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[nancy drew]

Beignet Mix (sold in a pack of 4, but maybe you can find it locally? I found it at a European/World grocery store locally.)

Paper Goods: I usually just use solid colored plates, or if I see reusable plates in a theme I might buy them if I know they can be used for more than one movie. For example, I bought melamine pirate plates for Peter Pan because I can use them for PP or POTC, or a Playmobil pirate movie we rented from Blockbuster. For Lilo and Stitch I have melamine tiki plates, but we bought those because the kids were mildly obsessed with tiki masks for a while. We use them for non-theme nights as well. But for Monsters Inc I bought green paper plates, and had extras so we have used them for other nights if the color goes with the other decorations. I have balloons and streamers left over from birthday parties, too. I try to print as many decorations from the computer as I can, too. So if I wanted to make "Lightning McQueen" cups, I could just print out a pic of him and glue it to plain paper cups. Or just use our regular cups and print out Cars decorations to set out on the table, or to hang from the light fixture. I try to be creative, too. For PP I made a "shark infested waters" using a blue yoga mat and toy sharks we already had. That could be used for Nemo, too.

PrincessTigerLily, I'll PM you! Glad to help with the thread!

 

[coteau_chick]

Beignet Mix (sold in a pack of 4, but maybe you can find it locally? I found it at a European/World grocery store locally.)

Paper Goods: I usually just use solid colored plates, or if I see reusable plates in a theme I might buy them if I know they can be used for more than one movie. For example, I bought melamine pirate plates for Peter Pan because I can use them for PP or POTC, or a Playmobil pirate movie we rented from Blockbuster. For Lilo and Stitch I have melamine tiki plates, but we bought those because the kids were mildly obsessed with tiki masks for a while. We use them for non-theme nights as well. But for Monsters Inc I bought green paper plates, and had extras so we have used them for other nights if the color goes with the other decorations. I have balloons and streamers left over from birthday parties, too. I try to print as many decorations from the computer as I can, too. So if I wanted to make "Lightning McQueen" cups, I could just print out a pic of him and glue it to plain paper cups. Or just use our regular cups and print out Cars decorations to set out on the table, or to hang from the light fixture. I try to be creative, too. For PP I made a "shark infested waters" using a blue yoga mat and toy sharks we already had. That could be used for Nemo, too.

PrincessTigerLily, I'll PM you! Glad to help with the thread!

I live in Louisiana and this is really good and easy to make.

 

[Peter Pan Fan 22]

Our eleventh pre-Disney night was a Polynesian themed party.

The plates were from Dollar Tree, the umbrella straws from Target and the table cloth from Party City. The leis and Aloha sign we already had from a previous family reunion.

For our meal I followed the idea some others have posted on here about doing skewered food. We had meatballs, corn on the cob,

Grilled sirloin steak and veggies (mushrooms, green bell pepper, onion, zucchini, & yellow squash),

Grilled chicken and yellow rice

For dessert we had chocolate fondue and these were our yummy dippers. (Marshmallows, strawberries, apple slices, pineapple chunks, banana slices, and kiwi) We are definitely a fondue loving family!

Then we separated into two teams and played sort of a trivia game where I named a ride and they had to tell me which park it was in.
We also learned our Hawaiian names. Here are the links to some websites I used. http://www.alohafriends.com/name.html & http://hawaiiannames.hisurf.com/
After that we watched Lilo and Stich (I forgot how much I love this movie! We actually saw it back in 2002 while on vacation in Disney World, so it holds a special place in my heart. )

 

[dancin'girl]

Peter Pan Fan 22 - Wow! Can I come to one of your parties? Your food looks delicious!!!! Yum!

 

[Emme]

Ok went shopping today for a bunch of movie nights as we are using them to countdown our trip to the Polynesian in May.

Ours will have a slightly different spin on them as we are three adults (me, dh & ds). We are all young at heart and thought this would be a fun way to count our days to the Poly down.

We will have a movie theme and food accordingly (no alcohol DS is too young) and decorations. I hope this can maybe help someone who doesn't have any small children but still may want to partake in all the fun~

Hope this is OK with everyone!

 

[Peter Pan Fan 22]

dancin'girl - Thanks!! We're a foodie family and planning the menu is half the fun!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

PeterPan fan, those steak skewers and the veggies look so yum! The fruit looks good too!
We also found those straws and put them away for Lilo and Stitch night, I'm waiting til the weather breaks a bit more and for the dollar tree to put out their annual tiki stuff (usually after easter).

 

[Peter Pan Fan 22]

PeterPan fan, those steak skewers and the veggies look so yum! The fruit looks good too!
We also found those straws and put them away for Lilo and Stitch night, I'm waiting til the weather breaks a bit more and for the dollar tree to put out their annual tiki stuff (usually after easter).

Thanks!! Yeah, I always find the stores get more Hawaiian stuff towards the end of the school year also because so many people have graduation party luaus. Have fun on your Lilo and Stitch night!

 

[Mommytink]

We are planning on doing Honey I Shrunk the Kids this week and could use some inspiration. Was planning on mini-burgers, shrinky dinks and mini-cupcakes but need something else.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

We are planning on doing Honey I Shrunk the Kids this week and could use some inspiration. Was planning on mini-burgers, shrinky dinks and mini-cupcakes but need something else.

another poster did this and got those little cans of soda and little bottles of water.
My shoprite sells mini poptarts (dont know what you coudl really do with them) mini marshmallows. If I think of anythign else I'll let you know.

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Ok went shopping today for a bunch of movie nights as we are using them to countdown our trip to the Polynesian in May.

Ours will have a slightly different spin on them as we are three adults (me, dh & ds). We are all young at heart and thought this would be a fun way to count our days to the Poly down.

We will have a movie theme and food accordingly (no alcohol DS is too young) and decorations. I hope this can maybe help someone who doesn't have any small children but still may want to partake in all the fun~

Hope this is OK with everyone!

EXCELLENT! Have had quite a few posts inquiring on how to "age-up" this concept. Please post your ideas and nights!

 

[jngwright]

For those of you looking for Toy Story and Princess and the Frog-if you have a Michael's Arts and Crafts in your area, they have Disney stuff in their dollar section.

 

[my2disneyboys]

For those of you looking for Toy Story and Princess and the Frog-if you have a Michael's Arts and Crafts in your area, they have Disney stuff in their dollar section.

Thanks for the heads up!! We are doing Princess and the Frog tomorrow night. I will have to check Michaels out. How should I make Frog Cupcakes????

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Thanks for the heads up!! We are doing Princess and the Frog tomorrow night. I will have to check Michaels out. How should I make Frog Cupcakes????

Maybe if you frost the cupcakes with vanilla frosting that you dye green and then put 2 big marshmallow eyes on top and just pipe on a black dot for eyeball. Then pipe on 2 little black specs for the nose and then maybe red thin shoe string licorice that you could cut for the mouth?

 

[DisneyDorkORama]

FINDING NEMO:

Here is an idea for the Finding Nemo, I havent read all the posts yet so I am not sure if this has been said yet. But you can take plastic film containers or something like that tape labels on them that say Fish Food and then fill them up with Fruity Pebbles.

 

[nettii]

Maybe if you frost the cupcakes with vanilla frosting that you dye green and then put 2 big marshmallow eyes on top and just pipe on a black dot for eyeball. Then pipe on 2 little black specs for the nose and then maybe red thin shoe string licorice that you could cut for the mouth?

Familyfun.com has a cute frog cupcake. good luck!

 

[dancin'girl]

Thanks for the heads up!! We are doing Princess and the Frog tomorrow night. I will have to check Michaels out. How should I make Frog Cupcakes????

I'm going to make the cupcakes seen here -
http://family.go.com/entertainment/pkg-disney-princess-and-the-frog/

 

[my2disneyboys]

Thanks for the ideas on the cupcakes! I did them for tonight. (They are at the bottom of this post!)
When we got back from Disney, we had Myles "real" birthday and he wanted to have a Star Wars Disney Night.... We had Pizza the hut, Yoda Soda, Ewok cookies, and I forget the name of the cake.... Nannie made it and we decorated it.

I got Myles those trick candles.. I had no idea they were trick candles... it was a joke on all of us!

a couple weeks ago we had some friends over and we had a Toy Story Night! It was nice and easy because we ordered pizza from Pizza Planet! I went to the party store and got a Jesse hat for the girl, and for the 3 boys I got Woody hats! They all had so much fun together.

Last week we had UP Night! So fun. We had hotdogs, and Chocolate bars! We decorated with Balloons and made balloon animals... or rather tried to!

Tonight is Princess and The Frog night! I am making Jambalaya and we are having swamp water.... and Prince Naveen Cup Cakes, and Tiana's Beignets!

We have had so much fun with these nights!!!!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Can anyone think of a movie night I could do with meatloaf as the main course? We were going to do Princess and the Frog this weekend but haven't been able to get out and buy the movie this week.
So I am going to make my dinner for tomorrow, tonight (since we're going car shopping in the afternoon) and I am making meatloaf, broccoli w/ mozzarella cheese and oil and garlic, asparagus, mashed potatoes and corn.
DD has been watching a lot of the incredibles lately, maybe something with that?

 

[nancy drew]

Princess and the Frog

We aren't fans of Gumbo or Jambalaya, so I borrowed from the menus of 2 of the best restaurants at Disneyland: Cafe Orleans and Blue Bayou.

Our Menu:

In case you can't see it, we had:

French Onion Soup
Monte Cristo Sandwiches
Pomme Frites
Mickey Beignets
Fruity Frogs

The Fruity Frogs:

This was a very labor-intense meal, so I was too hungry and tired to take decent pictures of the food . Also, we had no time for a craft. The kids played "Tiana's Place" and took turns being the chef in a restaurant while I made dinner.