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How To Have The Ultimate Picnic

How To Have The Ultimate Picnic

Hi Everyone, during the warm weather months and into the Fall, there are opportunities to have your “ultimate picnic”. We love picnics, as evidenced by our “We (heart) Picnics” letter board sign in our photos in this post A picnic should be easy to assemble, not expensive and FUN. I say, just use what you already have in your house! You can enlist friends and family to bring things to the picnic that you don’t have too. We are featuring Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies in our “How to Have the Ultimate Picnic” guide below. I have included a printable “How To” card at the end of the post for your convenience My daughter and I had fun getting “dressed up” for our garden tea party. Our garden is a place where I spend a lot of time with my kids. We discover, learn, relax and help make things grow there. There are many life lessons – like patience, nurturing and working together – to be learned in the garden. What a fitting place to kick off our rubber boots, put down our shovels, sip tea or water and snack on cookies!

About Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies

My daughter and I have a love of baked goods. We always love going to the bakery together. These Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies conjure up nostalgia in me of us going to the bakery since she was a little infant! These Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies are true “soft baked” cookies. If you like soft cookies, these are for you! She just started Kindergarten and now that we don’t have as much time as we did together during the day as she did in preschool, having an afternoon picnic together and enjoying some cookies is a new way to spend time together and chat about our day. I love hearing all about her new school experience and I tell her about my day – just two gals chatting and catching up! For our Garden party we dined on Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies. We had their Dewey’s Bakery Lemon Bar Soft Baked Cookies and also Dewey’s Bakery Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Soft Baked Cookies. We picked up Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies at Wegmans, finding them easily in the cookie aisle (see below).

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How To Have The Ultimate Picnic

Here are some key elements to have for your ultimate picnic!

1.) Beverage(s)

It is essential to have something to sip at your picnic. Do you want a cold drink for hot weather or a hot drink, like tea, coffee or hot apple cider with a cinnamon stick? Here are some ideas:

• water – we always like to stay hydrated in our family, you should at least have water available to your picnic guests
• tea – we love making a fresh tea out of freshly picked mint, basil or lemon verbena from our garden. It’s good to have a variety of tea available too!
• coffee – make sure you have half and half/cream and sugar available
• sweet beverage(s) like apple cider (hot) or lemonade (cold/iced)

2.) Snacks to eat

We enjoyed these Dewey’s Bakery Soft Baked Cookies:

• Dewey’s Bakery Lemon Bar Soft Baked Cookies
• Dewey’s Bakery Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Soft Baked Cookies

There’s nothing like having baked goods at a picnic, for this picnic we have Dewey’s Bakery Lemon Bar Soft Baked Cookies and Dewey’s Bakery Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Soft Baked Cookies, as shown above.

3.) Blanket/ground covering

Here are some ideas for blanket or ground covering:

• *Chairs are optional as long as you have a blanket – I have little seats for my kiddos
• Pillows are great to sit on on top of your blanket
• If the ground is damp, I suggest putting down a tarp before laying down your picnic blanket
• Choose an old quilt or picnic-designated blanket that can accommodate the amount of people at your picnic

4.) Environment is Important

We soak up our surroundings, don’t we? Weather, light, air – ambiance is so important. Wouldn’t you want to make the surrounding that you are in exemplify your ideals? Where do you plan on having your picnic? You can chose a special place to host your picnic, for us, we chose our home garden, one of our favorite outdoor spaces. Our home garden is a place where my kids and I spend a lot of time, especially during the warm weather months.

• Your or a friends garden or yard
• Favorite park, ideally a place that has some shade
• Kids room or a room in your house, for a rainy day or at night

5.) Invite Your Favorite People!

Make sure to invite the people that you love

• friends, family and pets!

6.) Festive Decorations

There’s nothing more cheerful than having fun decor at your picnic Make sure to have some festive flair at your picnic, here are some ideas:

• Seasonal flowers, flower arrangements – It’s later Summer-Fall here, so I have late season flowers for decoration, for example, colorful chrysanthemums
• decorative tablecloths, napkins and linens
• flags and signs

7. Dress for the Occasion

It’s fun to dress up (or down)! In our case we pulled out my costume jewelry and mixed that look with our gardening clothing – garden chic! If it’s sunny, don’t forget your sunglasses! Have you had or are planning to have a picnic? What do you like to bring to your picnics? Please let us know in the comments below! Thank you for reading and following along!

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