5 Fun Sandwich Ideas For Kids

If you and your kids are getting bored of the same old sandwiches everyday, we’ve got some fun ideas to share! Over the past week, the girls and I have been having some fun in the kitchen during lunchtime. We’ve been trying out the new Hillshire Farm Naturals line of lunchmeat and using it to put a twist on our regular sandwiches. We have 5 fun sandwich ideas for you to try:

1. Mini Triangles

Make your favorite sandwich and then use a pizza cutter to cut it into tiny triangles. I actually started doing this with sandwiches when my girls were babies, and we started doing it again as a way to “switch things up”. They love the bite size sandwich pieces! 

2. Cut Out Surprise 

I always saw sandwiches like this on Pinterest and though they were way too fancy for my lunch making skills. It was a lot easier than I thought. We had 2 different size heart cookie cutters, but you could also just cut out a tiny shape from the bread on a regular square sandwich. This one was Maggie’s favorite. 

3. Sandwich Sushi

Alex would eat string cheese for every meal, every day. I was trying to figure out a way to incorporate string cheese into a sandwich. We made some “sandwich sushi by wrapping string cheese and  Hillshire Farm Naturals ham in a wheat tortilla. I wrapped it up tightly and then sliced it like you would with sushi. This was by far Alex’s favorite of the 5 new sandwiches we made! 

4. Silly Shapes 

Any sandwich seems more fun if it’s in a fun shape. Besides looking cool to the kids, I find that using a cookie cutter to make a shape “seals” the sandwich and makes it easier for the kids to eat without it falling apart. We made some spooky ghost sandwiches this week. For our “silly shapes” I usually use regular bread, but sometimes (like with the ghost) it’s easier to cut the shape out of a sandwich made from a tortilla. 

5. Shredded Carrot 

I’m always trying to find ways to sneak some more veggies into the kids’ meals. Our newest way of adding veggies to lunchtime: placing shredded carrots in between the cheese and lunchmeat. Hint: if you add the shredded carrots to a sandwich cut out into a “silly shape” with a cookie cutter, it’s harder for the kids to notice they are in there.

Along with new ways to make sandwiches, we’ve also added something else new into our lunchtime routine: Hillshire Farm Naturals. I’ve never bought a lot of pre packaged lunchmeats, but when I heard that the new line from Hillshire Farm is made with no artificial ingredients, preservatives or nitrates, I decided to give them a try. They have been a hit with the whole family. The new line from Hillshire Farm features four varieties:  Slow Roasted Turkey Breast, Hardwood Smoked Turkey Breast, Honey Roasted Ham, and Black Forest Ham. They come in a double sealed, re-sealable tub, so they stay fresh for a while, which is good because each member of my family picked a different “favorite” from the 4 varieties we tried. Looks like we’ll be keeping quite a few of these in the fridge from now on! 

This post was sponsored by Hillshire Farm. As always, all opinions are our own.