Earth Day Bento

Bento Bloggers & Friends are joining together for another blog hop. This time we are hopping to celebrate Earth Day. International Earth Day is held on April 22nd to help increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth's natural environment and resources. We are posting our Earth Day lunches a bit early since the 22nd falls on a Sunday. Be sure to click the link at the end of this post to see what Earth Day creations Bento Monsters has put together. The Earth Day Hop links will be live and connected by 10 a.m. on April 18th.

The Thirsty Moose by David Orme

In this story, Big Moose is very thirsty so he begins to drink from the river. He drinks so much that the other animals are alarmed at their disappearing habitats. Beaver, Duck, Muskrat, and the fish yell at Big Moose to stop drinking. They tell him he is destroying their homes. Big Moose does not listen to them. A tiny little fly was able to get Big Moose to stop. Boogs told me that Big Moose was "being greedy and not taking only his fair share". Boogs and I discussed how we can take only our fair share by following a plan of reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as possible. One way we do that is by packing Boogs' lunches in reusable containers. In the lunchbox: almond butter and Nutella Big Moose sandwich, dried apricots for the dry areas of the river bed, sesame sticks for the beaver's lodge, Goldfish crackers for the fish in the river, a cheese duck, a raisin fly with pumpkin seed wings, carrot sticks for the debris in the water as the water level got lower and lower, and yogurt.

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Alice Rumphius wanted to do three things... travel the world, live by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful. To make the world more beautiful, Miss Rumphius decided to scatter lupine flower seeds over the fields, along country and highway lanes, and around the buildings in town. Soon her beautiful lupines were growing for everyone to enjoy. In the lunchbox: Mediterranean Orzo Salad, pistachios for lupine seeds, sesame sticks and blueberries for lupine flowers, ham and cheese tortilla rollups with a cheese circle on top for the warm summer sun, and dried papaya.

Bento Monsters is the next stop on the Earth Day blog hop. Please click here to see her beautiful Earth Day creations.

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