Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[Alysa]

Pookie - The photo of the kids in their hats is super cute! Love the potato bar!
Becc - those monster burgers are awesome!

 

[Becc1]

Becc1, your Monster University party looked like a lot of fun! Where did you get the green monster plates? We are planning a MU birthday party and those would be perfect.

So awesome Becc1! We took DD to see the movie on Monday for her birthday. We liked it but Grace didn't like the screaming parts. Heh

Awesome Monsters night! Especially loved the burgers! We're doing Snow White this week. One of these days I'll get pictures uploaded...

Thank you Becc1. I admit I totally stole your idea. We are going to the drive in tonight to see Monsters U so I made your burgers and ID cards!!! Thank you for a wonderful idea. (Btw: this is the first time I have made activities and such to match our movie-looking forward to doing more and more elaborate ones as our count down to Disney next year)

Pookie - The photo of the kids in their hats is super cute! Love the potato bar!
Becc - those monster burgers are awesome!

Thanks so much! And please feel free to "steal" away, I have "borrowed" many of my ideas from here on the disboards, lol. In fact our movie night tonight's dinner is almost an exact copy of a previous posters

 

[Snickals]

Such awesome ideas!!!

 

[fabulousfive]

What fun ideas! I can't wait to go back and read them all.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Cute idea!

Movie - Alice in Wonderland

Menu - Tea sandwiches (PB&J, ham & cheese, chicken salad)
Juice boxes (tape on signs that say "Drink Me")
Cookies (break and bake sugar cookies, use gel frosting to write "Eat
Me")
Cheshire cat smiles (slices of melon)
And of course, a Happy Unbirthday cake!

Activity - Build a deck of cards house
Make a caterpillar (styrofoam balls for body segments, toothpicks
to stick them together, pipe cleaners for legs, googly eyes. Have
each family member decorate a body section with glitter glue,
sequins, etc., then attach them all together!)

 

[rjgtwilliams07]

So excited to say that I finally hit 10 posts so now I can post some pictures! Here's our Tangled Night! It also happened to fall on my birthday.

Our table (we were at my parents house so I didn't go too extreme)

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Menu: Chicken Fried Steak in a Frying Pan (of course!) with Gravy, Ranch Roasted Potatoes, & Corn

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And since it was my birthday, we had cake. It was chocolate cake with purple frosting with purple & gold sprinkles. We had plans to decorate the cake with the sunburst using the gold sprinkles and ran out of time.

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Stay tuned....

 

[rjgtwilliams07]

Here's our Lion King night!

This is my goofy family!


Menu: Side of Wildebeest (flank steak), Trees (broccoli) and Sticks (veggie sticks - an alternative to chips and my food allergy stricken son can eat them)


Dessert - Rocks & Grubs (made puppy chow using Kix cereal instead of Chex and added some sour gummy worms)

 

[rjgtwilliams07]

Ok, so this was a really fun night! The hubs wasn't too thrilled with the choice of movies, but the kids really love all the singing. (and I do too!!)



Our basement is decorated and ready for some games and food. Notice any hidden Mickey's???


Movies and a hidden Mickey


Each one of us dressed up to represent a movie. DD was "Beach Party" and I was "Disneyland" (since there's no pics of me, I have mouse ears on). We also had an activity that represented each movie. She's coloring a page of wild animals with Mickey stickers for "Animal Kingdom."


DD & I made a campfire out of cardboard and red tissue paper for our "Camp Out" activity of making s'mores. And Mickey is holding the beach ball for the "Beach Party" activity - family game of beach ball.


Supper is served.


DS is "Animal Kingdom" with a safari hat. Had a whole outfit for him, but he took a tumble down the stairs before showtime so I didn't bother


The hubs was "Camp Out." Told him to put on his fisherman's vest and hat and instead he chose a plaid shirt. He said it looked "campy" and since he's a good sport, I didn't argue.


DD can't find the last hidden Mickey (its on the horse!)


Love her face


Know how I said there wasn't a pic of me? Guess I lied...forgot I took a pic of my shadow! Told ya I was wearing ears!

 

[rjgtwilliams07]

Tired of me yet?

Peter Pan was accomplished at my parents house and I was so excited for this one, that I went all sorts of crazy!

Here's our table! Found the pirate table décor clearance at WalMart. Bought the cheap plastic goblets at Dollar Tree along with some craft jewels. Used a glue gun to glue the jewels to the goblets.

Menu: Pirate Ship Pizzas, Pirate Treasure (corn), Pirate Swords (fruit), Cannon Balls (chocolate chip cookie dough truffles), and Tick Tock Croc cake for dessert.


A good close up of the Tick Tock Croc cake and the goblets.
(got the "croc" at Dollar Tree, its actually a hat)


DD with her pirate patch


Drink for the evening - sea water with floating sapphires (sprite & blueberries)


Family Photo


Capt Hook sent us out on a hunt to find Peter Pan's hiding place. Don't know why, but I didn't take a picture of the map or Capt Hook's message.
Here's the start of our treasure hunt


We started at Pirate's Cove (the house) and down towards the Indian Camps (the camper). Then around Mermaid Lagoon (pool) and across Croc's Creek (slide with blue tablecloth and Tick Tock Croc at the top) then on to Hangman's Tree to find Peter


We found Peter's hideout! And a treasure box!


Putting on the jewels (ring pops). Plus there was pirate coloring books, bandanas for the kids and a Tinkerbell stamp set.


Oh yeah...and Water Cannons!


I declared a water cannon war on the hubs!


Even my dad got in on the fun (very unlike him!)


We were drenched but it was so much fun! It was a few weeks ago now but DD still talks about how much fun she had that night!


Afterwards, I remembered that I forgot to take the Cannon Balls (truffles) out of the freezer and feast on them at supper time. And they were soooo good. So here's a photo.

 

[MommyBell08]

Ok, so this was a really fun night! The hubs wasn't too thrilled with the choice of movies, but the kids really love all the singing. (and I do too!!)



Our basement is decorated and ready for some games and food. Notice any hidden Mickey's???


Movies and a hidden Mickey


Each one of us dressed up to represent a movie. DD was "Beach Party" and I was "Disneyland" (since there's no pics of me, I have mouse ears on). We also had an activity that represented each movie. She's coloring a page of wild animals with Mickey stickers for "Animal Kingdom."


DD & I made a campfire out of cardboard and red tissue paper for our "Camp Out" activity of making s'mores. And Mickey is holding the beach ball for the "Beach Party" activity - family game of beach ball.


Supper is served.


DS is "Animal Kingdom" with a safari hat. Had a whole outfit for him, but he took a tumble down the stairs before showtime so I didn't bother


The hubs was "Camp Out." Told him to put on his fisherman's vest and hat and instead he chose a plaid shirt. He said it looked "campy" and since he's a good sport, I didn't argue.


DD can't find the last hidden Mickey (its on the horse!)


Love her face


Know how I said there wasn't a pic of me? Guess I lied...forgot I took a pic of my shadow! Told ya I was wearing ears!

LOVE LOVE LOVE Disney Sing along songs I am in love with the "its a small world" one. And we watch the Animal Kingdom one on the way to the zoo every time!

 

[Mel8778]

I love the idea of the countdown to a trip/cruise dinners! So many great ideas!

 

[paintnolish]

Can't wait to use these ideas and add to the thread soon. Maybe it will ease post-trip sadness.

 

[Becc1]

Love the Sing Along Songs night!

 

[Becc1]

Tarzan Night



This theme night was spread out over 2 days because the first day we stayed at the water park longer than we usually do so all we had time for that night was dinner.





Dinner was wild boar chops (pork chops), monkey mashed potatoes and jungle vines (asparagus)







Banana splits for dessert





As a craft they painted birdhouses that reminded me of treehouses







Movie snacks

More jungle vines, tiger tails and animal crackers and Jane's hat cookies that I tried to copy from DSNYCRZY but they did not come out nearly as great as hers!

 

[rjgtwilliams07]

Tarzan Night



Dinner was wild boar chops (pork chops), monkey mashed potatoes and jungle vines (asparagus)

Asparagus as Jungle Vines and Banana Splits - LOVE IT! Like the streamers with leaves too, what a nice touch! Looks like your kids had a blast

 

[momminnie]

I love this thread!Everyone is so creative! I would love to do this kind of things but my family would not be as enthused about it as i am. I still may do it one day just for me!

 

[Hayliesmom]

I found these ideas online:

Snow White Party Food Ideas:

*Flower Sandwiches: Make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Use flower shaped cookie cutters to turn them into cute shapes.

*Pink Mac & Cheese: Prepare regular macaroni and cheese. Add red or pink food coloring for pinkish color. I imagine this would look pretty gross! But, hey! We ate green mashed potatoes for a family fun night!

*Royal Pizza: Serve your child's favorite pizza (or have a variety of flavors).

*Princess Parfait: Put a layer of yogurt, granola, and fresh fruit into plastic cups. Repeat layers once or twice in each cup. Top with whipping cream.

*Dwarf Food (any miniature food: mini hot dogs, sandwiches, etc)
*Apple Slices (served with caramel dip)
*Fruit Trays
*Ice Cream Sandwiches
*Marshmallows (dipped in chocolate)
*Ring Pop Candy
*Princess Gummies

Snow White Party Drink Ideas:

*Fresh Juices
*Poison Potion (pink lemonade)

A variation on PrincessTigerLily's game from page 3 is to core an apple, slice it, dip the slices in Orange Juice (to prevent browning) and tie the slice from a string from the ceiling. Blindfold the player and have them try to bite the slice off the string. We did this at chuch a few weeks ago, and hilarity ensued!!

Have a great family fun night!

Thank you for this! Snow White is my daughter's favorite, and I'm a picky eater so the German food and apples was not appealing to me!

 

[PookieB]

Love Tangled and the frying pan! Tarzan looks like fun too!

We did Mulan tonight. I picked up Chinese take out. We made egg carton dragons and homemade fortune cookies. Those things are tough and take patience. I think I only had 3 come out right of 6. I was baking 2 at a time because they cool so fast and it's hard to shape them. They have to be spread really really thin to cook otherwise it's like a thin pancake and doesn't get hard. But they are good! The kids put on costumes and we watched the movie. Afterwards DD played Chinese checkers with my hubby while I put DS to bed. It was fun!

Next movie night...

I'll probably do lunch with this one.

 

[JJ in wonderland]

I just finished making something for DH and my movie night countdown for our first DL trip and I needed food ideas, so when I googled it I found this thread (then spent 3 days going threw the whole thing ) Everyone has done such great things I can not wait to borrow some ideas!! Since it is just the two of us (no kids) we are just doing food themes.

We wanted to do a weekly movie night, we had 6 weeks to pick movies for so we each choice 4 movies and I folded them up and randomly picked one for every Thursday.

This is what I made to put the movies choices on.....

I attached them still folded so we do not know which movie we will watch. Every Thursday when we finish our movie we will find out what next weeks movies will be.

DH hurt his back last week for our Country Bears movie night so I had to cut down on our food for our movie. But I quickly made a pulled pork, corn bread, and collard greens. For dessert I was supposed to make strawberry shortcakes but I did not have time to make biscuits because I had to pick up stuff for our DH's back.

Next week, Mary Poppins so I plan on making food items that can be found at the Jolly Holiday Cafe in DL. :

 

[oopsiDAISY]

I just finished making something for DH and my movie night countdown for our first DL trip and I needed food ideas, so when I googled it I found this thread (then spent 3 days going threw the whole thing ) Everyone has done such great things I can not wait to borrow some ideas!! Since it is just the two of us (no kids) we are just doing food themes.

We wanted to do a weekly movie night, we had 6 weeks to pick movies for so we each choice 4 movies and I folded them up and randomly picked one for every Thursday.

This is what I made to put the movies choices on.....

I attached them still folded so we do not know which movie we will watch. Every Thursday when we finish our movie we will find out what next weeks movies will be.

DH hurt his back last week for our Country Bears movie night so I had to cut down on our food for our movie. But I quickly made a pulled pork, corn bread, and collard greens. For dessert I was supposed to make strawberry shortcakes but I did not have time to make biscuits because I had to pick up stuff for our DH's back.

Next week, Mary Poppins so I plan on making food items that can be found at the Jolly Holiday Cafe in DL. :

Love your countdown chain! Here is a question for you (or anyone else that knows the answer)~ where did you get the Walt Disney font? How do you download it to your computer? Keep in mind I am pretty inept...if you could PM me with very detailed instructions I would be forever grateful!