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Jello and Pudding Summer Treats

We’re loving summer here at One Small Child! One of the best summer treats is getting to spend oodles of time with the littles. Today we’re sharing some creative Jello and pudding summer treats to make with the kids via Pinterest. They’re easy for little hands to create and even more fun to enjoy!

Jello Summer Treats

Top: Underwater Jello Treats at BombshellBling.com | Bottom Left: Sky and Clouds Jello Treat at BigOven.com | Bottom Right: Sand Cups at rebeccamealey.hubpages.com

Pudding Summer Treats

Dirt Cups from HighHeelsAndGrills.com | Homemade Chocolate Pudding Pops from DeliciousAsItLooks.com | Summer Sandbox Pudding Dessert at manouvellemode.com

Favorite Fourth of July Treats - One Small Child

Favorite Fourth of July Treats

Independence Day is this weekend! Are you ready? Need some fun ideas for food and snacks to keep your crowd happy? Today we’re sharing a Pinterest roundup of our favorite Fourth of July treats.

Favorite Fourth of July Treats

What to drink… This Patriotic Punch from MomEandeavors.com will have your kids puzzled and delighted! Don’t worry about the preparation. It’s not rocket science. We love a Twizzler straw, too!

Delightful dinner… How creative are these Firecracker Dogs from HandmadInTheHeartland.com? They’re sure to please your crowd of littles this Independence Day. You could even try a grown up version with Bratwursts! Pass the ketchup, please!

A cool treat… Let’s add a little fruit to the menu with these healthy Firecracker Fruit Pops from MillionMoments.net. She uses strawberries, coconut and blueberries. Yum!

Dessert with a bang… Okay, what kid (or adult) wouldn’t love these Firecracker Cakelettes from SheKnows.com!? We know they’re adorable. But the best part is the surprise inside! Soo fun!

Treats for the show… Keep their busy little hands and mouths quietly entertained with these Firecracker Favors from GoodHousekeeping.com. These treat boxes will (hopefully) keep the fun coming as long as the firework show.

We hope these Fourth of July treats were inspiring! Still puzzled about what activities to plan? Check out this post on fun family activities for the Fourth of July.

Spring Treat Recipes - One Small Child

Spring Treat Recipes for Kids

We had to share! We found three fun spring treat recipes to try with your kids over the break:

Spring Treat Recipes

Dipped Frozen Fruit (Top): Frozen fruit is always a cool, refreshing treat! Jazz it up a bit by covering them in melted chocolate! The kids will love dipping and devouring this spring dessert! We found these Frozen Fruit Treats Dipped in Chocolate from Luux.com.

Butterfly Pretzels (Bottom Right): What little girl wouldn’t enjoy decorating these Butterfly Pretzels from Miss CandiQuik? All you’ll need is pretzels, m&m’s and chocolate. But why stop at butterflies? Let the kids create flowers, bugs and other fun spring things. Gather treat decorations of all shapes and colors and let their imaginations run wild!

Jello Frog Ponds (Bottom Left): Aren’t these frog ponds cute? Your little man will love devouring this Frog Pond Jello from See Vanessa Craft. She gives it a different spin by adding other creepy crawly gummies. Add a paper umbrella and some graham cracker ‘sand’ for a beachy jello cup. Add a school of sweedish fish. So fun!

 

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My St. Patrick’s Day Tradition

Decorative clover leaves over white background

Growing up I knew what our St. Patrick’s Day tradition was. There would be green everywhere I turned. Green decor, green milk, green biscuits at dinner and of course green clothes. But something that never happened on St. Patrick’s Day was my mother wearing green. Ever.

My mother is half Irish and just so happens to have green eyes. (Being adopted that never was an excuse I could use). She took great pride in trying to keep up Irish traditions even though her mother died when she was 16 and her father just after she enlisted in Vietnam as a nurse. Her source for family traditions was gone so early in her life that she kind of had to improvise and come up with something new to make the holiday fun for the kids.

Every year she would prepare breakfast with as many items she could put green food coloring in. When I would come home from school I could always smell the Corned Beef and Cabbage cooking. Do I like Corned Beef and Cabbage? Not even close, but the taste and smell will always bring me back to my mom. She served it with vinegar, green biscuits many years and sweet iced tea, being that not only was she half Irish, but she was also from the South. There is just something special about the nostalgia that comes from sitting down to a meal you’ve had so many times over.

But there is also something exciting that comes from changing those traditions just a little and making it into something new with your own family. I love to cook to celebrate holidays, like my mom, and always look for something new and fun to try. The best kinds of recipes are the ones the littles can help with because you can talk while you cook, teach them a skill and get a wonderful treat out of it!

One of my favorite places to get recipe ideas is the blog Oh So Delicioso. They have several recipes for St. Patrick’s Day but by my favorite is the Neon Green Punch since I have small children that love the color! Electric green is a head turner and since it’s not too sweet I don’t have to worry about giving a second glass to my kids. Another one of my favorite sites for recipes is Weelicious as well (you can see the natural green recipes here).

I have found that with modern traditions, it’s not necessarily about having the exact same thing each year but that you do something each year so your kids know about the holiday and what fun you can have with it. My kids are all preschool age and younger so the big school parties won’t happen until this coming fall. Until then we have the opportunity to make each holiday unique to us and what we love.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!