Stuffed-Animal Patrons

Materials:

• Your child's stuffed animals
• art supplies

Why not have your child serve a formal meal to some special guests while you're cooking? It shouldn't be much trouble, as long as you choose the right dinner guests.

Ask your child to invite some of his or her stuffed animals to a banquet in a restaurant. Your child can make place cards and place mats for each guest, and then set the table with dishes, silverware, napkins, and cups. The host (your child) might also make menus listing something for each stuffed animal: honey for the teddy bear, carrots for the bunny, flies for the frog, etc.

The stuffed animals, with some help from your child, can then take their places around the table. Your child shifts into waiter mode to take orders from the furry guests, then serve them and make sure that everything is up to the animals' standards.

When the stuffed animals are satisfied, perhaps your child can join them and partake of the elegant feast. Hmm, your child could actually learn to enjoy chocolate-covered cricket legs!

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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