Peanut Butter and Butterfly Sandwiches

Today I felt like doing something different for my two youngest children for lunch and came up with an easy way to add to their happy childhood memory banks. Peanut butter sandwiches will never be the same in the Yates' household, as I grabbed a few of my edible butterflies and placed them inside and outside to jazz it up. These mini butterflies are printed with edible inks, on edible wafer paper which is composed of potato starch. Very similar to a communion wafer, wafer paper is nearly tasteless, dissolving when wet. Normally I place these on cakepops, brownies, cakes and cupcakes to dress them up.


The kids had so much fun eating "Peanut Butter and Butterfly Sandwiches" for lunch, it had me thinking of the endless other foods that could be adorned with edible butterflies in the future. Forget sugary cereals, I think most kids just want fun and these will do the trick! Placed on yogurt with some edible glitter for a special "fairy treat". Not sure how it will go over on brussel sprouts yet, that will be for another day of kid testing!

I am currently planning my two year old's third birthday, so I am sure I will have more cool photos up in the next few weeks. After all, an enchanted evening tea party isn't the same without butterflies!

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Edible Wafer Paper Butterflies on a Peanut Butter Sandwich!

Enderman, Steve and Creeper Pumpkins

Last Year's Monster University Halloween Party Theme

It's Halloween and since my youngest son has an October birthday we always decorate the front of our house with his birthday theme. Last year he was having a Scare University Party and we painted our pumpkins as Mike and Sulley with a Sulley Fur wreath on the door! It was easy to find other purple and teal decor to match and make a not so scary Halloween for the kids. Now this year the party theme wasn't so easy to match with Halloween.  Minecraft has taken over our house, so a Minecraft Painting Party was in the works. Decorating our pumpkins became something of a challenge because we knew they weren't monsters or really that scary looking. My 4 year old son insisted that the Creeper is scary, but looking at a green block head with black square eyes was not something I can see anyone running from. Regardless, we went with it and I purchased our pumpkins and supplies for this fun project and picked a night in October to get these finished up and on the porch in time for the party event!

My son painting his Mike pumpkin
last year from his Monster's Inc Party!

For the Minecraft themed I mixed up the colors needed and we got started at the kitchen counter. We chose to do Steve, Creeper, Enderman and a TNT Box since they were simple and commonly recognized. Since painting with acrylics can be time consuming and messy, take my advise and have the kids wear aprons and not their good clothes. Also, have a hair dryer handy to dry each layer in 30 seconds, instead of 30 minutes! In no time you can paint your pumpkins and easily remedy any mistakes by drying them and painting over the mistake. The acrylic paints have good coverage. A little trick I used that is specific for these Minecraft characters is using a foam paint brush and cutting the tip off so it's not so rectangular and more a square. Then put the square into the paint and just sponge it on as needed. It gives a perfect square template to then go over with your paint brush to fill in completely. I always let the kids paint the pumpkins first. I tell them to paint and I will help at the end. There are some pumpkins that they get to finish fully. But, you know how kids are with paint. At some point they only painted one part and all of the table before they walk away 100% satisfied. This being said, they do what they can and then when they are finished I "help" them finish it up. After they dry the acrylics are pretty water resistant and I placed them out on our porch for our Halloween and Minecraft Birthday Party decorations.

What You Need:

Acrylic Paints in Various Colors

Paint Brushes and Sponge Brushes

Blow Dryer

Paper / Disposable Table Cloth

Pumpkins (REAL or Synthetic)

Paper Plates for Mixing Colors

Sealer / Modge Podge Optional

Time
Appr. 10 Minutes for Setup
Appr. 2 Hours for Painting all 4 Pumpkins Shown
Appr. 15 Minutes Clean Up


See more photos from the Scare University Party at my Facebook Page!