Moms Are Turning Lunch Time Into Fun Time with Trendy DIY Butterfly Snacks
It’s a classic conundrum of mother’s everywhere – how to get their children to eat more healthy foods. This is an especially big problem when it comes to school lunches. Fortunately, there’s an easy, fun way to get your kids to eat more healthy snacks and foods in their school lunches.
A simple DIY butterfly is a key to this cute lunch sack addition and hot new trend adding excitement to a boring lunch box. Moms don’t need to be exceptionally crafty to create this item, either. All it takes is a few simple materials and a few minutes of time to create an adorable butterfly snack holder to cinch a child’s lunch items together. Kids will have a fun lunch box, and be encouraged to eat healthier, making everyone happy. Parents can even do this project together with their kids, so they can have a fun, personalized accessory for their school lunches.
Materials needed for this project include:
- Wooden clothespins
- Hot glue
- Googly eyes
- Pipe cleaners
- Items to decorate the clothespin – this can be done with paint, puff paint, markers, glitter glue, stickers, fabric scraps, buttons, or anything you can think of to be creative and decorate.
You’ll also need zip baggies to place snacks in.
To make the butterfly:
- Decorate the wooden clothespins with whatever materials you’ve decided. You can paint wavy patterns, draw chevron stripes, or decorate it any way you (or your child) wishes.
- Once the paint, glue, or marker has dried on the clothespin, attach two googly eyes at the top.
- Create antennas with the pipe cleaner. Form it into a V shape, and then curl each end outward.
- You have two options for attaching the antennas. To affix them permanently, open the clothespin and hot glue them to the inside of one side of the clothespin. (You’ll need to keep the clothespin open until the hot glue cools). Alternately, you can just place the pipe cleaners in the top of the clothespin after you cinch the snack baggie in half.
- Fill one zip baggie with snacks half-full with healthy snacks, leaving a space in the middle.
- Gently squeeze the clothespin together over both, crushing it as you go.
- Pull the tops of the baggie up and out.
Now you have snack ‘wings’ to go with the clothespin body. Creating a variety of these fun lunch box decorations means you can add a little something different to a child’s lunch box each day.
This is also a great way to pair snacks together, like cheese and crackers, carrot and celery sticks, or different types of fruit.
If you have multiple children, you can place the child’s names on the butterfly bodies. You can also add things like days of the week of phrases like ‘I love you’ with markers or letter stickers to teach something to brighten your child’s day.This is also a great idea to fill with a special treat or snack for a class party, your child’s birthday, or when you are the class snack parent.
