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[oopsiDAISY]

Jannel80-What a great party! I love that you included a picture of your kids with the Mexico Donald Duck!!! I would love to add this movie to our list of future movie nights, but I called around and none of our video stores or the library has it. I am not sure where else to check. Not sure we want to purchase it since we have never actually seen it.

 

[jannel80]

oopsiDaisy- Thank you! I rented the movie fom my library and that night was the first time any of us saw it. The boys liked it but I don't think it is a movie they would ask to watch again, so not sure it would be worth buying. My library didnt have it so I ordered it from another library in the same county as mine. Could you see if any other library in the same county has it and then have them send it to your library?

 

[oopsiDAISY]

oopsiDaisy- Thank you! I rented the movie fom my library and that night was the first time any of us saw it. The boys liked it but I don't think it is a movie they would ask to watch again, so not sure it would be worth buying. My library didnt have it so I ordered it from another library in the same county as mine. Could you see if any other library in the same county has it and then have them send it to your library?

Yep-I tried that too. Hmmm-wonder if it is on Netflix? That is another possibility!

 

[PelletierBears]

Welcome to the Snuggly Duckling!

We enjoyed braided sandwiches (pizza and ham and cheese), cheese & crackers, preztel ducklings, pb&j ducklings, grapes, strawberries, blueberries and root beer. I wanted to make hazelnut soup, but didn't figure it'd go over very well at a 4 year old's birthday party so I made "fake" soup instead. I put some butterscotch pudding in little cups and sprinked it with hazelnuts. Don't you just love our plates!!??

To be continued....

Those sandwiches look delish! Did you make them yourself? if so, would you mind sharing the recipes?


Thanks!

 

[Alysa]

What great ideas! I've got 65 weekends left to go and a movie night planned out for each weekend from these great ideas. I'll start posting pics as we do them. First up, Snow White! I've got to move 101 dalmatians to 101 nights out though - such great ideas - thank you to everyone!

 

[JennyWren]

I've been lurking in this thread and just wanted to chime in and say that I really need to start having these nights at our house. I'm going to save the Three Cabarellos for my DS's birthday though, because it's his favorite.... Not anyone elses though, once is enough for most people.

 

[cheap traveler]

Thank you all for the amazing ideas!!

We have 15 Fridays left until our trip, so I'm planning 14 theme-nights (15th is my birthday the day before we leave, so that's "Mommy themed")

Our first one is tomorrow, which is our 100-day mark, so I'm going to do a countdown night.
*I'm giving them each a new vinylmation to trade in Disney
*Using Disney cups we have, and leftover napkins from our 2010 trip
*play our Disney trivia Wii game or Scene-it
*put out our Disney stuffed animals
*pull out the photo albums to relive the previous trips


Now, I know it's quite early since the movie doesn't come out until June 22nd, but has anyone started coming up with ideas for Brave? I plan to take the girls to see it on 6/30, and would love to make it a theme night. TIA!

 

[oopsiDAISY]

Oooh a Brave movie night....

Okay, so I have to admit, I had to google to find out what kind of food is served in Scotland. So a food idea would be meat pies; activity idea- nerf archery set. Of course decorations would have to be plaid right?

That's pretty much all I have having not seen the movie yet. It's a start. Maybe with all us of throwing ideas around we can come up with something great!

 

[Alysa]

On watching the trailer, I think you'd need some sort of sticky bun, or maybe just an round iced scone with a currant, cranberry or cherry on top (the brothers keep stealing them).
And they eat some sort of meat at the table, I'd imagine it's chicken legs?
But if ye wish her gratfu' prayer, gie her a Haggis!

We were going to do archery lessons too!

 

[cheap traveler]

Oooh a Brave movie night....

Okay, so I have to admit, I had to google to find out what kind of food is served in Scotland. So a food idea would be meat pies; activity idea- nerf archery set. Of course decorations would have to be plaid right?

That's pretty much all I have having not seen the movie yet. It's a start. Maybe with all us of throwing ideas around we can come up with something great!

On watching the trailer, I think you'd need some sort of sticky bun, or maybe just an round iced scone with a currant, cranberry or cherry on top (the brothers keep stealing them).
And they eat some sort of meat at the table, I'd imagine it's chicken legs?
But if ye wish her gratfu' prayer, gie her a Haggis!

We were going to do archery lessons too!

Thanks for the ideas!! I think we might be stopping at the grocery store on the way home from the movie, so I have a better idea on food. Now on to Craigs List to find an archery toy!!

Anyone have a recipe idea on those braided sandwiches for Tangled? My DD would love a Tangled party, and that would be perfect food for a bunch of 6 year olds!

Tonight is our 100-day celebration! I'll try to post pictures next week.

 

[Chelley00]

You could use crescent roll dough from a can. I'd just roll the bottom layer flat, top with sandwich type toppings, then roll another layer flat, cut it into strips and braid it, the put it over the toppings and bake.

It's Nemo night here. I'm off to try and make blue Jello. Yes, try. I CANNOT make Jello. It's painful and a longtime family joke: I had bleeding ulcer issues when I was 15, spent 2 months in the hospital and ate nothing but Jello for a month and apparently have flashbacks or something when I try to make it for the kids.

I also gag while I'm watching it wiggle, but that's a whole nother issue for a therapy session

 

[KingK12]

Movie - Alice in Wonderland

Menu - Tea sandwiches (PB&J, ham & cheese, chicken salad)
Juice boxes (tape on signs that say "Drink Me")
Cookies (break and bake sugar cookies, use gel frosting to write "Eat
Me")
Cheshire cat smiles (slices of melon)
And of course, a Happy Unbirthday cake!

Activity - Build a deck of cards house
Make a caterpillar (styrofoam balls for body segments, toothpicks
to stick them together, pipe cleaners for legs, googly eyes. Have
each family member decorate a body section with glitter glue,
sequins, etc., then attach them all together!)

Love this movie and all the great ideas!

 

[Chelley00]

Tonight was Finding Nemo movie night

Fishie glasses

Minnie in her goggles

Found a Nemo cutout for 29 cents

DD was the helper tonight

Buffet line. We had fish sticks (which we realized our 7 year old had never had!) shrimp cocktail, mac n cheese with goldfish crackers, pineapple spears (tentacles) blue jello with gummy fish and Crush soda. Total junk food night (most of which I can't eat because of food allergies, so I'm ready for a sandwich!)

Crush soda

Fishsticks are food, not friends

Bruce the Shark squirt guns

They don't usually dress alike. Today was field day

Going fishing

Finding Nemo

 

[Kblue]

These ideas are so cute! We started doing Disney movie nights to count down to our September trip. Since it is just me and DH we aren't going all out. (But I totally would if I thought he would go along with it!) Last week we watched Lion King. For dinner, we had flamingo (chicken), slugs (mac and cheese), and maggots (rice and corn). It was so much fun! Thanks for all of the great ideas!

 

[MissMickee]

Those sandwiches look delish! Did you make them yourself? if so, would you mind sharing the recipes?


Thanks!

I did. I got the recipe for the pizza one here... http://www.squidoo.com/homemade-calzone

I used a pre-made Pillsbury thin crust. Then the other is ham and cheese I made with a Pillsbury crescent sheet. I used mustard and sharp cheedar on it. I was surprised how easy they were to make (and how FAST they went!). I've actually made them for dinner a few times since. lol

 

[Becc1]

To go along with the kick off of Star Wars Weekends (which we sadly won't be going to this year ) we had a marathon Star Wars day.

Movie snacks

For crafts we made lightsabers from pool noodles and Sam and I put together a Star Tours Starspeeder. Our activities were coloring pages and 2 puzzles they did while watching the movies.

Dinner was Han Burgers, Boba Fettucine Alfredo and a yummy quinoa salad DH brought home from his restaurant.

Dessert was Princess Leia cupcakes and green jello

Han Solo trapped in carbonite aka green jello

 

[BabyEeyore]

That is a great Star Wars night! We were going to have one recently but we were all sick so we put it off. I love the pool noodle lightsabers, Han's Rolos, and the jello carbonite. Honestly I just love everything about it. Great job!

 

[momabaarjo]

Great Job Lisa...I really need to get back into doing Movie Nights...but we just don't seem to get them done anymore. I have had Herbie sitting her for almost 3 weeks from Netfliks....

 

[MissMickee]

Too funny Lisa! We had a Star Wars night too. It was VERY unplanned, as I'm new to the whole Star Wars thing since my 6 year old has pretty much just discovered the awesomness of it, and I had no idea of the significance of "May the 4th". Anyway... that night I threw together a quick dinner in honor. DS was psyched! DD, not so much.

For dinner... Jabba the "Hutt Dogs", Boba Fett-uccine and Vader Taters

For drink... Yoda Soda

For dessert... Wookiee Cookies and Pretzel Lightsabers

Movie snacks... Princess "Lays" with Droid Dip and Palpatine's Popcorn

 

[MissMickee]

Last week we had our Aladdin movie night. We didn't do one this week, since we had so much other stuff going on, but next week is Finding Nemo!

I made the kids Abu hats....

Dinner table! The "magic carpet" is a scarf I got at my craft store for $5!

Centerpiece

For dinner we had Ali Ababawa Kebobs, couscous, Jafar's "so twisted" fries, "stolen" bread and butter and Genie juice. This is the first time my kids have ever had Kool-aid and they HATED it! LOL! I've never given it to them becuase I hated it as a kid. Looks like they don't fall far from this tree, huh?

Their beards are "so twisted"....

Since this is pretty pic heavy.... to be continued....