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[Chelley00]

We did Lady and the Tramp movie night yesterday afternoon. We had a busy weekend, so it had to be a day instead of night movie, which kind of shot the whole dinner by candlelight idea

The table

Mickey and Minne being all romantic with the movie

Place setting

menu and activity sheet

candlelight

buffet line

spaghetti and meatball cupcakes

Oldest DS left his little sister a "I'm going to college, don't forget me" present of a broken wrist

We had originally planned to have them do a "push a meatball with your nose" race, but since DD can't use her arm, she couldn't get on her hands and knees, so we just had them push the paper meatball with their nose once to see how far they could get it. We made DS wear a sling on his right arm so he wouldn't have an unfair advantage

DS making a "paw print" stepping stone for our perennial garden

DD making hers

 

[jdcthree]

We had an Animal Kingdom themed birthday party for my six year old granddaughter on Saturday. There are too many pictures to do it all over again, but if you are interested, you can see them on the link below.

Great job on the party!

 

[MissNurse]

We did Dumbo night last night. I didn't take pictures because, frankly, my house is a disaster!! We are moving furniture around because we got a new entertainment center and we accumulated stuff from my mom's when she moved. Anywho, we had:

Big Top Corn Dogs
Timothy Mouse's Mac-n-cheese
Fresh Roasted Peanuts
Flyin' High Popcorn
Funfetti Brownie Pops (Pillsbury Mix-very easy and neat!)

We didn't really do an activity, but the kids were happy with the movie, and they helped with the brownie pops. 15 days til Disney World---

 

[JavArmy]

Chelley00,

I like how you made your son wear a sling to be fair, lol!! Looks like you had fun!

 

[DonaldDuckFamily]

We had a Cars theme night this past weekend.

 

[My2Qtz0205]

No pics. Sorry.

We are going to IoA for one day, so we just had The Lorax movie night. For dinner we had pasta Alfredo--but I colored the noodles orange to represent the Truffula trees, and I colored the Alfredo sauce blue, to represent the river. My kids' reaction was umm, interesting! :lol: I also served raw broccoli on the side because my kids won't eat it cooked. For dessert we had Lorax cookies! I used Nutter Butter cookies, then added eyebrows and the mustache with cookie icing.

For activities, they did a Lorax coloring sheet, a maze, and they learned how to draw the Lorax. We also played a Lorax dice game. Each number on the dice represented a body part that we had to put back on the Lorax.

 

[JavArmy]

This week was Little Mermaid. We had fish sticks (told the kids they were mermaid sticks), Shells and cheese, Ursula Dogs, goldfish, and ocean water! For activities we played Scuttle's Name It, Coloring Pages, Crab races, and decorated our t-shirts for Disney world!


(I know it says "go fish" but we didn't have time for that one!)

Bingo

Scuttle's Name It: We picked weird looking things from around the house and made a name and use up for each one, like Scuttle would!

Crab Races

Ariel's Ocean Water

T-shirts!! They aren't done. We did the backs the next morning and in 3 days we need to wash them, then the swirl pattern should show up on the mouseears!! Here's hoping they turn out!!

Our next Disney Movie Night is Cars!

 

[Chelley00]

I could use some help on a couple of non-Disney movie nights We are going to Universal/IOA for 2-3 days so we're looking at doing a Harry Potter night and a Dr Seuss themed night. I have food and decorations taken care of, but I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas for activities. We always do 2 activities per movie.

Ideas for HP or Seuss activities?

 

[My2Qtz0205]

I could use some help on a couple of non-Disney movie nights We are going to Universal/IOA for 2-3 days so we're looking at doing a Harry Potter night and a Dr Seuss themed night. I have food and decorations taken care of, but I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas for activities. We always do 2 activities per movie.

Ideas for HP or Seuss activities?

How old are your children? PBS has some Dr. Seuss printable activities on their website. You can also Google Dr. Seuss activities and find a bunch, thanks to all of the lesson plans out there.
We haven't done HP yet, but I might make a word search. You could make your own Quidditch game.

 

[aileenwb]

Movie - The Three Caballeros

Menu - Donald's Make Your Own Taco Bar
Jose's Spanish rice
Panchito's Flan (flan recipe from Family Fun magazine online)

Activity - Festive Mexican Paper Flowers (scissors, tissue wrapping paper,
pipe cleaners)
Decorate a terra cotta pot with acrylic paint together, place some
styrofoam in the bottom, and stick in your flowers for a centerpiece!

LOVE this! Our 4 year old can't get enough of "Mexico" in EPCOT and loves the movie too! Thanks!

 

[Deffenm]

We did our Tangled movie night on Sunday.

Menu: Spagetti, salad, meatballs, bread
Spagetti was Rapunzels hair
Pascal Salad
the kids shaped bread into different nose shapes like Flins wanted poster

We colored Flin's wanted posters, made 3-D shaped Pascal, and colored other Tangle pictures.

It was not a big event as I was not feeling very well so of course I forgot pictures again!

Our next movie is Landy and the Tramp.

 

[Mom2Ben02]

Finally going to share our nights! We have made it every Saturday so far... my kuds are loving this!

First week was "Lilo & Stitch". I went to Party City and bought a bunch of stuff on clearance : tablecloth, napkins and plates for $1 each. I got leis and pineapple shaped cups. Menu was grilled chicken, Hawaiian fried rice, pineapple coconut cole slaw, cheddar biscuits, corn and tropical fruit.

We didn't do an activity, except for hula dancing

Next up: "Lion King". I had a very rare Saturday off, so I decided to take the kids to the zoo. There were strict rules that we going to only see African animals. (We have a membership, so we go all the time.) It SOUNDED like a great plan, until we got there, and all I heard, "Can we see the dolphins?? ". "Are there Dolphins in Africa?!? ". "Oooh, penguins!".."Penguins would hate Africa. ". You get the picture

So, dinner was Wildebeast (steak), Grass (salad), Trees (broccoli), Pride rocks (baby red potatoes), Frunch and Zebra cupcakes. The.kids decorated foam safari hats I found at Michael's.

Third night was "Little Mermaid ". We had "Hot Ursulas" (hot dogs cut to look like an octopus), Sea cucumbers (creamy cucumber salad), starfish (star fruit), Seashell and Shrimp pasta salad, ocean water (blue Koolaid) and sand cake.

We played "Under the sea limbo", with a broomstick tied with ribbons, Sea sponge toss (with buckets and loofas), and moon sand. Super fun!

 

[Disneyelf10]

I could use some help on a couple of non-Disney movie nights We are going to Universal/IOA for 2-3 days so we're looking at doing a Harry Potter night and a Dr Seuss themed night. I have food and decorations taken care of, but I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas for activities. We always do 2 activities per movie.

Ideas for HP or Seuss activities?

Chelley- an idea for the HP night activity- what about "potions" - use baking soda & vinager and it will foam up...I forget the amounts but if you google it you should find it. Maybe something about jelly beans or choc frogs- hide them?? Or make you own wands- get some dowel rods at the craft store, paint, and maybe jewels or stickers etc to add to them....

can't wait to see what you come up with- post pics please!

 

[JavArmy]

Okay, on saturday we did Cars for Disney Movie Night. I've been a little busy getting ready for our vacation, so this one was kinda thrown together. Also, I have decided that having a disney movie night ever week is too often. We were doing them every 2 weeks, which was good, but then we had to skip a few weeks due to family being in town, and since we were leaving soon we decided to squish them all in. So here is Cars and this Friday we will be doing Lelo and Stitch for our last one before we go to the World

The "wheels" keep falling off the cars, which was stressing me out, but my almost 5 year old daughter kept saying "oops, they have a flat" it cracked me up! We also never made it to the sundays. I figured they had enough junk food as it was.

For games we played red light/green light, did coloring pages, bingo, and fix lightning's flat (pin the tail on the donkey) we were trying to find an easy way to cover the kids eyes so they wouldn't cheat!

All in all the night went pretty good for being kinda thrown together and me not having my whole heart in it. The kids are excited for next weeks! I better get planning!

 

[bellaally]

Okay, on saturday we did Cars for Disney Movie Night. I've been a little busy getting ready for our vacation, so this one was kinda thrown together. Also, I have decided that having a disney movie night ever week is too often. We were doing them every 2 weeks, which was good, but then we had to skip a few weeks due to family being in town, and since we were leaving soon we decided to squish them all in. So here is Cars and this Friday we will be doing Lelo and Stitch for our last one before we go to the World

The "wheels" keep falling off the cars, which was stressing me out, but my almost 5 year old daughter kept saying "oops, they have a flat" it cracked me up! We also never made it to the sundays. I figured they had enough junk food as it was.

For games we played red light/green light, did coloring pages, bingo, and fix lightning's flat (pin the tail on the donkey) we were trying to find an easy way to cover the kids eyes so they wouldn't cheat!

All in all the night went pretty good for being kinda thrown together and me not having my whole heart in it. The kids are excited for next weeks! I better get planning!

I really love how festive your movie nights are, I just cook theme food and watch the movie with my hubby, can wait till my little ones are older to make it a bigger production!

 

[JavArmy]

Thanks!! I joke with my husband that it's the one good mom thing i do

 

[oopsiDAISY]

Saturday was our Snow White movie night. We had had a very laid back, relaxed day; so we actually enjoyed this one a lot more than some of the others we had had after hectic days. I didn't really go all out with the decorations, but I thought it still looked cute.

The invitation:

I had to get creative with the decorations since I had no idea at first what to do... (the "wishing well" was actually a piece from my nativity set )

Since the story of Snow White is set in Germany, we had German food for dinner...and it was DELICIOUS!!! I wanted to serve Red Cabbage, but my grocer didn't have any in stock.

For activities the kids went "diamond mining" (marbles in rice):

And I made a Dwarf Memory Game...they played all together, then we timed them doing it individually to see who could make all the matches the fastest. They really enjoyed the game:

We had dessert while watching the movie, Apple Crisp with Ice Cream:

And our next movie night will be:

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[sanapp]

My favorite Diseny Movie is Fox and the Hound. Does anyone have any more ideas for this movie? I would love help coming up with a menu.
Thanks

 

[Chelley00]

We did a Tangled lunch 2 weekends ago and I just got the pictures uploaded. We actually skipped last weekend because we were all so busy.

As usual, Minnie holds the movie for us

I made Wanted posters of Flynn Rider, and of the kids

Place setting

Menu and activity list

Snuggly Duckling Soda

Braided ham and cheese

Donut tower

Apple slices for Max

Looking for the hidden crown

They also built towers out of blocks, but for some reason I didn't get pictures.

 

[Deffenm]

We did Lady and the Tramp last night. Our neighbor had an emergency and so their kids came over and I decided to do movie night to keep everyone entertained.

Dinner: (I think all of our meals are pasta for movie nights)
Spagheti and meatballs
bread
salad

I printed coloring pages and had the kids color while we watched the movie.

They then all said what type of dog they were and why.

I didn't decorate or anything as this was a last minute thing but it was still fun and the neighbor kids had never seen the movie before.