Bento#154: Happy Birthday Bento

23. April 2009, 11:58 UhrBento, Bento Preparation, Special Day Bentosshoppingmum12 comments

It’s my gal’s 3rd birthday today, and my boy and I planned to fix her a special birthday bento. Actually, the initial plan was to have hubby playing with our gal in the playroom and my boy and I would fix her bento last night, but hubby was busy to look after her. Thus, she joined in the fun as well.

My kids helped me in cutting the bread in circles, which we planned to decorate as birthday cakes.


My boy cut the bread with these round metal cutters from Daiso.

 


The birthday girl took part in fixing her bento too.

 

 Hubby came home shortly after, so my kids left the table and I took over everything. I cut the cheese and stored them away for today’s bentos. An early preparation always makes things easier for me in the morning rush.

Besides that, I saw a cute strawberry girl illustration yesterday, and thought of giving it a try.


I prepared 2 strawberries and cut an oval cheese for each of them.

 


Here’s the nori punchers I used. If you have been reading my blog, you might have seen a few cute faces bentos, and here’s how I decorate them.

 


I would normally cut the flower nori (got this puncher from Daiso) into halves and use them as fringes.

 


Then, I added the eyes. The eye lashes are punched by the sad face Carl’s puncher.

 


And then, I added a smile to the face. This smiley puncher by Carl’s is my all time favorite!

 


Here’s the sandwiches prepared by my kids. I added some decorations like candles and flowers.

 

And here are the bentos…


My gal’s Happy Birthday bento. She’s turning 3 today, and there are 3 candles (it’s strawberry biscuit sticks by Hello Kitty). I packed a black plum, some rose apple and oranges for her too.

 


I didn’t give my boy a “candle” and he insisted that I add one for him after snapping the photo. LOL!

 

 If you are wondering how I close the lids of the lunch boxes, I would leave some gap behind so that I can carefully lie down so of the details without spoiling them. But some bento boxes, like this Pikkachu lunch box has a gap between the top cover and the tier, so the food won’t be smashed.

In short, Happy Birthday to my gal. :)

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12 comments:

  1. wen, 23. April 2009, 14:04

    happy birthday!!!! love the strawberry!!

     
  2. jacss, 23. April 2009, 14:22

    happy birthday isabel…be good girl & mumy will continue to make beautiful bentos….nice!

     
  3. SIG, 23. April 2009, 14:28

    Happy birthday girl! I love the strawberries… so cute.

     
  4. shoppingmum, 23. April 2009, 14:41

    Wen, Jacss and SIG, thanks! :)

     
  5. Susan Yuen, 23. April 2009, 15:23

    Very cute! Happy Birthday to your daughter too!

     
  6. chooi peng, 23. April 2009, 15:23

    happy birthday :)

     
  7. Winnie, 23. April 2009, 16:05

    Happy birthdayyy ! :D

     
  8. khongfamily, 23. April 2009, 18:27

    Lovely birthday bentos! Happy Birthday :D .

     
  9. Wena, 24. April 2009, 8:43

    Hi there! Just found your site last nite, hunting for ideas to start bento-ing myself.

    Pretty pictures! And it looks pretty easy to do. I’m waiting for some bento equipment myself but have started yesterday. Poor attempt atm but really motivated by your pictures. :)

    Thanks for sharing!

    Wena

     
  10. Karen Matlock, 24. April 2009, 10:12

    beautiful and inspiring as usual. You are a supermommy!

     
  11. javapot, 25. April 2009, 8:35

    Happy birthday to your girl.

    Nice bday bento – especially like the strawberry face, they are nice :)

     
  12. Annie Q, 26. April 2009, 10:03

    Happy birthday to your girl, hope not too late to wish her. :)

    Nice and cute bento! I love the strawberry, so cute! Now i get the idea how u all do the fridge. :) Thanks for sharing Amy!