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    Home » Fun Food For Kids » Fun Food Tutorials » Books

    We're Going on a Bear Hunt Book Bento Lunch

    Apr 29, 2014 · 3 Comments

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    Another lunch from my archives today, as I do my best to catch up after some time off over the Easter holidays.  This book bento lunch was made after my week of book themed lunches for World Book Day this year, as I continued to feel inspired to create book lunches once it was over.  To look at, this one was rather cryptic, but it didn't take Small Child long at all to guess the book it was supposed to represent: 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.  We love this book, with it's repeating chorus, especially the "Oh no, we'll have to go through it!", and we can frequently be found marching around our local park to the bear hunt rhyme, or our variation of it, with our own made up words!

    We're going on a bear hunt book cover

    In this lunch Small Child had a tortilla wrap, filled with a little cream cheese, grated cheddar cheese and lettuce, then rolled and sliced in half.  I painted wiggly lines to represent the 'deep cold river' on one half, using a paintbrush and blue food colouring, then added the 'long wavy grass' using grass shaped silicone dividers, and an 'OH NO' with alphabet bento picks.  On the side he had raw red pepper strips, topped with raisins and cucumber slices, which I turned into trees with the aid of tree trunk bento picks to represent the 'big dark forest'.  Finally he had the bear, made from a hard boiled egg, which I moulded using our bear egg mould.

    Book Themed Food - Going on a Bear Hunt Book Themed Bento Lunch for World Book Day from Eats Amazing UK - Making healthy food fun for kids

    Small Child thought this lunch was great - he seems to really like his book themed bento lunches, I expect I'll make a few more between now and next year's World Book Day!

    Grace

    Items used to make this lunch:

    Egg Mould set to shape hard boiled eggs rabbit bear from Eats Amazing UK Silicone Grass Baran Dividers for Bento Boxes from Eats Amazing UK Alphabet Bento Food Picks from Eats Amazing UK - great tool for teaching phonics to children using food Clinging Forest Animals Bento Picks from Eats Amazing UK

    Disclosure: This post contains some Amazon affiliate links; I may receive commission on items purchased through the links.

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    1. Donna says

      April 29, 2014 at 10:24 pm

      This is one of our favourite books - I laughed out loud at the 'oh no, oh no'! 🙂 x

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      • Grace says

        May 01, 2014 at 2:33 pm

        It's a great book isn't it! 🙂

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    2. Uttara says

      November 11, 2020 at 5:05 am

      I loved the Bento lunch idea! super creative, would really like to see other story themed lunch boxes too.

      Reply

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