HERE’S WHAT TO PACK

SAVOURY SNACKS

✓ Sugar snap peas, baby carrots and baby mealies to dip in guacamole

✓ Dip made with cottage cheese and a tablespoon of chutney

✓ Dip made by blending peas and feta

✓ Tiny pizzas with ham and pineapple

✓ Mini quiches with egg, onion and spinach

✓ Little bags of popcorn

✓ Mini meatballs

✓ Hard boiled eggs

✓ Nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios)

✓ Toothpicks with cherry tomatoes, basil leaves and mozzarella balls threaded on them

✓ Pâté and crackers

✓ Olives

✓ Chicken drumsticks

✓ Biltong

SWEET SNACKS

✓ Mini bran muffins with apple and raisins

✓ Banana bread

✓ Fruit sticks: thread strawberries and melon balls on a sosatie stick

✓ Homemade ice cream made with fruit puree

✓ Small bowls of fruit salad with plain yoghurt

✓ Slices of watermelon

✓ Jelly made with fruit juice and fresh fruit or puree

✓ Date balls

DRINKS

✓ Diluted fruit juice with ice blocks containing frozen herbs or bits of fruit

✓ Homemade iced tea with rooibos and apple juice

✓ Slushies made with crushed ice and fruit

✓ Sparkling water with cucumber and lemon slices

GAMES TO PLAY

✓ Take along balls of various sizes for throwing and kicking, and also a frisbee

✓ Take extra blankets and cushions for building houses

✓ If you have a quick and easy tent it is sure to be a hit

✓ Take a strip of material for blind man’s bluff

✓ Balancing games, like who can stand or hop on one leg for the longest

✓ Sack races are great fun

✓ Egg-and-spoon races are hilarious, so don’t peel the hard boiled eggs before the picnic

✓ Blow bubbles

✓ Play follow the leader

✓ Leapfrog is great for building an appetite

✓ If there is a breeze, take a kite and try to fly it

✓ Build elaborate sandcastles and make mud cakes