Putting together a Picnic is so easy with these fun Mason Jar Picnic ideas. Put all your favorite Picnic foods in jars and you are ready to go! Just add a spoon or fork. It makes transportation easy and it’s just plain fun!
We love spending as much time outside in the summer as we can. Some other fun summer activities include a S’mores Bar, a neighborhood Movie Night and an Ice Cream Sandwich bar.
Picnic season is here. One of our favorite summer activities is to pack up a picnic dinner and head to a local park for a concert or play. Portland has a wonderful program of concerts and plays in their parks each summer. There is usually something going on somewhere almost every night of the week!
Packing up your picnic in mason jars is not only easy but it looks dang cute too. Clean up is a breeze also.
You can basically take any of your favorite picnic foods and just put it in a mason jar. You can use the mason jar as a serving piece or give everyone their own jar and eat right out of the jar. No need for plates. If you are going to eat out of the jar a wide mouth jar is a bit easier but the narrow one will work too.
Of course a cute picnic basket and blanket is always nice too. For our picnic I grabbed a few things from our local deli because I am usually planning last minute!
Picnic Food
I picked up some chicken salad, pita bread, baked beans, broccoli salad and hummus and veggies. But of course you could make all of these things at home.
I love the little half pint size jars – perfect for lots of things including dip for veggies.
Of course what would a picnic be without lemonade!.
We also had to add a little pretty. I picked a rose out of our garden and just floated it in some water in a jar – instant centerpiece!
And a few tea lights in a jar complete the scene.
For dessert I went homemade and I made a fresh blueberry and raspberry crisp. I baked them right in the little mason jars.
A Mason Jar Picnic is a fun and easy way to put a picnic together.
Transportation is easy too – just put the lids on the jars and pack everything up in your cute picnic basket!
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Picnic Recipes
For other yummy picnic food ideas check out these recipes:
- Focaccia Sandwich
- Roasted Red Pepper Chicken and Pesto Sandwich
- Tomato Basil Tart
- Rustic French Tomato Tart
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I love your little picnic!! I grew up in Southern California and my parents were big into concerts at the Hollywood Bowl….we always had season tickets with box seats. My Mom and everyone would pack these elaborate picnics, candelabras and all. We would listen to the symphony under the stars with our fried chicken and candles and salads often in mason jars. This just reminded be of it. So cute.
My mom grew up in San Gabriel, not far from Pasadena and also went to the Hollywood Bowl. I remember going once as a young girl!
This is adorable! So cute, gave me lots of ideas and I had no idea you can cook in mason jars! Going to have to start stocking up on some.
This is my kind of picnic! I love it! Thanks for sharing at Party In Polka Dots!
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Thanks Chandra – I have lots of empty bedrooms now!!
Love your cute little mason jar picnic! Your pictures are beautiful and I love how you floated the flower in the jar. Looks fabulous! <3 Heidi
Thanks Heidi, it was fun to put together and the floating flower was my favorite part too!
My boyfriend and I had a picnic this past weekend and used mason jars too! I made an amazing raspberry trifle that fit perfectly in a quart size jar! I’d love for you to check it out!!
Your picnic looked like lots of fun and the trifle looks delicious!
That is the cutest picnic idea that I have ever seen! I love it 🙂 We do not have picnic weather here in Iowa, I think I need to move back out west.
I grew up in the midwest and don’t miss that humidity. I do miss the fireflies we use to catch in mason jars though!
Love this idea – functional, and it looks wonderful! I’d love for you to bring this to Tuesday’s Table – http://zentmrs.blogspot.com/2013/06/tuesdays-table-for-june-11-2013-and.html
Thanks for the invite – just linked up!
I love the idea! It makes for a heavy basket but it is super cute 🙂
That’s why I take my husband along!!
Thanks Kristen! It’s rarely too hot for a picnic around here!
Love this fun idea!!! Wish we had nicer summer picnic weather around here though…
Leigh Anne, Kerr or Ball makes white plastic lids that make it really easy to transport. I found them at Fred Meyer near the canning supplies, but last year I hunted high and low for them.
Thanks for the tip Dawn. Need to get some of those!
I’m throwing a big picnic for family in a few weeks and love mason jars! Thanks for the great collection of ideas!
Have a fun party Ashlee! Glad you enjoyed the ideas.