In this paper we make preliminary numerical tests to assess the performance of the scheme introduced in Boffi et al. (SIAM J Numer Anal 53(6):2584–2604, 2015) and analyzed in Boffi and Gastaldi (Numer Math 135(3):711–732, 2017) for the approximation of fluid-structure interaction problems. We show how to implement the scheme within the FreeFem++ framework (Hecht, J Numer Math 20(3–4):251–265, 2012) and validate our code with respect to some known problems and benchmarks. The main conclusion is that a simple implementation can provide quite accurate results for non trivial applications.