Thursday, March 1, 2012

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

There was a big build up to tomorrow all week.  Molly's little sister's school was celebrating Dr. Seuss this week and we had lots of fun dressing up, reading the books and talking about how fun Dr. Seuss is.  Tomorrow, Molly gets to dress up as her favorite Dr. Seuss character at school.  She chose The Cat in the Hat.  We had a blast making her costume.  (See below)

Lunch is no exception in the theme.  We did our best to represent some of our favorite Dr. Seuss books.  We had to keep our food functional so please use your imagination.  After all, that's what Dr. Seuss did. ☺
Our main entree is a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich on 12 Grain bread.  We used our food safe markers to draw Horton from "Horton Hears a Who" on the front of it.

Our vegetable side is orange and yellow peppers.  We created the Lorax by cutting the peppers like a face, a mustache and eye brows.  We then added two small slices from a cheese stick for eyes and used our food safe marker to create pupils and a nose.

Our fruit side is apples and strawberries.  This is supposed to look like the Cat in the Hat's hat.  We did our best to keep it looking authentic but it was a little bit hard.

Finally, our Fun Friday treat is from "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish".  These are just some Sweedish Fish that we picked up and plan to use for dessert sushi. (A Rice Krispie treat rolled around a Sweedish Fish and then wrapped with a fruit roll up, very fun!)

We found some fun stickers and added them to Molly's Lunch Box so that she knows what books we are representing.
If you are looking for some easy costumes for Dr. Seuss Day, here are The Cat in the Hat and Thing 2.  Just t-shirts with felt.  The hat is felt with a barrette on the bottom and the Thing's hair is yarn tied around a hair elastic.

15 comments:

  1. Very creative! However, I must confess that I thought the peppers looked a bit like Homer Simpson.

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  2. HAHAHAHA!!!! Now that I look at it, I have to agree. ☺ Maybe a Simpsons themed lunch is in the future???

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  3. SO CUTE! I found you thanks to Laptop Lunches! Wish you were a member of Bento Bloggers & Friends on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bentobloggers/). We're doing an entire Seuss blog hop today (and planning our next for St Pat's!) :)

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  4. This is so great! Love the lunch. :)

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  5. Thanks, Karen! I will definitely join. We go crazy for St. Patrick's Day!

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  6. That's so cute! The face looked a bit difficult though, but the hat was great and really inspirational!

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  7. So cute! Love the costumes. Adorable lunches!

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  8. Do you have any templates for the cat in the hat shirt?

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    1. The white belly is a piece of felt cut into an oval shape with small cuts all around it to look like the cats fur. Then, the red bow is a funky shaped bow with just one end hanging down. I hope this helps. :)

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  9. Hey Molly! I would really like to interview you for my major project for london college of fashion- am working on a kids food website/blog.

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    1. Please feel free to email me at mollyslunchbox@gmail.com. I'd love to help!
      ~ Shannon

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