17 Creative Food Art Ideas Your Child Will Love
Explore 17 creative food art ideas using noodles, rice, eggs, sandwiches and vegetables, with original image credits and ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Food art turns everyday ingredients into recognisable shapes, animals and characters. These 17 creative food art ideas show examples made with noodles, sandwiches, rice, eggs, fruit and vegetables. The gallery preserves each available image credit so you can find the original creator.
Food art ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner
For a simple starting point, choose a meal you already make and one shape to arrange on the plate. This collection includes an egg chick, a vegetable face, a pasta nest and character sandwiches. Use the photographs as presentation inspiration; they are not complete recipes with ingredient quantities.
Find a dish to decorate in our breakfast recipes, lunch recipes or dinner recipes. For another presentation idea, see the avocado rose guide.
1. Chewbacca Noodles

Image credits: disposableaardvarksinc.blogspot.com
2. Hot Dog Mummies

Image credits: seakettle.com
3. “All you need is love…”

Image credits: Hong Yi
4. Sleeping Rice Bear

Image credits: unknown
5. Hairy Sausage

Image credits: englishrussia
6. Hot “Dogs”

Image credits: taste-of-japan.blogspot.com
7. Eggregation

Image credits: scalvert
8. Pasta Nest

Image credits: Crafty Moods
9. Octopus

Image credits: unknown
10. Sausage Flower

Image credits: unknown
11. Vegetable Face

Image credits: Alex J Jefferies
12. Panda Sushi

Image credits: Jimmy Choo
13. Angry Birds Sandwiches

Image credits: fortheloveofsandwich.tumblr.com
14. Curry Onsen

Image credits: imgur.com
15. Octopus Sausages

Image credits: justputzing.com
16. Egg Chickadee’s

Image credits: healthyfoodhouse.com
17. Penguin Sushi

Image credits: earthporm.com
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