Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[jngwright]

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?

I liked the mini foods ideas for Honey I Shrunk..

For Hollywood Studios, you could do a movie star theme... Do handprint/footprints for your walk of fame, dress up in fancy clothes. Use the china for a movie star meal.

 

[I'mAlittleBitGoofy]

Movie - Finding Nemo
Fish Sticks

I was just reading through this thread I began to chuckle at this. I immediately thought, "Fish are friends, not food!" LOL

 

[jngwright]

We did Lady and the Tramp tonight.

I bought a paper tablecloth (no way was ANYONE eating spaghetti on the real deal ) We had spaghetti and meatballs, breadsticks, and grapes.

We had "Tony's Spumoni" for dessert

We made "Spaghetti plates" with yarn, paint, and pom poms and did face painting (Dog faces)

We had a race pushing a ball with the nose

PrincessTigerLily-Thank you so much for this thread! We are having so much fun!! Monsters Inc next week!!

 

[jngwright]

IDK if this is everywhere, but our Target has tons of little Disney stuff in the dollar section right now. Toy Story, Nemo, Incredibles, Monsters Inc, Cars...

Hope this helps someone!

 

[rwrocksme]

The Little Mermaid

Food-- Surf n' Turf (she was a fish who wanted to be on land)

Dessert: Ursala cupcakes (cupcakes with purple frosting and gummi worms around them for tentacles)

I don't know about activities...maybe if it was summer, you could go swimming?

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

We did Monster's Inc. last night on the fly...I wasn't really prepared for a family fun night, but here comes DD7 before school, "Um, Mom, not to bother you or anything, but my calendar says it's Monsters, Inc. family fun night..." with the sweetest and most innocent smile. How do you say no to that? So instead of the planned M Eye meal, we made do with what I had for dinner that night and re-named it: Roast Beast (thanks to the Whos down in Whoville), Sully's Seasonal Grilled Vegetables, Randall's Disappearing Risotto, and Boo's Door Cookies. Kids and DH had fun decorating the cookies with assorted sprinkles, and red hots for door handle knobs. It was super easy to make the cookies, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut into rectangles with a pizza cutter. Here is a link to the sugar cookie recipe I use, it is the best! http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Roll-Out-Cookie-Recipe
Since the meal was a little odd for a family fun night, I decided to turn it into a dinner at "Harry Hausen's". I made a "Harry Hausen's" menu with our re-named food. On the table I made a Harry Hausen's reservation card for a party of 5. Set the table nicely, folded napkins, had DD take drink orders. And one more fun touch: we drew "framed" pictures of the characters that we "autographed" to hang on the walls like the famous celebrities who had eaten there! Then we kicked back with our warm door cookies, cold milk, and enjoyed the movie!

Things have been C-R-A-Z-Y round here lately, but I will soon post ideas for the Goofy How-to Night (DH loves those!) as well as a Fun and Fancy Free Night.

jngwright: Thanks so much for posting your AWESOME photos! Not to mention your two boys are totally adorable! LOVE the Tony's Spumoni!!! We would love to see more photos of your next night!!!

 

[jngwright]

PrincessTigerLily!!!! Yay-I have missed you on here (now that I am addicted to your thread!)
We are doing Peter Pan this Sunday, and Monster's Inc on the 8th-so I was excited to see your new ideas! I bought a bunch of "Mike Lazowski" green plates and napkins, and a "Sully Blue" table cloth at Walmart for a buck. We are going to do your cool door cookies, and maybe some "Mike's eye" cookies too!

I will post more pics as we do our nights-my husband just rolls his eyes as I take pictures of the table

Jill

 

[4disneyfreakazoids]

This is great! My kids are going to love this! I only have over 3 months till we go so I'll have to wait till it's closer! I'm subbing!

 

[PrincessMom4]

what them would you have for a pork chops?? My hubby joked and said the Three little pigs.... any help would be awesome.

thanks all

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Check out post #189 on page 13 for Queenie's "Beauty and the Beast" night with parmesan crusted pork chops. Really cute rose Belle's bookmark craft to go with on disney's family.com website, plus I might add the classic iron, wax paper and crayon shaving "stained glass" window craft.

Any other pork chop suggestions anyone?

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

CORRECTION - IT IS POST #184!!! Sorry!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Movie - The 3 Little Pigs Brunch

Menu - Pigs in a Blanket (you can opt to use vegetarian soy sausages)
Haystack Hashbrowns
The Big Bad Wolf's Blustery Cinnamon Buns (so good you'll huff and puff and gobble them all up!)
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,164,150185-241202,00.html

Activities - Try to build the three pigs houses: use small boxes, clean single serving OJ or milk cartons are best. Cut doors in front of boxes, then use dry spaghetti for the straw house; small twigs, toothpicks, or popsicle sticks for the twig house; and sugar cubes for the brick house - gluing on the appropriate building material to each building.

Learn the song (gets stuck in your head almost as much as the Small World song!)
http://www.lyricstime.com/disney-who-s-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolf-lyrics.html

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

We just got done watching Home on the Range, how about adding "pig tails", a.k.a. curly fries, to the menu?

 

[jngwright]

We did Peter Pan tonight

On the menu:
Pirate Ship Pizzas
Pirate's teeth (corn)
Fruit Swords
Buried Treasure Brownie.
We searched for gold chocolate coins and ring pops, then looked for Tick Tock the Croc (the Kitchen timer set to tick and hidden around the house)

Monsters Inc next week

 

[disdrmg]

Thank you jngwright for your pictures!!! Your pictures have inspired me with our Disney nights!!! It is nice to see the ideas come to life!! Please keep posting them - would love to see Monsters Inc.

 

[magicmom2007]

We have had two theme nights at our house. I love this thread! Our first theme night we did Lady & the Tramp for Valentine's Day. We ate spaghetti and meatballs, breadsticks, salad, and sparkling red grape juice. For dessert we had cherry delight. We played Italian songs by Dean Martin during dinner. We gave the kids their heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, too. We ate by candlelight. The kids loved it. We played Disney Scene-it for a while, then we watched the movie. We have a digital projector that we watch movies on, projecting them onto a large old window shade my DH converted into a screen. It was a fun night!

 

[magicmom2007]

Our second movie was Mary Poppins, which we just did this past Friday night. We had hot tea with little tea sandwiches, scones, and mini pastries. For dessert we had Cherry Lane Chocolate Cake. We told jokes around the table like in the scene at Uncle Albert's house, although nobody rose to the ceiling!
Some of us tried talking with a British accent. A few weeks ago, we had our chimney cleaned, and the kids were able to watch the chimney sweep do his work. That counts, right?!

We are trying to do a lot of these Disney theme nights before our next trip in January 2010. I'm planning Haunted Mansion around Halloween. I know we also plan to do:

Finding Nemo
Beauty and the Beast
The Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Peter Pan
Pirates of the Caribbean
Snow White
Robin Hood
Mickey's Christmas Carol
A Bug's Life

 

[disdrmg]

We had my daughter's 4rth birthday party today - she loves Wendy from Peter Pan so of course that was the theme. So we are having Peter Pan night tonight (a whole day and night of Peter Pan). Everyone came to the party dressed up or we had "costumes" for them - Tiger Lilly, pirates, tinkerbell, Capt. Hook, Peter Pan and my daughter was Wendy ( I had someone make her a replica Wendy Darling dress).

We had Peter Pan's shadow behind the blinds in the window drawn on black bulletin board paper. We shot Peter, Wendy, John and Michael in the clouds with pirate guns ( blue poster board with cotten batting to look like clouds and a clip art pic. in the middle of Peter, Wendy, John and Michael on a cloud). Then each child painted a small wooden treasure chest (bought a Michaels) with black paint and decorated with gems and glitter glue. Then we filled them with plastic gold coins. Then we played pass tic toc. I have a 6" tic toc and I downloaded the tic toc music from itunes and we passed tic toc (like hot potato). Then we had a savenger hunt/treausre hunt. We hid clues all over the house on brown, paper to look like pirates maps. Each clue led them to a new clue until the last spot and they found their goody bags which were treasure chest for each child filled with ring pops, choc. gold coins, pirates hooks, telascopes, money, eye patch, tinkerbell crayons, maps, etc.

The cake turned out cute too - I had someone make it and it had the small Peter Pan character figurines on it. Sprinkled pixie dust (gold glitter) on the tables with green table cloths. Oh, one more thing - I had a silver star balloon on the mailbox and on the front door I had a sign that said Welcome to Neverland, Second Star to the Right with another silver star on the door.

I will quit rambling. But it was a really fun day and like I said we are carrying it over tonight for our Peter Pan Disney night. Just thought I would pass on a few more ideas.

Keep the ideas and pictures coming!!!! Really enjoying this thread!

 

[DisneyNic]

There are some really great ideas on this thread!! I can't believe how creative you all are. Thanks to everyone for the ideas. We are still pretty far away but I can't wait to start doing Disney Nights with my family.

I was thinking about the HSM theme. I haven't seen the movies, any of them, but I had two ideas that might work. One was maybe setting up like a school lunch line, even find a hair net and apron. Doing typical school lunch food (only it will taste better) and finding trays or just separated plates. For some reason, french bread pizza always comes to mind when I think about school lunch. I don't know why, but that's what I remember the most. Maybe mac n cheese, green beans, corn, french fries, whatever you wanted really. Get milk boxes. Or I was thinking of maybe setting up a concession stand with typical food that you would find at a high school basketball game: pizza, popcorn, nachos, hot dogs, candy, soda, gatorade, whatever.

I don't know just some thoughts. I have gotten so many great ideas from this thread I just wanted to try to pitch in a little. Thanks again everyone!!!

 

[jngwright]

On the Menu:
Boo's Baby Meatloaves
Mike's Monster Mashed Potatoes
Sully's Slimy Blue Jello
Mike's ONE EYE! cookies

The boys made a Mike face craft, monster Puzzibits (on table) and we played the board game, Monster Stomp.

For the ONE EYE! cookies, I just bought the slice and bake sugar cookies, frosted them white and piped a blue iris and black pupil. I had forgot about his "horns" so we glued the pom poms on for that.

For the Mike plates, I had extra green plates from our meal. I drew the eye and mouth with a sharpie and they painted it in with craft paint. Very easy and they had fun!