If you want to leave a message, then why not "use your loaf" and make the Finger Tips Sandwich Board - a notice board with all your favourite fillings!
There's no need for lots of scraps of paper - you just write and wipe when you want to update the message.
To make it, get your finger tips on two pizza boxes. Make sure they're the same size.

These need to be hinged together so that they open and close, like a book.
The best way to do this is hold the boxes together and draw round them on a piece of card.
Cut the card out and stick it to the boxes.

The boxes are now hinged!
For the filling, use different materials for different effects.

Green crepe paper or tissue paper is perfect for the salad. Stick the crepe paper down in a crumpled, leafy way.
On top of that, stick down some red circles of card decorated to look like slices of tomato.
Before adding the slice of ham, you need to make the wipe clean message board.

For this, you need a piece of white card and a sheet of acetate - you can buy this from a craft shop or stationers.
Tape the card and acetate to the bottom slice of bread.
The ham is made from pink foam - round off the edges and stick it all the way round the edge of the board.

If you don't like ham, use yellow foam to make cheese slices instead.
Make the top of the pizza box look a bit more like a slice of bread by adding small bits of tissue paper covered in PVA glue.

Leave the tissue paper as little bumps so it looks like seeds or grain in the bread.
When you've added enough, leave it to dry and then the message board will be ready to paint.

A mixture of white and brown will give you a good bread-like colour.
When it's dry, add a couple of foam loops - one for a dry wipe marker and the other for a sponge.
Finally attach a few magnets to the back...
...and stick the board to the fridge.
Or put a piece of string on the back to hang it on the wall.
So leave a message in style with the Finger Tips Sandwich Board.

It's the best thing since sliced bread!


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