Yesterday we had a Suess-fest in honor of Dr. Suess's birthday. Basically this means, we had dinner and ate "Suess" inspired food! Heidi "capped" off the dinner with this fabulous Cat in the Hat cake! There was a delicious chocolate cake and buttercream frosting underneath this fantastic red and white fondant. Awesome isn't it? (That's why I asked her to bring the birthday cake!)
Other menu items were: Cat in the Hat jello cups -- This is the kids favorite item (mine too!)
Green eggs (deviled and hard-boiled -- Jacob & Ryan love just the hard boiled eggs --Jacob ate 4 of them yesterday) to represent the obvious Green Eggs and Ham book, or even Horton Hatches the Egg. The broccoli salad to represent The Lorax -- a book about trees.
Here's the ham for Green Eggs and Ham. The ham is surrounded by elephant cheese cut-outs to represent Horton. (We had ham sandwiches)
Animal crackers for If I Ran the Zoo.
Goldfish for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
And we also had chocolate milk for Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? And star shaped rice krispie treats for Sneetches. I really wanted to do a pasta salad with alphabet shaped pasta, but I couldn't find any -- I know it exists somewhere! So if any of you know where to buy ABC pasta, please let me know!
Other menu items were: Cat in the Hat jello cups -- This is the kids favorite item (mine too!)
Green eggs (deviled and hard-boiled -- Jacob & Ryan love just the hard boiled eggs --Jacob ate 4 of them yesterday) to represent the obvious Green Eggs and Ham book, or even Horton Hatches the Egg. The broccoli salad to represent The Lorax -- a book about trees.
Here's the ham for Green Eggs and Ham. The ham is surrounded by elephant cheese cut-outs to represent Horton. (We had ham sandwiches)
Animal crackers for If I Ran the Zoo.
Goldfish for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
And we also had chocolate milk for Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? And star shaped rice krispie treats for Sneetches. I really wanted to do a pasta salad with alphabet shaped pasta, but I couldn't find any -- I know it exists somewhere! So if any of you know where to buy ABC pasta, please let me know!
3 comments:
How super fun! I must be really out of it. Was it the Dr's birthday? I want to log this idea into my brain for next year.
It was a fun party! Ethan's kindergarten teacher stopped by yesterday for a visit and was wearing a Horton Hears a Who shirt. I told her about our menu and she got all excited.
Way cool ideas! We do fun stuff like that for Halloween,etc., but I hadn't thought to do it for Dr. Suess day.
We are getting ready for St. Patricks Day. Our children make an elaborate trap to try and catch the leprechauns each year. (So as to get three wishes.) But all they have caught are little articles of clothing or tools or tufts of red hair. The leprechauns always trash the room, but leave gold(chocolate) coins.
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