8 Bento #143 - Veggie Dumplings & Fruit Kebab

Sorry about the glare, it's hard to photograph the Planetbox sometimes, it's so shiny!  haha

Today we have some small veggie gyoza dumplings with a little ducky cheese cutout.  I just got some new kebab skewers, which are actually drink stirrers with the ball ends snipped off so that I can easily slide food onto them, and so that they fit better in my bentos.

Bento #143 - Veggie gyoza, ducky cheese, bunny crackers, fruit kebab & homemade chocolate chip cookie.

2 Bento #66 - Fried Rice & Bunny Snacks

I love fried rice, I'll admit.  I had left over chicken from last night's dinner, so I diced it up and threw it in my hot pan and fried up some left over rice (the best kind to use.)  The bunny snack mix is cute, no?  I found that at Trader Joe's, so I had to pick it up.  It's even got bunny-shaped pretzels!

Bento #66 - Chicken and veg fried rice, sugar snap peas, grapes and bunny snack mix.

1 Tinkerbell Fairy Party

So, I went a little crazy with appetizers for this party my daughter was invited to.  The party theme was a Tinkerbell movie party, so all the little girls dressed up as Tink, made beaded necklaces and finally watched the new Tinkerbell movie.

I wanted the appetizers to be fairy or woodland-themed, so here's what I came up with.

"Toadstool" bites - Mozzarella and colby cheese sticks, halved grape tomatoes and a little Baconnaise sauce underneath the caps, on a bed of onion sprouts:

Next, "Bunny" crackers - herbed cream cheese, and mini baby carrots on a whole wheat Ritz cracker:

Initially these "Ladybug" crackers were going to be the herbed cream cheese with grape tomato halves and a black olive half for the head, but I figured it was too many tomatoes for the little ones, plus, E looked at me like I was feeding her poison when she tasted the olive.  So, these morphed into fruit ladybugs, strawberry and grape on strawberry cream cheese on a whole wheat Ritz (yes, some ladybugs stepped out of line):

Last, but not least, the hit of the party, fairy wand sugar cookies!  I almost never ice cookies, so I'm really out of practice (okay, I'm terrible at it!)  They look a  mess, but they tasted good, and the kids didn't care!  I sanded them with a fine glitter sugar.  I did the second pan with just swirls: