Harold, he’s my number one!
Yep, that would be Harold the helicopter from Thomas and Friends. I fancied doing something fun for b today as he hasn’t been well. High temp, off his food, full of snot. So here we are, our very own Harold.
Want to make your own Harold? Here’s what we did:
I studied a few images of Harold online and sketched out a few ideas for how I could make him and out of what. In the end we went with bread, cucumber, blueberries and a red food icing pen. Other ideas I had were carrot sticks, breadsticks and those red string fruity things.
I made a regular sandwich and cut it into two pieces. The main helicopter part was shaped with an OVAL cookie cutter. I use thing bits of crust to add detail to the helicopter -legs, tail, rotor blades.
Blueberries made perfect windows and the door. If you slice then super thin, you can make a “smile” too.
For the eyes, I rolled a little bit of bread between my fingers so it became squidy. I then added the eyes using an edible food pen.
Little B’s face lit up when I presented him with this. Have you made anything a bit random for your kids?! Here are some photos of him enjoying Harold:
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thanks for taking a look! sorry to hear your boy is sick too 🙁 x
That is so cute!! #kcacols
thank you for looking x
Oh my gosh, this is so cute!!
Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next Sunday x
thanks for looking 🙂 x
This snack came out really great. Love the helicopter and your theme.
thank you for taking a look!
Very cute and creative!
thank you!
That looks awesome!! Love the helicopter design. Must get my mummy to make this for me! #KCACOLS
aw thank you. you should 😉
aw cute! Why is it that children more happily eat things that look like something they know?! I bet he felt much better after this 🙂 #bigpinklink
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how tasty looking 🙂 #bigpinklink
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This is so cute! I\’m glad it cheered him up – it\’s horrible when they\’re ill. Get well soon, little bloke.
x Alice
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thank you for taking a look! I think it was teeth :/
Oh poor little fella!
I am going to make this today for my boy\’s lunch..thank you for the idea! I hope your little man is feeling better soon xx #bigpinklink
I want to see pics! Please share if you make it 🙂 I think my boy was suffering with his teeth :/
That looks amazing!!! I am going to have to do this for youngest. She would love it! 🙂 #KCACOLS
thank you for taking a look! Def share pics if you get a chance to make it! x
What a great way to get the kids to eat more healthy #KCACOLS
thank you for taking a look! x
Wow!! That\’s fabulous!! I\’ve just shown my children, and they were massively impressed! I need to up my food game! I will definitely give this a go, my 2 are Thomas mad, and I might be able to hide some normally banned (by them!) items of food in it! They might not notice through the excitement!
ah so pleased they like it! you could literally use loads of different veggies or fruits for the rotor blades and windows 🙂 I used a coloured food pen for the red line and the H. Didn\’t have the confidence for the whole name haha!
Wow!! That\’s fabulous!! I\’ve just shown my children, and they were massively impressed! I need to up my food game! I will definitely give this a go, my 2 are Thomas mad, and I might be able to hide some normally banned (by them!) items of food in it! They might not notice through the excitement!
Wow!! That\’s fabulous!! I\’ve just shown my children, and they were massively impressed! I need to up my food game! I will definitely give this a go, my 2 are Thomas mad, and I might be able to hide some normally banned (by them!) items of food in it! They might not notice through the excitement!
Wow!! That\’s fabulous!! I\’ve just shown my children, and they were massively impressed! I need to up my food game! I will definitely give this a go, my 2 are Thomas mad, and I might be able to hide some normally banned (by them!) items of food in it! They might not notice through the excitement!
thank you for taking a look! You should try it – not too difficult 🙂 x
thank you for taking a look! x
I love these posts! Its ace to see what you\’re going to do next. I admire your creativity and effort! #KCACOLS
thank you! 🙂 Lots of fun things to come 🙂
Wow that\’s a brilliant idea, so creative and I bet he little one loved it! What a great way to make meal times fun xx #KCACOLS
thanks for taking a look!
thanks for looking! hope to be there sunday! x
thank you for taking a look! x
Ooh what a fun way to play with food and learn at the same time!!!
thank you! my boy loved it !
Such a fun and creative way to get children interested jn food. Thanks for sharing X #kcacols
thanks for taking a look 🙂
haha thanks! he doesn\’t get it like this every day !
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Thank you!
Haha brilliant! I love making fun stuff for he little one 🙂
This is brilliant – what a great way of making food more fun! 🙂 #triballove
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thank you 🙂 xx
thank you 🙂
This is just amazing – you make it look so simple! My little boy is a massive Thomas fan and would love this! #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
That looks like so much fun!
Very cute idea – fun food art! #KCACOLS
Fab idea! My son would’ve loved this when he was younger! Thanks for sharing with #globalblogging
That sure is one cute little Harold… Pity he had to get eaten up!!! #globalblogging