One of my favourite things about becoming a Mum for the second time is seeing my boys interact and get to know each other. Small Baby was born two weeks before the summer holidays, so he got used to having Small Child around all the time in the first few months of his life, and now he seems to miss him when he is at school all day. He's not quite four months old yet, but he lights up when he sees his big brother at the end of each school day. He can be grumpy and hard to settle when he's at home with just me during the week, but the weekends are a dream in comparison, as he is content to spend lots of his time happily sitting and observing every move that his big brother makes. When he does start to grizzle, Small Child just sings to him, and he instantly settles; Small Baby loves being sung to!
The current favourite song in our house is 'Dem Bones', a version of which Small Child likes to watch on YouTube, and sing and dance along to. Small Baby loves this song, and he likes to be picked up and danced along to it too! I thought that it would make a good theme for a lunch, especially during the Halloween season, so I made this skeleton themed lunch for Small Child last week.
In this lunch Small Child had a pitta bread, cut into strips and popped into a container with some pretzel sticks to make a pile of bones. He had a pot of organic houmous, part frozen into the shape of a skull using a silicone mould, and some raw organic carrot sticks and baby sweet corn to dip in it. Small Child chose the baby sweet corn to go in his lunch when we were food shopping. On the side he had some organic blueberry yoghurt, frozen into bone shapes, also in a silicone mould, and some orange slices. I finished the lunch off with a couple of skeleton food picks.
Small Child loved his skeleton lunch, and sang 'Dem Bones' all the way to school! Here's a YouTube clip of the song, from Super Simple Songs:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU
Hope you enjoyed that!
Grace
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Laura-kim says
Maybe my daughter will actually eat her lunch if I do this 🙂
So very cool!!
Grace says
Thank you, it certainly works for me, and lunch packing is a lot more fun than it used to be too! 🙂
Notmyyearoff says
Such a cool luncbox. I would love it if someone made me lunches like this every day 🙂
Grace says
Thanks! I wish someone made me lunch too! ;-P
Kriss MacDonald says
My son would love this especially as he's wearing a Halloween skeleton costume for the third year in a row!
Grace says
He he, Small Child has Skeleton PJ's, he would wear them all the time if he could!
Wicked World of Lucas says
What a fab idea for a lunchbox - you are so clever and it looks fab - SUPERMUMMY!!!! 🙂 #magicmoments
Grace says
Awww, thanks! I'm really not supermummy though, I may be able to make a cool lunch but I can't keep up with anything else!
Jaime Oliver says
yay what a blooming fantastic idea!! i am loving the skull dip!
Thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments
Grace says
Thank you! And thanks for the linky!
Lystra Maisey says
O my this is beautiful! What an amazing lunchbox. My little boy is only two and a half but I think I will be getting some silicone moulds-they are fantastic! x
Grace says
I have quite a large collection, I must admit - they are such an easy way to make stuff look cool!
Colette says
They sounds so cute together!
Lunch looks fabulous - what a treat!
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Grace says
Thank you, they really are, for now anyway!