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Now that my boys are in school I try to make their lunches special too. We make a special trip to the grocery store each week to pick out their favorite healthy treats to put inside their lunch boxes. There is nothing like being excited to pop open those lunch boxes when the bell rings. Both of my boys love to draw and create artwork so I will sometimes draw silly pictures to tuck inside their lunches so they can laugh at what a horrible artist Mom is! On special occasions, I LOVE popping in during lunch to eat with the boys and their friends. They know when I come eat lunch with them that I usually bring some homemade cookies with me to share 🙂 I hope that these little things will create memories for my boys just like my mom did for me 🙂
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Since my kiddos are still little, the special thing I do for the kids for lunch is “make” them lunch. Milk a la mommy.
My baby girl is only 2 so she doesn’t go to school yet but I still try to make lunch time fun by eating her favorite foods and sitting at her little table instead of the big one.
My oldest daughter loves to have her grilled cheese cut into cool shapes -> dinosaurs are her favorite right now!!
My mom would leave me notes and once I pack lunches for my girls I will do the same!!
I make hearts out of their PB&J sandwiches and grilled cheese sandwiches. When he gets a little older, I think I will do a note too!
I love writing a little note, and putting a treat in can be fun too! also koolaid in a water bottle is a fun surprise!
My mom always used to put little notes in my lunchbox. They were always on Suzy Zoo paper!(My favorite as a kid!)
I love to leave the little notes in my daughters lunch. As she got older(she goes in to 7th grade this year) I thought I needed more than just a nice note from mom, so I bought a joke book so I could leave a joke for her and her friends everyday. It was fun, and she really loved it.
My Mom would always get up early and pack our lunches before heading off to work. She always let us choose what kind of lunch box we got for the year and didn’t care what we choose. My favorite one was my pink Barbie one that she let me have. She would always make sure we had lots of yummy things to eat. We always had the “cool” food for lunch.
I ate school lunches growing up. I definitely plan to leave cute notes in my kids lunch boxes someday when I have kids in school…
My mom would pack my lunch every day and leave little notes in it.
I raised my cousin for awhile and I loved leaving her little notes in her lunch…Just a little something to brighten someones day.
My mom left cute, funny notes in all my lunches.
My mom always wrote me notes on my napkin!
Bento boxes! We live in Michigan and aren’t generally fans of the Japanese culture (we like some, not all!) but we loved the idea of a bento box style lunch for our son! We fill the little compartments with grilled meat sticks (cut up grilled chicken, steak, ham or turkey), a couple of veggie slices, fruit slices, a cookie and some stickers. He LOVES it!
I will sneek in his favorite candy or treat once a week just to keep him guessing.
My mom would leave little notes in our lunch with trivia questions on them. All my friends at the lunch table got involved!
I only ate in the cafeteria on fish days, because that was what I liked, ha! She made my lunch any time I wanted it, always appreciated that! Have no recollection whatsoever of what I ate, but I know I had one every day!
I put homemade cookies in my son’s lunch bag. =)
I have a dinosaur shaped sandwich cutter that I can’t wait to use for my son’s lunches!
I often put notes in DDs lunchbox. I’ll also sometimes include a special treat if she’s been extra good or needs some cheering up.
Very cute! My mom always used to put notes in my lunchbox. It definitely made my day!
My mom used to occasionally leave us little notes. Just saying have a good day, or good luck on a test. It was always a nice surprise.
My mom use to cut out Family Circus comics and slip them into our lunch bags. She would name the characters after us to personalize them.
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My mom always wrote us little notes on napkins. I loved it. It was the first thing I dug out of my lunch box. I do the same for my girls now. I love doing it. I think they love their little love notes from mom as much as I did.
My mom would put notes in my lunch bag. Totally embarrassing then, but now I think it’s awesome.
I love surprising my daughter! Sometimes I make her sandwich in fun shapes, sometimes if I know I will be home late, I write her a note and seal it with a kiss…other times, I just put in silly rhymes. Her friends get a kick out of it just as much as she does. This year, I plan on doing a survey–she can read better and can understand more things, so I plan on doing a survey on her lunch, her school day, etc. and hope that will create some chatter at the dinner table when we talk about our days!
My mom didn’t make our lunches, but she would randomly come get one of us and take us out to lunch on our lunch break. I don’t have kids in school yet, but look forward to making their lunches
I include surprises in my guys lunch.
Notes, small toys, treats.
Anything to make their day.
My mom used to draw hearts in the peanut butter of our sandwiches.
I don’t have any kids yet but I remember the little notes my mom used to put on my napkins, always accompanied by her signature goofy smiley-face drawing.
To this day PB&J reminds me of school lunches as a kid. I still eat them all the time! My mom used to put little notes in my lunch from time to time and it was always a special treat!
I don’t have kids of my own. In fact, I still live at home with my parents while I’m finishing college. My mom couldn’t be a stay-at-home mom so she was always running around trying to get everyone ready for school and work. But it meant a lot when she could take the time to pack me a lunch. Usually she had to do it the night before but that’s ok. No notes… just the fact that she would pack my lunch is good enough for me 🙂
My mom used to bring lunch to me everyday at school till my 5th grade back home in India just to make sure I was eating good and the food will be warm and fresh too…That was very kind of her to do that!!!
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My son isn’t in school yet, but every Monday we do lunch in a muffin tin and it’s usually themed. It’s a lot of fun. 🙂
I love to surprise my kids at lunchtime. I sneak a little toy or treat into their lunchbags and they can’t wait to tell me about it after school!
My Mom used to put little notes in my lunch, I thought it was so sweet.
I homeschool so we do things like build pizza ovens or make fun lunches…and funnily enough, their favorite thing is when I put their lunches in brown bags!