Last Day of Kindergarten - Farewell Clifford!

Wow, this school year went by fast! My kindergartner Bean Sprout had such a great year :) As excited as she is about going into first grade next Fall, she's going to be sad to say goodbye to her her beloved kindergarten teacher & her fun classroom, and their mascot, Clifford the Big Red Dog.  Today is her last day, and this is her last Clifford themed kindergarten school lunch:

Sprout's last day of school Go Green Lunch Box contains:

• Oatmeal carrot muffins - one for her teacher & one for her
• Strawberries (frozen) 
• Mozzarella string cheese (with a Clifford ring cupcake topper)
• Organic Berry Medley Junior Juice
• Yogurt with purple, red & green sugar sprinkles
• Granny Smith apple wedges
• Raisins, in a Monbento square egg mold used as a treat box
• tucked behind the muffins, a Light My Fire spork
• & a Lunchbox Love note ♥

I've made my Sprout more than a few Clifford lunches this year! We do love Clifford ♥ Here's a round up in case you missed any :)

April ~ Clifford in his doghouse

February ~ Valentine's Day & Clifford's 50th Birthday!
December ~ Clifford's First Snow

November ~ Learning is fun with Clifford

My bento blogger friend at Organized Bites has also made a Clifford the Big Red Dog lunch for her kidlet, check it out: My Big Red Valentine

And my bestie Karen at What's In our Lunch Bags? made one for Hallowe'en, Clifford's Halloween Howl, and one featuring Clifford and his canine friends:  Scholastic Big Red Readers.

Congratulations to my kindergarten graduate Sprout!  ♥

Look! Gnome Lunch!

Bella requested a Clif bar & fruit for lunch today. I made it cute:

Her EasyLunchbox contains a Clif bar decorated with a garden gnome cupcake pick, sunburst & cherry tomatoes, cantaloupe, dried strawberries, and in the little mushroom box, a surprise chocolate treat.

Some of the stuff I used to make this lunch cute:

Thank you to my buddy erin of feeling a little lunchy for the gnome picks!

Whale of a Lunch

Whales are my favourite animal,  and Orcas my favourite whales. So I love this simple lunch embellished with Killer Whale cupcake picks :)

Red seedles grapes, baby carrots, cantaloupe, ham & cheese flatbread sandwich, mozzarella string cheese, & Goldfish crackers. And a Lunchbox Love note left over from our Valentine's Day card set.

Peanut butter sandwich whales for Pickle:

Made with Lunch Punch animal shapes set :)

Linked to:

Balls. With grassy residue.

If you don't watch Doctor Who,  this post's title may have given you pause...

... but trust me, you can easily make these peanut butter balls non-Whovian by skipping the green coconut coating.  I've made them both ways, read on :)

If you do watch Doctor Who, consider making these fantastic treats for your 50th Anniversary or Farewell Eleven party!

I wanted to participate in my friend Karen's new sticky note recipe linky party, Stick To It Sundays, and had the ingredients for peanut butter balls, but I wanted to make them special for her inaugural Linky...  

She's the most Whovian gal I know,  and what comes to mind when you think of Doctor Who & balls? Rory's dad Brian's golf balls from Dinosaurs On A Spaceship, of course! She's even made a grassy residue balls bento  :)

The Doctor: You don't have any vegetable matter in your trousers, do you, Brian?

Brian: Only my balls.

The Doctor: I'm sorry?

Brian: Golf balls. Grassy residue.

I dyed some shredded coconut green for grass, rolled a few balls in that instead of the usual graham crumbs,  and Bob's your uncle :)

They are even better with coconut! I did stick to the original recipe for most of them, since that's how the sproutlets like them - but I love coconut so the grassy ones were mine :) 

So the premise of this linky is that you can link up any recipe, but it must fit on a standard sticky note. Sounds simple, right? It's harder than it looks! I've got terrible penmanship when I'm not trying to write smaller than usual! I suppose I could have typed it in a tiny font, but that seemed like cheating... judges? Karen? In any case, I stuck to the rules and gave it my best  a shot :)

Click the cute little adipose button below to see more Sticky Note recipes!

And in case you can't read my printing, I typed out the recipe too.  

Rabbit Food

I packed bunny rabbits for Pickle today, so I had rabbits on my mind when I made his sisters'. All the vegetables would make good rabbit food too!

The little girls got "rabbit food" muffin tins filled with:

• Annie's Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks
• yogurt with rabbit head sprinkles
• a spoon for the yogurt, and a dip cup of peanut butter
• celery sticks to dip in the peanut butter
• rabbit sandwiches (PB for Sprout, cheese for Birdie)
• baby carrots with leaf picks

I left the bunny fruit gummies in the packet so they wouldn't be tempted to nibble on them right away. It worked, they ate up their veggies & sandwiches before they asked me to open it  :)

In the main section of her EasyLunchbox, Bella has a cheddar & turkey flatbread wrap, celery sticks & a dip cup of peanut butter, & a mozzarella string cheese. In the smaller sections she has baby carrots with leaf pick stems, & cucumber slices in a flower cup, with a bunny pick.

Pickle has a whole warren of mini peanut butter rabbit sandwiches. His stamped sandwiches were inspired by a beautiful fruit platter by Bentos On The Bayou. The stamped melon bears reminded me that I have the same set of cutters & stamps, which includes a bunny, a bear, & an elephant too!

Bella was sneezing a lot while getting ready for school - allergies - so I added this Lunchbox Love note with a fact about sneezes  :)

Some of the stuff I used to make these lunches: