Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[Peter Pan Fan 22]

belle231- Those doors are adorable! I also love the hard hats. Very creative!

 

[VanessainWonderland]

WOW Very cool! My daughter LOVES Monsers INC. Will definitely be using some of your ideas in the future!

 

[wlwilliams9]

OK, I didn't make it through all of the posts, but, WOW!! There are so many great ideas here. I'm lookin for ideas for UP. Whatcha got??

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Belle, love the doors, the monsters, the hats, all so cute!!!

I love Monsters Inc. DD watched it once and will never watch it again, she is afraid of it lol

She wouldn't even go to the Laugh Floor @ MK and sadly, her dad was picked our of the audience to be Mike Wazowski. I don't know what it is about him, but he ALWAYS gets picked @ WDW to do something haha.

 

[Princess Sleepy]

I am loving this site. We started our 12 week countdown last week. We kicked off with a Lion King night. (I will try to post pictures.) We had the following menu: Grilled Filet of Wildebeest (steak on the grill), Crunchy Savannah grass (coleslaw), Rafiki's mixed berries, Jungle Juice (I used the AKL recipe), and Zebra cake for dessert. My DDs (6 and 3) did a safari hunt for animals while the steak cooked. I bought a tube of jungle animals at Michael's and hid them all around the house. They had a great time. Then we watched the movie after dinner.

Tonight was our second week and we did Lady and the Tramp. We started by taking a family walk with our beagle. Then the girls did hand prints in a clay kit that we had (like the dogs do in the cement on their date). We had spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and breadsticks for dinner. I let the girls have white grape juice in real wine glasses to go with their dinner. The for dessert while we watched the movie we ate "puppy chow" out of a new dog dish we'd bought.

The whole family is getting into this, including my DH who is sometimes a hard sell on all Disney, all the time. It is giving us at least one real family night erach week and getting us excited for the trip at the same time.

I can't wait until next week.

 

[my2disneyboys]

OK, I didn't make it through all of the posts, but, WOW!! There are so many great ideas here. I'm lookin for ideas for UP. Whatcha got??

Wendy, (HI!!!!) We did UP a few weeks ago. We made hot dogs and beans and for dessert we had chocolate bars (like Russell gives to Kevin in the movie) We decorated with balloons!! The kids had a blast and we just LOVE that movie!!! If I had the time, I would have made cup cakes and decorated them with little balloon shapes.... Oh and for the activity I bought a cheap balloon animal kit. It was fun!!

 

[wlwilliams9]

Wendy, (HI!!!!) We did UP a few weeks ago. We made hot dogs and beans and for dessert we had chocolate bars (like Russell gives to Kevin in the movie) We decorated with balloons!! The kids had a blast and we just LOVE that movie!!! If I had the time, I would have made cup cakes and decorated them with little balloon shapes.... Oh and for the activity I bought a cheap balloon animal kit. It was fun!!

Thanks Nickie!! I will probably use your brilliant ideas once again!

 

[aharbin88]

I am loving this site. We started our 12 week countdown last week. We kicked off with a Lion King night. (I will try to post pictures.) We had the following menu: Grilled Filet of Wildebeest (steak on the grill), Crunchy Savannah grass (coleslaw), Rafiki's mixed berries, Jungle Juice (I used the AKL recipe), and Zebra cake for dessert. My DDs (6 and 3) did a safari hunt for animals while the steak cooked. I bought a tube of jungle animals at Michael's and hid them all around the house. They had a great time. Then we watched the movie after dinner.

Tonight was our second week and we did Lady and the Tramp. We started by taking a family walk with our beagle. Then the girls did hand prints in a clay kit that we had (like the dogs do in the cement on their date). We had spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and breadsticks for dinner. I let the girls have white grape juice in real wine glasses to go with their dinner. The for dessert while we watched the movie we ate "puppy chow" out of a new dog dish we'd bought.

The whole family is getting into this, including my DH who is sometimes a hard sell on all Disney, all the time. It is giving us at least one real family night erach week and getting us excited for the trip at the same time.

I can't wait until next week.

That sounds so cute! Are you doing a "Disney movie night" every week until you leave? I might have to steal that idea. When I first thought about it, I thought I might start now, but considering we're not going for another 32 weeks, that might be a bit much!

 

[dancin'girl]

This week we did A Bug's Life. I bought red and white picnic style napkins and paper plates. I rolled out a long sheet of easel paper to use as a table runner and drew on tons of bugs that the kids colored. We just ate pizza, but had ladybug strawberries, oreo spiders and wormy mud pies (choc ice cream with crushed choc. cookies on top and gummy worms) for dessert.The kids helped make most of these desserts. I printed small insect clip art for the kids to color, they cut them out and glued them to a popsicle stick. Then we planted some seeds in small pots and put the plant pics that they made into the soil. I also picked up some of those grow capsules at Michaels in the dollar bins. They are capsules that you drop in water and they grow into bug sponges. Then we watched the movie and relaxed!

 

[Princess Sleepy]

That sounds so cute! Are you doing a "Disney movie night" every week until you leave? I might have to steal that idea. When I first thought about it, I thought I might start now, but considering we're not going for another 32 weeks, that might be a bit much!

Yep, it's our countdown. We started at 12 weeks out. 32 might be overkill! This weekend we are planning on a Winnie the Pooh night. It's a good way to keep everyone excited without having to let them mess with my planning.

 

[<3 the Mouse]

had Pastalaya for dinner (jambalaya but with pasta), but you could really eat any cajun food!

then I made beignets and we ate them while we watched the movie!!!

 

[adventureland101]

somewhere in this thread i saw a le celliar night. My family and I did it and loved it! i love that canadian cheddar soup!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Tonight we watched Incredibles

The menu included Superhero Subs and Sandwiches
Edna's Edible Broccoli
Syndrome's Salads (Macaroni and Potato)
ElastaGirl's French Fries
and for dessert- Frozone's Vanilla Milkshakes

Some of the decorations we made:

We hung these "Batman Type" of signs up over the table

For our craft we made our own "superheros", I printed out a template of a body, here's our little "incredible" super family!

and finally we sat down and watched the movie with a Frozone Shake!

I have supplies for Peter Pan, Toy Story, Princess and the Frog, and Lady and the Tramp so one of those will probably be next.
I think we are currently 142 days out still

 

[figment3258]

Love love love this thread. We have decided not to tell the kids about this trip. But we are going to have Disney night once a week. Saturday is the day. I think for us its a way to bring everyone together. My husband works seven day weeks. I can't wait to start Saturday still deciding on a movie. Thanks for all the ideas!

 

[happymomof1]

Anyone have any Expedition Everest/Yeti party ideas? We're thinking rock climbing indoors at a center that has it, but not sure about snacks, favors etc. Let me know if you have any ideas.

A very nice, creative person on Disigns put together a Yeti invitaiton, book mark and bag toppers, I'm just needing ideas off stuff to go into it. I would love it all to be themed. Rock candy..?

 

[hlkeck]

Okay, this thread has just taken over my mind. We are 24 weeks out...so I've created 24 nights of movie theme dinners!

This is a bit crazy, but I picked the movies that either have rides at the parks or characters that we intend to meet. It will be the first trip for my nephews (7, 4) and the 6th for my kids! (8, 6)...

I even managed to match up a few fun things:

We're doing Dumbo the night the Ringling Bros is in town
We'll do Cars the night of the Indy 500
and of course...Nemo the weekend before school starts!

We will do TS 1 and TS 2 the two weeks before TS 3 comes out and we'll do TS 3 for our movie at the theater but dinner will be "Toy Story Mania" themed, so carnival foods!

We're doing a family vacation in July with my in-laws (there will be like 25 of us) - so we'll do Swiss Family Robinson and Lilo and Stitch (for their family themes) before and after that vacation!

It will be a lot of fun and I thank each and every one of you who either came up with ideas and/or contributed with photos!

This will be the best trip yet!

 

[aharbin88]

Those are all great ideas! In fact, I may have to steal the Lilo and Stitch idea before our beach vacation. Thanks for the inspiration!

 

[figment3258]

we are doing a bugs life tomorrow. I will post pictures when i can

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

we are doing a bugs life tomorrow. I will post pictures when i can

Can't wait to see them

 

[figment3258]

So we had a bugs life tonight and here is what we did. First we decorated the table with a red table cloth and I put little ant stickers all around it. Next we made little bug mosaics that I got at Michaels for a dollar next we planted an herb garden that i got at the dollar store and last we put little tabs in water and out came so sponge bugs.
For food we at Flinks fried chicken, Princess Atta's pasta salad and we drank B+ bug juice. For dessert we had dots dirt cups. After diner we watched the movie and off to bed. It was really great. thanks for all the idea's. Up next Alica in Wonderland!
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