Take hold of your picnic basket because any meal can be a picnic with these simple and cute picnic ideas!

Throughout the leap and summer seasons, nosotros eat at to the lowest degree one meal a 24-hour interval outside…sometimes all 3! These are our favorite easy picnic food ideas for kids…oh, and the picnic basket is optional {giggle}.

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Let's have a picnic today!

Fun Picnic Ideas that are Actually Doable

While daydreaming of warmer days, we are  planning and scheming for our next picnic. We are going to have the all-time picnic flavour this year with these amazing picnic ideas for kids!

Don't go bogged downwardly with the vision of the perfect picnic.  The red checked cloth laid out on the embankment (sand!) or the center of a field of daisies(ants! snakes!).  The perfect wicker picnic basket filled with perfectly chilled irish potato salad, a selection of pasta salad and fruit salad (how do you perfectly chill those in a wicker picnic basket?).  Fancy cut sandwiches stuffed into mason jars (I just made that up) and a complete cerise pie for dessert (because your wicker picnic basket resembles Mary Poppins pocketbook).  Don't worry about the details…memories are made considering you did it not because it was moving-picture show-perfect!

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All-time Kids Picnic Ideas…Always!

  1. Winter Picnic – Don't let the weather condition finish you from enjoying a festive picnic exterior! I love how Mooky Chick had a picnic in the snowfall!
  2. Teddy Bear Picnic – Invite all the blimp animals to the living room blanket with picnic basket for what is sure to exist a great way to host the all-time indoor picnic, ever! This beautiful thought is from Kitchen Counter Chronicles.
  3. Permanent Picnic – I love this idea from Bounceback Parenting to fix up a permanent picnic location in the chiliad. There volition be no excuses!
  4. Traveling? Save money on restaurants and have a Picnic at the Hotel with this easy way from Peanut Bloom!
  5. Family Movie Nighttime Picnic – Motility the moving-picture show outside! Have a picnic of popcorn and pizza with a projector and a sheet for a night of memories and less time cleaning up.
  6. Tailgate in the Torso of Your Car – Ane of our favorite picnic ideas is parking near the most the airport then the kids can watch the airplanes while we eat summer picnics. This is a good thought for the evening of July 4 before fireworks.
  7. Have a Giddy Bathtub Picnic – Your kids will giggle and take a expert fourth dimension while thinking information technology's hysterical. Plus, you tin can rinse out the mess when yous are washed!
  8. Take a Picnic Inside a Fort for a great picnic option.
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At that place are so many cute ways to pack a picnic basket…or bag!

Ways to Pack a Picnic with Kids & Entire Family

  1. Pack Chili in a Jar for your next park picnic with the kids, with this idea from Living Locurto! I beloved how it is contained – all you need is the jar and a spoon and a picnic table at your local park.  And they fit into your picnic basket if you are making one for each participant.
  2. Bring your Meal in a Bag! Paper bags brand a swell "buffet" for your kids to pick a meal of snacks from even on beach days.
  3. Plastic Easter Eggs make terrific snack containers. Your kids will beloved discovering a new snack in each egg with this picnic hack from A Kailo Chichi Life which makes the most amazing picnic spread.
  4. Are you looking for a dispensable sippy cup? Grab an old soda bottle! Nosotros transformed one for our outing using a screwdriver to punch a hole in the lid. It was the perfect width for a straw to fit in tightly with no extra cost.
  5. Upcycle cans into pretty outdoor cup holders for your drinks. This brilliant tip is from Positively Splendid.
  6. Muffin Tin Repast – Pack little bites of this and that in a muffin tin, and cover with can foil for transport. It becomes an open up and fix summer season cafe!
  7. Package sandwiches for a group in wax newspaper. Wax newspaper helps keep sandwiches fresh and works as a great sandwich handle to go on hands clean (and to continue food clean!) when eating picnic sandwiches!
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Let's eat a picnic dejeuner…it will be fun!

Perfect Picnic Tiffin Ideas

  1. Salad in a Jar – Catch some favorite veggies ingredients and create single serving salads to take on the become in a mason jar, with this genius idea from Anoint This Mess!
  2. Is it a scroll? Is it a Sandwich? It's a Meatball Sandwich and boy, it'south yummy! This sandwich is a good pick for a picnic.
  3. These roll-up sandwiches from Lessons Learnt Journal are super easy to make. And the proficient news is yous just need 2 ingredients for the dough!
  4. Egg Bread Boats, from Tbsp., are high in poly peptide, easy to transport, and super tasty making it a delicious kid-friendly picnic idea!
  5. We like to make big batches of these lasagna cupcakes, with this recipe from tbsp.! They freeze well, made of mutual ingredients and are perfect for road-side picnics while traveling.
  6. Non all sushi is… well, sushi!  Make your picnic lunch more fun with these Sushi great recipe variations from Child Crave.
  7. Performance Lunchbox'southward Hand pies take time to brand, but they are super piece of cake to bring on a picnic! I am loving these delicious picnic food ideas to fill my picnic basket…keep them coming!
  8. Our accented favorite picnic "lunch" is when I brand a batch of Macaroni & Cheesecake'south Corndog Muffins. The kids go berserk for them, and I never have plenty!  Ours never look as pretty as the ones from Macaroni and Cheesecake, but they are tasty!
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Allow's take a snack picnic!

Ability Picnic Snacks Ideas

  1. Fruit Salad Ice Cream Cone – Take all the makings of this lovely dessert packed with fresh fruits from Bakers Royale.
  2. Make a Fruity Quesadilla – All you need to make this yummy treat from Budget Bytes is a tortilla shell, bananas, and Nutella – yum!  My picnic handbasket just giggled.
  3. Don't Forget the Ants – Ants on a log and other pismire-themed items from Tipp "Ins and Outs" puts a giggle into the idea of bugs at your family summer picnic.
  4. Stack Snacks in a Loving cup – utilise cupcake liners to separate the "foods".  This tip from I Can Teach My Child is perfect for eating out-and-about.
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What virtually a picnic breakfast? I am in!

Picnic Breakfast Ideas

  1. Who says you demand to "get" to picnic?   Surprise your kids with a silly Pajama Breakfast Picnic from Inner Fun Kid.
  2. Waffle Sandwiches – Instead of using bread for your sandwich, make a batch of waffles! Spread on peanut butter or cream cheese, and add some fruit for a tasty breakfast.
  3. Mini-Omelets or what we like to telephone call egg muffins– These are made with a muffin-tin with eggs, onions, ham, fresh vegetables: green pepper (throw in a little cerise pepper for color), mushrooms and cheddar cheese.
  4. Egg-in-a-Jar – This yummy and portable breakfast from Paleo Bound is gluten-free!
  5.  Have a fun Outdoor Breakfast with a collection of fruit and waffle sticks!
  6. French Toast Sticks – This delicious thought from Fox Hollow Cottage is an easy breakfast the whole family unit volition love! Instead of syrup, which can exit a mucilaginous mess, try using a little loving cup of yogurt or almond butter.
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Grab what you lot can…we are having a picnic!

Fun Kids Picnic Activities and Tips

  1. How adorable is this Skip Hop Outdoor Picnic Blanket and Cooler bag (pictured to a higher place)?! Not just is it a stylish picnic handbasket, it is perfect for outings with kids from picnics to the beach!
  2. Read a Picnic Book – Here are a listing of a bunch of kids books about picnics from What Exercise We Do All Day.
  3. Faux Picnic Food – Anytime is picnic time with these really adorable DIY felt foods from Ruby-red Ted Art.
  4. Brand Your Doll a Lunchbox – Now your dolls browse enjoy a picnic with you lot! All you demand is a mint tin to make this fun DIY from Inner Kid Fun.
  5. Keep your food cool with a DIY Icepack – Grab a wet sponge, place it into a ziplock baggie, freeze it and viola – y'all have an icepack that is ready to go when you lot are packing your picnic basket.
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Anything tastes better outside! It is the picnic event!

Sweet Picnic Treats

  1. Rocky Route for the Road! – This yummy treat from Nurture Store is the perfect thing to pack up and take with you lot to the picnic.
  2. Watermelon Krispie Treats – These are precious from Glorious Treats and would make whatever picnic (indoor or outdoor) much more than festive!
  3. Watermelon Sticks –  Non but are they a fun way to cut watermelon, they're also easier for young tots to option upward and consume. Loving this thought from Mama Say What?!
  4. Serve Pie-in-a-Loving cup – This idea from Inspired Camping is to layer the various ingredients, starting with crust on the lesser, and and then add together levels of filling, ending with a pie topping.
  5. Monster Apple tree Faces –  Slice a section out of the side of an apple, layer with peanut butter or cream cheese, and decorate! Your kids will love these silly faces.

Oh and so many ways to picnic!

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Let's continue a picnic!

Outdoor Fun for the Family

I waited all winter for warmer atmospheric condition and fun in the sun with my family! Here are some fun crafts, activities, and recipes to celebrate spring and summer:

  • Jump picnic food…OK, these work at any fourth dimension!
  • Like shooting fish in a barrel picnic food you can make at habitation and more than picnic food ideas for kids.
  • Your picnic needs the best turkey sandwich recipe…ever! Or our favorite summer avocado salad recipe.
  • Make your family summer bucket listing and make sure packing your picnic handbasket is on at that place!
  • Need some ideas for summer activities for kids…we got you!
  • Structure is sometimes necessary…summer schedule for kids.
  • How near some summertime camp activities you can exercise at home?
  • Throw a little laughter into your picnic with these funny jokes.

What is your favorite picnic thought?

Kids Activities Blog is Holly's blogging abode.

She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest E'er! and The 101 Coolest Elementary Science Experiments.

She is the mom of three boys ages 13, fifteen & 17 who partially homeschools. She believes that you lot shouldn't take to buy stuff to accept fun when at that place is a kitchen junk drawer total of possibilities.