Santa Claus Bento
It’s been awhile since the last time my kids and I fixed bentos together. So last night, all of us decided to have some “playing-with-our-food” fun by fixing a mini Santa Claus. My boy did most of his Santa Claus by himself, but my gal was enjoying leftovers after cutting them. 
I wanted to fix the Santa Claus with quail eggs, but I couldn’t get any last night. Thus, the eggs were replaced by fish balls. Besides that, I prepared a white egg sheet, a piece of ham, a blanched baby carrot and some tiny spaghetti strips. Here’s how we did our Santa Claus:
Cut the ham and egg white with a small flower cutter, and stack them together.
Actually, you may skip this step if your egg sheet is thick enough. But to prevent it from tearing, stacking it on a piece of ham will help a lot.
Cut off the top to form Santa’s beard. (The top was later used as my boy’s Santa’s mustache)
Pin the beard on a fish ball with spaghetti strips. (You may replace it with quail egg)
Cut a small heart from the egg white and cut it into halves.
Pin the beard and a nose for Santa.
Pretty simple huh? My boy had no problem fixing his own Santa Claus, but I helped him to pin on the details.
He used a bigger flower cutter though…
I refrigerated the bento work in air-tight container, and took them out this morning. I pinned the fish ball on a cherry tomato, and added the eyes and lips with nori. I’ve forgotten to add the buttons, which were cut by my boy, but I guess he’s forgotten about them too. LOL!
Mini Santa Claus
Anyway, here are the bentos:
My gal’s Santa Claus, with tangerines and spaghetti too.
My boy’s Santa, which he’s very proud of it.
You must be wondering how I closed the bentos huh? LOL! Actually, my gal voiced her concern too. She’s too worried that her Santa will smashed when I closed it, so my boy suggested that they packed the tangerines in smaller bento boxes. So, their Santa could nicely lay down in the bentos, and I filled in the gap with some lettuce. Both of them are sooooooo “kan cheong” about Santa, I guess they really like today’s theme.
It’s quite fun doing this with my kids, even if it might be kind of messy some times. My kids have been asking me to bake with them, but I’m too tired to do so by the time we are back from the office. Besides that, weekends are quite packed with activities and TV, and some times, the mommy is too lazy to do anything much. If I have a maid or central vacuum to clean up the mess, then maybe we will bake some cookies for Christmas.
In short, mommy is simply too lazy. LOL!
Oh gosh!!!! So fast xmas bento liao… time really flies fast…. and pal.. your Santa is so so so…cute!!!! :p
amy..u r not lazy at all, i salute u for yr dedication in fixing these beautiful looking meal with yr kids, they r so lucky!!
i’m proud of yr boy too…been wondering if he’ll fix bento with his kids in d future, LOL!!
Ellena, thanks. Ya, feel like Christmas is so near already.
Jacss, thanks, but some times, really feel like doing more if possible. Just that really “you sam mou lek”. LOL!
Super cute Santa … I always love your blog with all those step-by-step instructions, really nice!
Really cute santa.. Makes me wanna sing “we wish u a merry christmast, we wish u a merry christmas, we wish u a merry christmas……and happy new year” ;D
This is so cute!~
Cute Santa. This is such a fun activity for kids to do. Thanks for the instructions.
Thanks everyone for your kind comments.
Oh dear~ i love the mini Santa, it was so adorable..
It is really happy to see your cute bento early in the morning.. ^_^
Haha, what a great idea! They look especially cute! ^-^