Know someone whose cooking gets rave reviews? How about someone whose desserts are out of this world!? Invite them to host a course of your progressive dinner party. Recruit host and hostesses that live in a close proximity to one another to open up their home in support of your playspace build. The amount of courses you have is endless. Go to one house for soup, then mosey to the next for salad. Don’t forget about appetizers. Then there’s dinner and, most importantly, dessert!
Prep Steps:
1. Recruit neighbors to open their homes to a progressive dinner. Each house will be assigned a specific item to cook: appetizers, salad, dinner, dessert, and drinks (non-alcoholic and alcoholic).
2. Each person is responsible for buying the necessary items to make the meal (including drinks).
3. Determine how much the tickets will cost for this event and how they will be sold.
4. Depending on the size of your response, there may have to be two groups of homes on the crawl. Each group would follow a different route of homes.
5. Create an itinerary and map for participants to follow.
Materials Needed:
1. Food and drinks
2. Tickets
3. Garbage bags, tablecloths, napkins, utensils, and cups.
Helpful Hints:
• Give your dinner crawl a theme and serve the food accordingly. Some themes are Hawaiian Luau, Little Italy, Asian cuisine, Creole Cooking, Hispanic Fiesta, or a good ol’ barbeque.
• The people volunteering their homes should let you know how many people they can accommodate. This number will be most important if that person is hosting the dinner portion of the meal.
• To keep the crawl moving along, place a time limit for each stop, with dinner having the most amount of time.
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I think this is such a neat ideal. Thought about trying it for our fundraiser.
If you do, come back and let us know how it worked out! Amy