World Bread Day 2016 in Bacolod City — BACNOBA holds Decorative Sandwich Making Activity for kids.

Decorative Sandwich Making for World Bread Day

World Bread Day is October 16 and here in Bacolod City we had a belated celebration. Today, October 23, 2016, the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Bakers’ Association (BACNOBA) held a Kids’ Decorative Sandwich Making Activity at The District. This was sponsored by the Philippine Foremost Milling Corporation.

About 40 kids joined in the activity. They were provided with aprons and chef’s hats plus plastic gloves that they can use while preparing their sandwiches.

Each child was provided with a started kit and a printout of the sandwich designs that they are going to do. I assisted my little one Shane while our yaya assisted Dindin. Papa was our photographer.

Three Kinds of Decorative Sandwiches for Parties

There were three sandwiches to make:

• Monster Burger
• Go Kart Sandwich
• Snail sandwich

The starter kit was a plastic box with three kinds of bread–a burger bun, a hotdog bun, and two rolled pieces of sliced bread spread with mayonnaise. The ingredients for the sandwiches were provided as we went along with the sandwich making.

Chef Jade Deanon of Philippine Foremost explained how each sandwich was done and we just followed her. The younger kids need to be assisted because someone needs to hold some of the things in place. Otherwise, they might need some extra force when pressing and pushing stuff into the bread.

Other than that, I let Shane do the rest, like opening her bread, positioning her fillings, and skewering where needed.

Different Strokes

While our eldest was so serious with making perfect sandwiches, Shane was bent on eating the ingredients.

Because of this activity, I was inspired to do this for the next party of my kids or even just our next play date. Or we can also do this for our Bacolod Homeschoolers Network monthly activity. After all, it’s a home economics project.

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And you might want to do it, too. Here are just some tips that I have gathered during the activity.

Tips for a Sandwich Making Birthday Party

1. Set a goal for each child, such as a printout of the designs that you would like to see them achieve.

2. Slice the breads already before serving them to the kids so that you will not have to provide them with bread knives on the table. Not only will you need a lot of knives, it will also be dangerous especially if you have young children as guests.

3. Serve the ingredients only for a particular sandwich, not altogether (if you want the kids to do the activity as planned and come up with the design that you have prepared), so that they won’t mix everything up.

4. Another optionis lot let them exercise their creativity in preparing their own sandwiches. You can just give them guides on what to do and let them come up with their most unique creations. You may also give a prize to the most unique or most creative sandwich designs.

5. Reserve extra ingredients, especially marshmallows, hotdogs, and cheese because the kids tend to eat the ingredients and there wouldn’t be anything left if you prepare the exact number of ingredients.

6. You can already serve these as their snacks. Or you may want to add birthday spaghetti. Then you can just share the birthday cake after for dessert. Make sure there is plenty of refreshments to drink. Add in a piñata and/or pabitin and you already have a fun and learning party where you wouldn’t need a host or an entertainer. You wouldn’t need to spend much, too.

7. You may opt to have custom aprons and chef’s hats done and that can already be your giveaways.

Enjoy!