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Everyone in my family is a big milk drinker. They especially like it with baked goods like my Chocolate Chip Muffins (recipe here). We all drink it so often I sometimes need to make a mid-week run to our local grocery store, Pick N’ Save to pick up a few extra gallons! Good thing it’s just down the road from us! And milk is always easy to find in the diary section of the store.
I am proud of how my daughter chooses nutritious drinks like milk. It’s such a wholesome, simple beverage yet has 9 essential nutrients like potassium, vitamin D, calcium, and high-quality protein that can help kids grow strong. It’s difficult to get enough of the nutrients you need without milk in your diet. There are decades of research and hundreds of studies that support the benefits of drinking milk.
Did you know that many kids are drinking less milk? It’s concerning because that could mean many kids are not getting enough of the nutrients milk provides like calcium, potassium, and Vitamin D that they need to grow. Diary milk is the top food source for those three nutrients most likely missing from American’s diets per 8 oz. cup. As a busy mom, I appreciate that milk is a simple, great tasting way to get natural, high-quality protein and other nutrients that kids needs to help power through the day. Per 8oz cup, diary milk protein is also a complete protein that helps provide some of the amino acids your body needs, unlike many plant proteins which are incomplete proteins. I love that milk is a budget-friendly, simple, and wholesome way to help kids get natural protein and balanced nutrition to help them grow up strong! You can visit MilkLife.com for more content and recipes and follow Milk Life on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.
My daughter loves to drink milk so much we even decided to make a cute milk cup for her. It’s an easy and fun activity that we enjoyed working on together. All you need are a pair of scissors, permanent black vinyl, and a clear glass or plastic cup. A small mason jar with a lid works well for this. I was able to find all the supplies for under $10.
I have a cutting machine at home and cut out pieces of vinyl to look like cow spots with it, but you can easily do this by hand with a pair of scissors. If you use a cutting machine, take off the excess vinyl so it looks more like a sticker sheet of cow spots. If you use scissors, just cut through the vinyl and backing into amorphous shapes. Then you can remove the backing from each one separately and apply to the surface of your cup.
We used some isopropyl alcohol on a cotton swab to clean the surface of our glass first. That way there is less of a chance of oils or residue on the glass making the vinyl not adhere.
Apply the vinyl in a random fashion to look like a cow’s spots. We also cut out and applied Claire’s name to personalize the glass further.
And the end result! She is always so proud of what she makes!
We even created a cow nose for a straw to top off our new glass. On my vinyl cutting machine we simply used 2 circles and welded them together to create the outer shape of the nose and cut it out of light pink card stock. If you don’t have a cutting machine, this could also be done with something circle-shaped to trace and a pair of scissors. Then we cut out 2 black circles from our vinyl and applied them to the pink nose. Just tape your cow nose to a straw and sip away! The glass looks especially cute when filled with milk because the clear parts become white making it look even more cow-like!
Enjoy some milk in a fun glass like this! We tell Claire to drain her cow dry when we give this to her to drink.
