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Ghosts and pumpkins too! A collection of bento box ideas perfect for Halloween

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.
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A person from the melodic hardcore boom generation who loves music, photography, and eating. I’ve been going to live houses for over 20 years. I’m at the age where summer festivals are starting to feel tough physically. I sometimes try shooting live photos and videos for MVs. I’m not great at English, so I often listen to straightforward Japanese rock that hits directly, but if someone recommends something, I’ll listen to anything—Western or Japanese—broadly and casually. I like cooking while listening to music; it’s a nice way to relieve stress.

How about making a bento that’s perfect for Halloween?A bento featuring Halloween-only motifs like pumpkins, ghosts, and black cats will put both kids and adults in a festive mood the moment they open it.With a little creativity, familiar ingredients like nori, cheese, and sausages can be transformed into a wonderful Halloween bento!If you brainstorm ideas together with the kids as you make it, the time spent making the bento will become a special memory, too.Here, we’ll introduce Halloween bento ideas that are cute to look at and easy to make.

Ghosts and pumpkins too! A collection of recommended bento ideas for Halloween (31–40)

Turn your everyday side dishes into a Halloween style!

Make everyday side dishes Halloween-style! Easy and cute recipes—great for lunchboxes too♪ With a few simple touches, get that Halloween vibe [Halloween Recipes]

Turn your everyday side dishes into a Halloween style!

You might sometimes make dishes like boiled eggs or tempura at home.

With a few tweaks to everyday side dishes, you can transform them into perfect Halloween character-bento items.

Cut a boiled egg in half, mix the yolk with mayonnaise and paprika powder, then roll it back into a ball and place it in the white.

Score lines on the yolk to make it look like a pumpkin.

Use a nori punch to add a face, and you’ve got a Jack-o’-lantern.

For tempura, try getting creative with how you cut the ingredients before frying.

Wrapping boiled somen noodles around a sausage and frying it makes a fun mummy-like treat.

You can also adapt regular sides like cucumber-stuffed chikuwa or pumpkin dishes to create a menu that fits Halloween.

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How to Make a Witch’s Bento

How to Make a Halloween Witch Bento: Easy and Cute Character Bento Recipe

How to Make a Witch’s Bento

You often see witches on broomsticks at Halloween, don’t you? Let’s make a witch gracefully flying over the rice in a bento using nori and cocktail sausages.

Use round slices of sausage to create the witch’s face.

Cut nori to form her body, hat, and broom.

Place the sausage slices and the cut nori on top of the rice packed in the bento.

In no time, you’ll have a witch on a broomstick.

It’s simple and the ingredients are easy to find, so give it a try!

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Halloween-friendly bento side dishes

[Bento Side Dishes] Easy and Cute: 8 Bento Side Dishes Perfect for Halloween — Great for Kindergarten Lunches Too! [obento]

Halloween-friendly bento side dishes

On Halloween, we’re surrounded by all kinds of ghosts, like white specters and mummies.

You can make Halloween character bentos using classic lunchbox ingredients such as rice balls, sausages, and tamagoyaki.

Shape the rice ball into a rectangle to make Frankenstein, or use plenty of eggs to create ghost-shaped tamagoyaki.

You can also make ghosts with gyoza wrappers, hanpen, cucumbers, and more.

It could be fun to include ghosts requested by the person who’ll be eating the character bento.

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In conclusion

With the right ideas, the possibilities for a perfect Halloween bento are endless.

Using everyday ingredients like nori, cheese, and pasta, you can create familiar Halloween characters such as ghosts, pumpkins, and mummies.

Transform your usual bento into a festive Halloween lunch and make fun memories with the kids.