Patriotic Pasta

Want a super easy, super fun 4th of July lunch? Try this Patriotic Pasta!

Put on two pots of water and bring to a boil. Add red food coloring to the water in one pot and blue to the water in the other.  I used a very generous amount in each pot. Add the noodles and cook as usual. Check noodles several times and add more color if needed. You can use regular food color or gel colors, both work great, but gel always gives a more vibrant look! Drain, butter and serve! So simple! 

A Patriotic Kind of Lunch

Stars and stripes for lunch today.

I used a cookie cutter to cut bread in the shape of a star, then toasted it. 

The butter is just softened and dyed with a few drops of food color.

Syrup in the corner cubby for dipping their stars. (This is the kiddos favorite version of french toast)

Red Seedless grapes.

Strawberry yogurt with Blueberry syrup. Find the recipe for the blueberry syrup here.

I used a pizza cutter to cut 'stripes' of cheese. 

Simple, fast, fun!

Cars, Trains, Trucks, and Planes!

Wheels, Watermelon and Whales
For lunch today we had simple sandwiches cut in the shape of a race cars ( used a cookie cutter) with wheels made out of watermelon balls. They also had spiced cookies in the shape of 'wheels'  and some whale crackers and some cheese in the shape of a flower. Everybody cleaned their plates and asked for seconds! :)

Following lunch, it was time to do some crafts. Over the weekend I picked up some cardstock die cuts in the shape of cars, trucks, plaines, etc. I got a pack of like 30 shapes for 79 cents at Michael's yesterday. Love me a deal! So Everyone chose a form of transportation and decorated them with the handy-dandy dot painters. (you can use bingo blotters or DO-A-DOT painters as well). After they were dry, we used construction paper and some electrical tape to make a scene on the picture window. The whole thing was quick and easy! And the window looks beautiful!

 Kids at work!

 VROOM!

 The completed window scene!

 Chug-a-chug-a CHOO-CHOO!

 The highway is all backed up!

 Ry's dump truck is full and he is on his way down the dirt mountain!

 It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!--- NO, wait... it is just a plane! 

It makes me happy!