How to make Moishe

[How to make Moishe from Where the Wild Things Are]
- rice
- ham (or bologna, turkey, etc…)
- sliced cheddar cheese
- seaweed

– cupcake cup (I used foil cupcake cups, but if you need to microwave your food, use a paper cupcake cup instead. I’ve tried it, and the paper cup handled the moisture pretty well.)
– hole punch
– straw
– scissors

1. Make a rice ball and put it in the cupcake cup. (You can put stuff inside the rice ball if you want.)

2. Cut ham with a plastic cap (I used a cap from a can of hair mousse), and put it on the rice.

3. Use a straw to cut ham for his nose.

4. Slice radish (or sliced cheese, or kamaboko, or hard boiled egg white), and use a plastic bottle cap to cut out a “C” shape for the horn. Stick it on the head.

5. Cut sliced cheddar cheese with a plastic cap or biｇ straw (I used a straw for bubble tea) for his terrible yellow eyes.

6-A.If you have a seaweed cutter for a smiling face like I do, use it to cut out seaweed.

6-B. If you don’t have a special seaweed cutter, cut it freehand with scissors, cut seaweed out with a hole punch, and put it for the eyes.

7. Cut strips of seaweed and fill it around the ham.

This is something I came up with while making Moishe. I know that some people might not like seaweed that much, so I made a veggie version of Moishe.

[Mashed potato and broccoli Moishe]

You put potato salad in the cup, put ham on top and surround it with boiled broccoli. Not sure if kids love it, but hey it’s a wild thing! (strange I never hated any veggies when I was little)

How to make Moishe on my flickr

For more pictures of my bento, visit Bento! set and Bento details! set on my flickr page.

If you have any questions about any of my how-to’s, please feel free to leave a comment or email me!

Tagged as: broccoli, ham, Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are