Finding Nemo Centerpiece Ideas?

One idea would be to get some small bowls- you can find them in the floral dept at walmart, or at dollar stores, yard sales, or wherever, and put goldfish in them. I don't know if your son would try to grab the bowls or not, but I know my 2 year old loves watching the fish swim around. I know they aren't exactly Nemo, but they are orange, and that might be enough for a 2 year old. Hope that helps some!!

Emily

Katie

June 6, 20050 found this helpful

What about enlarging a picture of Nemo, then coloring two of them with bright markers, cutting along the edges, then gluing or stapling the two together back to back with a little stuffing in between the layers to make it 3-D. Then insert a stick into the bottom edge and add a little more glue. Stand the stick and Nemo up in a jar with sand in it or something like that. You could make it as big as you wanted.

Bonnie G.

June 6, 20050 found this helpful

Well of course you are going to have little bowls with goldfish on the tables for each kid to take home! The only way to go..
Bonnie

I like the idea of using a real aquarium like a 10 gallon, fill with water and put Nemo fish and turtles in the water. You can paint plastic ones to be the right colors of the movie theme and weight them down with a small weight and fishing line.

I recommend a big Tiki faced thing, like in the initiation scene in the dentist's aquarium scene. Oriental Trading Company sells them, I believe--I think they have big inflatable ones. There are lots of Tiki type things at dollar stores also. Or you could make your own. However, Your son and his peers are not going to care about this centerpiece the way you do and so don't stress too much. I threw a Nemo birthday party for my daughter last year on her third birthday (she demanded that we call her Nemo for about 7 mos last year) and the Nemo Cake I made was awesome. That was the centerpiece on the table. I made a very large round carrot cake with cream cheese frosting colored that lovely Nemo coral-colored orange (matched it to her Nemo doll and the Nemo party favors I had)--to do this, look at the back of a regular multi-colored food coloring set for help, usually it means using lots of red and yellow. With a disposable cake decorating kit, I made black and white stripes just like on Nemo across the entire top. The black was made with black Wilton food coloring paste (bought from Walmart's sewing/crafting area) and white frosting. Be sure to mix in a little bit at a time with a toothpick since you won't need much. That was piped on in straight lines. The white was done in little scrunched star tipped dots until it all filled in. It was gorgeous. If only I had taken the photos with a digital camera I'd share. An alternative to the black icing is thin black licorice string or finding black sugar crystals if you're lucky.

we used 3-d fish boxes for our nemo party center pieces....they were weights for the nemo mylar balloons. little fish bowls with gold fish in it would be cute.

I'm doing a nemo party for my 2 year old and i came up with the idea to use small fishbowls (like those you can find in the floral dept in wal mart.. I'm going to write each childs name on a bowl so they can be used as place cards but i will also fill them with blue jello so they are a snack i've decided to put nerds candy in the bottom for rocks and gummie sharks suspended in the middle of the jello