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
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