WNY Family Magazine January 2019 | Page 19

Roll tightly, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour before slicing and arranging on a platter. • Serve a combo of goldfish crackers & pretzel sticks in cups. Drink Ideas Cool Drinks For A Warmish Day  If time allows the night before, freeze decorative ice with mint leaves or strawberry slices inside cubes.  Water bottles wrapped with decorative washi, masking or duck tape.  Lemonade with lemon and lime slices. Make lemon- ade from powder or scratch as time allows.  One part favorite natural fruit punch and one part natu- ral lemon-lime soda with orange and kiwi slices. Warm Drinks For A Coolish Day Hot Chocolate Bar: Purchase large tins of quality hot chocolate powder like Starbucks or Ghiradelli in chocolate and white varieties. Heat a gallon of milk and pour into a crockpot to keep warm. Keep a ladle on a spoon rest nearby. Pre-scoop serving sizes of hot chocolate powder into garden-theme mugs or heatproof disposable cups. Add a few mini marshmallows to each cup. Berry Herbal Tea Boil water in a kettle or pot and fill a crockpot to keep water hot. Add enough berry herbal tea bags to create appropriate tea flavor. Remove tea bags before serv- ing. Add sliced strawberries and blueberries to each mug or cup before ladling in warm tea.  Cake Ideas Carrot Cake Cupcakes https://goo.gl/gbtBTF Terra Cotta Frosted Mini-cakes https://goo.gl/WP3UwV Quick Dirt Pudding Cups With Gummy Worms https://goo.gl/ SQBwjA  Party Games With A Garden Twist Throw Paper “Flies” Through A Spider Web Use a bedroom or other out-of-the- way door. Use blue painters tape to make a spider web out of the top two-thirds of a doorway, sticky-side facing guests. Don’t take tape all the way to the floor or kids will be tempted to run through the web. Decorate doorframe with plastic spiders. Using old newspapers, have kids crumble newspaper into balls and take turns trying to throw them through holes in the web. Make holes in web the appropriate continued on page 43 January 2019 WNY Family 19