What will make a good menu for a children's party with the theme under the sea?!
What will make a good menu for a children's party with the theme under the sea?
The kids are 5-7 years old. Should consits of main dish, dessert, side dish and drink.
Answers:
Fish sticks and hush puppies!
I'm drawing a blank on dessert and drink, though.
Like the first answer, fishsticks, hushpuppies, for dessert, a cake shaped like a starfish.
Popcorn shrimp, fish sticks, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish. If they're Spongebob fans, you could let them make their own Krabby Patties.
Goldfish snack crackers.
I like the fish sticks and hushpuppies, mentioned above.
Desert could be blue jello with gummies "floating" in it, served in clear plastic cups.
Good luck! :o)
Definitely jello. Kids love it and it is creative. You can put "gummi's" in it to look like they are swimming around.
I agree with the fish sticks and hush puppies. With it I would serve virgin beach drinks ... like fruit punch and seven-up mixed together with little umbrellas and cherries in the glasses. For dessert I would go with chocolate covered fruit made to look like various sea animals by use of sliced almonds for gills, feet or ears, the stem of cherries make great tails when left attached to the chocolate covered cherry, powdered sugar under the choco fruit makes good sea foam, or you can add food coloring to it to make it the ocean or sand ... just get creative with items in your bakery isle at the store to come up with animals and then use a large platter as a base and create an ocean/sea scene on the platter.
Have fun
Main Dish- meatballs on the half shell on a bed of sea weed 0r sea urchin (spaghetti).
(Spaghetti & meatballs - cleverly garnished - kids don't usually like seafood)
Dessert- blue jello with gummie fish. or a cake in the shape of a shark.
Side Dish- seaweed salad - fresh spinach and ceaser salad.
Drink-
(some dark red punch) sharks blood
(Apple juice) pirate's rum (add a little non-alchoholic rum flavoring)
first answer
I agree with the first answer but have some chicken nuggets for the kids that don't like fish or cannot eat it. Crab cakes or tuna cakes are good too.
Your drink: Hawaiian punch any flavor
Dessert could be fish shaped jello jigglers also any flavor
I'll bring the alcohol - the adults are surely going to need it. Kids party -- eeeeccckkkk!
5-7 year olds are picky eaters so REAL seafood probably won't cut it. They make those chicken nuggets that looks like fish and starfish...that could be good and then you can have pasta salad but use spinach fettucine or spiral pasta so it looks like seaweed. Dessert...you can make a jello mold and use a fish mold (probably find one at a local party store) Drinks? Just make it easy on yourself and get juice boxes or make something blue like the ocean and add swedish fish to the punch bowl.
Get lots of rubbish bins and fill them with whatever is around then top up with water. Place all around the room on high stools with a rope threaded throught the handles.
At just the right moment, shout "Tsunami!" and give a hard pull on the rope.
To get the full effect, put a couple of live sharks and maybe a whale in a couple of the bins or an old tramp steamer.
Trust me, it'll be a party the kids will never forget!
take a hot dog and slice the bottoms into eight "legs" drop into boiling water, the "legs" curl up and your hot dog now looks like an octopus. I put the octopus in a bowl and cover all but the head in mac and cheese, so he is swimming. My kids love it. Add some veggies on the side.
fish and chips with seaweed ice cream, a side of shrimp, and a glass of salt water
fish sticks, popcorn shrimp, fish & chips; dessert could be an ice cream cake decorated to look like the ocean or shaped like a fish/whale/dolphin; drink could be blue kool-aid served in "ocean" themed plastic cups
fish sticks, crab sticks, prawns, voluvants with prawns in, fish shaped ice cubes for the drinks, jelly and ice cream in a fish shaped mould
Get a brand new fishbowl. Mix the blue jello in it and refrigerate until almost completely solid. Then take the gummi fish and a straw and push the fish down into the jello - so that they appear to be swimming in the "ocean". Then replace in the refrigerator and it will firm up around the fish. It is so cute. (you can also make individual servings of this using those tiny fish bowls or clear plastic drink cups. You could even have a gummi worm hanging off the sides.
Also, using a new fishbowl - place Goldfish crackers in these and place on the table.
Kids this age are really picky and suspicious of new foods. I would stick with maybe hot dogs and fish sticks or pizza. The way you serve it could be fun though. For instance - go to the party supply store and buy those big clam shell looking things to serve chips out of. You can also buy at the grocery store some of those sterilized white shells - these would be cute to serve either your catsup and tarter sauce for your fish sticks, or if you are serving hot dogs and mac & cheese - put the serving of mac & cheese in these shells for everyone to have on their plate.
Also at the party store - they should have fish themed napkins, plates, etc.
For the drink - I would serve blue or green punch - call it ocean water. Put in one of those funny shaped straws - you can find those that are fish shaped.
Hope ya'll have fun!
You can basically do whatever... like if you want to have brownies..just get a fish or seahorse cookie cutter and cut up the brownies that way. Also, you can get some green and blue punch and call it 'sea water'. or you could even have cheese dip and possibly put some green food coloring in it and call it "seaweed goo". Hope some of this helps.