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[Kari-B]

Our latest movie was A Bug's Life.

Instead of a regular dinner, this time I did lots of snacks.

Rosie's Black Widows (peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate, made legs using melted chocolate then drew them onto wax paper)

P.T.'s Fleas (sunflower seeds)

Francis' Ladybugs (Ritz crackers, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, beef sticks)

Hopper & Molt's Grasshopper Legs (french fries)

Flik's Grain (caramel corn)

Tuck & Rolls' Dirt Cups (crushed oreos, chocolate pudding, gummy bugs)

Dim's Beetles (BBQ meatballs)

Heimlich's Caterpillars (pickles, cream cheese, ham)

Dot's Bug Juice (cherry 7-Up)

Atta's Ants On A Log (Peanut Butter, celery, raisins)

Slim's Walking Sticks (pretzel rods)

After watching the movie and eating we started on crafts.

Flik & Atta Craft

Grasshopper Craft

Heimlich Craft

Then the kids went on a bug hunt.

Then we played/read a Bug's Life book that was find the differences in each picture.

Finally we put together a bug puzzle.

It was a fun night and a really cute movie enjoyed by the whole family. Next movie night will probably be Aladdin.

 

[myasma]

Tonight was our first Disney Movie Night!!!! It was nothing fancy, as we had just moved into a new house two weeks ago but it was still alot of fun and the kids enjoyed themselves immensely. While waiting for my sister to drop the kids off, I decorated a little by using sticky post its to make pictures of the galaxy and a banner that said "Welcome to Pizza Planet!" I also made some of Lottso's fruit salad with octopus hot dogs for the kids to snack on when they came in.

Again it was nothing fancy but the kids thought they were really at Pizza Planet from the movie. The first surprise to the kids was that two of their favorite playmates were invited and then we got busy coloring some Toy Story 3 coloring pages I got from the Disney family fun site.

After coloring, the kids made some yummy planet pizza and super galactic chocolate cupcakes. Along with the pizza I made T-rex chicken and woody's mac n cheese. The kids had some Lottso's strawberry soda with dinner. After we made the food, the kids played outside with some light up bubble blowers pretending that they were space rangers chasing bad guys. Only, all of them wanted to be bad guys! While they were outside, I was inside hiding the toy story figurines I printed off for our scavenger hunt. There was some tears from the smaller set due to lack of finding the figurines but that was quickly fixed when they realized they would all get a prize.

The Bad Guys

After all that fun, we finally ate dinner and dessert was make your own cupcake, like at Disney. The kids absolutely loved this part of our night. After eating, we watched the movie.

The kids really enjoyed this night and I did as well. I am already looking forward to our lilo and stitch luau night and am planning on doing a movie night every other week until our trip.

 

[ale022]

First time cruiser, looking for info on this the fish extender. is this on all ships? Please help me find other fish extenders and give me ideas.

 

[Villainess]

We are counting down our trip with surprise Disney Days that include a themed day and movie. We had our first this past Tuesday and it was 'Lady & the Tramp'

Tinkerbell delivered a special postcard from Mickey declaring it 'Disney Day'

Activities included L&T coloring pages I found via Google and playing "Doggie Doggie, where's my bone?"

Lunch: hot dogs

Later in the afternoon, DD and DS helped me make cupcakes and meatballs

Menu and Table set-up

I served dessert while we watched the movie. I googled spaghetti cupcakes and found some pictures. I have been told that the recipe for these can be found in a book, "Hello Cupcake"

I used buttercream icing, raspberry preserves (as the sauce), Ferraro Rocher chocolates for the meatballs, and grated white chocolate for the parmesean cheese.

 

[basketkat]

Love everyone's latest movie nights!!!!!

 

[momabaarjo]

Kari- As usual you put me to shame! Your 2 little ones are so precious! I love all the snack food ideas you came up with!

Shardai-I love the kids making their own pizza, and the more the merrier! Congrats on your new house...already making great family memories!

Danielle-Love seeing your little ones helping out in the kitchen too! I think this makes movie night even more fun! Your cupcakes look so yummy!

 

[momabaarjo]

Anyone want to guess which movie we are doing tonight?

 

[myasma]

Anyone want to guess which movie we are doing tonight?

My guess is Cars. Thank you for the congrats on the new house. I was worried about posting the pics since we have not fully unpacked and my phone camera does not do justice to the pics.

 

[nancy drew]

Oh I love seeing these! Love the make your own pizza; I need to do that for our Toy Story night. I've slacked, but looking at the new posts has renewed my interest in Family Fun Night. That and the fact that we go to Disneyland in 8 or 9 weeks!!! I think we will do Cars soon, before we see the new movie.

Oh yeah, the spaghetti cupcakes are great! I made a spaghetti and meatballs cake for my mom's birthday last year, along with real spaghetti and meatballs. Both were prepared in a foil oven pan and placed on the table at the same time. It was so much fun! We used Cocoa Krispies to make Rice Krispie treats for the meatballs.

 

[momabaarjo]

Dinner & a Movie Night:
CARS
June 18, 2011

Goo is so excited for June 24, a date we have had marked on our calendar since the beginning of 2011…the day CARS 2 is released. He proudly calls himself Lightning McQueen’s #1 Fan. I must admit when this movie came out, we did not go see it (of course that was preGoo). I am not sure why, we just had no real big interest in it at the time, which is weird because we had Boo and dh is a big classic car type of guy and we live 9 blocks away from the iconic Route 66. We have made up not seeing the move when it came out, however!!!! Goo is currently on DVD number 3! We spend a lot of time traveling back and forth to Colorado to see my family as well as countless trips to our cabin in New Mexico…a couple of summers ago that was the only movie that Goo would watch…by the end of that summer we could all recite the entire movie along with the characters!

This was a fun movie night to do! I could actually decorate like everyone else because I think Goo has every CARS toy ever made! With Ab and Boo, I really did not get into any cartoonish characters… I just don’t like clothes with characters on them…I know you think I am crazy! Things changed with CARS…but only CARS (and a few Tink things when Ab was little).​

Menu:

Grilled Lightyear Tires (hamburgers) & Casa De La Tire Special (onion rings stacked)

Mater Dip Sticks with Rustees Bumper Ointment (Veggies & Dip)

Fillmore’s V8 Organic Oil (V8 V fusion)

Lightning McQueen & Mater Cupcakes

Asphalt Sundaes (vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, and crushed Oreos)

Activities:

Played Mater Tall Tales & Mater Nationals on the Wii

Made Cars Pixos (Found this kit on Wal-Mart clearance for $2.50)

Balloon Car Races

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[Kari-B]

Kari- As usual you put me to shame! Your 2 little ones are so precious! I love all the snack food ideas you came up with!

Shardai-I love the kids making their own pizza, and the more the merrier! Congrats on your new house...already making great family memories!

Danielle-Love seeing your little ones helping out in the kitchen too! I think this makes movie night even more fun! Your cupcakes look so yummy!

Thanks!!!

Love your Cars night. Looks like lots of fun activities! We can't wait for the movie to come out this week, either!

 

[Becc1]

We are back from our trip and back to our theme nights! Our latest was Lilo and Stitch. After spending the day at the pool (not the beach but we were in water) we came home and watched the movie first, it has been years since we've seen this so it was fun to watch. While watching the movie the kids did our one and only craft, some coloring pages and a Lilo and Stitch word search. I know I slacked on this one but I totally forgot about a craft! Dinner was chicken kabobs on the grill, sticky rice, noodles, a Thai salad from CPK and fruit. Dessert was pineapple cupcakes. After dinner the kids did the limbo and DD was trying to show the boys how to hula or at least how she thinks it's done

I got these cute glasses at the Dollar Tree, the kids did shots of apple juice all throughout dinner, lol

DD doing her version of the hula

Limbo time

 

[Agent Wendy Pleakley]

Cinderella Night

The movie:
Cinderella

The food:
The only themed food we had were "magic wands"
They were mini pretzel sticks dipped in pink candy melts, then rolled in sprinkles

The craft:
Pumpkin carriage placecards (from the Disney website)
Fairy Godmother's Magic Wands (Painted wooden dowels and attached cardboard stars)

Making "Magic Wands":

So easy, and yummy!

Fairy Godmother's Magic Wand:

Carriage Place Cards:

Our royal feast:

My youngest daughter went through many costume changes, she tried to reenact the entire movie as we watched it.
(notice the shoe in her apron)

Cinderella snuck upstairs and did her own make-up for the ball:

Best Evil Stepsister Impression:

One of the sweet, unplanned moments that make these nights so fun:

 

[thmar]

Cinderella Night

The movie:
Cinderella

The food:
The only themed food we had were "magic wands"
They were mini pretzel sticks dipped in pink candy melts, then rolled in sprinkles

The craft:
Pumpkin carriage placecards (from the Disney website)
Fairy Godmother's Magic Wands (Painted wooden dowels and attached cardboard stars)

Making "Magic Wands":

So easy, and yummy!

Fairy Godmother's Magic Wand:

Carriage Place Cards:

Our royal feast:

My youngest daughter went through many costume changes, she tried to reenact the entire movie as we watched it.
(notice the shoe in her apron)

Cinderella snuck upstairs and did her own make-up for the ball:

Best Evil Stepsister Impression:

One of the sweet, unplanned moments that make these nights so fun:

Absolutely Awesome...love the royal dance!

 

[Agent Wendy Pleakley]

Three Caballeros Night

The Movie:
Three Caballeros

The Food:
Make-Your-Own Taco Bar
Spanish Rice
Cornbread
Mexican Sodas
Choco Tacos for dessert

The Craft:
Tissue paper flowers

Making flowers:

More flowers:

Our attempt at making a miniature Donald pinata:

Taco Bar:

Mexican Sodas (testing all of the flavors reminded us of being at Club Cool):

Occasionally, the movie dragged a little for us-but overall this was a fun and low-key night!

 

[Agent Wendy Pleakley]

Absolutely Awesome...love the royal dance!

Thanks! I'm really glad I had the camera close enough to me to capture that moment. She was just beaming with joy while they danced.

 

[Agent Wendy Pleakley]

Lilo and Stitch Night

The Movie:
Lilo and Stitch

The Food:
Fruit Skewers
Ham/Rice/Hawaiian Rolls
Blue Jell-o with Swedish Fish
Ambrosia Salad
Ohana Punch
Lava Cake

The Activity:
Limbo

Limbo:

Dinner (glad I saved the leis from Ohana):

Lava Cake:

My little helper:

The movie was even better than I remembered! My middle daughter was in love with it when it first came out, even had a Lilo and Stitch birthday party years ago. I'm such a pack rat, I found some of the napkins from her party. It brought back some great memories to watch the movie again!

 

[momabaarjo]

Wow Wendy you and your family have been busy! My heart melted with the Cinderella dance...so glad you had your camera close to capture this moment!

 

[Becc1]

Like many Disney families, ours has been looking forward to Cars 2 for a few months now so what better way to top off the movie than with a theme day? Original plan was to see the movie then have a theme dinner but after the movie we decided instead to have an early dinner at my DH's restaurant so I decided to make the following day a Cars 2 day!

But first Friday afternoon the kids and I went to the first 3D showing of the day!

This past week I have been making meals that coincide with the countries that appear in Cars 2. I know I'm that cheesy, but you don't understand how much my DS loves Cars On Monday there was Japan, DH made his version of a Tepan Edo style meal, chicken, veggies (onions, zucchini and mushrooms) sticky rice and udon noodles. Tuesday was Italy, we had spaghetti and meatballs. Wednesday was Germany, we had bratwurts on the grill. Thursday was France I made crepes with strawberries for breakfast. And for the theme day we were doing England for dinner.

But first we started out with lunch, we had peanut butter and jelly "sushi rolls". This idea I got from Lisa aka MissMickee on these boards. They also had Cars pretzels, cheese crackers and fruit cars.

Both Dh and ODS thought these looked like turtles, lol. I think they would look much better if I had red apples!

Crafts were painting Cars posters and ceramic cars banks

In between crafts they played the 2 Cars Wii games that we have.

Decorations were a poster that the kids helped make and a few of the Cars matchbox cars that DS has, I swear he has like every Cars toy that has been made so I limited the decor to just some of the small cars.

Dinner as I said was our "England meal". We had fish and chips, spinach ravioli wheels and Cars shaped mac and cheese. For dessert we had McQueen cupcakes and donut tires.

My poor DS had no idea there was spinach in those ravioli

Not my favorite cupcakes that I've made but I tried

 

[momabaarjo]

Summer Movie Afternoon:
Finding Nemo
June 24, 2011

Can you tell my children just love to have this picture taken? Goo mad us laugh so much that I thought I would use this picture to introduce this post!​

This is Ab’s favorite movie (currently). I remember when we went and saw this movie when she was about 6. Her favorite character was Dory (probably my least favorite character besides the fact that I am no Ellen fan…I found Dory to be just down right annoying). This is probably one of my least favorite movies from Disney/Pixar. Most of the characters looking back just annoyed me, Merlin just seemed whiney all the time, the school of fish with the Cheers guy’s voice was silly, the seagulls I never got. Okay, so who did I like…Crush and Squirt. The whole movie just seems chopped up and there are a lot of places where the movie just skipped where there should have been little scenes added in to make it flow better.

Activity:
We are in the mist of a heat wave and drought, and I thought this would be a perfect movie afternoon to include with a trip to the local water park to get some relief from the hot temps. We have been trying to find lots of indoor activities to keep us out of the sun, which should not be the case in the summer…but this is just not a summer to enjoy the outside.

Ab and Goo loved try to body surf the waves in the wave pool

Boo loved spending his time on the slides and in the lazy river waterfalls​

Menu:

Hot Dog Squids, Sea Shell Mac & Cheese, and Ocean Water

The hotdogs have to squids as Goo corrected me…there is not an octopus in Nemo…I stand corrected!

Coral Reef Snack Mix

Way to yummy…pretzel sticks and colored goldfish crackers coated in white chocolate


Crush Dessert

Lime and Orange sherbet with fruit candy slices​

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