Presidents' Day

Presidents' Day Muffin Tin Meal
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- Red star shaped watermelon with a USA flag cupcake pick
- White string cheese
- Blue cup with drink
- Star shaped cucumbers
- President George Washington sandwich
- Pretzels

Letter of the week... Q

Q is for..... Queen of Hearts
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- A queen of heart sandwich:
    • Crown - bread crust and red M&M's
    • Hair - cheese curls
    • Face - mini M&Ms for the eyes, crust for the lips and
              Wilton food safe markers for the cheeks
    • Neck- a folded cup cake paper
    • Body - cucumber slices & heart cup cake pick
- Heart shaped watermelon
- Heart shaped chocolate cover pretzels
- Cheese curls
  

Q is for..... Quack
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- A duck shaped sandwich with bread crust for the beak & wing and mini M&M for the eye
- String cheese stick with the work quack written on the plastic wrapper
- Sun chips
- Strawberries with a duck cupcake pick
- Carrot sticks

Q is for..... Quilt
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- A quilt shaped sandwich with bread crust shapes on the quilt
- String Cheese stick for the thread and a white plastic tooth pick for the needle
- Strawberry with more white plastic tooth picks as the pin cushion
- Pretzels
- Mini chocolate chip cookies
- Red-seedless grapes with a letter Q food pick
- Carrot sticks

Valentine's Day Dinner

Valentine Hearts Muffin Tin Meal
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- Pink strawberry yogurt in a pink Wilton Silicone Heart Baking Cup
- Heart shaped Marshmallows by Kraft 
- Red Wilton Silicone Heart Baking Cup filled with syrup
- Watermelon cut into heart shapes
- Pink heart shaped pancakes
- Bacon - carefully placed to look like a heart
- Pink strawerry milk to drink (not pictured)

 

A closer look at the pink heart shaped pancakes.
I added a few drops of red food coloring to the pancake batter
and used a squeeze bottle to squirt it into the shape of a heart 
on the hot griddle.

Valentine's Day Lunch

Heart & Kisses
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- Chocolate covered heart shaped pretzels
- Strawberries cut in the shape of heart in a pink Wilton Silicone Heart Baking Cup
- Heart shaped cucumbers & carrot sticks in a red Wilton Silicone Heart Baking Cup
- Heart shaped Marshmallows by Kraft with a heart cupcake pick
- Pretzels
- A sandwich in the shape of lips covered with pink cupcake sprinkles

Letter of the week... P

P is for..... Pumpkin
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- Square shaped sandwich with a mini pumpkin cut-out of the center &
   Wilton Mini Pumpkin Icing Decorations at the corners
- Pumpkin shaped pretzels
- Red-seedless grapes with a pumpkin food pick
- Cucumber slices held together with pumpkin food pick
- Pumpkin candy corn

P is for..... Pirate
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- Pirate shaped sandwich with a cheese slices for his bandanna
   (polka dots created with Wilton food safe markers)
   a mini M&M of his eye and bread crust for his mouth & eye patch
- Red sword food picks hold together black olives & cucumber slices
- Sun Chips
- Strawberries with a pirate cupcake pick
- Gold chocolate foil coins & gold foil Rolo Candy for pirate treasure

 

Letter of the week... O

O is for..... Orange
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- O shaped sandwich with orange mini M&Ms on it
- Cheese curls
- Orange O shaped gummy candies
- Carrot sticks
- Orange slice

O is for..... Owl
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- Owl shaped shaped sandwich with a provolone cheese slice cut into
   small circle and mini brown M&M's for the eyes. Carrot sticks for
   the nose and feet. Bread crust is used for the wings and ears.
- String cheese stick with Who Who Who written on the plastic wrapper
  with a black marker
- Orange slices
- Pretzels
- Carrot sticks

O is for..... Olympic Flag
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- This week Alex's class learned about the Winter Olympics and held there own
   Winter Olympics... this was his lunch on Olympic d

- Flag shaped sandwich with the Olympic rings made  with M&M's
- Mini M&M's in the Olympic colors
- Cucumber slices with a USA flag cupcake pick
- Cantaloupe balls  with another USA flag cupcake pick in a cupcake paper
- Pepperidge Farm Pretzel Thins

Letter of the week... N

N is for..... Numbers
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- The sandwich has the numbers 1, 2, 3 cut-out
- The string cheese stick has the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7 written on the
   plastic wrapper with black marker
- Cantaloupe cut in the shape of the number 8
- Green peppers cut into the shape of the number 9 and black olives under the 9's
- Sun chips
- Chocolate pudding

N is for..... Nest
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- The sandwich is an oval shaped and I used pretzel sticks & peanut butter to create a nest.
   The eggs in the nest are cut out of cheese slices
- Mini Oreo cookies and Pepperidge Farm Pretzel Thins
- Some of our eggs hatched into pineapple shaped baby chicks
- Carrot stick in a green cupcake