Fishy Business
- Simon O'Donovan
- Feb 20
- 2 min read
Here is a new Dementia Cafe CST activity mainly based on making visual connections and lateral thinking. Hope this activity goes down well with your group, please do let me know ...
You could start by discussing ...
Who likes fish?
Who buys fish at a fishmongers still?
What are members' favourite fish dishes?
Who has been freshwater or sea fishing?
Fish Dishes
Ask members to name and comment on these fish dishes ... đź‘Ť or đź‘Ž
Cod and chips
Fish pie
Prawn cocktail
Lobster thermidor
Bouillabaisse
Moules-frites
Shellfish (how many can you name?)
Calamari
'Captain Birdseye' fish fingers
Gravlax
Sushi
Tuna mayo jacket potato
Clam chowder
Kedgeree
Cullen skink
Cockles & laverbread
Caviar
Scampi
Crabsticks
Jellied eels
Kippers
Match these pictures ...
Here are the fish & below are the images to connect with them. All will become clear ...
With these pictures ...
Answers
Koi Carp / Japan (Mount Fuji & Flag)
Trout /Rainbow (Judy Garland 'Over The Rainbow')
Clown Fish / Clown (Krusty The Clown from 'The Simpsons')
Herring / Red (Red Arrows)
Goldfish / Bowl (Ten pin bowling)
Salmon / Pink (Pink Panther)
Cod / Chips (Poker chips)
Mackerel / Smoke (Man smoking pipe)
Sole / Dover (White cliffs of Dover)
Monkfish / Monk (Dalai Lama)
Eel / Slipper (Cinderella's glass slipper)
Tuna / Mayo (Hellman's Mayonnaise)
Prawn / Cocktail (as in drink)
Mussels / Muscles (Muscular man)
Sardines / Sardines (Children's game)
Shark / Chief Brody ('Jaws')
Haddock / Tin Tin (Captain Haddock from 'Herges Adventures Of Tin Tin')
Anchovy / Caesar Salad (includes anchovies)
Scampi / Scampi Fries (the snack)
Kipper / Kipper (Jewish skull cap)
Swordfish / Sword (heart with sword through it)
Pike / Dad's Army (Captain Pike from 'Dad's Army')
Catfish / Catwoman (Catwoman from 'Batman', played by Eartha Kitt)
Sturgeon / Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish politician)
Jellyfish / Jelly (Jelly beans)
(Paul the) Octopus / 2010 World Cup (he was credited for choosing winners)
Oyster / Pearl (and 'Mother of Pearl' or Nacre)
Song Suggestions
Idioms Round
All members have to do here is to figure out the well known sayings that the lateral thinking images are portraying ...
Answers
Like a fish out of water
Something smells fishy
Plenty more fish in the sea
Drink like a fish
Caught, hook, line and sinker
Fishy business
Fishing for compliments
Loan shark
Having a whale of a time
Neither fish nor fowl
Swimming against the tide
Big fish in a small pond
A Reminder
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