Kicking off Valentine's week!

So, Im breaking my regular routine and thought I would post a few periodical posts this week leading up to Valentine's day so perhaps you can steal some of the ideas and include in your child's Valentine's Day lunch! I hope my simple ideas inspire you to have a little fun and surprise your child with a little dose of love in the lunch box to bring a smile and giggle to their face when they open...

We started out with the cute little containers I found at the dollar store (always keep my eyes open for lunch box cuteness potential) that says "hugs", it had a couple pink princess graham cookies in it, then I put some heart shaped cucumbers and strawberries to finish off her nutrition break breakfast.  Then for lunch she has a cute heart shaped ham sandwich with a cute heart shaped strawberry on top, some of our famous pink cottage cheese (she LOVED that we tint the colour pink and asks for it all the time.  when I first thought of it I made sure I made it WITH her so that she wouldn't open and frown at it thinking its gross, then it was cool instead!), and a few red and orange peppers to finish off the meal, voila!

Today started out with a heart shaped Babybel cheese, some heart shaped cucumbers and red peppers to match, and then some heart shaped jello jigglers we made last night together (and don't forget the cute little pink kitty cat pic in the jello).  In the lunch portion I put some raspberries and heartshaped strawberries, then some cut up pink wafer cookies, a cute pink/red tortilla topped bear sandwich (to go along with them learning about bears and their teddy bear picnic this week) and another cute box from the dollar store set saying "Love U" and there is cut up twizzlers in there for a treat to surprise her!

Any fun things you are doing for Valentine's Day?