To say I get excited about Halloween is an understatement. I even make Little One’s bento lunches spooky with the help of Lunchbox Love Halloween Notes and some cool bento accessories from BentoUSA.
Contrary to popular belief, making bento lunches is not hard at all and for the types of lunches I make, it is not time consuming at all. These lunches are quick and easy. I spend about five minutes making Little One’s lunches.
Why do I make bento lunches for my child?
Good question.
Simple answer? I enjoy doing them. I love being creative and that’s no exception when it comes to food. Though my bento lunches are not as intricate or as masterful as many I have seen on Pinterest or on fellow bento mamas’ blogs, I like making meals fun and different for my child. I love surprising her with her lunches. She never knows what she’s going to get! They’re mostly just leftovers, only made pretty because they’re put in colourful silicone cups or the fruits and vegetables are cut out with a cookie cutter.
Another reason for the bento lunch is that my daughter isn’t much of a sandwich kid. I can occasionally sneak in a bagel or a croissant in her lunch, but she’s not much of a sandwich kid otherwise. She loves her vegetables, proteins and would rather have soup or pasta. With having her lunches in her PlanetBox, I make sure she gets food from all food groups. One of the things I taught Little One when she was a toddler was that she needs to eat a rainbow at every meal. By eating food from a variety of colours like oranges, reds, and greens at every meal (vegetables and fruit), she “eats a rainbow”! This is a concept she knows, understands and loves. The PlanetBox is a great way to do this.
Here are some easy Halloween Bento Lunches for kids:
- Mini Bagel Pastrami Sandwich, bat carrots, pickles, clementines, eyeball cookie, smoothie, water.
- Mini Bagel with Speculoos. I sent this bento to work with the student who lives with us. I don’t send anything like this to Little One’s school lest there be any traces of nuts. Little One goes to a nut-free school. Also included in this lunch: Mini Babybel cheese, cucumber, yellow pepper, yogurt, water.
- Leftover roast beef, carrots, and potato, cracked wheat bread with homemade strawberry jam, Mini Babybel, clementine, strawberries, water.
- Leftover Mediterranean pasta, prosciutto, cucumber, yellow pepper. Mini Babybel, crackers, grapes, Girl Guide cookie.
- Summer Sausage, celery, cheese, crackers, banana, homemade applesauce, water.
Which one of the above easy Halloween bento lunches is your favourite?
It doesn’t take a lot of time or effort to make easy Halloween bento lunches for Little One. For the the spooky decorations, I used candy eyeballs, raisins, cranberries, plastic eyeball picks, and AmeriColor Gourmet Writer food decorating pens. The bento accessories are all from BentoUSA.
I love the fun notes from LunchboxLove. Little One is in grade one now and is learning how to read on her own. The notes are great for practicing reading. There are motivational, positive notes and some of them also have trivia or jokes on them.
Though I don’t normally give Little One sweets, on occasion I will bake cookies or treats that are fun to add to her lunch. For Halloween, we baked and decorated these cookies for her classmates. They’d be really cute as part of a bento lunch! The AmeriColor Gourmet Writer food decorating pens make decorating easy!
Have a fun and safe Halloween and happy bento lunch-making!
Disclosure – I am part of the #LBLmoms program with Lunchbox Love. As always, all thoughts and opinions on this blog are honest and my own.
These are adorable, and the note cards are perfect!
My kids would be so thrilled to see this! I need to start getting more creative. Thanks for the ideas.
Love your bento lunches, they are so creative and fun! I am sure the cookies you made went over great too!
I wish I had seen these ideas 9 days ago! Halloween is my 5 year olds fave holiday.
That bagel is so cute.
I just started doing more fun food with my kids. It’s so easy to dye eggs with lots of food safe things.
I love seeing your Bento lunch posts Christine! This is yet another awesome idea. In our home my husband is in charge of lunch making and I`m not sure he`d get this creative…maybe I should take over the task.
Those eye ball cookie are just too much, these lunches are all kinds of awesome.
Awww! Thank, Katie! I really have way too much fun making lunches!
You are a lunch box master and I’m not worthy!!! I love how creative you are with lunches! I on the other hand, hate making lunches, probably cuz there isn’t much you can do with bread and butter (kids request!)
LOL! Ahh! Thanks, Jenn! Really, most of her lunches are just leftovers! I’m a bit of a cheat, as I just dress up leftovers with cute bento accessories! That’s it, that’s all 🙂
I have no idea why – but these little “love notes” (even the Halloween jokes) bring a tear to my eye. I can’t wait until my little mama can read and I can leave her little love notes too. You’re such an awesome mommy 🙂 xx
I know, right? The notes are super cute. I big, fat, fuzzy <3 you, debalino!!
These are sooo cute! What a great way to celebrate Halloween. I really need to try my hand at at Bento lunch.
Suzanne, my mom is taking care of Little One in a few weeks and she is super stressed about lunches. I told her to just put whatever she wants in the bento box! Colourful silicone muffin cups make anything look pretty! lol
Those lunches look absolutely adorable!
Ahh! Thanks so much! xo