Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[PrincessTigerLily]

Here you go Disdrmg! Hope you like it!

Movie - The Sword in the Stone

Menu - Merlin's Magic Meatballs: Buy those small plastic sword skewers at a party store, and stick them into meatballs. You can offer a couple of different dips/sauces for dunking.
Loaf of bread (non-sliced) to rip pieces from, just like in Medieval Times.
Cheese chunks (again to be skewered by plastic swords)
King Arthur's Royal Jewels (gelatin jigglers cut with cookie cutters or with a knife in diamond shapes)

Activities - Wizards' Duel: Everyone sits in a circle. The youngest starts the game and names an animal to change into, like Merlin and Madame Mim (it is easiest to start small). The person to his or her right then must think of an animal to change into that would beat/eat/win over the first animal. Example: mouse - cat - dog - lion, etc.

Decorate Knights of the Round Table Goblets: buy plastic goblets or tumblers at local party store. Let kids decorate using flat-backed plastic jewels and craft glue. Let dry completely before using. Hand-wash only, do not place in dishwasher.

Play "Merlin Says".

Create a family coat of arms. Use pictures and symbols that are meaningful to your own family and experiences. Can be as simple as a paper collage or could be a wood shield shape with woodburning to hang in your home.

 

[disdrmg]

Thank you, thank you! You are the best! You have such great ideas! Still looking for Tarzan, Fox and the Hound and The Rescuers.... any ideas? We have all of the disney movies written on strips of paper and each week we draw out of a bag the movie that will be our next disney night.

I appreciate all of the time you have put into this!

 

[TDERadulski]

OMG!!! How have I missed seeing this thread for an entire year??? I am subbing now! Love it, love it love it!!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - Wall-E

Menu - Finger Foods served in cups. Decorate cups with stickers/avery labels you decorate with the BnL logo. Take a lesson from Wall-E and use your reusable cups instead of paper! Cheese cubes, baby carrots, melon chunks, chicken nuggets (made these last night for our Wall-E night, and everyone liked them)
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=13514
For dessert we made Wall-E's Earth Dirt Parfaits (layering chocolate pudding with mini marshmallows and crushed oreos)

Activities - Build a robot! Use old boxes, yogurt containers, pipe cleaners, etc. to create your own robot. Don't forget to name it!

Make a family pledge to the earth: brainstorm ways to be more "green" and environmentally conscious, and pick one or two to really stick with.

Make your own model of the solar system:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/astronomy/solarsystemmodel/

Plant a tree in honor of the treasure Wall-E found and Eve protected! Make it a family project to care for your baby tree (watering, nutrition spikes). DD7 and DS3 each have a small evergreen in potted plants (as it is about 2 below today we can't be planting outside) that they care for, and last night they named them Wall-E and Eve.

 

[nikkistevej]

Movie - Wall-E

Menu - Finger Foods served in cups. Decorate cups with stickers/avery labels you decorate with the BnL logo. Take a lesson from Wall-E and use your reusable cups instead of paper! Suggestions: chicken nuggets, cheese and fruit chunks, baby carrots, etc.

Activities - Build a robot! Use old boxes, yogurt containers, pipe cleaners, etc. to create your own robot. Don't forget to name it!

Make your own model of the solar system:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/astronomy/solarsystemmodel/

Plant a tree in honor of the treasure Wall-E found and Eve protected! Make it a family project to care for your baby tree (watering, nutrition spikes).

Love that one- we will definately do this one!!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - The Parent Trap

Menu - Hotdogs and beans
Bug Juice (kool-aid)
S'mores
Or try S'mores brownies: Prepare packaged brownie mix, put into 9x13 pan and sprinkle broken graham cracker pieces over batter (about 8-9 crackers) and bake approx. 25 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle 6 oz chocolate chips on top. After chocolate chips, sprinkle about 2 cups of mini marshmallows over the top, return to oven and continue baking until marshmallows begin to brown. Let cool completely and use an oiled knife to cut brownies.
Activities - Backyard campout! Pitch a tent and enjoy camping with the comforts of home close by! Build a safe campfire:
http://www.ehow.com/video_2354193_build-campfire-fire-rings-fire.html
Bake mini cakes in an orange shell (oh how I loved this in Girl Scouts!!!)
http://www.recipesource.com/misc/camping/00/rec0024.html
Go on a flashlight scavenger hunt! Everyone gets a list of items to find with their flashlights (flowers, rock, etc.), you can break into 2 groups and race each other if you have enough people in your family.
Tell campfire stories and sing campfire songs!
http://www.recipesource.com/misc/camping/00/rec0024.html
http://www.ultimatecampresource.com/site/camp-activities/camp-songs.html
Put on a family talent show! Construct a low stage with any materials you may be lucky enough to have around, aim a floodlight, and let it rip just like Hayley Mills!

 

[disdrmg]

Love it!! We had Little Mermaid night tonight. As another submission suggested we had Ursula dogs, pita boats, and pasta shells. We also had sand dollar cookies for dessert. We made sandpaper starfish and Urula's conch shell necklace using polymer clay.

A few quick other things we have done in addition to what others have suggested are as follows -

Cinderella - made felt Gus and Jaq mice, made Cinderella's duster and a fairy godmother wand

Sleepy Beauty - made berry baskets, 3 fairy wands using pretzel sticks dipped in white chocolate and then sprinkled with green, pink and blue sugar crystals, and made pom pom songbirds

My family is really enjoying our disney nights! We can't wait until next week!

 

[My3DisneyBoys]

subbing...this is great! Thanks for all the ideas!

 

[Rora]

I love this thread.. DFiance and I have taken many ideas off of here just to have a some good fun at home!

Since you gals are so creative we decided to come to you with our question:
We leave for Disney 2/13 (just for a day trip) and will come back mid-afternoon on Valentine's Day. Because we'll just have spent a lot of money (and energy!) at WDW, we'd like to stay in for Valentine's Day.

I was thinking it would be fun to take a night idea off of here and give it a Valentine's Day twist. I was thinking a more romantic Disney movie, with maybe a little less kid appealing foods (hey- we love our chicken fingers though!! ) Any ideas, Ladies?
Thanks in advance!! Oh, and feel free to PM me if you come up with an idea, I don't want to hijack your thread, unless you think others would be interested!

 

[mrs.beast]

There ideas for adults and kids with this one. This is one of our favorite movies. We watch it as a family for Valentine's Day.

Mickey and Minnie's Picnic-Fancy or normal picnic foods
Pluto Film-Dutch foods: gouda cheese, chocolate, meatballs, potatoes, pancakes (the filled ones),
Society dog- fancy finger foods
You could also do any Valentine type foods (heart shaped, or red/pink) sparkling juices or champagne,


crafts: anything valentine's ish. could make bookmarks, jewelry, purses, paper flowers out of hearts, lovebugs, etc with hearts on them, cupid arrows, dog collars, puffy paint to decorate

games; hunt for hershey kisses and hugs, silly word games (there is a cartoon about Daisy not liking the way Donald talks), steal my heart (from family fun)

The food could be used for adults or kids.

 

[Rora]

Mrs. Beast, that is a fabulous idea!! Thanks so much!

 

[disdrmg]

You could also watch Lady and the Tramp. There was some cute ideas posted earlier ( go back to the first page where all of the ideas are listed). You could serve spaghetti and meatballs, red wine/sparkling grape juice over a candle lit dinner. Use a red and white checked table cloth.....

 

[PAdisMOM]

We did our first Disney Theme family night on Friday and LOVED it!!!
I just found this thread last weekend (why did it take so long). My DDs and I got so excited we wanted to do one right away.
DD10 and I chose Mulan to do a mixed Chinese New Year/Mulan theme.
We made eggrolls from a recipe from Family Fun (http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50572) and shrimp stir fry from a recipe in last month's "All You" magazine. We also made chicken chow mein from a can. We bought some fortune cookies from the local Chinese restaurant as well as chop sticks. Finally we made chocolate chinese noodle cookies for dessert.

We has so much fun this week planning and making decorations. We used red butcher paper and drew large Chinese characters on it and put it inside the china cabinet. We lit it from inside so it would glow. We made some ribbon dragons and red and yellow garland. We used instructions from Family Fun (http://searcha.familyfun.go.com/?q=chinese+new+year&x=34&y=12).
We also asked one of our DISigners to make Mulan name tags to use as placemarkers on the table (thanks everydaymathchick ).

We did a craft together as a family. We made the goldfish decorations from Family Fun (same page as the others). We also played a little game. DD10 made chinese firecrackers from empty toilet paper rolls. She painted them red and decorated them with gold glitter paint. I hid them around the house and DDs raced to see who could find the most.

One little glitch- Mulan was out at the video store so we had to rent Kung Fu Panda instead. I know it's not even Disney, but it seemed to do in a pinch.

Like I said- we had a great night. There are so many times that I am busy with work and cleaning and I don't spend the time I want to with my kids. On Friday night I felt like an AWESOME mom. I haven't felt that way in a long time. Thank you PrincessTigerLily for this board and for all your ideas. Now DD8 and I are planning a Lady and the Tramp theme night for Valentine's Day. We can't wait!

I would love to post pictures but I'm not sure how. I'm going to try to put picts in a separate post.

 

[disdrmg]

I agree PAdismom - I feel like our disney nights allow us to spend quality family time together. We love adding disney magic to our day, but more importantly we are sitting around the kitchen table together laughing, talking and having fun together as a family!

Sorry to ask again, but still looking for ideas for Tarzan, Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers and now Bolt. Any ideas anyone???

I just found The Legend of Sleepy Hollow today at a second hand store and am so excited about using it for our mock MNSSHP, even if it is several months away!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - The Princess Diaries
A Night at Your Own Spa

Menu - Cucumber sandwiches
Lean turkey and swiss sandwiches
Fresh fruit
Sparkling grape juice in plastic champagne flutes
Cheese chunks
Chocolate covered strawberries

Activities - Homemade Spa Night with facials, mani, pedi!
Make your own bath salts: In a ziplock freezer bag, place 1 cup Epsom salts, 5-6 drops essential oil in your choice of fragrance, and a couple drops of food coloring or soap dye and shake until evenly mixed. Use 1/4 C of salts for each warm bath. Use these salts for your foot soak before pedicures

Make a brown sugar scrub to use on hands and feet:
http://www.spaplayground.com/spa-intoxication/blog/17/brown-sugar-scrub-recipe.aspx

You can do a search to find recipes for your exact skin type, or try this yogurt mask for all skin types:
http://beauty.about.com/od/fragrance/r/yogurtmask.htm

Make Family Fun's Fluffy Flip Flops to showcase those cute polished toes!
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11414

 

[Klinepartyof5]

Any ideas for the High School Musicals ? HSM3 will be out on DVD mid Feb & I was hoping to get it & have a HSM weekend? I just don't have any ideas for food?

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - American Legends

Menu - Breakfast for dinner, or Lazy Sunday brunch!
John Henry's Steelcut Oatmeal
Paul Bunyon's Sky-high Flapjack Stack
Johnny Appleseed's Apple Turnovers
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50273

Activities - Read the story of Johnny Appleseed:
http://www.appleseed.net/About_Johnny.htm

Learn the Song!
Oh, the Lord's been good to me.
And so I thank the Lord
For giving me the things I need:
The sun, the rain and the appleseed;
Oh, the Lord's been good to me.

Oh, and every seed I sow
Will grow into a tree.
And someday there'll be apples there
For everyone in the world to share.
Oh, the Lord is good to me.

Oh, here I am 'neath the blue, blue sky
Doing as I please.
Singing with my feathered friends
Humming with the bees.

I wake up every day,
As happy as can be,
Because I know that with His care
My apple trees, they will still be there.
The Lord's been good to me.

I wake up every day
As happy as can be,
Beacuse I know the Lord is there
Watchin' over all my friends and me
The Lord is good to me.

Create a Tall Tales mural, depicting scenes from each story.

Write and illustrate your own tall tale to explain something (like how Paul and his ox Blue created the Grand Tetons).

Make apple prints:
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50273

*Note: Johnny Appleseed's birthday is on Sept. 26*

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - Bolt

Menu - Hot dogs and chips
Rhino's Popcorn Balls
http://www.divinedinnerparty.com/popcorn-ball-recipe.html
Bolt's Autograph Cookies (slice and bake sugar cookies, frosting in pastry bag or plastic baggie with corner clipped off: pipe paw pad shapes on cookies)


Activities - Frisbee!
Mittens' Matching Game: cut out mitten shapes from construction paper to make a memory game. You can print out clip art (great site www.disneyclips.com) to attach.
Make a puppy picture frame (courtesy of disneyfamily website):
Using a flat wooden picture frame, glue mini dog bone biscuits around the frame until all wood is covered. Finish with an acrylic sealing spray.

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

that Disney is finally catching on? On their disneyfamily website under "entertainment" you can find a limited number of family movie nights with ideas, crafts, and recipes. If you look broader, you can find other cute character-themed stuff to add to movie night fun, like really great princess crafts. Belle's valentine rose bookmarks look super cute!

 

[nettii]

I have boys so I try to boy up some of my favs, we did Little Mermaid last year

We had Bahamian mac & cheese (one of our favorites)
Bahamian coleslaw
and fake conch salad (made with imitation crab)
we drank under the sea tea, decorated the cups with little plastic drink mermaids-found at the dollar store

we made sand castles with the moon sand
had a treasure hunt for rare items such as a dingel hopper.
during the movie we always move the couch about 5' in front of the tv gives it more of a movie fell.
We had popcorn with swedishfish mixed in. and more under the sea tea.