Childrens Seafood Festival
The Children’s Seafood Festival should combine play and learning about the sea and seafood. Two days will be packed with fun activities for children and young people.
Program
Location: Clarion Hotel Trondheim
Time: Saturday 29 March and Sunday 30 March from 11-16
Admission: Free
Activites during the festival in 2024:
Trondheim Science Center
–> Experience the sea animals up close
What does seafood look like before it ends up on a plate? Students from the Department of Biology at NTNU set up a portable marine mini-lab, with small shore creatures.
Research seaweed fleas, lively beach crabs, snails, and other interesting, edible, and inedible species found in the Trondheimsfjord.
Suitable for all ages.
–> Become a DNA detective
Put on your detective hat and help us uncover which sea creatures we have found the DNA sequences for. Suitable for all ages.
Redningsselskapet
Join the course Trygg I Vann (Safe in water) with Redningsselskapet! Redningsselskapet invites young people to Trygg i Vann – an exciting course where you learn to save yourself and others in the water! Here you get to try out self-rescue, lifesaving and important techniques for handling unexpected situations in water outdoors. This is a unique chance to become safer in water. Join us – it could save lives!
Age group – young adults from 14 years
Packing list for participants:
Towel
Warm woolen clothes and change (woolen underwear/super underwear and woolen socks to wear under the wetsuit)
Mittens and hat
Time: Sunday, March 30 at 1:00 PM
Participation requires registration: Click here to register!
SeeSalmon
The science center SeeSalmon is coming to the Children’s Seafood Festival. Here you will learn more about ocean farming, how to take care of the farmed salmon and what the farming facilities of the future may look like.
• Spin the Wheel of Fortune for a chance to win free entry for the entire family at SeeSalmon.
• “Kim’s Play” with salmon: Learn about the anatomy of salmon and compete to win free entry tickets for the entire family!
• Knot board – Do you know the essential knots for boating? Try and learn on our knot board. If you manage to do it, you get candy!
• Put on your lab coat and be a marine biologist with us! Here you can see organisms under a microscope
Kystens hus
Kystens hus will be setting up a fish counter with lots of exciting fish and shellfish, where children can smell, see, touch and feel the fish. Here you can learn about all the different species that live below the ocean surface.
MENY
MENY is passionate about food enjoyment, for both adults and children. “Fiskeknappen” is a fun skill mark to create curiosity and interest in the little ones. The purpose is to teach the children a little more about fish, and invite them to visit the fish counter to see what is there. Perhaps they also want to taste a type of fish they have not tasted before?
Influencer Ellen Aabol
Ellen Aabol is one of Norway’s biggest food bloggers, and has 200,000 followers on TikTok. She has published a cookbook, and has also taken part in Melodi Grand Prix Junior and Camp Culinaris. She comes to the Children’s Seafood Festival to make her favorite seafood recipes and share useful food tips.
