Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[floridascgirl]

This is such an awesome thread. I hope people keep posting.

 

[zaneymax]

What a great thread! I'm gonna start doing these with my own family, but I am also gonna share them with my students and their families. Keep the ideas coming and I will have to think of a few to share too!

 

[MrsPooh]

We did a Princess and the Frog movie "day" when we went to see the movie. Sorry I didn't take any pics. We are far from New Orleans but love to celebrate Mardi Gras and love New Orleans food so it was easy.

I served Shrimp Po'Boys for lunch along with red beans and rice. After the movie we decorated the house with our Mardi Gras decorations and for dinner I served Jambalya and made a homemade version of a king cake for dessert. The girls thought it was great.

 

[hcoker1]

We had our first theme night dinner last night and it was a great success. I wrote all of the movies down on slips of paper and put them in a ziploc bag and my DS8 picked out our first movie which was Pocahontas. We have not seen this one before so we did have to rent it. DS loved it.
Since we had just had three Christmas dinners in the past two weeks, decided not to have turkey so we had chicken drumsticks, corn (couldn't get any on the cob), squash, corn bread and for dessert "berries of the earth" with angel food cake. It was a hit, DS even liked squash (go figure!).
We played archery on the Wii before dinner and read part of the letter that John Smith wrote to the queen. The table was decorated with a brown cloth, yellow plates, decorative corn and a turkey (pulled out the Thanksgiving decorations).
It was a very fun night! Next week is Lady and the Tramp and DS just pulled the week's after that and it's Dumbo. Thanks Tigerlily for starting this whole thread, our family loves it.

 

[-Hope-]

I don't see Up! on the index and the search didn't find anything.

I haven't seen it yet so I'm not sure what activities and food to prepare. Any ideas?

 

[MrsPooh]

For UP!

I'd have to watch the movie again and see what foods are served at the dinner - I can't remember off hand but that might be a good start.

I would decorate with balloons like those tied on the house and clouds.

Activities:

earn badges (like a scout type thing)
make a scrapbook of things you've done/want to do

Make sure everyone occassionally shouts out "squirrel!". (LOL my whole family keeps doing this).

I'm sure I'll think of some more but I might need to watch it again for more ideas. Can't wait to hear what others come up with.

 

[MagicMomentsMom]

For UP!

I'd have to watch the movie again and see what foods are served at the dinner - I can't remember off hand but that might be a good start.

I would decorate with balloons like those tied on the house and clouds.

Activities:

earn badges (like a scout type thing)
make a scrapbook of things you've done/want to do

Make sure everyone occassionally shouts out "squirrel!". (LOL my whole family keeps doing this).

I'm sure I'll think of some more but I might need to watch it again for more ideas. Can't wait to hear what others come up with.

here's a really cool adventure pack you can print out and have the kids work on
http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/...tyPack/int/printout/Up_ActivityPack_HiRes.pdf

Here's another set of activity pages too
http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/managed/UpActivity.pdf

If they complete their activities then they can earn their badge

Also there are a ton of printable posters and games on this site, just scroll down till you see UP.
http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/games-and-downloads.html

this site has tons of activities that all relate to UP the movie
http://family.go.com/disney/up-movie-seg/

Definitely have to have Chocolate bars since Kevin really loooooved Chocolate bars, I'd say prunes too,since they fed Kevin prunes too-- but YUCK. Russell has hot dogs for dinner for one night in one of the scenes in the blimp... Ice Cream too, since Russell talks about remembering the Ice Cream days with his Dad--

Grape Soda in the bottle --then use the lids to make your very own badges

Veronica

 

[-Hope-]

Thank you Mrs. Pooh and Veronica! It's only fitting that you help me out here Veronica since you started me on this path to more madness!!!

 

[WhiskeyLullaby]

These are great ideas! Our family never does stuff like this but sometimes we take park maps and play a guessing game where you guess a ride, attraction, restaurant, etc.

 

[disneymama116]

These are all amazing ideas!! You guys are so creative!!! I would never thought of a themed disney night. I dont know what I'm more excited about the trip in Sept or all the different disney nights we're going to do. I think I'm going to do these theme nights over the summer and then it will be time for our trip. Thanks!!

 

[MagicMomentsMom]

Thank you Mrs. Pooh and Veronica! It's only fitting that you help me out here Veronica since you started me on this path to more madness!!!

 

[MagicMomentsMom]

we had our 101 dalmatians party night last weekend--it was the kick off for this year's Disney Movie nights


Well we started out with a few Dollar tree supplies, a few clearance goodies, a Disney keepsake, some messy fun homemade goodies and we had a movie night in the works--


We picked up a white tablecloth and some red plates/cups at the Dollar Tree for our tableware but I really wanted some dots on it, lol. So during GenevaClaire's naptime I punched out 1" circles from my quickutz vinyl and viola we had dalmatian spots for the tablecloth. lol. Ok so that's done, we had already had Daddy blow up a bunch of balloons earlier in the week, so we just used the red and black ones for the table top. Then We needed a centerpiece, well since we didn't have any dalmatian dogs, I improvised. We had just purchased a christmas basket in Red and black at Michaels 75% clearance, so we used that and put the movie and one of GenevaClaire's keepsakes from our December trip, the Movie clapper chalkboard--so now the table is all set and ready to go.

On to the food--we made personal pizza's and dogbone cookies. I thought I had everything to make the dogbones for the dogs but realized we didn't have enought eggs to make them and the cookies, so our dog bone cookies won out over the puppies dog bones. We're going to make those one day this week.

(GenevaClaire even insisted on wearing a matching outfit in black and red polka dots, lol)
It was a super fun night, until GenevaClaire got tired, and then she was restless and then that led to acting up and being super goofy and not wanting to watch the movie So it was fun, but I learned a great lesson, do not do these late in the day, for us it needs to be lunchtime or just after naptime on Saturday or she's not going to be able to sit and enjoy the movie.(neither are we) Next movie night is Snow White

 

[Peter Pan Fan 22]

Our ninth pre-Disney party was “A Bug’s Life” themed.

We had a picnic lunch (bought from the local chicken place), fried chicken, biscuits, green beans and fries. And some lemonade too!

We had Flik and Princesses Atta and Dot ants on a log (celery, peanut butter and raisins), Francis ladybugs (1/2 an apple with raisins stuck on, with peanut butter and pretzel sticks for antennas) ~(you could also use chocolate chips and cake icing~),

Heimlich the caterpillar (slice a banana and then join the slices with peanut butter, place half a grape as the head and then attach a broken in half pretzel stick (or chow mein noodles) as antennas), Rosie black widow spiders (oreo cookies, pretzel sticks (or black licorice) for legs and raisins (or red cinnamon candies) as eyes.

and some good ol’ worms in dirt (chocolate pudding with oreo cookie crumbles and gummy worms on top)

We started too late to play any games or do any crafts, but the movie was super cute and funnier than I remembered.

 

[susiesk]

First off, I would like to thank PrincessTigerLilly for starting this awesome thread! I have been "Lurking" for months now and finally got registered

I started the theme nights with my family too and have done 5 of them so far. One that has not been mentioned is a "Honey I shrunk the Kids" night. I made miniature of everything from burgers, tacos, pies(from Walmat), and mini pop cans.

For an activity, we made Shrinky Dinks. The kids got a kick out of watching them get small in the oven.

Since we are also going to Universal Orlando when we go on our very first WDW/Universal trip in June...I have been doing Universal nights too. We had a Dr. Seuss night where I made green eggs and ham and we made Dr. Seuss hats from construction paper.

I am having so much fun with this!! Thanks again for all the great ideas!

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

So glad to see the thread is still alive!!! I will attempt to update the index this weekend, it will be quite the undertaking!!
I am adding a new night idea below...

 

[PrincessTigerLily]

Oh, how I loved this movie as a kid!! I would watch it on WGN at Christmastime. Gotta love Annette!

Movie - Babes in Toyland (can find it on y--tube, Netflix, Amazon) 1961

Menu - Little Bo Peep's Shepherd's Pie
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Two-Tater-Shepherds-Pie/Detail.aspx
Mary Mary Quite Contrary's Garden Crudites (cut up fresh veggies and ranch dressing to dip)
Humpty Dumpty Eggs (deviled eggs)
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater (LOVE this recipe from Family Fun Magazine!!!)
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/pilgrim-pies-685167/

Activities - Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick! Create a candlestick - use a plastic plate for the base; make a rectangle paper strip, fold in half and glue to plate for handle. Hot glue a cardboard paper towel tube to middle of plate for the candle, optionally cover with construction paper. Using yellow or orange (or both!) tissue paper, tuck into top of tube for candle flame. If you have a small flashlight you can turn it on and tuck it down the tube and turn the lights down! To play, recite the nursery rhyme and take your turn jumping over the candlestick!

Mother Goose Village - using boxes, bottles, and whatever you have lying around, create the homes of your favorite nursery rhyme characters - don't forget the Forest of No Return!

Hide and go SHEEP! Cut out simple sheep shapes from poster board and glue on some cotton balls for wool. Hide around the house and let your Little Boy Blue or Bo Peep seek them out.

 

[pixarmom]

I just found this great thread! We do "surprise nights" about once a month, and have done several Disney themes - here are two:

Tower of Terror night.

We started by playing the audio intro from the ride at DHS (found it online), and the boys guessed the theme right away. I put room numbers on all the bedroom doors, and the boys checked in at our Hollywood Tower Hotel registration desk, where they were assigned to their own rooms. I made decorations, room keys with ToT and Twilight Zone images, and registration forms to fill out (I filled out the check-out date on each form with "permanent stay.") I also gave each guest a dinner menu:

Tower of terror chicken tenders
Choice of sauce:
scream sauce
nightmare sauce
valley of the shadow sauce
phantom sauce
sandy graveyard sauce

Hollywood tower bellhop bowtie pasta

Movie star medley of vegetables

Twilight zone treats (these were chocolate malt cookies - the crushed malt balls were supposed to look like a mass of stars - they sort of did!)

We had recorded a number of Twilight Zone episodes in advance, and had them ready to go. After dinner, the boys decorated the living room with the ToT signs we made, and selected the Twilight Zone episodes they wanted to watch from an episode guide I made with a brief description and a black-and-white photo from each episode we had available. I tried to copy the episode guide here, but can't figure out how.

Casey's Corner Night

We did a last minute Casey's Corner night, where I printed menus and we ate exactly what they serve at Casey's Corner, and then we played "Disney Scene It" with 1/2 our family on Team Mickey and the other 1/2 on Team Minnie - we use the party play and keep track of which team guesses the right answer first.

Great thread - thanks to everyone for the ideas!

 

[hcoker1]

We did our third Disney theme night last weekend and did Dumbo. I bought carnival type games at the dollar store (bowling and hopping frog/tiddley winks) which we played as a family. Dinner was carnival/circus type food: pogos, chicken wings, Casey's caesar salad, caramel apples (well, apples with caramel dip) and popcorn for the movie. After the movie we played Toy Story Mania on the Wii. Tomorrow is Pirates of the Caribbean with cannonball subs, seaweed salad (coleslaw) and buried treasure cake (cake with coins baked in). I found foam swords at the dollar store so DS and DH can sword fight before dinner (which should be hilarious to watch ).
I agree with PP that a HUGE thank you goes out to TigerLily for starting this thread.

 

[DisneyTiger]

Ok, I just sat and read this entire thread!!! I am so excited to start planning our Disney nights. I just counted and we have about 7 Fridays until our trip to WL for DS's 3rd birthday!!! Such great and creative ideas here. I am so impressed!!!!!!!

 

[susiesk]

O.K., I think I know how to post pictures now, so here are some of our family nights: (sorry the pics are so big)

These are from our "Honey I shrunk the Kids" night

We had mini burgers, tacos, eggrolls, pies and pop

Shrinky Dinks!

These were little candy board games I found at Target

These are our Dr. Seuss night

Of coarse we had "green" eggs and ham

I also made potato dumplings with orange and yellow foor coloring

I made colorful cupcakes with Dr. Seuss hats