These peanut butter and jelly Valentine’s Day sandwiches are a simple food idea to spread love to kids this season. While I made them for Valentine’s Day, they can of course be thrown into a lunch at any time to show your kids some special love.
Want more fun Valentine’s Day food ideas? Check out this post with lots of ideas.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Valentine’s Day Sandwiches
Are you ready for a Valentine’s Day treat? These peanut butter and jelly Valentine’s sandwiches are such an easy and fun way to dress up a lunch for your little ones.
They would be a perfect surprise in a packed school lunch. They would be fun to make for a Valentine’s party at your home or class (just make sure to ask about food allergies). They would even be a wonderful surprise for your spouse or the person you are dating. They’re so simple to make, and I’ll show you how I did it.
How to Make Heart Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for Valentine’s Day
The first thing to do is to cut the crusts of your bread.
Mom Ponderings: Maybe you are curious if Ido this for your kids anyway. I have dug my heels in not wanting to cut the crusts off. However, they won’t eat them anyway, and I’m wondering if I could maximize the part of the bread they will eat and use the crust for breadcrumbs, therefore creating less waste.
I love how my mom “ideals” don’t always match with what happens after you really become a mom. It reminds me of the article I posted called “I Used to Be a Super Mom.”
I cut up a bunch of bread squares. I just eyeballed these. You could measure them or use a cookie cutter to make them perfectly square. I’m a little less Martha Stewart in my approach – “Ain’t Nobody Got Time for Dat.”
I used my little heart cookie cutter to cut out the center of the top half of the bread pieces. Here’s an inexensive set that has a number of sizes (affiliate link).
Now you have your peek-a-boo top piece of bread so you can see the red jelly exposed and create the whole Valentine look.
Of course, you need your peanut butter and jelly on hand to put on your Valentine’s sandwiches.
Spread the peanut butter first and then layer the jelly on top. This is probably pretty obvious, but I like to make my blog about tutorials because not everyone just sees it.
You now have these wonderful little peanut butter and jelly Valentine’s Day sandwiches.
I do have to share the ironic part of this post. I really should have taken a picture. My kids were kind of a mess the day I served these. It was the first day back at school and no one had gotten the sleep they needed.
So, these sandwiches were met by two kids absolutely a mess and falling apart. Lunch was a smoothie and these sandwiches. They both got in their mind that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were not what they wanted, and they were completely offended that it was what was served.
Tears. Anger. Glaring eyes.
The funny part is that I said they didn’t NEED to eat the sandwiches, but I wouldn’t be making anything else. So, after smoothies, you can just imagine that the kids had nice, long quiet times in their rooms.
In my ideal world, my kids would nap when they were such a mess, but that’s not how they roll, so quiet time just had to suffice. These kids were not feeling the love that day…and neither was I.
Isn’t it ironic.
Note: This Valentine’s Day Peanut Butter and Jelly blog post was originally written in 2014. It has been updated for better formatting and more clear instructions.
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These sandwiches are so cute! Can’t wait to make them for my girls. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad you are going to make them. They’re super easy, and I’m sure they will love them!
These sandwiches are just too fun and easy as well! Love them Jodi! Pinned!
Thank you – a million thank you’s – for being willing to own up that after you did this super sweet thing for your kids they didn’t shower you with blessings and kisses and praise your awesome momminess! We all have stuff that turns out like that, and it’s so frustrating. Those are the moments moms rarely if ever post on Facebook, and it leads to such feelings of inadequacy. Thank you for your honesty. and for the great idea. I’m totally going to do this for valentine’s day tomorrow! 🙂
I’m really glad you commented on this. It’s really important for me to be transparent, and yet sometimes it is challenging to admit that my kids can be disasters in their behavior. I’m working so hard and yet we still struggle and I still struggle as a mom. I guess that is just called being a mom and will always be a component on this journey. I am so glad to hear that it is helpful for others to hear about our own inadequate moments. I was just commenting on my Facebook page about how hard this is, and if it’s not hard for you then you haven’t had enough kids. I guess we all need at least one kid to humble us and bring us to our knees. It took having my own kids to not be judgmental of some of the behavior I see in kids. I’m so glad you’re doing this snack idea today too. I just made 24 of them for my daughter’s class yesterday. They were a hit there. No one was throwing a tantrum, which was nice. 😉
You rock!!!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Janeen
Thanks so much. What an encouraging message today. 🙂
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