Kids love bento lunches!
Watching them open the lunchbox lid with sparkling eyes and happily eat with big smiles is just so cute.
Bento lunches are perfect for food education—they boost interest in food and make mealtime more fun for kids!
They can also be a great way to deepen parent–child communication.
So this time, we’ve gathered songs all about the bento lunches kids adore.
There are lots of fun tunes you’ll want to play when making or eating bentos—on field trips, picnics, or everyday!
Sing together as a family and enjoy a wonderful time.
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A boxed-lunch song to sing with children. Bento songs that make school lunch more fun (1–10)
Bento (Lunch)Sakushi: Amano Chou / Sakkyoku: Ichinomiya Michiko
Bento lunches make your heart race with excitement—what’s inside, how colorful it is! For kids who usually have school lunches and only sometimes get a bento, that excitement is on a whole different level.
The perfect song to listen to before digging into such an exciting bento is “Obentō (Lunch).” It’s a track that lets you feel all the joys related to bento, from the thrill of opening it to the delight of eating it.
The song even includes the greetings said before and after eating, as well as the rules to follow when having your bento, so sing along and remember to follow them while you eat!
The Bento SongPinkittsu
It’s a fun song themed around lunchboxes that kids absolutely love! Pinkfong’s “The Lunchbox Song” features a bright, catchy melody that sings about colorful ingredients and what’s inside a bento.
With a focus on food education, it lets children enjoy learning about well-balanced meals like rice balls, sandwiches, and vegetables.
The lyrics are rhythmic and easy to remember, so kids will be humming along in no time.
It’s sure to make making lunch and mealtimes more fun! Parents and teachers can sing together too—enjoy a wonderful time filled with smiles.
bento sausagesHanada Yuuichirou, Nagata Maya
This is a fun, humor-filled song told from the perspective of a pair of twin sausages in a lunchbox for a school outing.
It charmingly depicts the sausages anxiously waiting to see whether they’ll be chosen to go into the bento along with the other side dishes.
Broadcast as NHK’s “Okaasan to Issho” Song of the Month for January 2024, it became a big hit among children.
The bright vocals of Yuichiro Hanada and Maya Nagata, paired with the tango-style, rhythmic tune, make bento-making time enjoyable.
Singing it together with your child can also spark their interest in food.
Sora is a bento.Taniguchi Kunihiro
This is a fun hand-play song with a lunchbox theme that kids love.
Composed by Kunihiro Taniguchi with lyrics by Kazuo Shimamoto, the song has a wonderfully unique idea of imagining the sky as a lunchbox! Its light rhythm and friendly lyrics help expand children’s imagination.
It’s included on the album “Tanizō Dacho—Super Hand Play,” released in February 2020, and is perfect for activities at nurseries and kindergartens.
It’s recommended for times when you want to boost excitement—like when eating lunch or the day before a field trip.
Sing it together with parents or teachers, and it’s sure to bring lots of smiles!
Lunch = The Bento SongChao Berra Chinkuetti
Here is a song that will make you really look forward to your lunch box: “Lunch = Obento no Uta.” It was released back when Ciao Bella Cinquetti were still performing under the group name THE Possible.
The track is included as the B-side to their 2007 single “Kaze no Uwasa.” Its bright, poppy melody is likely to feel friendly and familiar to children, too.
No matter how clumsily Mom or Dad might make it, a homemade bento is still something wonderful! This is a song that lets you feel the joy—and the gratitude—of eating a lunch box filled with love.
A bento beyond the hillTora ya Bōshi Ten & Niizawa Toshihiko
Toraya Bōshi-ten & Toshihiko Niizawa’s “Oka o Koetara Obentō” is a delightful song that tickles children’s sense of adventure.
You can feel the excitement of climbing the hill and the joy of eating a packed lunch.
It’s included on the album “Dai 1-shū Sekai-jū no Kodomotachi ga,” released in June 1992.
With its bright, catchy melody, it carries a warm message that stays in children’s hearts.
It’s recommended for field trips and outdoor activities.
How about singing it together with your child and creating fun memories?
The Bento Box SongSakushi: Kayama Yoshiko/Shokyoku: Komori Akihiro
“Obentōbako no Uta” is a fun song about packing all kinds of dishes into a lunchbox.
It’s also a counting song, so you can practice numbers while you sing! You can play by making rice balls to match the lyrics, or by using your fingers to show how many items you’re putting in.
And you won’t just make a lunch for yourself—there’s a tiny lunch for little ants and a big lunch for big elephants, too.
As times have changed, versions with updated lunchbox fillings have also been sung, so try creating a lunchbox that suits your own tastes!