Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[DisneyDoc5]

This was a fun and easy one - lot's of stuff around the house. Enjoy...

This is supposed to be a treasure chest cake - a little messy, but tasted good!

 

[DisneyDoc5]

This night was really fun - I hadn't remembered this movie much and DH and kids hadn't seen it!

Coloring...

Table scape....

Cut some corners with this bakery cake...

Building card houses...

Fun board game I got from Disney.com...

 

[debraW76]

For our 11 week countdown I wanted to do an international theme (since there are 11 countries in EPCOT). We have multiple families going so I was thinking of having each family bring something from a different country but that is about as creative as I can get.

Any ideas from those who are more creative than me?

Oh and we are all broke cause we are saving our pennies for Disney. So all decorations/activities/etc have to be cheap

 

[reelmom]

For our 11 week countdown I wanted to do an international theme (since there are 11 countries in EPCOT). We have multiple families going so I was thinking of having each family bring something from a different country but that is about as creative as I can get.

Any ideas from those who are more creative than me?

Oh and we are all broke cause we are saving our pennies for Disney. So all decorations/activities/etc have to be cheap

For the menu, try www.allearsnet.com. It list many recipes from the parks and resorts under the Dining tab. You can pick dishes from each country.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Since we finally got some rain yesterday we decided to stay in and do a Disney night...last night we were 40 days out. AT first Alanna wanted Lilo and Stitch, but then suddenly decided on PoTC, which surprised me greatly b/c she won't even go on the ride in Disney, but hey...thats kids for ya. So I had a bunch of pirate party things but I thought we'd use them for Peter Pan. As I was getting things together I sent Scott and Alanna to Dollar Tree to look for a pirate hat, big mistake, Scott went there AND Party City and spent $15 on pirate things , I don't spend that much on these nights, but he said he had to go out since we were watching one of his favorite Disney movies...so here it is

Ye Olde Pirate Punch (AKA fruit punch)

Flying Dutchmen Pizza Ships

CanonBALLS

Arrrg! Pirate Gold Teeth (AKA Corn)

Curse of the Black Pearl Cookies

Treasure Hunt Game we played with Alanna, we left maps around the house til she found her treasure (Toy Story Stickers, $2 and change for her Disney bank, some pirate party favors).

My little pirate....who dressed herself today lol

haha Screech..I mean..Scott

she found the treasure

Pin the Patch on Ye Pirate

It was fun, I tried to explain to Alanna that Jack SParrow and the Mad Hatter was the same person, but in different make-up...she is having a hard time believing this hahaha!
Up next....Cars? At least thats what I think.

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

debraW76 ~ have fun with your WS night, great idea! Here's one idea: when you assign a family to a country, they also have an assignment: on a home computer or using scrapbooking supplies, each family must make a page to go along with their country. It would be fun to include facts about that country, how to say hello to the cast members in their native language, a photo of the national flag, and maybe even the recipe for the dish they bring unique to that country. Everyone can bring copies and you can bind them together for the kiddos to do that night or stash them away for the trip (restaurants, strolling around the world, car/plane ride). You could even add pages for pictures to be added later and autograph pages to make a whole memory book.
Also, you can google games from around the world to play, which can be kind of fun too. Hoping you have fun on your vacay

 

[leagirl12]

I am so thankful for this thread. I mentioned something about watching all of the POTC movies this past weekends and DD asked if we could have snacks that went with the movie. We had done this with Christmas movies for several weeks this past December. I said sure and then was like what the heck will I do...then I remembered that I had seen this thread. You all saved me!!!

I got some great ideas here. I hope you guys don't mind that I borrowed your ideas...LOL!

We had cannonball subs for dinner with a treasure chest cake for dessert. I hit the dollar tree for any decorations I didn't have. They had POTC puzzles so I got 2 of them and the kids had a contest...the first one to complete their puzzle got to pick the next movie theme night. DS won and picked Peter Pan! Our plan is to have a Disney family movie night every other weekend. This will help pass the time till our next trip in April...which the kids don't know about...they think our next Disney fix will be in 2012 on a cruise. DD said these movie nights could be our own Disney World.

 

[reelmom]

Good job on POTC night. Love the Hidden Mickey plates. This thread has such great ideas. Have fun with all your nights.

 

[GoofTroop79]

I found this thread a few weeks ago and instantly fell in love. Thank you for all the great ideas. I wanted to share what i have done with you.

Our first night was A Bug's Life

We made buggy masks

Made pipe cleaner bugs

Had worms in dirt

Ladybug strawberries

The centerpiece

Ants on a log

Dinner was, bonless ribs, corn and mashed taters

 

[GoofTroop79]

Not sure why some pics posted big and others small, sorry about that. I am trying to fix it but they are set to the small size on photobucket

Our next night was Cars, we had a blast with that

Pit Road

THe table, sorry it is so dark

The centerpiece which was also a game we played later on

Doc Hudson Dippers

Tower of Tires

Traffic LIghts

Pulled Pork Racecars

3 of the 7 kids, the older ones didn't want in the picture lol

Playing Maters Tool Toss (got it on clearance at party city for 5 bucks had to pick it up)

 

[GoofTroop79]

Toy Story Night. THe night before the movie came out we had a toy story game night for our family night. THe kids definetely go spoiled this night because i bought all the toy story games and it was like pizza planet had exploded right in my dining room they loved it.

Kids

Juice

Galactic Goo

Pizza

Table complete with silly bandz

Mom went a lil overboard

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Well, I have finally joined this century and am posting pictures of tonight's Family Fun Night ~ The Three Caballeros!!!


A window to Mexico for...

Three Caballeros Night!!!

Making Mexican tissue paper flowers

DD1's tissue paper flower

Playing "Donde Esta Donald" (thanks pp!)

Dinner was baked nachos and rice

Dessert: Dulce de Leche Hagen Daz (with extra caramel sauce, yummy!)

 

[leagirl12]

DS got to pick tonights movie and he chose Peter Pan. We watched Peter Pan, Return to Neverland, and Finding Neverland and finished the night playing a Peter Pan board game that I printed from a Disney website.

For dinner we had Pirate ship pizza...I let DD and DS decorate the masts:

Fruit Kabobs were our Fairy Wands:

Corn was our Pirates gold:

A crocodile cake for dessert:

It was a great night!!

 

[DisneyDoc5]

great pics leagirl....... love the cake!

Anyone planning a Ratatouille night soon, I see it's on tv (I think Sunday or Monday) this week?

There were some good ideas on previous posts, just wondered if any of you have other ideas. Thanks!

 

[PrincessMom4]

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.

what did you make those frogs out of?? It looks like apples.

 

[earudick]

Thanks LeaGirl12 for getting me "HOOKED" on these Disney Movie Dinners.

She talked about it at work so much I had to try it too. I used her cake from her POTC for this party but it didn't turn out as good as hers.

My DD started taping some boxes together to make a ship. We spray painted it and she glued on some clip art I printed out.

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Earudick- can you please post the link to that Peter Pan game? TIA!

 

[earudick]

Earudick- can you please post the link to that Peter Pan game? TIA!

Here is the link....enjoy:
http://disney.go.com/partners/printandplay/

 

[dsnycrzy]

I finally did a little shopping to start my disney nights. Martini glasses, table clothes, some bead necklaces, rose pedals (maybe for lady and the tramp) colorful cups, clear plastic bowls for dirt desserts or jellos from nemo desserts,ect. Im on a roll now. Thanks All.

 

[hodgieha]

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