I am in charge of the kitchen for Vacation Bible School this year. We have an Egyptian theme this year and I've been given basic ideas of bread, milk, honey, pancakes, figs, grapes, melons, beans, & lettuce. We work with a wide-ranging age group (preschool-adult), so the food needs to be pretty kid friendly. I have a few ideas, but would love some input on what else I could do. One night, I plan on wraping hotdogs in crescent rolls (mummies). I also was thinking of using bread dough to make "bread sticks" in various (simple) hyrogliphics (aweful spelling, I know, lol), and including some sort of dipping sauce. I was sort of thinking Fig Newtons for the figs. Any other ideas?
You could do graham cracker pyramids, the kids could decorate them with candy, like a gingerbread house!
I like your mummies idea.
Try using cookie-cutters to make some honey sandwiches or maybe find a pancake mold in a shape of a pyramid or a camel or something??
What about getting some of your foods and putting them on a kabob?
Other ideas I found online:
*Eish Masri (pita bread) with various fillings
*Dukkah Fruit Mix: fill Ziploc bags with various nuts and dried fruit. The kids can munch on these between the activities.
*Shish Kebab (lamb, tomato, bell pepper, onion skewed on a skewer)
*Kushari (mixture of lentils, rice and macaroni)
*Pyramid Shaped Jell-O Jigglers
I have one, get cherries with the stem on it, Hersey kisses, dark chocolate to melt down for dipping, almond slivers, and a tube of white icing for eyes. You dip the cherries in the melted chocolate, dip a kiss flat end in it and stick to the cherry, place two almond slivers between them for ears, use the white icing to dot little eyes on the kiss. When you are done you have little mouses the kids love them. The stem on the cherry is the mouse tail. My girl has asked for some to be made for her birthday party this year.
It might be fun to look at some basic Egyptian foods (we have an Egyptian restaurant that is so yummy) like the round flat breads. You could also mix the honey with yogurt (I read online that that is a staple for non muslims) also honey drenched desserts made with phylo dough. it could also be fun to let the kids make the national dish (ful mudammas) from mashed Fava Beans. Who doesn't like to mash things:)
Many years ago, we did an Egyptian bday party for my daughter. We dyed icing for a cake a tan color and smashed graham crackers to look like sand. We used little debbie brownies and frosted them with the same for pyramids on the cake(dessert). We had pomegranit juice, but that was expensive. You could subsitute something red and call it pomegranite or buy a few for the kids to try. Lentils, pita, chickpeas, hummus and maybe some matza(crackers) would be fun.
