Perfect Picks for Spring Picnicking

Goodbye heavy winter stews, hello ham sandwiches and fruit salad — spring is picnic season! After a long winter, who doesn’t love to get out and enjoy some al fresco dining with family and friends? Packing up some yummy kid picks, and being properly prepared, is the key to making these outings more enjoyable. Today, The Giggle Guide^® is offering an enticing menu of picnic supplies from Tuffo, Itzy Ritzy, and Kids Konserve, who have plenty of appetizing ideas for outdoor dining, family style.

Tuffo Has a Soft Spot for Outdoor Comfort

We’ve all gone on picnics and just started happily noshing, when the gentle rain of the day before or morning dew in the grass has soaked right through our picnic blanket. With the picnic blanket from Tuffo, never again does a derrière have to soak up a damp spot while soaking up some sun!

Tuffo’s lightweight, cotton batting-filled blanket is available in 10 beautiful cotton prints and features a water-resistant nylon backing to ensure outdoor comfort even if the grass is a little wet. Each soft, portable blanket includes an easy-to-use carrying bag with large storage pockets, and is a generous 54” x 84” size to ensure plenty of room to spread out bodies and goodies! Retailing for $39.95, this is a picnic problem solver and innovative go-everywhere pad.

For more information, visit www.tuffo.com

Green Designer Snack Bags from Itzy Ritzy

Without sounding crackers, every snack goes better with an Itzy Ritzy Snack Bag! They are reusable and washable snack bags perfectly designed for little hands and snack attackers. Each 7” square bag features a lead-free YKK zipper to ensure quiet-open convenience for every munching moment. Beautiful prints in 100% cotton cover a thick PVC-free waterproof lining interior. Itzy Ritzy Snack Bags are reusable, eco-friendly, fashionable and fun.

These FDA-approved snack bags are CPSIA compliant and are ideal for both school and picnic lunches. Retail price is $9.95.

For more information, check out www.itzyritzy.com

With Kids Konserve, Brown Bag Lunches Can Be Green!

No need to chop down a tree for these lunch bags! Kids Konserve Lunch Kits feature 100% reusable essentials to make packing up for spring picnics green and easy. Each kit includes a 7” x 10.5” x 4.5” recycled cotton sack in an assortment of fun prints and colors, a matching cloth napkin, a food cozy, two food-grade stainless steel food containers and a food-grade stainless steel beverage bottle. Plus, all components are BPA, lead and phthalate free.

Kids Konserve offers a practical and economical way to do something to decrease the carbon footprint. With the lunch kit, there is no longer a need to buy paper lunch sacks and plastic food containers. This durable lunch kit is not only perfect for picnics, but is ideal for school lunches, outings and on-the-go snacks.

For additional lunch kit components and more information go to www.kidskonserve.com

Is your store planning a spring picnic display? What product would you include for a spring fling in your store? Comments welcome!