Dog Days of Summer Muffin Tin Lunch

Summer vacation is here for one of my three children. It kinda stinks that they are in two different school systems but that just seems to be what meets their needs the best. For our first summer muffin tin lunch we did a Dog Days of Summer Theme.

1. Doggy Cupcake (click HERE to see how to make your own)
2. Pawprint (apple cut with cookie cutter and then colored with black sprinkles which melted)
3. Bone (cheese quesadilla cut with cookie cutter)
4. Veggie Dog Face (dip with carrot ears and red pepper face)
5. Black and White Dog (cheese quesadilla cut with cookie cutter and colored with food grade markers)
6. Dog Food (chopped chicken nuggets

 

The black on the apple weirded L out a bit and she just nibbled around the edges. She did eat all of the veggie face and I had some extras cut off to the side which she also ate. I thinks she views veggies as a untensil used for eating dip :)

 
The first thing L did when she sat down to eat was pick up the dog quesadilla and bite his head off. Perhaps my child has a little Ozzy in her. For the cupcake she ate the eats, then the rest of the face, then the frosting and then to my utter amazement she actually ate the cake. I wanted to shout "Hey Mikey likes it!" I know that is dating myself a bit.

There are tons of cute dog books to pair with a lunch like this but I just love Bark, George by Jules Feiffer.

 

 

In this adorable story, George's mom is trying to teach him to bark but each time he opens his mouth, the sound from another animals comes out, like an oink or a meow.

 

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Comments

[Feeding my 3 boys]

A very imaginative lunch. My big boys are off this week for their spring break. Summer term does not end until 22nd July, its seems an age away.

[JDaniel4's Mom]

I have heard such great things about this book. All of your dog related foods are just awesome!

[Ludicrous Mama]

My daughter normally loves anything that my food pens have touched, but I'm not sure about that poor apple paw! Maybe different colored sprinkles. Or I probably would have done cheese cut-outs, since (for me, anyway) it's easier than messing with sprinkles!