Minecraft Goes To The Zoo! (a disposable field trip lunch)

Today was the first grade field trip to the zoo and thanks to a good friend providing transportation (and, as it turned out, moral support) I was able to go, too! Rather than have John worry about losing or forgetting one of his lunch bags & boxes we go disposable/recyclable for field trips. Last year he had super heroes and this year Minecraft!

I had a clean container from some Chinese take-out and a clean sauce cup from something or other and, as luck would have it, they fit perfectly together AND perfectly in the brown paper bag from a local deli that I drew a Creeper face on (his name is on the back -- just in case anyone didn't realize it was his if I hadn't been able to go). For lunch he had a bologna and cheese zombie sandwich, veggie sticks, grapes, LifeSaver Gummies, his Omega-3s and a little brownie.
And now for the obligatory "ermagersh he's soooooooo cute" picture:

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Minecraft Creeper

A few weeks back John took a Minecraft Steve lunch to school ... and today it's time for a Creeper! We're both still pretty addicted to the Pocket Edition of the game and now even Daddy is playing it, too. It's pretty funny some nights when we're all sitting around with our various i-whatevers playing. Right now I'm the only one willing to turn off Peaceful Mode so I'm the only one who actually gets to see the Creepers up close and personal ... unless John decides he wants to play with me (which he does. Often.). 

Packed in one of his +EasyLunchboxes John has peanut butter and jelly on wheat for the Creeper and the "C." The rest of the letters were cut out of colby jack cheese and are sitting on top of Original Tings. In the side compartments he has a clementine, a couple of Golden Oreos and his Omega 3 fish gummies.

I wasn't actually planning on doing another Minecraft lunch right away but then one of my favorite bento blogs posted one yesterday along with a great giveaway for a ThrifTee Gear bag and I decided it was a good time for the Creeper to make an appearance here so I could also help share the awesomeness there! We already have two ThrifTee Gear bags and we love them so click on the image below to head on over and see the impetus for this lunch .... and enter to win your own bag!

Minecraft Steve

Thanks to the wonderful world of YouTube John got fascinated by Minecraft. After some research on whether it would be appropriate for him (mostly asking friends with sons his age), we got it for the iPads and his iPod Touch. We're hooked! John loves that he can teach me how to do different things and while he mostly plays in Creative Mode with no scary Creepers, Spiders, Skeletons & Zombies ... we play on my iPad in Survival Mode. Sometimes we even survive!
Yesterday I neglected to make his lunch for today. I had too much other stuff going on. This morning we woke up, played some Minecraft (and finally killed enough sheep to make a bed!) and when he went upstairs to get dressed for school I got working on his lunch. It has been deemed the coolest lunch ever:

I made Steve out of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut into squares using the crust cutter from the Sesame Street sandwich set. I cut one of them in half for his arms. He (and his Empire Jack cheese pickaxe) was colored using the Americolor food markers. Underneath Steve he has grapes, fruit snacks, Omega 3 gummies and veggie sticks. In the little side dish are White Cheddar Cheez-its.

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