If your child is celebrating a birthday today, this fun birthday party hat sandwich will make lunch extra special. We adults don’t always enjoy getting older, but our kids can’t wait to tell everyone they are a year older. Birthdays are a big deal when you’re little, so make your child’s big day really fun by making a simple yet festive lunch.

Let’s make Birthday Party Hat Sandwich recipe!

You can even personalize the sandwich using alphabet stamps or a food coloring marker. Add your child’s name or their new age, or whatever will make them happy.

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how to make a birthday party hat sandwich — *Here’s what we need to make easy birthday party hat sandwich recipe.*

easy birthday party hat sandwich ingredients and tools

Here’s what we need to make easy birthday party hat sandwich.

Ingredients:

2 slices of bread (I used flat bread, but any bread will work fine)
Lunch meat (turkey, ham, roast beef, bologna, etc. )
Condiment (mayo, mustard, ketchup)
Orange cheese slices
White cheese slices

Tools:

Knife
Pizza/pasta wheel
Daisy cookie cutter
Alphabet stamps (you can purchase these in the clay section of the craft store)
OR use a food coloring marker

Instructions to make birthday party hat sandwich

cut bread for birthday party hat sandwich — *Cut your bread slices into a birthday party hat shape.*

Step 1

Cut your bread slices into a birthday party hat shape.

Step 2

Cut the lunch meat the same shape and size as the bread. Layer meat on one piece of bread and spread with your child’s favorite condiment. Top with the second piece of bread.

Step 3

Cut the orange cheese slices into thin strips. Cut a piece of white cheese into a thicker curved strip, to fit along the curved part of the bread. Then cut a pom pom for the top of the hat out of white cheese too.

kids birthday lunch — Attach the strips of orange cheese across the hat creating stripes.
Personalize the white strip of cheese by pressing the alphabet stamps into the cheese.

Step 4

Use a bit of the condiment as “glue” and attach the strips of orange cheese across the hat creating stripes. Cut off excess cheese.

Step 5

Personalize the white strip of cheese by pressing the alphabet stamps into the cheese or by writing with a food coloring marker.

happy birthday party hat sandwich — *Attach the hat brim and the pom pom to the sandwhich.*

Step 6

Attach the hat brim and the pom pom to the sandwich. Serve the sandwich or wrap it up and send it to school for lunch.

Variations in making Birthday Party Hat Sandwich

For added fun, cut some apple slices into birthday balloons!! Be creative! You can use absolutely anything to customise your birthday hat sandwich.

Yield: 1 serving

Easy Birthday Party Hat Sandwich

If your child is celebrating a birthday today, this fun birthday party hat sandwich will make lunch extra special.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Active Time 10 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Difficulty easy

Estimated Cost $0

Materials

2 slices of bread (I used flat bread, but any bread will work fine)
Lunch meat (turkey, ham, roast beef, bologna, etc. )
Condiment (mayo, mustard, ketchup)
Orange cheese slices
White cheese slices

Tools

Knife
Pizza/pasta wheel
Daisy cookie cutter
Alphabet stamps (you can purchase these in the clay section of the craft store)
OR use a food coloring marker

Instructions

Cut your bread slices into a birthday party hat shape.
Cut the lunch meat the same shape and size as the bread. Layer meat on one piece of bread and spread with your child’s favorite condiment. Top with the second piece of bread.
Cut the orange cheese slices into thin strips. Cut a piece of white cheese into a thicker curved strip, to fit along the curved part of the bread. Then cut a pom pom for the top of the hat out of white cheese too.
Use a bit of the condiment as “glue” and attach the strips of orange cheese across the hat creating stripes. Cut off excess cheese.
Personalize the white strip of cheese by pressing the alphabet stamps into the cheese or by writing with a food coloring marker.
Attach the hat brim and the pom pom to the sandwich. Serve the sandwich or wrap it up and send it to school for lunch.