Easy 4th of July Foods

Everyone thinks of fireworks and food for the 4th. We usually don't go to a big party, since Higgins gets tired long before the fireworks start. So this year, I made the kids a shooting star sandwich for their lunch. I made a normal PB&J sandwich, and cut into a star shape using a cookie cutter. Behind the sandwich, I added in the trail using pomegranates, white raspberries, and blueberries. Good alternatives would be blackberries, strawberries, cherries, or red raspberries.

For a mom's get together, I made this tray. It is salami roll-ups (cream cheese rolled up in salami), with blueberries in the upper left corner to resemble the flag.

Here's a few other easy ideas:

• Serve red and blue themed food: popsicles, jello, candies, ice cream, fruit salad, fruit punch or other colored drinks in red and blue. 
• Freeze red and blue colored Kool-Aid or fruit juice in star shaped ice cube molds. (See my Beverage Day post)

For a fun craft, first glue on uncooked spiral noodles onto cardboard squares in a firework pattern. Once the glue is dried, lightly brush paint onto the noodles. Let the kids stamp away!

Lightly paint on top of noodles

Press down lightly