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Add a little adorbz to lunch with Bear Sandwich Molds. Use it to shape the kids’ PB&J or any other sandwich into cute little bear heads, with the added bonus of the crusts being removed. And for dessert, bear claws!! You know, to keep the theme going.
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For kids who haven’t mastered their spaghetti-twirling, or an adult with questionable motor skills — there’s the Rolognese Spaghetti Fork. Simply place the spaghetti fork in your paskettys and turn the crank.
Your pasta will be conveniently rolled for you. Sorry, there’s nothing to automatically wipe the sauce from your face.
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Remember those inspirational notes that Mom used to include in your lunchbox? Oh good, me neither. But a few kids named Archer and Ansel will surely remember theirs — because their notes are hand-drawn on napkins by their artist Mom, Nina Levy.
The best part… Nina takes requests. So, anything that the kids could dream up in their little heads, would appear in their lunchbox. Robin sitting on a Komodo dragon? Done. A Tyrannosaurus Rex and Tree Rex from Skylanders? No problem.
Check out more from the Daily Napkins project, which includes around 2,000 napkins over the past six years.
[link, via Laughing Squid]
When the “Try it, you’ll like it” approach gets old, My Food Passport is here to help. The activity book — designed to look like a passport — includes pages of foods for kids to try, keep track of when, whether they enjoyed it or not, and stickers!!! Make it even more like a real passport by including a horrible picture of your kid inside.
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For those who didn’t grow up in the 70s or early 80s, Wacky Packages might be lost on you. Because it was around that time that the satirical sticker series was at its popularity apex, and its sophomoric play on words was actually considered high comedy.
Originally released in 1967 by Topps, Wacky Packages bashed U.S. products, and were a thinly-veiled criticism of American advertising and consumerism. However, that wasn’t what made kids at the time collect these by the pack.
Rather, it was our familiarity with these everyday products and awesome illustration, mixed with gross-out humor. That’s also what made any flat surface a potential canvas for a Wacky Packages sticker collage.
From Footsie Rolls and Plastered Peanuts to Hostage Cupcakes and Raw Goo Spaghetti Sauce — no consumer product was safe from being mocked in sticker form.
Who remembers these and/or had a fridge covered in them?
[special thanks to Christian of Art Skool Damage for the photos]