science fiction snack ideas please?
April 12, 2010 2:31 PM Subscribe
science fiction snack ideas please?
We are having a brief "publishing party" in my 3rd grade classroom to celebrate and share the science fiction short stories written by students over the past few weeks. Other than green jello, what can I prepare that relates to the sci-fi theme but is not overly sugary and/or expensive/difficult to prepare?
We are having a brief "publishing party" in my 3rd grade classroom to celebrate and share the science fiction short stories written by students over the past few weeks. Other than green jello, what can I prepare that relates to the sci-fi theme but is not overly sugary and/or expensive/difficult to prepare?
Some more ideas here, though they're aimed at slightly younger kids.
posted by jquinby at 2:53 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by jquinby at 2:53 PM on April 12, 2010
How about dyeing "regular" snacks with food coloring?
Sugar cookies that look like Saturn or other planets... sugar cookies that look like robots... unless sugar cookies would be overly sugary.
posted by XMLicious at 2:53 PM on April 12, 2010
Sugar cookies that look like Saturn or other planets... sugar cookies that look like robots... unless sugar cookies would be overly sugary.
posted by XMLicious at 2:53 PM on April 12, 2010
The following recommendation depends on your personal definition of "expensive" and "overly sugary": astronaut ice cream is delicious and so much fun! You can find it at your local backpacking store.
posted by halogen at 2:58 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by halogen at 2:58 PM on April 12, 2010
You can always put dry ice in drinks-- you might want to just do this in the main punch bowl and have someone in charge of dishing it out, though, so that the kids don't accidentally consume the ice.
posted by NoraReed at 3:01 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by NoraReed at 3:01 PM on April 12, 2010
How about making squeeze tubes out of plastic baggies so everything could be eaten in zero gravity. I think they would find that fun, but I'll leave implementation to you. Official refillable tubes can be had at camping stores, but buying enough for a whole class would be expensive. .
posted by Some1 at 3:04 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by Some1 at 3:04 PM on April 12, 2010
are you sure you aren't serving soylent green jell-o? (you could even add a toy rubber finger) ;) ...take a good look around at your grocery store's produce section (and/or check out the produce section at a foreign food store...asian/ japanese/korean stores are particularly good) there's going to be a bunch of stuff you've never seen or tried before...you're almost certain to be able to put together a fruit and vegetable platter that's 'out of this world'...
kiwano melon is really tasty, and starfruit seems like it might be particularly apt. a japanese grocery store is going to have at least 10 different kinds of mushrooms you've never seen before...i swear, there must be a genetics lab behind the one i go to ;)
posted by sexyrobot at 3:22 PM on April 12, 2010
kiwano melon is really tasty, and starfruit seems like it might be particularly apt. a japanese grocery store is going to have at least 10 different kinds of mushrooms you've never seen before...i swear, there must be a genetics lab behind the one i go to ;)
posted by sexyrobot at 3:22 PM on April 12, 2010
Astronaut ice cream! Or anything else fake-astronauty, like squeezy cheese, etc.
Pop Rocks :)
Stuff with (a reasonably number of) those silver balls.
posted by Madamina at 3:44 PM on April 12, 2010
Pop Rocks :)
Stuff with (a reasonably number of) those silver balls.
posted by Madamina at 3:44 PM on April 12, 2010
one of those mini Cyalume lightsticks in a simple glass of punch goes a long way.
posted by dong_resin at 3:51 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by dong_resin at 3:51 PM on April 12, 2010
A slice of ham. By itself. Solo.
posted by Fiery Jack at 6:10 PM on April 12, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by Fiery Jack at 6:10 PM on April 12, 2010 [3 favorites]
You could let celery soak up food coloring-tinted water overnight and have alien planet crudites! Also, food coloring in tapioca makes some really alien looking stuff. My dad used to try to keep the tapioca all for himself by putting food dye in it, and until we cottoned to the fact that it still tasted the same, it certainly worked!
posted by kitarra at 6:22 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by kitarra at 6:22 PM on April 12, 2010
Frosting a cake (even a healthy apple cake!) with green icing and then putting on oval slanted eyes, and mouth and nose as appropriate, makes for a great little alien cake!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:35 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:35 PM on April 12, 2010
Find space-themed cookie cutters and go to town on some simple sandwiches. Decorate them with strips of veggies or pipette some mayo for detailing if you want to go a little more elaborate.
Make round or lumpy treats - round balls of rice krispy cake can be moons, maybe some kind of haystacks or puffed wheat cake can be irregularly shaped as asteroids.
Get some of those silver sugar pearls that you can get at cake decorating stores, and put them on chocolate frosted cupcakes for a night sky.
posted by lizbunny at 6:58 PM on April 12, 2010
Make round or lumpy treats - round balls of rice krispy cake can be moons, maybe some kind of haystacks or puffed wheat cake can be irregularly shaped as asteroids.
Get some of those silver sugar pearls that you can get at cake decorating stores, and put them on chocolate frosted cupcakes for a night sky.
posted by lizbunny at 6:58 PM on April 12, 2010
Blue milk (or the beverage of their choice), as seen in Star Wars. Does a Jedi good.
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 10:05 PM on April 12, 2010
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 10:05 PM on April 12, 2010
Popplers from Futurama. They could be made from pretty much any breaded savoury snack (homemade or frozen) along with store-bought cake-decoration eyes. The eyes could also be rice paper and food colouring.
posted by Jakey at 2:20 AM on April 13, 2010
posted by Jakey at 2:20 AM on April 13, 2010
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posted by jquinby at 2:38 PM on April 12, 2010