Find these recipes and crafts in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – or on JuicyJuice.com – for St. Patty’s day inspiration:
Little ones love cool drinks, and this beverage fits that bill. Juicy Juice Green Goodness Smoothie tastes so good they’ll be asking for seconds before their last slurp!
Estimated Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 2
Ingredients
2 cups blueberries
2 cups pineapple
1 cup spinach
1 cup ice
2 cups almond milk
2 pouches Juicy Juice Splashers Tropical Twist
Directions
Gather your ingredients. Add blueberries, pineapples, spinach, ice and almond milk together in a blender. Pour in Juicy Juice Splashers Tropical Twist. Blend until smooth (add more juice for your desired consistency). Pour into a chilled glass and toast to all things delicious and nutritious!
As we know all too well, it’s always a challenge to get the little ones to eat their greens. Juicy Juice has a strategy? Get them to drink their greens! Easier said than done, right? With this Juicy Shamrock Smoothie, I bet that you will hear slurping sounds in no time, not to mention requests for seconds!
Try it using Apple Juicy Juice 100% juice!
2 Fresh Kiwis
1 Peeled Orange
1 Cup Green Grapes
1 Cup Baby Spinach
1 Cup Apple Juicy Juice 100% Juice
Spotting leprechauns is a demanding job, and it takes the right equipment to get the best results. Juicy Juice developed these precise leprechaun binoculars made of materials you have right at home. We hope this craft helps you find leprechauns, and we wish you the best of luck!
Materials
2 Juicy Juice boxes or toilet paper rolls
Green construction paper
Pipe Cleaners (we chose green)
String (we chose orange)
Tape
Glitter Glue or paint
Step One
Gather your materials.
Take your empty Juicy Juice boxes and unfold the tabs on the bottom and top. Then, shape the Juicy Juice box into a cylinder. You may need to cut any tabs that poke out. After that, measure the length of construction paper you will need to cover the tubes. Next, cut the length of construction paper you will need, making sure to leave some paper to tuck into the ends of the tubes. Tape the ends down inside the tubes and tape down the long edges.
Next, decorate your tube with glitter glue or paint. You’re going on a magical quest, so have a lot of fun with your designs. Next, get some pipe cleaners and cut them to the circumference of the tube’s ends. Shape the pipe cleaners to the ends of the tubes and tape them into place, making sure to cover the ends of the wires.
Once you’ve finished decorating the tubes, tape them together side by side. So your binoculars don’t get too far from you, we suggest creating a neck strap with a piece of string. We measured the length we needed to comfortably fit around our necks, and then we punched holes in the binoculars and tied the string to keep it secure. Once you have completed this step, you are done! Go out there and find some leprechauns.
Trying to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? This leprechaun Juicy Juice box craft is pure gold! This craft will be a great treat at any party!
Materials
Construction paper (black, green and yellow)
Scissors
Juicy Juice box
Step 1
Gather your materials.
Step 2
With your green construction paper, measure how much paper you need to cover the face of your juice box. Then, cut the construction paper along those measurements. Tape the construction paper on.
Step 3
Next, take your black paper and cut it into a belt shape.
Step 4
After cutting your belt, cut your buckle out of your yellow construction paper. Then, cut another square from the inside of your square.
Step 5
Once you’ve cut both the belt and buckle, glue the buckle on top of the belt. Finally, glue your belt onto the front of the juice box. Enjoy your leprechaun Juicy Juice and have a happy St Patrick’s Day! Please share your crafts with Juicy Juice on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
St Patrick’s Day can be a fun holiday for you and your little ones. Juicy Juice has put together an interactive craft that will have kids jumping for joy, clicking their heels and smiling for the camera. Take photos of your little ones dressed up as festive Lucky Leprechauns and share them with Juicy Juice on Facebook!
Step 1: Gather your materials. You will need colored construction paper, a washable glue stick, a pen or washable marker, tape and wooden craft sticks. You can also replace the wooden craft sticks with popsicle sticks or wooden drink stirrers.
Step 2: Begin by sketching the basic shapes of your Lucky Leprechaun kit. Your shapes do not need to be perfect and feel free to use whichever colors you wish. Who ever said that Leprechauns only have orange beards? Cut out your shapes after sketching and place the shapes that go together nearby each other. Glue the gold coins to the back of the black pot, the rainbow arches to the clouds and the buckle and band to the green top hat.
Step 3: Once you have glued all the right pieces together. It’s now time to attach the stick so that the little ones can hold their new creations. Lay a wooden stick on the back of each creation and tape it well at the top and at the bottom. You can add a third piece of tape for extra sturdiness.
Now the fun really begins! Grab different combinations of the props you just made and have a Lucky Leprechaun photo shoot! Encourage silliness and share your little Lucky Leprechauns with Juicy Juice on Facebook. They can’t wait to see!
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We are a book loving family. My kids love getting new books even more than new toys! No bedtime routine is complete without us reading aloud together and it’s one of my favorite things. Sharing a great book with my children, the discussions they spur and that quality time we spend reading is priceless.
This time of year has people focusing on Back to School. Thinking about school supplies and clothes shopping as well as getting your pantry and freezer stocked with quick, nutritious breakfast, lunch and after-school snack foods. Kellogg’s has lots of products to choose from to help with that.
I was in Walmart recently and in their seasonal aisle it was stocked with like Nutri-Grain breakfast bars, Pop-Tarts, Rice Krispies Treats and more.
Over in the frozen section there were so many boxes of delicious Eggo Waffles to choose from! As I was making my selections, I saw something amazing on the boxes! Each specially marked box was redeemable for a free Scholastic Book!
Great Kellogg’s product and free books made me a very happy camper.
My kids love Eggo Waffles and they are easy to make even on busy school mornings.
Nutri-Grain breakfast bars let you enjoy a nutritious and delicious breakfast on the go! They are a favorite choice for this busy mom. My kids love them for breakfast, in their lunchbox and even as an after school snack.
Rice Krispies Treats are another favorite lunch box snack for my boys. Who can forget one of my favorites growing up, Pop-Tarts! They are still going strong and one my kids choose for a quick snack or after school treat. With Kellogg’s there is never a reason to skip breakfast! After all, it is the most important meal of the day!
This Kellogg’s free Scholastic book promotion is truly the icing on the Kellogg’s cake! Every specially marked box has a code inside redeemable for a Scholastic Book of your choice. This free book promotion is great even if you don’t have little ones. Think about donating the books to less fortunate children and share the gift of reading. Donate them to a school, day care or nursery school in the area. For teachers this is a great way to get books for your classroom. I am so excited about this, can you tell?
It is so easy to redeem the codes for these free books. If you do not have one already you just set up a Kellogg’s Family Rewards Account HERE and then just put your code in and choose from a drop down list the store you purchased the product from. You can then enter more codes and when you’re done order your books.
You can choose hard copy or eBooks with your codes. You can choose to donate a book to the school of your choice online. You can only donate hard copy books. When you donate a book to the school of your choice it will ship in an envelope that says it was generously donated by your family. All codes must be redeemed within 14 days of purchase. All books are shipped free of charge. Spanish titles are also available.
It is easy to choose your books and you can select by reading level. Have your child choose books that interest them. You can easily add all kinds of topics and reading level books to your home library. Having a good variety of books encourages kids to read.
We just redeemed 5 codes and ordered 2 Magic School Bus Books, A Clifford Book, 100 Most Feared Creatures and There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Book! We are excited to get them!
You can also buy direct at Walmart.com and receive free book purchases from purchases made between 7/21/15-9/11/15. Look for Buy Now button HERE for a list of all eligible items. E-commerce redemptions are made via receipt scanning. See full details at the HERE link above. Remember whether purchased in store or online you must redeem your code within 14 days to get your free book!
With all the great books we have and all the new free Scholastic books that are on their way to us, we needed some more book storage. If you’re in the same boat, I want to share an easy, fast, inexpensive book storage solution that looks great too!
These book shelves that my husband and I recently put up in our son’s room are made from inexpensive vinyl rain gutters you can pick up in most home improvement stores.
They are very inexpensive, we purchased a 10′ rain gutter for under $4. You need end caps and they are about $3 a piece and sold in sets of two. We used screws with anchors to attach them to the wall. For less than $10 each we had two 3′ book shelves and another 4′ book shelf we are putting by his bed. We love the results so much we are putting many more of these up. In our music room we plan to put some up to hold all the music books.
I would advise you purchase the vinyl rain gutters over the aluminum for a number of reasons. First and foremost they are safer, no sharp edges for kids or adults to get cut on, no shards of metal from drilling for screws or cutting. They will not get dented or bent the way aluminum gutters will. There is no crimping that needs to be done to attach the end caps as the vinyl end caps fit on easily and cleanly.
We cut the 10 foot gutter up into two 3 ft. pieces and one 4 ft. piece. There are lots of options with these gutters and you can even get connecting pieces to let them wrap a corner.
When we brought them home we just attached the end caps to each 3 foot section.
Next, my husband easily drilled three holes for the screws. We put 1 screw on each end and one in the middle. We used wall anchor screws and we added a washer that you fit under the lip of the gutter on the inside of the shelf and stops the screw from puckering the vinyl on the interior of the shelf.
Then he put the shelf on the wall, leveled it and marked the screw holes. He then put the anchors in the wall. After that he just attached them to the wall with the screws and we were good to go.
These rain gutter shelves are super sturdy, hold lots of book and look great! Let me know what you think? What do you do for your book storage?
For the cookies follow along with the pictures for the simple steps:
Bake your favorite flavor cupcakes and use your favorite white frosting. I make my own buttercream but you could use canned frosting if you want. Frost your cupcakes and then add colorful nonpareils or sprinkles and two Mini Oreos for ears. Super easy and super cute for all the clubhouse guests.
Hope you enjoyed this and share with me if you try it! I have more Mickey treats coming up.
With our large family and my older kid’s friends always over, it’s like a party every day at our house. I sometimes feel like we have a revolving door and you never know who’s going to pop over. With older boys and their friends, I can tell you that we always have hungry people in our house.
Now, when you add an event like the big game to the agenda, you can be sure there better be plenty of great snacks and tasty food for the sports fans to munch on. They say go big or go home, that’s how we feel about a lot of things but certainly how we plan when entertaining during game time! My husband likes to cook especially when we have friends and family coming by to relax and enjoy a big game day with us.
My husband can be found making his signature chili and serving it with cubes of cheddar cheese for an unbelievable hearty bowl of comfort food. Chips and dips of all kinds, cold drinks, and we always like to have some finger foods like wings too. T.G.I. Friday’s has some amazing appetizers available in the freezer section of your local Walmart store now!
Choose from Frozen Snacks of Delicious Wings with Honey BBQ Sauce, Loaded Cheddar & Bacon Potato Skins,Boneless Chicken Bites with Honey BBQ Sauce, Mozzarella Sticks, Jalapeno Poppers and much more. These appetizers are easy to prepare and let you spend time with your family and friends watching the game without sacrificing taste or quality.
I picked some up recently from the well-stocked freezer section at Walmart. There are regular and even value sizes of some varieties to choose from, and you better believe when the value size was available, I chose that and loaded up my cart. I checked out and drove home and my husband put the treats in our extra freezer.
Imagine my surprise the next day when I went to get the boxes and found considerably less then I purchased. Apparently, my older boys found the stash while getting some ice cream. Enticed seeing the colorful T.G.I Friday’s packaging and even more intrigued by the pictures of their favorite Friday’s foods, those snacks never had a chance. Needless to say, there was quite a dent put in my stash. Oh well, what are you going to do, the story of living with teenagers! I never need to worry about my little ones doing that yet, give them time though.
So I took what I had left and prepared a sampling buffet for us to try so we could get a feel for our favorites. I cooked what was left of the wings, boneless chicken, loaded potato skins and poppers. I left some of the chicken uncoated for my little guys but they ended up wanting the sauce. I think it’s nice though that you can keep some plain for those who prefer that. Everything cooked very quickly and disappeared just as fast which is a testimony to how good it tasted!
I even managed to get a plate of goodies and have to tell you everything was great and felt like it was delivered from T.G.I Friday’s right to our house. If you are in need of appetizers to enjoy with your family and friends during big games, parties or any other occasion, try Friday’s in your freezer. I even found a coupon at for $1.50 off 3 T.G.I Friday’s Frozen Snacks, click HERE to get one!
Somersaults embraces the sunflower seed as the new nut,offering the perfect blend of protein, fiber and balanced nutrition with an excellent taste.
They loved the nut free nutrition of seeds so much, they nominated the sunflower seed as their own personal nutritional super hero, choosing it to be the #1 ingredient in every Somersault snack they bake.
Each of their Somersaults flavors are made with simple, all-natural ingredients of the highest quality so you can feel good sharing Somersaults with your whole family. So next time you enjoy a Somersault, think of those beautiful fields of sunflowers that stretch for miles across America and the incredible nutrition that these little seeds feed your body.
I was sent a selection of Somersault snacks in a variety of flavors and sizes. They were delicious and a great alternative to snacks that are lacking seriously in nutritional value. They are definitely something my kids eat, both the big and small and my oldest mentioned seeing students eating them at her university. A perfect, tasty on the go snack for everyone!
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Recently, I received a small snack gift basket from GourmetGiftBaskets.com. This wonderful basket was packed full of delicious gourmet snack treats. My daughter loved the 5 O’Clock Crunch, Ethan’s favorite was the Buttered Peanut Crunch, Luke liked the White Chocolate Chip Key Lime Cookies, Jimi liked the peanut roll and I liked the Metropolitan Mix. We had our favorites but it was all delicious, the dipping pretzels and the raspberry honey mustard dip was great. The Cheese artichoke and garlic biscuits were a hit too. You really can’t go wrong with this snack basket. There is something for everyone. We all give this snack basket from GourmetGiftBaskets.com major kudos!!!
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