Boogs was too young to remember the 2010 Winter and 2008 Summer Olympics. We have been reading about the origin of the Olympics and about the modern games. The three books we focused on during this past week are - Hour of the Olympics (audio book) by Mary Pope Osborne, Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Non-fiction Companion to "Hour of the Olympics" by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie P. Boyce, and Going for Gold! by Andrew Donkin.
Boogs loves to swim! He is super excited about watching the Olympic swimming events. In the ELB lunchbox: pretzel Olympic swimmer with cheese head and cheese swim cap, chicken & blue rice swimming pool, plum, and salad. |
Olympic symbols lunch. In the ELB lunchbox: cheese gold medals, apple Olympic torch flames, pepperoni Olympic rings mini pizza, blueberries, and salad. |
Check out the wonderful sites I link to on my sidebar! If you want to see more book inspired lunches, click on the "lunches" label at the end of this post or My Story Themed Lunches Pinterest board. To see the previous Bento Bloggers & Friends hops click on the "hop" label.
These are wonderful! I love the apple rings and flame.
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DeleteThe pretzel stick swimmer is PERFECT! They all are, but that made me snort coffee a little so has to be the winner ;)
ReplyDeleteHa ha... I guess that is only fair. Your lunches often catch me off guard when I first see them. :-)
DeleteThese are so cute!! LOL I love the pretzel stick swimmer too, so clever.
ReplyDeleteThe pizza is so smart too with the apple flames!! Love it.
Thanks, Keeley! The pizza one almost had all the Olympic ring colors but I couldn't think of anything black to put in it. Of course, now I can think of tons of things I could have used.
DeleteAwesome lunches. We love Magic Tree House! The pizza and the apple torch are my favorite but I agree with Karen, the swimmer is PERFECT!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Shannon. I only made the last two lunches to make up for the sad looking chariot.
DeleteLoving your pepperoni Olympic Rings pizza! super cute idea and I love all the details too-- the cheese gold medals, apple torch flames.. and well ALL of the lunches are cute! The pretzel swimmer is adorable!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Michelle.
DeleteThey are all so cute and wonderful, love them all. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ming.
DeleteSooo creative! I think the chariot is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Emily. I almost did not post that chariot. It gave me a hard time. My friend thought the horse was a dog when she first saw it.
DeleteLove it Keitha! I guess we would have to bring our lunches over to watch the swimming competition together. We love your Magic Tree Book inspired lunch, the Olympic symbol lunch and your swim-themed lunch. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I can't wait for the swimming to begin.
DeleteThese are all fantastic, but my favorite is that pizza and flame torch! Great job!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sarah.
DeleteWow! The swimming bento is so cute!
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DeleteFun, Fun!! We're excited about the Olympics too, especially because Kaia just finished a swim class and is very interested in water sports!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Carla. I hope you are feeling well these days. Congrats on your pregnancy.
DeleteKeitha, these all look wonderful! you are so creative!
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DeleteOh good lord. Those are crazy good! Darn you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kendra. I tried!!!
DeleteI adore your pretzel swimming Boogs! Fantastic lunches all around :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cristi!
DeleteThat pretzel swimming is so awesome!
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DeleteThese all look great!! :D
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DeleteI love all 3. The chariot is my favorite. Swimmers are so tough to do, but I like the pretzel stick idea. So cute
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sarah! I took the easy way out on the swimmer. Boogs loves swimming so he HAD to have an Olympic swimmer lunch.
DeleteLove all 3 as well..Chariot looks great!!! The opening ceremonies were fantastic!! We will watch the swimming and the diving as well.
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Great! Maybe Boogs will tell you all about his favorite swimmer.
DeleteThese are such cute lunches! I especially like the mini pizza one. I remember reading The Hour of the Olympics with Little J and it was pretty good from what I remember.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to your question about freezing Legos and if they cracked- Fortunately, no, none of them cracked, but they were also only frozen for just over 24 hours.
Thanks, Kelly. I would not want to damage any of my son's "priceless" Legos.
DeleteQuail eggs are a nice touch!
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to let you know that I included your fabulous blog in my Homeschooling 101 post as a great resource for Book Recommendations! Thanks for sharing all your ideas with all of us! http://www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/2012/07/homeschooling-101.html
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Thanks, Beth. I am so glad you like to visit my blog and find out about the books that we read and lunches that we make.
DeleteWow this is brilliant, the horse is a work of art.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking to the Sunday showcase.
Thanks!
DeleteCute! Featured this today on our Kitchen Fun and Crafty Friday link party! http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/08/kitchen-fun-and-crafty-friday-link.html
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DeleteThanks for posting. We are enjoying the olympics as I am sure you guys are as well. Thanks for linking up on Saturday Show and Tell. I hope you'll be back again this week with some more of you great ideas.
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Thanks, Mackenzie. I love posting to and checking out the Saturday Show and Tell.
DeleteOH, how fun!! I love it! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Carrie.
DeleteAwesome job on both bentos! I also did swimming on my BOTW bento. I did blue rice, too. I cut my swimmers out of cheese, though. I think I would have preferred pretzels for lunch, to be honest... I looove pretzels!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Your swimmers looked so much better than my pretzel swimmer. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteOh, I like it! Have fun.The horse looks nice!
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