Mothering Corner

One of my kids’ favorite books are Winnie The Pooh. I got them from Popular bookstore, way before I was pregnant. LOL! I know that I would read them to my kids one day, and when there was a sale like RM10 for 3 books, I grabbed a lot of copies. So, I guess I did the right thing as my kids love the books, and they will choose to read one or 2 of Winnie the Pooh books at bedtime.

Previously, my boy likes Pooh, then developed to Eeyore, and now it’s Tigger. I told him that Eeyore could be a bit hard for bento as it’s purple and blue, and I would have to use food coloring, which I try to avoid. Thus, he suggested that I try Tigger today. I don’t mind fixing one for him on one condition…He would to share his Poor bear lunch box with his sister.

My mom was right. She said that I’m spoiling my kids by decorating their food and they will be very demanding one day. LOL! But to me, if it’s within my “ability”, I won’t mind giving it a try. Besides that, it’s fun.

Here’s how I simplified Tigger. You can do it the method like most Japanese mothers do. Trace the character on a tracing paper, and use it to cut the cheese with toothpick or nori with scissors. But for me, I tend to use the cutters.

Prepare 2 pieces of cheese in different tones. The cheese are from Chesdale, which I prefer over Kraft (which melts faster based on my observation la…hope that they won’t sue me ). The Tigger cutter is part of the cutters I got from CP. I can’t find the link there, please check out her store or email her for more info ya?

Use the base cutter to cut out a shape on the cheese in darker tone. This is high calcium cheese from Chesdale, and it’s slightly orangish.

Use the same cutter to cut out Tigger’s Jaw on the cheese in lighter tone.

Carefully use any round cutter to cut of the excess part at the top. That’s what you will get when you stack the cheese together.

Cut out a small oval shape with any cutter. I used this cutter for Hello Kitty. As you can see, I have a lot of cutters, and I just “simple hantam” any that can cut out the shapes I want.

For Tigger’s ear, just cut out a small circle, and cut off the excess part.

Then, I placed all the details on nori and cut an outline for them. Actually, you can omit this step if you want. But if you want to have a black outline, the shapes should be smaller. I didn’t take note of this, so it’s a lesson learned.

Cut out an oval shape to form Tigger’s nose.

Here you go, Tigger is almost done.

For Tigger’s eyebrow and stripes, I used this airplane puncher. I cut off the head and tail of the airplane, to get a shape like shown. The rest of the details were punched with Carla’s Craft punchers too.

So, here’s the complete bento:

My boy’s bento with a piece of strawberry jam sandwich topped with Tigger, some mangos, kiwis, blueberries, cherries and a dwarf apple. You can get the dwarf apples at the grocery section at Siam Paragon, or the organic fruits section at Tops (but the organic apples are slightly different in colors).

BTW, if you are too busy to mingle with cutters and details, get these cute Disney barans from CP. They will certainly spark up the bentos in seconds!

My gal didn’t want Tigger, but Piglet. Too bad I don’t have the cutter, so I could only do a small one with the wheel cutter (also from CP, but I can’t find the link anymore).

My gal can use Winnie The Pooh lunch box this time! This lunch box is smaller, but suits my gal’s appetite. She will have the same bento meal with a smaller sandwich.

Both kids will have a banana each later, which I packed separately. So, they should be very full after their tea.

P/S: Sorry ya? This post is very lengthy…