Cute ‘n’ Creepy Halloween Lunches
October 16, 2012
Wow! Time is really flying – I can’t believe Halloween is almost here already! We’ve been getting into the spirit with goofy witches in the front yard, silly ghosts in the back, and lots of creepy and cute fun in Cora’s lunches. My bento blogger buddies are doing the same and we have a zillion great ideas for dressing up YOUR lunches. Make sure you click the button at the end of this post to hop on through. You don’t want to miss it!
In the first lunch, a clumsy witch has fallen into her cauldron (an almond butter and marmalade sandwich) while the pile of melon jack-o-lanterns and a veggie-juice bloody skull laugh at her. I made the skull by freezing our homemade veggie juice (beet, carrots, kale, spinach and apple) in a skull candy mold. It’s not really suitable for a school lunch, it will melt too quickly. So, I ended up stirring it into Cora’s coconut yogurt to give her a nice creepy swirl of color. I used mini food cutters to make impressions for the faces on the melon pumpkins and scored lines using a sharp knife. The cheese bats were made using a moth fondant cutter, and then trimming the bottom with a scalloped edge cutter.
The second lunch is a cheese sandwich jack-o-lantern, watermelon patch of more jack-o-lanterns, ghost potato chips, ghostly string cheese and quail egg eyeballs. The ghost and eyeballs are decorated using natural food colors. Love that stuff!
The third lunch is a last minute quickie. Seriously, I only spent 15 minutes on it from conception to finish because we got a late start this morning. The ghost is an almond butter and marmalade sandwich in front of a cheese slice house with a Babybel jack-o-lantern. The cute kiwi monster with cheese monsters was inspired by Another Lunch. In the third compartment, our clumsy witch finally climbed out of the cauldron and stumbled into a vat of coconut milk yogurt (a tardy mama’s best friend!).
Don’t forget to check out the blog hop, starting with Beth’s super fun post on A Boy & His Lunch
To make these lunches I used:
October 21, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Love the witch in the cauldron
October 19, 2012 at 11:32 am
SUPER LOVE!! OMG! Like many others my favorite part would have to be the silly witch feet! I’ve got a thing for silly witch feet! The ghost potato chips are really cute as well!
October 18, 2012 at 7:07 pm
OMG! These lunches are AMAZING!! Your witch legs in the cauldron are hilarious! And the quail egg eyeball and ghost chips are WAY cool!! Great job!!!!! 🙂
October 18, 2012 at 8:13 am
Really great lunches! I can’t pick a favorite… but I do love the clumsy witch 🙂
October 18, 2012 at 5:12 am
AAhhhhh they are so beautiful!!!! Love the bloody skull LOL!
October 17, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Witch falling in the cauldron is epic!! Great lunches 😀
October 17, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Eek! That skull is creepy! Love the chips too!
October 17, 2012 at 8:48 pm
Really cute food and post!
October 17, 2012 at 5:39 pm
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the skull!
October 17, 2012 at 5:19 pm
I love those ghost chips so cute! All the lunches are amazing!
October 17, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Love the witch in the caldron! LOL!
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October 17, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Love everything! I think that skull may give me nightmares.
October 17, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Very Cute Great Job!!
October 17, 2012 at 12:07 pm
LISE! THESE ARE AMAZING!!!!
So creative. Love the cauldron so hard. Immense details, on all of them. FANTASTIC!
October 17, 2012 at 11:42 am
Awesomeness! I adore the first one with the cauldron, legs sticking out and bleeding skull at the top left. It’s a masterpiece!
October 17, 2012 at 11:20 am
Lise, I love the babybel jack-o-lantern! I didn’t even realize that’s what it was til I saw the photo – such a great idea!
October 17, 2012 at 10:54 am
You are so talented.
October 17, 2012 at 10:33 am
I love them ALL, they are super cute!:)
October 17, 2012 at 10:28 am
This looks awesome Lise! I love all of the lunches!!
October 17, 2012 at 10:13 am
Bahaha! Those legs coming out of the cauldron are outta control cool!!!
October 17, 2012 at 9:53 am
Two super cute lunches! I loved them both!
October 17, 2012 at 9:50 am
Great job
October 17, 2012 at 9:48 am
Love the quail egg eyes – LOVE!
October 17, 2012 at 9:10 am
GREAT ideas! I love you cauldron sandwich seriously!
October 17, 2012 at 9:01 am
Amazing! I love the bloody skull and the quail egg eye balls and well EVERYTHING! You are amazing!!
October 17, 2012 at 8:41 am
I was going to do a cauldron, glad I didn’t it wouldn’t have been as good as yours 🙂
October 17, 2012 at 8:52 am
Oh stop – you do great work. I’m sure it would have been awesome! I can’t wait to hop on through and see all the great ideas!
October 17, 2012 at 7:34 am
The cauldron with the witch legs is so creative! However did you do those ghost chips? Those are so cool too!
October 17, 2012 at 7:20 am
Awesome cauldron!!!!
October 17, 2012 at 7:15 am
Love the witch falling into the cualdrom! Great idea and use of picks!
October 17, 2012 at 7:05 am
So cute!! Love them both. 🙂
October 17, 2012 at 6:50 am
Love them! the witch falling into the cauldron is my favourite so far 🙂 I really like that cookie cutter set too!
October 17, 2012 at 6:39 am
Also the ghost chips…fantastic!
October 17, 2012 at 6:38 am
Love the legs coming out of the cauldron and that skull in the yogurt is creepy but really cool!
October 17, 2012 at 6:26 am
I love the ghost potato chips! Did you make them?
The witch in her cauldron is great!
October 17, 2012 at 7:21 am
Thanks all! I found the ghost chips at the store. I tried to link them in my resources below but apparently it’s the only product on the planet Amazon does not carry! They are called Boo Chips by Tony’s Fine Foods
October 17, 2012 at 6:15 am
I love your witch has fallen into her cauldron theme and the effect of the skull in the yogurt!
October 17, 2012 at 6:13 am
Super cute lunches!!! Hard to pick my favorite of the two!