Enchanment Under the Sea - 2005

Getting kids to eat fish can be trying, but nutrition experts say that we should eat 2 servings of fish every week!

So we transformed our dining room into an enchanted sea room - complete with fish everywhere. I found several websites with outlines of different sea creatures which I used as patterns. I cut them out of construction paper and hung them all over the room. I bought some little foam fish and taped them to the underside of the glass dining table, in a pattern that made them look as if they were swimming in a school.

Our dinner:
Carribean Red Snapper
Popcorn Shrimp
Basil New Potatoes
Roasted Asparagus
Sourdough bread
And for dessert -
Fish Cake


With some construction paper and creative decorating, we turned "fish for dinner - yuck!" into fun. We even got the kids to admit that they like shrimp!