Later on this week we celebrate World Book Day, and this week, as I have for the last few years, I'm making Small Child a book bento lunch every day to celebrate. I asked Small Child for book ideas for me to themed the lunches around, and today's lunch was based on the first of his requests: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Small Child is absolutely loving the Narnia books at the moment, and I am thoroughly enjoying the chance to revisit my own childhood favourites!
I started the Narnia themed lunch off with a wardrobe sandwich, which was very easy to make indeed! I simply cut the crusts off of a simple cheese and marmite sandwich to turn it into a rough rectangle, cut a slice down the middle to divide it into two doors, and added two polka dot picks for the door handles. I popped the edible wardrobe into the lunch box on a bed of lettuce leaves. On the side I packed some chopped cooked beetroot, which I decorated with a shield cut from cucumber (I shaped this using the smallest of my nesting circle cutters) and a couple of plastic sword picks, and some black grapes and blueberries, which I decorated with a couple of cucumber trees (the tree trunks came from this cute bento pick set) and a lion bento pick. This lunch was packed in our Addis divided lunch box.
This lunch was very simple but Small Child guessed immediately which book it was based on, so I call that a success! Do come back tomorrow to see what his next book themed lunch will be!
Grace
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Ashley Beolens says
Wow, your child's lunches are sooooo amazing! I wouldn't know where to find the time.
Grace says
Thank you! Most of them really are easy, this one took less than 10 minutes while he was eating his breakfast in the morning 🙂