a little healthy with all the sugary treats.  A lot of the kids were excited to get a Halloween pick and recognized them as similar to what is in Ady's lunches! 

I also made some cute Spider pops

I saw them posted on this blog and thought they would be fun to make.

Ady's teacher was excited about them and thought they were so cute and clever.  The kids loved them too!

I took Evy in with me and all the kids were so excited to see her.  She was so cute and kept blowing kisses to all the kids.  It was so fun to go and see Ady and school and to be in her class!