I love playing with my food and the holidays always provide the perfect opportunity for us to get in the kitchen, let our imaginations soar and experiment on many levels. One of my favorite Valentine’s shares is our Strawberry Rose Garden. It’s great for classroom Valentine’s parties or it’s fun on a smaller scale for an after school surprise. When we share the strawberry garden at school we love to share it with a delicious dip; two of our favorites are listed below. Also, when serving this treat at school, I often bring a garden of flowers with one stemmed stick for each child and then extra fruit on the side so that they can continue to skew more themselves. I have also discovered that since it’s not uncommon for things to hit the floor, and there’s always a ‘NO five second rule’ at schools, that extra garden skewers on the side are not such a bad idea. Whatever you do for Valentine’s Day, I’m wishing your little valentine’s a lot of fun and if you do build a fruit garden, it will be filled with love for their special day!
Strawberry Rose Buds by Jodie Fitz
Perfect Party or Classroom Treat Fun….
Fresh Strawberries
Cookie or Lollipop Sticks
Floral Tape
Green construction paper
Green Styrofoam Block
Marker
- Rinse the strawberries and slice off the greens so that you have a flat edge to the strawberry. The strawberries will serve as our rose buds in the garden.
- Cut leaves with a stem out of the construction paper. Note: I use the leaves for the kids to label their names if we are making them together.
- Wrap the stem with the floral tap and stop about ¾ of the way up the stem to insert the leaf and continue the wrapping leaving a portion of the stick exposed for the strawberry.
- Top the stick with the strawberry and place it into the foam base.
- It isn’t necessary but you can create grass from construction paper and add it to the Styrofoam block.
Cookie or Lollipop Sticks: I typically purchase the 8, 6 and 4 inch sticks to create a staggered garden affect.
Lemony-licious Dip by Jodie Fitz
2 oz. Price Chopper light whipped topping
1/3 cup low fat Price Chopper vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon Price Chopper lemonade concentrate, frozen
¼ teaspoon Price Chopper pure vanilla extract
Fold the whipped topping, vanilla yogurt, lemonade concentrate and vanilla together. Serve chilled.
Whipped Topping Trade: The whipped topping can be substituted with Cabot Greek Vanilla Yogurt.
This one of my Price Chopper Kids Cooking Club Recipes – don’t forget to visit at www2.pricechopper.com/kids
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27 Comments on “More Valentine’s Party Fun with Strawberries and Dip”
Doing a fine job , we love you ,keep up the good work Love Mom & Dad
Thanks dad 🙂 Always good to have my parents as my biggest cheerleaders! Love ya xoxo
Super cute & fun!
Thank you! A big hit at last year’s classroom party…considering it a share for this year as well :)…
~ Jodie
So fancy idea, and thank you for the video, very cool job!!! Thank you for sharing this wonderful idea 🙂
THANK you!
~ Jodie
So adorable & such a fun idea!! Thanks for sharing 🙂 Pinning 😉
~Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com
THANK YOU for pinning :)…
Are we connected on Pinterest?
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~ Jodie
You’re welcome 🙂 Just visited your Pinterest & started following you 😉
I’m @ http://pinterest.com/brendalynn1114/ … I have a “CUTE Eats ‘n FUN Treats!” board with pins I think you’d really enjoy 😉
I’ll pop over & check it out! 🙂
What a cute idea – I love it 🙂
Visiting from Adorned From Above. Have a lovely week.
THANK YOU! – you too….
~ Jodie
What a cute Idea! Thanks for coming to linkup at We Three Crabs! See you next Tuesday!
Thank you! Have a great week & I’m glad you stopped by…
🙂 ~ Jodie
this is so darling! Perfect for the classroom or a party. Following you now. Linda
THANK you! Great party fun – we used these for my daughter’s birthday as well…
Thanks for stopping by!
~ Jodie
Aww, that is so sweet that you parents cheer you on. I love that. Popsicle sticks and strawberries, great idea Jodie! V-day is getting closer isn’t it. : ) Have a great day. “Inspiration in Progress” Link up tomorrow. : ) http://onecreativeprocrastinatinggal.blogspot.com/
Thank you! My dad will get a kick out of your comment 🙂 Now he’ll be leaving me comments on all of the posts – lol!
Have a GREAT evening…and thanks for stopping by!
~ Jodie
Hey Jodie,
These came out really cute. What a great idea. Thanks so much for sharing at Wednesday’s Adorned From Above Blog Hop.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Nichi @ The Mandatory Mooch
You are welcome! And, thanks for stopping by…
Have a great wrap up to the week 🙂
~ jodie
Such a fun way to eat strawberries! Thanks for sharing.
There’s always more than one way to eat a strawberry – lol!
Have a GREAT evening & thanks for stopping by…
~ Jodie
how cute is that? i’ve never seen anything like it!
THANK you – they certainly make for a fun serve 🙂
~ Jodie
So fun!! Thanks for linking up at Romance on a dime. Hope to see you tomorrow!
THANK you! They’re on the list again for this year’s classroom share 🙂
~ Jodie
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