These amazing animal snacks will get your child excited about lunch

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Project Lunchbox prepares you for your best lunchtime game. Discover the many creative ways you can make delicious lunches for yourself and your kids.

From a peanut butter owl to a kiwi and grape turtle, this episode of Project Lunchbox will be the envy of the school lunchroom.

Owl Toast

Ingredients:

  • 1 slice sandwich bread, toasted

  • nut butter or other sandwich spread

  • banana

  • blueberries

  • 1 strawberry, sliced

  • mango, sliced

  • 1 kiwi, sliced

  • halved cereal O’s

Instructions:

  1. Spread your sandwich spread of choice onto toasted bread.

  2. Banana coins topped with blueberries can be used as eyes, strawberry slices for ears, mango slices for a beak and kiwi slices for wings.

  3. Cut cereal o’s in half and apply beneath the beak as feathers. Serve and enjoy!

Hummus Animal Crackers

For the puppy:

  • 1 round cracker

  • hummus

  • cheese slices

  • carrot rounds

  • candy eyes

  • 1 olive slice

  • 1 blueberry

Instructions:

  1. Spread hummus onto a round cracker.

  2. Top with cheese slices to create ears, carrot rounds topped with a candy eyeballs to create the eyes, and an olive slice topped with a blueberry to create the nose. Serve.

For the hedgehog:

  • round cracker

  • hummus

  • candy eyes

  • blueberry

  • sunflower seeds

Instructions:

  1. Spread hummus onto a round cracker.

  2. Top with candy eyes, and add a blueberry to create a nose. Stick sunflower seeds into the hummus, standing up, to create the spines.

Kiwi Turtles

Ingredients:

  • kiwi, sliced

  • grapes, halved

  • sesame seeds

Instructions:

  1. Attach halved grapes to kiwi slice using toothpicks to create the turtle’s “legs.”

  2. Use a toothpick to attach a whole grape “head” onto the front of the kiwi. Top the whole grape with two sesame seeds to create eyes. Serve.

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