Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[PrincessTigerLily]

Help!! Netflix is sending prince of Persia tomorrow! We have never seen it - any meal or activity suggestions? BTW, is this movie ok for a 5 y/o?
TIA!!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Just booked out Aug 2011 Disneymoon (with DD and family lol). So more Disney Movie Nights to come
Thinking The Santa Clause should be first, love that movie so much, just don't know what to make.

 

[Tink-erin-belle]

Just booked out Aug 2011 Disneymoon (with DD and family lol). So more Disney Movie Nights to come
Thinking The Santa Clause should be first, love that movie so much, just don't know what to make.

What about having breakfast for dinner? When Scott and Charlie couldn't find an open restaurant on Christmas Eve, Scott ended up taking his son to Denny's

 

[Becc1]

Last night we had an Aladdin theme night. I didn't put as much thought into planning this one as I have previous theme nights since I've been busy helping with the planning for my kids school winter festival but we still had fun. I probably would have postponed but my kids have been looking forward to it and I didn't want to let them down The menu was kept simple, most everything was on a kabob, we had fruit and steak kabobs, even popcorn chicken kabobs! Also potataoes, corn and Abu cupcakes! I hadn't planned a craft for the kids so when they asked what our project was I had to think quick and found a coloring book that had an Aladdin section. After dinner we collected pillows from all over the house we settled in on the floor to watch the movie. It was a fun night and they kids loved the movie!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

What about having breakfast for dinner? When Scott and Charlie couldn't find an open restaurant on Christmas Eve, Scott ended up taking his son to Denny's

OMG, great idea! I could even make mickey pancakes.
O now I am excited for this, just have to figure out how I am going to squeeze it in before Christmas.
Thanks!

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

Becc1,
Good Job on the cupcakes! They are adorable.

 

[musclemouse]

Well we are going to attempt the themed Disney dinner night the few days before we leave for our Disney vacation. I believe this may be a challenge for us though. I am trying to encourage my family but they are challenged

SO...I encouraged my boys to help me come up with ideas for Toy Story theme. They seemed excited and threw out some way far fetched ideas.

We FINALLY came up with Hot dogs to represent Slinky. Potato chips - Mr. Potato Head. Ham Omelet (with cheese and veges) to represent Chicken Man (Al) and Ham the Piggy Bank. We also made sugar cookies and decorated them with Bullseye . ALSO...We loved this one- Delicious Hot Shmoes!

Also watching Toy Story!

We are attempting Wall-E tomorrow night.

 

[Becc1]

Becc1,
Good Job on the cupcakes! They are adorable.

Thanks! I've been getting some great ideas from the Family Fun website!

 

[basketkat]

We did The Aristocats this week...

I took pictures, but it was mainly of the food... (and I dont know how to post pics on here...ha)

Menu:
Homemade French Onion Soup
French bread
Cheese and grape tray
Chocolate covered strawberries for dessert

Activity:
We painted portraits of each other, and my daughter (who is 6) gave us a ballet lesson.

Then we watched the movie! Keep the ideas coming!

 

[JennyLynn21]

Well.. A little Background info. I am taking my mom to disneyworld in March. We have gone 3 times when I was a child. I went in October with my boyfriend, but it has been a long time since she has been there. We are very excited.

So to get my mom farmilar with the characters again I found this thread and thought it was AMAZING!!! So so far we have 3 toy story parties for her to watch all 3. However the first one we didn't do anything special.

Toy Story 2 party. We had Toy Story Mac & Cheese and T Rex chicken nuggets. We ate on Toy story plates I had got at Meijers. While we waited for the food to cook we colored pictures from toy story. I got this kit at Meijers for like 3 bucks. it came with little markers and 80!! little sheets to color! Something fun and silly for us to do. So then in the living room I had set up a little table with snacks. We had toy story juice boxes & capri suns. a Woody & Buzz pez dispenser. Toy story fruit snacks and also gummi worms and milk duds. She liked the movies.

Toy Story 3 party- we had this party over at my older sisters house because she wanted to watch the movie. So we had pizza and I had printed out a sign that said 'Pizza Planet' and taped it over the pizza box!! We also had green alien cupcakes!! We didnt do an activity or anything!!


We just love the parties!! It's so fun!! Thanks for all the great ideas!

 

[DisneyFirstTimer10]

Congrats all- especially TigerLily- This thread was mentioned on the main dis page

http://www.wdwinfo.com/columns/creating-disney-magic-at-home.cfm

I havent posted before- but have read each and every page. We plan on telling our kids about our Feb trip on Christmas morning (my son's 5th birthday) and having a family disney theme night twice a week until our trip!

 

[wendyc555]

Does anyone have any ideas for the movie A Christmas Carol? We plan on watching this next Friday.

 

[K_Disney]

I LOVE this thread!! I've spent an embarassing amount of time reading all of these great ideas. I see Family Movie Theme Nights in our future as we get ready for our trip in Februrary.

Does anyone have any ideas for the movie A Christmas Carol? We plan on watching this next Friday.

These ideas are more general Christmas than really related to A Christmas Carol... also, I'm planning to do this on a weeknight this week, so trying to keep it pretty simple.

Since my kids are pickly eaters and I won't have time to make a big holiday dinner anyway, I was thinking of making grilled cheese sandwiches, cutting them in triangles and arranging like a Christmas tree. Then I woud sprinkle dried cranberries across the top for the decorations.

For a very simple craft, I was thinking of making Mickey head christmas ornaments out of pipe cleaners.

I'd love to hear what other Christmas ideas people might have --- maybe I'll even put it off to the weekend and make a bigger deal of it.

 

[JennyLynn21]

Tonight my mom & I had our Princess & the Frog movie night! We had never seen it yet so we were excited... I Loved the movie!

We had just had chunky soup for dinner and pretended it was gumbo Haha. New Orleans food does not appeal to us.

For decorations I had a giant green frog that I put in a chair. I also printed out the characters from the disney family site. Also I put mardi grad beads around.

For snacks we had Princess & the frog fruit snacks. Bayou mud chocolate pudding ( just good old choco pudding with a cute name). milk. and powdered doughnuts were there to represent the beignets! We also ate on little princess tiana plates I got at Target.

So much fun. Next time it's "Up"

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Congrats all- especially TigerLily- This thread was mentioned on the main dis page

http://www.wdwinfo.com/columns/creating-disney-magic-at-home.cfm

I havent posted before- but have read each and every page. We plan on telling our kids about our Feb trip on Christmas morning (my son's 5th birthday) and having a family disney theme night twice a week until our trip!

How nice! Thanks for the link

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Does anyone have any ideas for the movie A Christmas Carol? We plan on watching this next Friday.

How about a "traditional" holiday meal like in A Christmas Carol? Sure, you could cook it all yourself, but you could also be like me and just go get a big sliced turkey family meal from Boston Market

Bake some plum pudding.

Make Scrooge's Money Bags - fill brown paper lunch bags with gold-foil chocolate coins. Tie bags with twine or string. Play hot potato with it. Hide them around the house to be found.

If you are able to spare a few dollars around the holiday season, now is a wonderful time to catch Scrooge's newfound spirit of giving and as a family research a charity to support or choose to help a person in need from a school/church/community giving tree, or even just donate a few canned or shelf-stable items to your local food pantry.

Follow this link to some Disney A Christmas Carol "official" crafts -
http://www.examiner.com/children-s-crafts-in-tucson/disney-s-a-christmas-carol-crafts

Hope this helps, and happy holidays to all!

 

[jngwright]

Princess! So excited that your thread got a shout out on the DIS home! You deserve it!!!

 

[MissAndrea]

So I promised pics immediately after our last movie night and I'm just now getting around to it a month later....and still in lazy fashion. I have quite a few pics on my facebook so I'm just posting the link to the pics here. We did The Three Caballeros as we had never seen the movie. I wasn't super impressed and DD hated it, but the food was awesome! You can't go wrong with Mexican food. We will for sure do it again just for the food. We are having a Disney Christmas themed breakfast in the morning which I am SUPER excited about. My goal is to get pics up within a week, but we'll see.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=92188&id=1015681682&l=a97f1af202

All the fiesta plates, bowls, and hats came from the Dollar Tree last year around Cinco de Mayo.

 

[courtneylauren]

Ideas needed!!! I love this thread, awesome parties and pictures!!

Last year we had a Disney Planning Dinner to decide what reservations, etc. we wanted to make. My sister and i made all of the food and it was all Mickey themed. We had it during winter break in December for our July trip (since we could make reservations in January).

This year, we are doing WDW theme.
Here's our menu so far, but I could use some ideas! I got a few from this thread but need more.

We're going to have a snack table filled with lots of little snacks from different rides.
Great Movie Ride - popcorn in a popcorn container from the $ section at Target
Pangani Exploration Trail - trail mix
Test Track - traffic lights with wafers covered in icing with M&Ms
Splash Mountain - celery for the logs, maybe with peanut butter or something inside
Snow White's Scary Adventures - 'poison' apples (covered with caramel)
Tower of Terror - elevator buttons - vanilla wafers with icing numbers

Still need lots more for the snack table.



We'll have something of each 'icon'
Cinderella Castle - my sister LOVES the shows like Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, and Cupcake Wars and loves to bake cakes. She's going to make a 4 layer castle cake using circle cake pans, and upside down ice cream cones on top - the whole thing covered in icing.
Spaceship Earth - meatballs is the only thing I can think of right now...anything else spherical??
the Hat - right now it's ice cream cones but we already have the cake. anything else cone/hat shaped?
Tree of Life - my sister's idea was animal cracker salad, the lettuce for the tree and the animal crackers for the carved animals, but I'd love to make a tree somehow?

Does anyone have any ideas how to make the WDW entrance banner that you pass through?


I need more for the main course -- only have the meatballs right now.

Thanks!

 

[FirstTimertoDiz]

Love this thread! I plan on reading each and every page at some point...but first, off to plan what theme nights we can have...how fun!