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[Jackiemarie21]

Your bread and jello look amazing! The whoopie pies look tasty, too. I've never tried pumpkin whoopie pies.

Thanks they were really time consumeing but lots of fun. DD had never had jello before so it was fun to watch her try it.

Pumpkin whoopie pies are really good! Perfect for fall.

 

[Disneychica18]

Love this thread. We are 60 days out and having our first movie not tonight. We are starting out with Tangled. We are going to do movie night on our 50,40,30,20,10, ,5 and 1 day marks. We have picked Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Toy Story, Tangled,Mary Poppins, Lion King and Cinderella. I let my two DD's pick the movies. If you have any suggestions feel free to share. I am gng to try to go thru this entire over the next few days.

 

[coconutsunshine]

Thanks they were really time consumeing but lots of fun. DD had never had jello before so it was fun to watch her try it.

Pumpkin whoopie pies are really good! Perfect for fall.

The whoopie pies look sooo yummy, would you mind sharing the recipe?

 

[Jackiemarie21]

The whoopie pies look sooo yummy, would you mind sharing the recipe?

Sure here you go:
http://dreamydesserts.blogspot.com/2008/10/pumpkin-whoopie-pies-with-creamy-cream.html

I have made them twice and they are a family favorite for sure! I use regular sugar though, not splenda as the recipe calls for.

 

[coconutsunshine]

Sure here you go:
http://dreamydesserts.blogspot.com/2008/10/pumpkin-whoopie-pies-with-creamy-cream.html

I have made them twice and they are a family favorite for sure! I use regular sugar though, not splenda as the recipe calls for.

Thank you I can't wait to try these, my family loves everything pumpkin!

 

[abigailsmommy]

WOW!!! I've been reading over this thread for 2 days straight now & my eyes hurt. You moms are impressive! You're making me look bad!
My daughter & I leave for WDW in 32 days (yay!), and I've created a countdown for her for the last 20 days. She's almost 5--we'll be celebrating her birthday in WDW--so of course she's in love with every Disney princess! One of the things on our countdown is a princess tea party. I had planned on doing this after school one afternoon (I have to work while she's there so most of the prep will be done the night before), so it wouldn't be a meal. I'll just pack her a light lunch for school & then we'll have this when we get home. I wanted to have each princess represented in the food or drink, and I need some help! Here's what I have so far:

Snow White's apples
Belle's Brie Wrap
Jasmine's Hummus
Tiana's Frog eggs (green grapes)
Ariel's goldfish
Cinderella's tea (lemonade)
Mulan's fortune cookies
Pocahontas' berries of the earth
Rapunzel's braid (braided bread)

I still need Aurora & Merida! There was something I read in an earlier post about toothpicks in the food & telling kids "don't touch the spindle!" I thought that could be cute on the brie. I feel like it's so much food! So maybe I should do some kind of meat for Merida and make this a dinner?? Any suggestions would be so helpful!

 

[abigailsmommy]

We're not having a party for my daughter's 5th birthday this year because we'll be in WDW celebrating. But when we come home I'm going to have a little celebration at her school. She wants a Rapunzel theme. I'm going to get black paper plates for the kids & attach a black handle made of cardstock to make little frying pans for them to eat off of. I still don't know if I'm going to get a cake made or cupcakes (if anyone knows of any cute ones I'd love to see your ideas!). As a party favor I got some light brown gift bags and attached a thread braid to the top of each one with a purple ribbon at the bottom...so it looks like the braid is coming out of the inside of the bag. I'm ordering some stickers with the sun background that will say something along the lines of "Thanks for making my birthday the Best Day Ever!" I got these adorable watercolor paint palettes from the Dollar Tree to put inside. But I don't know what else to put in it! I've thought about Tangled fruit snacks, Tangled stickers, or even buying those small Pascal's they have at the Disney store (although that would be a bit expensive). Any other ideas??

 

[abigailsmommy]

And now I'm going to have 3 posts in a row! Sorry! I just thought of something else. For my daughter's 3rd birthday she wanted a Jessie party (from Toy Story 2 & 3). I don't know how to upload pictures, I'm sorry!
So here's what I did:
Alien Slime (green jello)
Jessie's hat cookies
Bullseye's Hay (sliced carrots)
Lotso's teddy grahams (I called them something else but I don't remember!)
The cake was 2 layers with cow print made of fondant & a brown fondant 3 that looked like rope
The party favors were Toy Story bubbles, Jessie popcorn, Toy Story stickers, & green army men wrapped up in a bandana. They also got a bag of "trail mix" which was chex mix.
I also set up 2 arts & craft tables. One just had a bunch of crayons & different print out coloring pages of Jessie, Woody, & Bullseye. The other table was create your own Potato Head. I cut out potato heads, noses, ears, hats, bows, lips, hair, glasses, & mustaches before the party (I used foam pieces from Michael's). I also had different kinds & sizes of googly eyes, as well as little puff balls for decoration. It turned out really cute!
I also had stacks of hay in the corner with a bandana on it & Jessie & Woody sitting on top. I took a picture of each child sitting with them.

 

[PookieB]

We had a very quick movie night 2 weeks ago. 101 Dalmatians I made hot dogs "bones" and "puppy chow".

 

[PookieB]

Hi! I have been following along this thread for months and have had so many great ideas from all of you! We have been doing Movie Nights every two weeks or so for the past few months and they have been so much fun. We don't eat in the dining room often but we always do for movie night and DD loves it! Its really special family time. Thanks for all the inspiration!

Here are some pics from our two most recent movie nights:

Winnie the Pooh

For dinner we had Tigger Tails (corn dogs) Pooh's Puffed tators (tator tots) Rabbit's Harvest (carrots, celery, strawberries, raspberries, black berries) and Piglets Pumpkin Whoopie Pies. It was a great meal! After dinner we watched the movie, which my DD LOVED! She had never seen anything Winnie the Pooh and she thought it was great! I made her a Winnie the Pooh dress for our recent trip to WDW and she wore it that night! Since DD is only 2 we really didn't do any activities, just dinner and the movie.

Last night we did The Muppets! This was such a fun movie! DH really loved it!
We had The Swedish Chef's Swedish meatballs over noodles, Its Not Easy Being Green Peas, Animal's tye-dye bread, and Rainbow connection jello.

I usually do more decorations, but the food for this one took so long a few stuffed animals were all I could do!

Super cute!!!

 

[Brieautiful]

I love all of these ideas!! We are doing the Aristocats this week and I was going to have the activity be painting. Painting portraits of each other or something. Any suggestions for food???? I have picky eaters!

 

[Sorsha]

I love all of these ideas!! We are doing the Aristocats this week and I was going to have the activity be painting. Painting portraits of each other or something. Any suggestions for food???? I have picky eaters!

Creme de la Creme a la Edgar?

On the DVD at about the 12 mins mark, Edgar starts with milk, then adds nutmeg, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar (I'm omitting the sleeping pills of course LOL).

Could make this and drink it from tea cups, or even make a vanilla pudding with the spices added if the kiddos might be more receptive to that.

A baguette or croissants

Cream puffs

Au Gratin Potatoes

Steamed or baked fresh fish filets? (Cats love fish)

 

[oopsiDAISY]

This past weekend we had our Jungle Book movie night. Decorations were a LOT like our decor from last month's Lion King movie night...but I knew that would be a problem when they were drawn back to back.

Invitation:



Decorations:



Yummy Food! Mowgli's Mango Chicken and Kaa Breadsticks:



Baloo's (blurry) Berries and Cream



Fun with Barrel of Monkeys:









Dessert was King Louie's Banana Cream Pie:





And our next movie night:



But before that... We go to Disney in just 3 DAYS!!! Not a full week at Disney, but 7 days in Orlando with this sprinkling of Disney magic:

*one day in the parks
*Downtown Disney
*Blizzard Beach
*Chip and Dale Campfire at Fort Wilderness

So, enough to be excited!!!!

 

[2Pirates2Princesses]

I love everyone's creative Disney theme night ideas We were at WDW this past May and don't plan on going back for awhile (we have a new baby on the way ), so doing some themed dinner/movie nights would be a perfect way to keep the magic going in our house until our next Disney trip! I am taking some notes on ideas for doing a Mulan night this weekend and a Dumbo night the following weekend.

 

[soler]

Great Jungle Book movie night!
We started our movie nights a while back and there is so much inspiration here!

 

[oopsiDAISY]

This past weekend we FINALLY had our Lilo and Stitch movie night. I say FINALLY because this movie has been in the jar we draw from since April 2012, and I have had the decorations since that very same summer. So, I was beyond excited to FINALLY do this one!

Invitation:



Decorations:





Food next... Fruit Kabobs:



Pina Coladas:



Hawaiian Haystacks and Sweet Bread:



Limbo was the activity:







DH and I DID limbo...but there was a NO PICTURES rule.

Dessert was Sandy Beaches:



And our next movie night theme:



BRAVE

As a bonus, we had DVR'd Toy Story of Terror. So Sunday, we settled in with this tasty snack and watched that:



*Hot cocoa with marshmallows in the mug.

 

[Brieautiful]

Aristocats movie went great. Unfortunately no pictures. Also did aspirated of the Caribbean movie night. We had pizza boats, pirate teeth (corn) and made pirate hats out of newspaper. Now we picked Nightmare Before Christmas and my daughter LOvEs this movie but I have absolutely no ideas for it. I looked through this thread but couldn't find anything. The one I found had a link to pictures but it no longer worked. So if anybody has any ideas for Nightmare Before Christmas, please help me out! Thanks so much!

 

[FrugalFashionista]

Aristocats movie went great. Unfortunately no pictures. Also did aspirated of the Caribbean movie night. We had pizza boats, pirate teeth (corn) and made pirate hats out of newspaper. Now we picked Nightmare Before Christmas and my daughter LOvEs this movie but I have absolutely no ideas for it. I looked through this thread but couldn't find anything. The one I found had a link to pictures but it no longer worked. So if anybody has any ideas for Nightmare Before Christmas, please help me out! Thanks so much!

You could use crescent rolls and make hot dog mummies, hot apple cider for witches brew, and have pumpkin king pie

 

[lovingeire]

Ooooo, Nightmare before Christmas is on my list too as my oldest loves it! We also always watch the Mickey Christmas Carol in dec so I need to figure out something for that. I'm a little worried that any movie nights then will be a failure as I'm due Dec 11th so we may have to plan them early on!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Aristocats movie went great. Unfortunately no pictures. Also did aspirated of the Caribbean movie night. We had pizza boats, pirate teeth (corn) and made pirate hats out of newspaper. Now we picked Nightmare Before Christmas and my daughter LOvEs this movie but I have absolutely no ideas for it. I looked through this thread but couldn't find anything. The one I found had a link to pictures but it no longer worked. So if anybody has any ideas for Nightmare Before Christmas, please help me out! Thanks so much!

I found these ideas while looking for a dinner menu for Halloween:
Jack-o-Lantern burgers (cut shapes out of sliced cheese to resemble a Jack o'Lantern. Could also carve Jack's face into the cheese.)
Red apple mouths. Slice red apples, Spread with peanut butter, put mini-marshmallows on top of peanut butter to resemble teeth, top with another apple slice.
Mummy juice. Wrap juice boxes with medical or masking tape, add wiggly eyes.

Love the idea for King of Pumpkins Pie.
Witches' Hats. Turn Fudge-Striped Cookie upside down so chocolate side is facing up. Put a dab of melted chocolate in center, top with unwrapped Hershey's Kiss.

While watching the movie you could serve popcorn inside a food-service glove.