Hi June
Yes, it will be very fun to make bento with kids, they tend to gobble up all especially if they make it themselves. 🙂
1) As to your question, there isn’t any specific veggie cutter available, but what they have is various cutting or sculpting knives, they come like a pen form, so very easy to stash away. For veggies, I use their normal plastic mold to cut up cute shapes and form a theme or picture. As long as the sliced veggies are thinly sliced (max 0.5cm) you should not have any problem cutting them. Or else, just use cookie cutter, works the same, and you probably can cut even thicker cuts of veggies. The point is to make it very colorful & of course healthy at the same time will be great 🙂
As for rice mould, Daiso also have it, so far I see animals like bears and pandas, it comes like a little case where you just stuff the rice in it to form the shape, you can always use the bear shape mould to make other animals. e.g. just pinch the ear area to make it a cat shape instead. 🙂 but I also recommend you to get the moulds that will make shapes like triangular or square, that way you can again play around to make all sorts of animals shape.
2) I could always brain storm many new ideas when I browse at Daiso, one thing that I have been wanting to do is to make ice popsicle, they have molds there with very colorful sticks and molds. Try using it and freeze fruits cubes with Ribenas, great for a hot sunny weekend.
At age 7 – 10 years old, they should be able to handle some tools, try making pizza too, they can unleash their creativity, not necessary savory ones, just make a sweet pizza, like using bananas, chocolate syrup & almond slices. Or else, try out Chocolate fondue, all time favourite with kids. 🙂
Hope these ideas can kick start the really fun bonding time you will have with your girls, I always have a blast with my son, and it is always nice to see how happy they are when they looked at what they have made with their own little hands. 🙂
Happy cooking!
Cheers,
Dawn
1.Very happy to know your recipes and review on Daiso products. I would like to make bento with my girls. Does Daiso sell veggie cutter and cute rice mould?
2. Any other good buy (crafts, cooking and etc) from Daiso that I can use to have fun time with my girls (7-10 years)?
Thank you. 😀
]]>Hi Jas
Yes they do 🙂 the last round when I was scouting for new products there, I saw two kinds of dashi stock. One is in fish flavor (bonito) and the other is kelp. Both came in boxes or packets of little sachets (7 in one pack) which is great for cooking, each sachets is good for one big pot of soup or stew. The red sachets is bonito flavor while the green one is kelp flavor. I personally like the red one more as it has more flavor to it. 🙂
Cheers
Dawn