Bento#171: Marie The Cat and Elmo Bentos
I’ve always wanted to fix a bento, based on the characters of the lunch boxes. Thus, I prepared the details last night by tracing the details on paper, then place the paper on a piece of nori and cut them out with exacto knife. It sounds complicated, but I only did it for Elmo and Marie’s eyes. For the finer nori details, I punched them out with the shoe punchers and the smiley puncher by Carl’s. Elmo’s mouth was cut with a pair of scissors as it’s pretty easy to do so.
So, what I did this morning was to cut the fruits and lie them flat down in the lunch boxes, as shown below:
My kids will have lychees, mangosteens, strawberries and mangoes for their tea.
The bread was cut with the dividers of the lunch boxes, and since it’s symmetrical, I just flipped one of them to the opposite side to form Elmo and Marie’s faces. You can cut the bread with the lunch boxes too, but my white bread is not big enough to be cut as a whole.
I covered the fruits with antibacterial sheets first before placing the bread in. Therefore, the sheets will separate the bread from the fruits, and prevent it from getting moist.
The antibacterial sheets which I bought from CP, but you can use barans too if you don’t have the sheets.
Slot in the bread above the sheets.
Then, it’s all about placing in the details. Here’s the end result:
My boy’s Elmo bento
And my gal’s Marie the Cat
Needless to say, my kids were thrilled to see their bentos this morning. If the faces are not divided into halves, I would say that it’s one of my favorite “bento creations”. 
P/S: Here’s another bento with similar idea. Do check it out!
Wow! Cute bentos as always.
very cute
Wow.. this realli give us a refreshing idea of packing bento in a new way like treasure hunt…. Hiding the fruits below make it a suprised for the kids to guess what they are going to have other than the bread ….. Love your new suprise…
Thanks.
Susan, Misha’s Mum, Ellena, thanks!
wow, another cute bento!can i have one?
Another nice and cute bento!!! Another great idea! Now i know how to use my anti bacteria sheet already. Thanks Amy!! Great job!
very very pretty! I’m beginning to wish I bought those children bento sets in Daiso, KL.
btw, have sent your site to a colleague at work who is trying to get her child to eat more healthily.
Lisa, come here, I make for u. LOL!
Annie, thanks!!! It’s my first attempt with the sheets too…
Wena, they have these bentos at Daiso KL? The Daiso here doesn’t have a lot of varieties. Thanks for “promoting” my blog.
I love these bentos!
Hmm…I think not this set. There were some other children bentos there though.
I also saw some children Hello Kitty bento sets in a small shop in London. Didn’t feel like paying 25 pounds for it though. So I gave it a miss.
Although sometimes Parkson would have some Japanese kitchenware in stock. Not often, just sometimes.
another great idea but then must get those bento boxes huh.
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