DelmarvaLife’s Brittany Siegel taught us a couple of patriotic recipes that would be fun to do with the kids.

Red, White and Blue Pasta Salad

• 16 oz. pasta of your choice, I used rotini
• 2 gallon-sized zipper bags
• Red food coloring
• Blue food coloring
• 16 oz. mozzarella cheese, sliced/cubed

Patriotic Punch

• three different kid-friendly juices/drinks in red, white and blue. Any drinks you think would taste good together.
• look at the different sugar contents per ounce. The larger the sugar difference, the better the drink will layer
• start by filling your glass about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way up with the drink with the highest sugar content (red)
• fill the cup entirely with ice
• pour the drink with the next highest sugar content *very slowly over the ice
• repeat with the last layer
• you can make a cute straw with some licorice by snipping the ends off!