Butterfly sandwiches and pretzels

I'm pretty sure I ate an ant this morning. A real ant.

Today we went to the Arboretum for a picnic. We made butterflies out of celery sticks with peanut butter, with pretzels stuck in for wings and raisins for eyes.

 

The Shark calls them "fretzels."

 

Even if your pretzels break, you can make some lopsided butterflies.

 

We also made another version of butterfly sandwiches. Cut the crusts off, cut the sandwich into fourths, and arrange. We used an apple slice as the body. 

If you want antennae, you're going to have to poke holes in the apple with a knife. I crushed the pretzels trying to do it, and I think an ant crawled into my sandwich.

 

Extra credit: find some stickers in a drawer and put them on your sandwich bags. 

the payoff: The Shark looks over at me in the middle of the picnic and says, "What a gweat day!"  It was almost worth eating an ant for.

Butterfly hunt at the Arboretum

We took a picnic to the Dallas Arboretum today and went on a butterfly hunt. 

We saw small white butterflies, and a big black and yellow butterfly. I don't know what kinds of butterflies they were, but we have two butterfly events this weekend where we should learn that sort of thing.

Aren't you glad I didn't include an animated gif of a butterfly right here? Yeah, me too.

 

 These are celery sticks with peanut butter. They don't look like much now, but just you wait.

 

This is cheese. They were sampling it at Central Market last night, and it was really good, so I used it to make the sandwiches. I thought you would want to know.

 

Can you see the butterfly in this picture? It's right next to the...

no...

never mind, I can't see it either. 

 

Our Arboretum is beautiful. I took a picture of this, because I didn't get any pictures of butterflies. Butterflies are fast. By the time you pull your phone out of your pocket, and slide to unlock, and put in your four digit lock code... yeah, that butterfly is outta there.

Butterfly sandwiches

For butterfly week, I made butterfly sandwiches.
I don't have a butterfly cookie cutter, so I just freehanded it with a knife.
It would probably be cuter with all of the crusts cut off, but I hate wasting food.

Mmake the sandwich BEFORE you cut out the shape.

I added pretzel antennae, since I had pretzels.

Since we read the Very Hungry Caterpillar today, we had a slice of watermelon.

But I was thinking (after we ate them), wouldn't it be SO CUTE to make open face butterfly-shaped sandwiches (no top piece of bread), and decorate them to look like butterflies with pickles, tomato, pieces of cheese, dots of mustard, avocado...

Or you could do an open face with peanut butter, and use a squeeze bottle of jelly, or pieces of fruit. How cute would that be? Very cute, I say. And jelly comes all up in squeeze bottles these days, or so I hear.

I think I'll make a different variation on these for lunch tomorrow.

Extra credit:
Use food color spray to tint the bread in butterfly wing designs.
Or make your own rainbow colored bread for the butterfly.

I ate a butterfly sandwich, too.