Since our weekly Fun Family Dinner has become a hit around here, everyone is clamoring to help plan and come up with ideas, sooo this week, our youngest came up with an idea for a "creative" dinner called "Artsy Dinner"...here's what we did:
The Table:
We used a simple white tablecloth but topped it with a long roll of dollar store white wrapping paper (so we could draw and color all over it!!!)
For the "centerpiece" I used inexpensive cans (labels removed of course) filled with cheerful sunflowers (very Van Gogh), crayons, markers, and colored pencils. I also scattered various art supplies along the table for "inspiration"!
I used bright colored napkins and homemade plates at each placesetting. The girls had made plates for everyone in the family last Christmas, so they were PERFECT for our "Artsy Dinner" theme.
I drew a "decorative" placemat around everyone's place setting for them to decorate and personalize at dinner.
The Food:
Our menu was not the "main event" of this meal like last week's 1960's Fondue Dinner, so we just served our all-time family favorite- TACOS! I figured they were colorful and yummy, so it worked with our "theme"!
The Fun:
Besides having fun doodling and coloring all over the table, we played a fun game of "Pictionary", well sort-of...
We don't actually OWN the game, so we just made up our own clues and used a clipboard with paper. It was still fun and everyone got in on it...
It turned out to be another terrific night and with very little money, and ALOT of creativity we enjoyed another memorable family meal! Stay tuned for next week's "Souper Bowl" Dinner!
That looks like such a fun idea. Your kids will always remember those nights.
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Posted by: isabel marant baskets | 02/01/2013 at 09:15 PM
Ha ha! That's what holiday dinners were like in my house when I was a teenager. My mom is an artist and would invite her artist friends. We didn't have money for fancy things but we always had fun. My mom made a table big enough for everyone by putting a long board on saw horses then covered it with a long sheet of paper, like butcher paper, that she used for framing. We placed crayons and markers around the table and all of our artist guests contributed drawings and doodles. We played a game where each person drew a body part of a person (head, torso, legs, feet) in silly ways on a sheet of paper that was folded to divide each part. You could only see your part then folded and passed to the next person to draw theirs. In the end it was unfolded and there was a silly drawing- a lady's head with a huge floppy hat, on top of a clown's costume torso, on top of bird legs on top of tiny feet in heels etc. it's nice to do things that are different sometimes! I like your idea to have creative dinners!
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