Spend some time with the kids and design these cute cards, using their own fingerprints to form the animal shapes. You’ll need an ink pad, card stock, a fine-tipped pen, and clean little hands. To make:
Form mommy animals with thumbprints—press thumbs into an ink pad, then onto paper—and make babies (and grown-up heads) with pinkie-prints; make two prints for penguins. Once the ink has dried, older kids or grown-ups can use a fine-tipped marker to add features and details.
Celebrate
make mint juleps
On Derby Day, rather than mix individual drinks, make a big-batch version to fuel a crowd. This variation includes lemon for added zing.
1. Squeeze 16 lemons to yield 4 cups juice, reserving rinds. Boil 3 cups each sugar and water, stirring until dissolved. Add lemon rinds; cook until liquid becomes syrupy, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat; cool completely. Discard rinds. Stir in lemon juice.
2. Rub cut lemon wedges along rims of 16 julep cups or tall glasses; coat rims in sugar.
3. Muddle mint leaves in bottom of each glass; fill with ice and about ½ cup lemon syrup. Add 1½ ounces bourbon. Garnish with mint.
