Super Silly Supper

We do strange things in this house.


I took part in the the My Favorite Things swap hosted by Sunshine and Lemonade at the beginning of the month. One of my gifts was a book called Great Kids are Homemade. It has all sorts of off the wall ideas on having family fun. Many are for meal times.

We decided to use the Mystery Meal idea. We modified it to fit our needs and this is what we ended up with:


First we planned a menu. Amber, Brandy and I decided we would use spaghetti. Keep in mind we had to feed 7 kids with no help from the dads cause they all decided they should be HERE instead.


We wrote out menus for each kid. The fun part was that we renamed almost everything. We didn't want them to know what we were having and it got really silly. We also added their eating tools to the menu with hopes of them choosing them first before their first second and third options.

Here is our menu:

• Plate..............Plate


• Cup................Cup (I know we're super creative like that)


• Wigglers.......Spaghetti noodles


• Drippers.......Sauce


• Sours.............Lemonade (not the best choice with spaghetti by the way)


• Uppers..........Fork


• Washy...........Napkin


• Flakies..........Parmesan Cheese


• Crusties........Garlic Bread


• Slurpers.......Straw (we used cups with lids so they couldn't drink till they had their slurpers)

When everyone arrived we took each kid into the dining room one by one to hand them their menu and explain the rules. The kids had to put a number 1 next to the first four items they'd like to receive. This meant some of them got Drippers (sauce) before their noodles. Or Parmesan cheese before everything else. It was a lot of fun. Then they had to place a number 2 by three items and a number 3 by the remaining items.

We made sure everyone had plate and cup listed as 1's but the rest varied. We served the dinner in three steps. We gave everyone their four items they listed as 1's and then waited in between and laughed and joked about why they weren't eating their sauce yet. Then we served the two's and waited in between. A couple of the kids asked for their fork last and ate with their fingers for a few minutes. And some only had sauce, Parmesan cheese and lemonade until we filled the #3 requests!

We called it Super Silly Supper and everyone loved it. We decided we'd do it once a month with different dinner ideas like taco's or sandwiches.

Here are some pictures. My little Tayton who a year ago could not stand anything on his hands ate spaghetti with his hands until the third round when he finally got his fork! I was so proud! That's a huge milestone for my SI kiddo!






It was so much fun!