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Kids will love this chicken and chips butterfly for lunch!

April 18, 2020 This post may contain affiliate links.

Celebrate spring-time, Earth Day, or any day by serving a cute Chicken and Chips Butterfly! Kids will have so much fun creating their own butterfly using nacho cheese corn chips and tenders.

Originally posted June 30, 2011

Chicken Tender Butterflies with nacho cheese corn chip wings and chow mein noodle antennae.

It’s been a very long time since I was a kid but my mind hasn’t forgotten what it was like to be young and creative.

As I’m sure you already know, I love playing with my food. It’s just plain fun!

When I began blogging about food for happy occasions back in 2011, I created this cute kid’s lunch featuring a butterfly made from chicken tenders, Doritos, and chow mein noodles.

Use Nacho Cheese Doritos to make butterfly wings and chicken tenders for the bodies and chow mein noodles for the antenna for these cute Chicken and Chips Butterflies

Chicken and Chips Butterfly Snack

(ingredients listed for 1 butterfly)

Ingredients:

1 chicken tender (I used Tyson’s Honey Chicken Tenders, the size was perfect)
4 Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips

a dab of mustard, plain or honey, or another dipping sauce, whatever your child likes
2 chow mein noodles (or you can use potato sticks or very thin carrot sticks)
1 black food coloring marker*

*If you prefer, you can make your butterfly eyes using 2 black sesame seeds and skip the mouth.

Instructions:

Bake your chicken tenders according to the instructions on the package.

You can also make homemade chicken tenders if you prefer.

Decorating your butterflies:

  • Arrange 4 Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips like butterfly wings on a plate.
  • Add a dab of mustard or dipping sauce in the center, where the points of the chips meet.
    • This will help to secure the chicken tender in place.
  • Poke two chow mein noodles into one end of the cooked chicken tender forming the antennas.
  • Use the black food coloring marker to draw eyes and a smile on the chicken tender.
  • Set the chicken tender over the center of the wings with the antennas pointing up.
  • Serve.

Chicken tenders, nacho cheese corn chips, and chow mein noodles create a cute butterfly for a bug-themed party.

To serve these at a party:

  • Bake the chicken tenders ahead of time.
  • Cut out 6″ squares of parchment paper and set them on baking sheets.
  • Arrange one finished butterfly on each of the parchment squares.
  • Keep warm in a 200 degree Fahrenheit oven for up to 30 minutes.
  • Carefully lift the parchment sheets up and place them on a lunch plate.
  • Serve your guests.
  • Do not bake the completed butterflies at a higher temperature or the wings and antenna will burn.

Chicken Tender Butterflies with nacho cheese corn chip wings and chow mein noodle antennae.
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Chicken and Chips Butterfly Snack
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
 

Decorate a chicken tender with nacho cheese corn chip wings and chow mein noddle antennae. Create this fun snack or lunch for your kids or let them decorate one themselves.

Course: Lunch
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chicken tender, doritos, fun food
Servings: 1
Author: Beth
Ingredients
  • 1 chicken tender (recommended: Tyson's Honey Chicken Tenders)
  • 4 Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips
  • 1 teaspoon honey mustard, honey, barbeque sauce, or sweet and sour sauce
  • 2 chow mein noodles or you can use potato sticks or very thin carrot sticks
  • 1 black food coloring marker
Instructions
  1. Bake your chicken tenders according to the instructions on the package.
  2. You can also make homemade chicken tenders if you prefer.
Decorating your butterflies:
  1. Arrange 4 Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips like butterfly wings on a plate.
  2. Add a dab of mustard or dipping sauce in the center, where the points of the chips meet.
  3. This will help to secure the chicken tender in place.
  4. Poke two chow mein noodles into one end of the cooked chicken tender forming the antennas.
  5. Use the black food coloring marker to draw eyes and a smile on the chicken tender.
  6. Set the chicken tender over the center of the wings with the antennas pointing up.
  7. Serve.

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Wrap hot dogs in crescent rolls and add some wings to create these cute butterflies for your kid's lunch today.

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Monkey Peanut Butter Sandwich

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Comments

  1. Cute Everything

    July 1, 2011 at 3:22 am

    That is so awesome how you took the simple, common ingredients and made them into something so adorable!

    Reply
  2. Cute Everything

    July 1, 2011 at 3:23 am

    I also loved your story about the foreign exchange children. It sounds like a truly wonderful experience!

    Reply
  3. Beth @ Hungry Happenings

    July 1, 2011 at 3:28 am

    Thanks Cute, Having exchange students was the best thing I've ever done. Katya is coming to visit us in September, and I can't wait to see her.

    Reply
  4. Cute Everything

    July 1, 2011 at 7:21 pm

    I bet they can't wait to see you either! And even if you just do all the normal things you usually do, they would have a fantastic time, cuz all the things you make are so much fun!

    Reply
  5. Alicia

    July 16, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    I am now following you! This looks so cute, I think it would be a perfect little cooking project for my preschoolers
    http://www.through-my-is.blogspot.com

    Reply
  6. Tanya Anurag

    August 17, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    OMG… you are so creative 🙂 Love the butterfly.

    We have a link-up party going on – Tea Time Thursdays @ Kreative Korner. I would really appreciate if you'd link up some of your awesome posts there. Hope to see you at the party.

    http://tanyaanurag.blogspot.com/2011/08/tea-time-thursdays-2-and-features.html

    Reply
  7. Jamie Gupton

    July 28, 2012 at 7:22 am

    You have been Pin'd! Love this

    Reply

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