Serve one sausage, one pancake, cut in half, and two small pieces of parsley as shown. For attractive open-faced sandwiches, use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes from cheese slices. You can use both parts of the cheese for two different sandwiches. Some meat under the cheese pieces will give color contrast as well as good taste. Take half a sliced pear and put it on some lettuce with a small dab of cottage cheese for the tail.
Marshmallows also make good tails.
Use cinnamon candies for the nose and raisins for the eyes. You can use blanched almonds for the ears or pink paper cut in shapes like ears. Put dabs of brownie dough on a cookie tin and place five pecan nuts in each cookie in the proper places to represent a turtle's feet and head. Bake the special cookies and ask everyone to eat them very slowly. Many families have molds that set gelatin desserts and salads into various shapes that can be decorated in many very interesting ways.