For this year's April Fool's Dinner, we had fishsticks. I cooked real fishsticks so the smell would permeate the kitchen. I set the table with peas, Rice-a-Roni, and red punch. I quickly set fake fishsticks (wafer cookies spread with peanut butter & rolled in crushed cornflakes) on each plate. I also made "peas" out of rolled up sour apple Airheads. The peas did not look realistic but the fishsticks did and they were pretty tasty.

My favorite part of the dinner was the jello filled cups. The kids had no idea their drinks were actually solid. Ethan must have known something was up as I snapped pictures while we were eating dinner.

AJ found it quite amusing.

I had to laugh at the girls digging in their cups with forks.

I enjoyed listening to the kids try to guess what I did to the Rice-a-Roni (nothing), debating whether it was real or not.
Later that night AJ told me his favorite part of April Fool's Day is always the dinner. I love being a mom!
P.S. Credit for the prank ideas goes to
Family Fun.
7 comments:
Way cute Colette! I always see those cute ideas in Family Fun magazine but haven't ever done the April Fool's food (although I've thought about it and wanted to!). I'm glad someone out there was cute yesterday. It wasn't me. Just have your kids keep those fun ideas on the down-low :)
Now THAT'S fun. I'm not a big "prankster" if you will.. but that dinner-- I could pull off. What are the chances my feeble mind will retain that idea come next April Fools???Very cute..
How fun! And it looks like your kids LOVED it. You deserve the Fun Mom award for April Fools.
That is so awesome! What a cool mom!
Looks like fun....
You are great I though of doing something fun but couldn't muster up the energy, then when I burned the meatloaf, I wished I had a better dinner to take out after pretending that was actually the real thing! The sad thing was it was the real dinner. Someday I want to be a mom like you!
What a great idea. I really need to start doing this!
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