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These are great for school snacks or to stick in your kid's lunchbox.  And they're really super easy to make. For one "pencil" you'll need a cheese stick, half a raisin, a Bugle, a slice of bologna and a toothpick. Carefully shove the Bugle into the end of the cheese stick until it stays put (but be careful because Bugles like to crumble and stuff). Squish a half of a raisin, sticky side, onto the tip of the bugle. Cut a slice of bologna into little circles.  Stack the circles on top of each other and insert a tooth pick...

These snacks are great because you can get creative with the toppings (as in, you don't have all the things you thought you needed so you must improvise with things like frozen peas for eyeballs). To make the Mummy Pizza: Smear pizza sauce (or if you're lazy, like me, a premade jar of spaghetti sauce) on english muffin halves. Use olives, scallions, pepperonis, or WHATEVER for eyeballs. Pull apart some string cheese and drape the pieces over the english muffins so they look like wraps.  You can even have your wraps go over some of your eyeballs, just for kicks...