5 Patriotic Drinks for Kids

I try to make the holidays like the 4th of July as fun and memorable for my kids as I do for the adults. These drinks will wow most any kid and look excellent on a 4th of July table. There also have good to serve at an alcohol-free party.

The trick to these drinks is the sugar content of the drinks you choose to layer, starting with the glass that has the highest sugar and ending with the one that has little to none. To prevent mixing of the colors, pour the first drink into the glass, then fill the glass with ice and run the other two drinks very slowly over the ice.

While these drinks are colored for the 4th of July, you can change the colors of the glass you want to layer to fit any event or holiday.

For a girl's birthday party, you might use pink, clear, and purple, like sober, sprite, and power aid.

For a boy's birthday party, maybe blue, green and yellow. Like Jones blue soda, power aid, and a powerful aid zero

The color combinations are limitless, so feel free to go as crazy as you like, and please share your creations below in the comments.

1 Bottle Cranberry Juice

1 Bottle 7 up

1 Bottle Blue Power aid

Pour Cranberry on the bottom of the glass,

Fill Glass with Ice

Slowly add power aid

Top with seven up over ice and pour slowly over the ice

Strawberry sliced

Blueberry

Sprite

Add 1-3 berries in the slot of an ice cube tray

Fill the tray with water or sprite

Freeze

Fill the glass with berry ice cubes, and add a sprite to fill the glass

1 bottle blue sports drink

maraschino cherries

Sugar

Dip rim of glass in water to dampen, then in sugar

Fill glass with Sports drink

Add 1-3 cherries in to each glass

Strawberries

Blueberries

1 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

1 cup lemon juice

Water to fill a pitcher

Over med heat, dissolve sugar into 1/2 c water

Pour into a pitcher, add lemon juice, berries, and water mix well. Chill to ready to sever