Red White and Green Dinner

Tonight's activity was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. First, Elijah helped me put together a list of different foods that were green, red or white. Then we died some rice green (you'll see why in a minute). After nap time we walked to the store and he helped me get all the items on our list. Back at home he helped me wash the fruit and arrange everything so it looked nice. Here is our feast (with Elijah making a silly face in the background).

Here are some red and green grapes

Some sourdough bread that I used a snowflake cookie cutter on

Some raspberries on a fun plate we only use once a year

And for our protein...some chicken kabobs with red and green bell peppers and mushrooms

And of course we had to have strawberries and cucumbers (both Megan and Elijah love them)

This next one was one I came up with on my own and wasn't sure if it would work, but it turned out better than I had hoped. We put green food coloring in our rice while it was cooking (much more food coloring than I think we should have) and then shaped it like a wreath and put red hots on top.

We also had broccoli and tomatoes but they didn't look as fancy so I didn't take a picture of them.  Elijah also helped make a special cherry limade Crystal Lite which he drank from his reindeer cup.

 And here's Megan stuffing her face with broccoli! I wish I loved broccoli like she does when I was a kid ;-)

Here is Elijah stuffing his face with strawberries.

After dinner the kids just chilled on the chair together looking at the Christmas tree. (You can see the effects of the red drink on Elijah's lips).