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Get creative with lunch using these healthy Bento Box Ideas for Kids! Ten different lunches equals two weeks of something new!
We are one month into the school year. Are you getting tired of packing lunches every day yet? 🙂 My poor kids are pretty much stuck with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day, but I have a friend who has always enjoyed making her kids’ meals something special.
Now that her oldest is in Kindergarten, she’s turning into a Bento Box pro! After seeing a few of her posts on Facebook, I asked if she would let me share them on the blog. So here are ten different Bento box ideas for kids that work for adults, too!
A couple things you might need to get started:
- Leak-proof children’s lunchbox (these are now on my wish list for all three boys)
- Cute sandwich cutters
- Reusable cloth napkins (fun colors and patterns)
- Food coloring markers
- Turkey & cream cheese bagel sandwich
- Produce Snacks baked veggie chips
- Peas
- Raspberries
- Black olives with little candy eyes (also sold in the cupcake decorating section)
- Ham and cheese sandwiches (colored with a food marker to look like the moon)
- Apple stars (dipped in lemon juice to keep apples from turning brown)
- Blueberries (planets )
- Pudding with tiny sugar stars
- Star pasta with carrot bits
- Leftover pizza
- Strawberry yogurt with fresh blueberries
- Broccoli
- Chocolate covered sunflower seeds
- Cucumbers decorated with candy flowers
- Pickle rolls with ham and cream cheese
- Apple/turkey sausage
- Raspberries with chocolate covered sunflower seeds
- Olives
- Salad (dressing in a little separate tub)
- Bologna sandwiches
- Olives with cucumbers
- Granola and cinnamon cookies
- Stuffed grape leaves
- Strawberry yogurt in the little middle compartment
- Sirloin roast (leftover dinner)
- Fiesta corn
- White rice
- Strawberries
- Cranberry granola balls
- English muffin pizza
- Green beans
- Nuts
- Cucumber
- Freeze dried apples and cranberry granola balls
- Ham and cheese sandwiches (see more cute sandwich cutters here)
- Strawberries
- Green beans
- Oranges
- Cranberry granola bites
- Creamy chicken and rice casserole (usually served hot, but still yummy cold)
- Strawberries
- Homemade garlic bread knot
- Strawberry jello with edible glitter (because…… glitter! )
- Organic Annie’s bunny gummies
- Ham, cheese, lettuce wrap
- Pretzel chips
- Bean salad
- Strawberry yogurt
- Chocolate covered sunflower seeds
Aren’t they all just so cute! Feel free to pin the whole collection below, or just save the individual images that you would like. The space themed lunch was my favorite. That was for the solar eclipse. I need to go buy some edible glitter and candy eyeballs so I can be the cool mom! 🙂 I’ll be sharing some fun Halloween themed lunches soon!
Pin these great Bento Box Ideas for later!
Here’s my contribution to the creative lunch collection-Homemade Uncrustable Sandwiches
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Meg says
>hi! Thank you for these bento ideas! They are adorable! What ABC cutters did you use for the “Love”
They are the perfect size
Thanks!
Nicole Burkholder says
Unfortunately, I’m not seeing the exact cutters on Amazon anymore. I found some that seem to be similar, but the sizes are all over the map. What it shows vs what some of the reviews say don’t match up. I’m thinking perhaps they used to sell a different/smaller set and it’s been replaced with this one? Cutters around 2″ are pretty good (any smaller and it’s SO hard to get them out cleanly.) https://amzn.to/303Lr1s