Today’s how-to is something very basic you can make with a boiled egg. It’s so easy that I don’t even know if I need to do a how-to on this, but this definitely is the simplest & easiest way to turn an ordinary egg into a cute chicken in under 3 minutes!
I made this for my very first kyaraben-ish bento, and Farm bento. But I made it even simpler so that you only need three ingredients.
[How to make a chicken with a boiled egg] (used in “Farm bento” )
- hard-boiled egg
- carrot
- seaweed (or black sesame seeds)
– hole punch
1. Slice a carrot and cut it into shapes like the picture.
These will be chicken beak and crown.
2. Make a small incision on top of the egg and front.
3. Insert the carrot on the top for its crown and in the front for its beak.
4. Using a hole punch, cut two circles out of seaweed, and put them on the egg.
This chicken is so ready to jump into your bento!
Sorry today’s how-to is not much of how-to, but I’m in the midst of apartment hunting, so my weekend is (and will be) pretty hectic! My ideal apartment? MORE COUNTER SPACE in the kitchen! 
You can see more pictures of “How to make an egg chicken” on my flickr page.
And if you have any questions about any of my how-to’s, please feel free to leave a comment or email me!
I was born in Japan, lived in New York for a while and now living in San Diego, California. I love creating things with my hands in my free time whether it’s making character bento or stuffing stuff! And now I'm working for 
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How cute is that? Great idea! Not only children would love this in their bento box
that’s not bad at all!!
thanks for sharing!
I found this from another blog that talks about bentos. Very neat cooking mama
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this is soooo cute! love it !!!
I would like to say about you and show your cute idea in my video show for children in Russian language
Please, look for heytam at youtube!
I’ve meant to do this a long long time ago, but never got around it ^^U
I wanted to thank you for this tutorial in particular, because in my Speech class from last year I made a presentation about making bento, and used the egg-chicken as a live example. Everyone loved it a lot and asked for information (I think I gave this website to at least 4 people) and got an A. Just so you know making bento is educational too ^^ thank you!
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