Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - The Rescuers

Menu - Bernard's Best Baked Mac & Cheese
http://www.recipezaar.com/Fannie-Farmers-Classic-Baked-Macaroni-and-Cheese-135350
Miss Bianca's Baked Custard
http://southernfood.about.com/od/puddingrecipes/r/bl30727o.htm

Activities - Make Rescue Aid Society ID cards, and send the kids off on an adventure to find the diamond (crumpled up ball of newspaper will do!).
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11223

Alligator pit (use 2 jump ropes, pieces of string, streamers, etc. Place them parallel a few inches apart. Players must jump over the "alligator pit" and not touch the jump ropes (or what have you). After everyone has jumped across once, widen the gator pit by moving one jump rope out a bit. Continue until everyone is out by having touched the rope.

Penny's Tiddlywinks (use pennies, and a cup. Scatter pennies in a circle radius, placing cup in the middle. Everyone gets a quarter to take turns trying to jump their "Penny" into the cup by pressing down on the penny's edge.

 

[khighgirl]

Another idea for dessert for a Little Mermaid night is a spin on "worms and dirt" using vanilla pudding and the vanilla crackers with vanilla filling to make sand and use gummy fish instead of gummy worms for "sand and fish". I love this thread and we're starting next week and doing it weekly until our trip in September. Thanks for all the great ideas.

 

[disdrmg]

Thank you princess Tiger Lily for the ideas!!! I love this thread and our family is enjoying our nights so much. Our next Disney night will be Jungle Book - we love the movie, but I am not too excited about my ideas so far? Anyone have any ideas? I am thinking snakes, elephants, tigers, baboons.......

OK, thought I would throw out a few more movies/themes for ideas ( I hope we can keep this thread going) -

Song of the South, and what about theme park nights - Epcot night, Hollywood Studios night, Magic Kingdom night and Animal Kingdom night?

Or different resort nights? We are staying at POR so you could do a New Orleans theme?

I know I am getting a little crazy or should I say obsessed...

 

[baby1disney]

Subbing!!! I love these Ideas!! Anyone have any ideas for AKL/AKV??

Thanks!!!

We leave in 24 days!!!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Theme - Disney's Port Orleans French Quarter Resort

**Fat Tuesday is Feb. 24, 2009**

Food - Shrimp Creole
http://www.sandisrecipecorner.com/recipe334D.htm
Beignets (recipe from POFQ) (soooo yummmy!)
http://allears.net/din/rec_b.htm
Traditional New Orleans King Cake recipe
http://www.mardigrasday.com/mardigras/kcrecip.php
VIRGIN Hurricane Drinks, traditional at Mardi Gras
http://www.yumsugar.com/139257

Activities - decorate Mardi Gras masks! You can either purchase those plain plastic masks from a party store, or cut out your own using posterboard or similarly weighted paper. Decorate with paint, markers, feathers, beads, etc. Don't forget to use purple, green, and gold!

Make a Mardi Gras Jester hat! Using craft foam in yellow, purple, and green: create a long strip, measure and cut for headband portion. Use all three colors to cut out long thin triangle shapes. Glue the base of each triangle to the inside of the headband (craft glue especially for foam works best, regular glue loses its hold rather quickly). Glue miniature bells to the tip of each triagle, let triangles fall out in a radius.

Mardi Gras coloring pages:
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/mardi_gras_coloring_pages.htm

Get your neighborhood on board! Organize your own FAMILY-FRIENDLY (yes, unfortunately you must spell this out for some!) Mardi Gras parade! Decorate your kids' bikes and wagons, download some New Orleans jazz to play, and toss beads (from Oriental Trading Company) and candy to the kids and bystanders. You can even make trophies or awards for best "floats"!

 

[jngwright]

OMGosh!! I love this thread...I am going to get exactly NOTHING done while I read all your great ideas!

I am going to start a theme day each Sunday until we leave on 4/25!

Still debating whether to keep the trip a surprise for the kiddos....

 

[svalencia1]

This thread is amazing. I am going to start doing this with my kids. Your ideas are great! I am going to try to think of a Boardwalk theme to use in a coule of weeks since that is where we will be staying. I think carnival games and funnel cakes. I gotta think out the rest though. Thanks so much for the inspiration!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

This thread is amazing. I am going to start doing this with my kids. Your ideas are great! I am going to try to think of a Boardwalk theme to use in a coule of weeks since that is where we will be staying. I think carnival games and funnel cakes. I gotta think out the rest though. Thanks so much for the inspiration!

So happy to see more people are finding the thread and liking it! My kids look forward to our Disney nights with a frenzy! I love your ideas for a Boardwalk night, you might want to check out the Cooking thread here on the DIS for an AMAZING collection of recipes, maybe you could find one you like from the Boardwalk bakery or restaurant (Flying Fish, etc.) to complete your Boardwalk theme. Whatever your choose, it would be GREAT if you wouldn't mind sharing your ideas for your theme night in a post here!

 

[jngwright]

We did our first Disney family fun night on Sunday! In honor of the Daytona 500, we did "Cars". As a bonus, my dad had planned a Cinderella themed weekend for my mom, so we got to go to a Cinderella party on Sunday as well!!

The Cinderella

You can tell I have boys, I forgot that Cinderella was blue, when doing the cake!!

The cake after my sister got ahold of it and made "modifications"

My dad ordered flowers with glass slippers

The Cars
We had race car BBQ chicken subs, traffic light treats, Mater's oil sundaes, and used hubcaps (pie tins) to serve.

We played the Mater game and had hot wheel races. The boys got Cars colored pencils and fruit snacks as prizes.

I am so excited to do "Lady and the Tramp" next Sunday!

 

[jngwright]

Subbing!!! I love these Ideas!! Anyone have any ideas for AKL/AKV??

Thanks!!!

We leave in 24 days!!!

AKL recipes are the first ones listed in this link:

http://allears.net/din/rec.htm

Could you do African masks or make instruments?

Your trip is coming up so fast!!!

 

[clhemsath]

We are heading to Disney in June and I saw this thread and thought what a great idea! So after dinner, my girls and I headed upstairs to look through all the Disney movies I had to pick one for this week. Their choice...

Fun and Fancy Free



First, I can't even remember seeing this movie and second, I have no idea what the movie is about. Can anyone help with ideas???

I appreciate any help. TIA!

Carrie

 

[jngwright]

I just put Fun and Fancy Free on my netflix list for our Mickey theme night

"Mickey (voiced by Walt Disney), Donald and Goofy face off against Willy the Giant in the beloved "Mickey and the Beanstalk," the more famous half of this two-part animated feature hosted by Jiminy Cricket. Also included is "Bongo," the charming tale of a circus bear who runs away to the woods"

PrincessTigerLily..any ideas for this one??

 

[Amy&Josh]

I just put Fun and Fancy Free on my netflix list for our Mickey theme night

"Mickey (voiced by Walt Disney), Donald and Goofy face off against Willy the Giant in the beloved "Mickey and the Beanstalk," the more famous half of this two-part animated feature hosted by Jiminy Cricket. Also included is "Bongo," the charming tale of a circus bear who runs away to the woods"

PrincessTigerLily..any ideas for this one??

How funny, my son and I just finished watching this one, and I kept thinking what could i do to make it a theme night... one thing I could think of is bean soup, and then vanilla bean ice cream... since mickey climbed the beanstalk... although didn't the giant have a turkey leg or something at the table.. ... I was in the middle of fixing pizza when the beanstalk part of the movie came on... you could do animal crackers since Bongo was from the circus...

 

[Amy&Josh]

In this collection of wacky animated classics from the golden age of Walt Disney Studios, the world's most beloved cartoon characters knock one out of the park with their misadventures in sports. Cheer on Mickey, Goofy and Pluto in their rollicking escapades "Canine Caddy," "How to Play Baseball," "The Hockey Champ," "Double Dribble," "How to Play Football," "Mickey's Polo Team," "Tennis Racquet" and "Goofy Gymnastics."

You could serve hotdogs and chips for dinner and then have baseball or football decorated cupcakes or cake... for an activity you could see how many balls could you throw into a clothes basket for fun, or something like that...

 

[danagirl]

I love these!!! We have been doing these for years but we also use other movies like scooby doo. Heres some food ideas I stole from a 2001 Parents magazine:

Toy Story:
Buzz's Spaceship Pizza-make a pizza using pre made crust and sauce, and decorate like a spaceship with toppings...or make a dome of toppings int the middle and cover with mozzarella slices and cover the rest with shredded cheese
Green Alien Salad-make a salad with all green veggies
Woodys Cowboy Cookies-shape sugar cookies into stars and place m&ms in the corners for a sherrifs star.

Beauty and the Beast:
Croque Monsieur-or better known as a grilled cheese sandwich
French cut Green beans
French Flag Ice cream: Take a carton of vanilla ice cream divide it into three separate bowls. Stir in red food color in one and blue food color in another and leave the last plain. Line a loaft pan with plastic wrap allowing it to go over the sides. Evenly spread the blue layer on the bottom..then the white and then the red then cover with the platic and freeze for at least an hour...when serving cut into slices.

 

[PrincessMom4]

We start our "21 Days of Disney Dining" on Saturday. It is so challenging to think of different meal ideas for our family so I sat down and came up with a plan. We are living for Disney soon so I thought it would be approperiate to start the countdown and have fun.

 

[svalencia1]

So happy to see more people are finding the thread and liking it! My kids look forward to our Disney nights with a frenzy! I love your ideas for a Boardwalk night, you might want to check out the Cooking thread here on the DIS for an AMAZING collection of recipes, maybe you could find one you like from the Boardwalk bakery or restaurant (Flying Fish, etc.) to complete your Boardwalk theme. Whatever your choose, it would be GREAT if you wouldn't mind sharing your ideas for your theme night in a post here!

Thanks! I think that's what we are going to do next week. I will make sure to post all hte details here when I get it figured out!

 

[disdrmg]

Any ideas for a Hollywood Studios night? My kids loved the Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground so I thought about watching that movie??? Or Fantasia.... any ideas?

 

[danagirl]

well for honey i shrunk the kids i would do mini foods...mini burgers, hot dogs etc..

 

[cjackearl]

jngwright

LOVE your Cars theme! The subs look yummy, the traffic lights would be so fun to make, the "hubcap" plates are very clever! We'll definitely try this theme, as well as several others I've been taking notes on from the beginning of this thread.

Thanks everyone!