10 Delicious Recipes For A Summer Sipper

The warm breeze blowing in your hair, the sand in your toes, the smell of salt water in the air. Okay, well these may not be a huge possibility for most of us, but having a yummy drink in your hand, can make them seem like more of a reality. Even if it’s only in our imaginations, right? Today we have brought you 10 recipes for making a delicious summer sipper for you to enjoy while relaxing after a long day. Most of these can also, be made non-alcoholic if you’d prefer them that way as well. Go on, make a batch of one or two and have you own little moment in paradise.

1- Frozen Basil Blender from Pizzazzerie

2- Whiskey Slush from Décor and the Dog

3- Strawberry Watermelon Cooler from Family Spice

4- Rainbow Sangria from The Taylor House

5- Lavendar Honey Lemonade from Wonky Wonderful

6- Watermelon Green Tea from The Country Chic Cottage

7- Frozen Blackberry Basil Lemonade from The Kitchen McCabe

8- Lemon Drops from Nellie Bellie

9- Berry Martini from Living Locurto

10- Pina Colada Floats from Diethood

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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