Super Easy Lemon Balm Iced Tea Recipe

There's lemon balm growing on our balcony and it's summer. Just on time for a cup of some fresh ice tea, right? See our super easy lemon balm iced tea recipe. Enjoy chilled!

How To Make Lemon Balm Iced Tea

This is how we used this easy lemon balm iced tea recipe with our toddler, making iced tea on a relaxed afternoon when nobody needed to rush anywhere.

Easy LEMON BALM ICE TEA Recipe

1. Pluck a handful of lemon balm leaves, place them still fresh into a pot.
2. Boil water
3. Pour it over the leaves. Leave the leaves soak for 10 minutes, tehn remove them.
4. Let the tea cool.
5. Pour the tea into a glass pitcher, add some lemon and sweeten with honey.
6. Add a few ice cubes, a lemon wedge, and a few lemon balm leaves for decoration.
7. Enjoy!

Making Lemon Balm Iced Tea With Toddlers

Plucking leaves from stems is a fun activity for toddlers. We had a nice afternoon, spending time together and making iced tea. Our toddler plucked a handful of lemon balm leaves for tea from the herb pot on the balcony. I showed him how to rub a leaf of lemon balm between fingers and then smell it. A great sensory activity!

M was only an observer in the next step: boiling water and pouring it over the leaves. I removed the leaves after 10 minutes and when the tea was cold, we continued the activity together. He poured the tea into a glass pitcher, added some lemon, ice cubes and honey. I prepared those ingredients in advance for him on a tray, just because it's easier to concentrate on enjoying the time with the child if you don't need to jump around and search for items.

The hardest part was (as always) preventing myself from getting a cleaning cloth and catching everything that he spilled in the process of making tea 🙂

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