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[floridascgirl]

Thanks for the tip on the Sticky, Susiesk. I'll be sure to check it out.

I'm trying to decide what movie we will do next. It's can be tricky since my DS will be 12 in a few weeks. He's a good sport, but he really isn't in to Bambi, Princess' and such.

 

[jeffiner1978]

 

[palpluto]

Thanks for the tip on the Sticky, Susiesk. I'll be sure to check it out.

I'm trying to decide what movie we will do next. It's can be tricky since my DS will be 12 in a few weeks. He's a good sport, but he really isn't in to Bambi, Princess' and such.

We just did A Bugs Life. My 14 yo DS enjoyed seeing the movie with a whole new perspective. When he was little and loved the movie he missed a lot of the "adult" humor. Its nice because his little brother enjoyed it and so did he.

 

[BabyEeyore]

I have to say that I love this thread!!! I am writing down a bunch of the ideas to keep for later. I am only about 1/4 of the way through the thread so far, though. My DD is 15 months old so we won't be doing a lot of the activities quite yet, but I'm going to try and change them up for her. We're starting off a little easy for our first theme night. Actually, it's going to be a theme morning since we'll be so busy this weekend. We recently purchased 101 Dalmatians. We are going to have chocolate chip pancakes and dalmatian milk ("paint" chocolate sauce spots on the inside of a clear cup then fill the cup with milk slowly as to not completely disturb the spots) tomorrow morning. I printed out a picture of one of the dalmatians and I'm going to help DD put some circle stickers on the dog. I couldn't really think of anything else we could do. I can't wait and already have some great ideas for more theme nights thanks to all of you!

 

[Deffenm]

Thanks for the tip on the Sticky, Susiesk. I'll be sure to check it out.

I'm trying to decide what movie we will do next. It's can be tricky since my DS will be 12 in a few weeks. He's a good sport, but he really isn't in to Bambi, Princess' and such.

My boys are 10 & 9 and so we are going to switch it up. One time we do a younger video for dd6 and then the next time we do something for the boys. We are doing Mulan on Sunday (Chinese New Year and Valentines Day) and then next time the boys want to do Sky High. I know these are not "disney" movies but we will also do a Star Wars night and Indiana Jones theme. I can still get them to watch CARs, Dinosuar, Dalmation movies (not cartoon version), Peter pan, and Toy Story (they love army men) They don't really get into the activities like DD but they like food and the movie. We have only done the Lion King so I am excited to do Mulan on Sunday. We officially kick off our count down to Disney then. So hopefully we will be doing more of these ideas.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

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

Thanks for the activities and all the print outs, UP is our next one. Fiance got the DVD for ME for Christmas but we have yet to it down and watch it, we did see it in the movies though.

 

[belle231]

I am planning on doing Harry potter this thursday and I am just wondering what I can do to decorate? Any ideas? Thanks

 

[PrincessNoelle'sMom]

I have no idea if this was posted yet (because I didn't read all the way through the 45 pages ) but we just got the Disney version of the Apples to Apples game and the kids LOVE it! It has beautiful Disney themed pictures and is educational too!

 

[hcoker1]

We did our Alice in Wonderland dinner last night. We tried to build card houses first but weren't very successful because all of our decks were too new so they weren't "grimy" enough to stay in possition. For dinner we had tea sandwiches which were white bread with the crusts cut off with cucumber, tuna or salmon. We had some salad, both green and potato, and then had Merry Un-Birthday cake for dessert.
Watching the movie was interesting: I don't remember much of it from when I was a child so it was really bizarre! I can't imagine what Tim Burton will do with his version!!

Tonight we are having a bonus night in celebration of Mardi Gras since we are staying at POFQ in just a few weeks. Shrimp, rice and crepes (close to pancakes).

Thanks for all of the great ideas everyone, my family loves them!

 

[hollybearsmom]

planning on a stay at AS Movies, need some help with Love Bug ideas

any ideas?

 

[belle231]

Doing Beauty and the Beast this tuesday. Have some picky eaters in the family so we are going to stick to food we like I usally just change the name like Beastly meatloaf my son loves it and my husband laughs at me. I am going to try and make it fancy some how not sure yet on decorating any tips? We are going to make roses out of tootsie rolls and another craft still working on that. I will post pictures if i can figure out how to do that. But any last minute ideas would be appreciated Everyone have a wondeful family night this week

 

[dancin'girl]

We just did an "Under the Sea" theme with Finding Nemo and The Little Mermaid.

We watched the movies during the week because I knew that the dinner, activites and movie would be too much to cram into one night for my kids. Then on Saturday we had a regular dinner, but I did make the Aquarium cups for dessert. We decorated the kitchen with some crepe paper streamers to look like we were under water. The kids colored some pictures of Nemo and Ariel then we glued them to paper plates and glued streamers to the bottom of the plates. We hung these from the ceiling to add more fishy "ambiance". I made a fishing game with fun foam and magnets, and printed out hand puppets from the Disney Magic Artist website. We had fun with a puppet show. We practiced walking like crabs and tried a little crab soccer (kicking around a ball while walking like a crab). I also thought we might play Go Fish, but we ran out of time! My DD was very excited to wear her Little Mermaid dress and even my parents got into the act - my mom made paper fish and taped them to their shirts - ha, ha!
This was great fun and we all had a blast! Even the old folks!
Can't wait for next weekend! We're doing Peter Pan / Tinker Bell.

 

[Peter Pan Fan 22]

Our tenth pre-Disney night was a princess inspired “Royal Tea Party.”

Mickey served as our prince. (I cut out a crown and let my nephew decorate it.)

For our meal we had finger sandwiches (turkey, ham, roast beef, chicken salad & egg salad), some tuna on crackers, blueberry bagels, an assortment of mini muffins,

cocktail sausages, cheese log with crackers & grapes, sugar cookies, and pineapple (we used cookie cutters to make flowers and hearts).

Our craft was Lumiere (we watched Beauty and the Beast as our movie). http://family.go.com/entertainment/...cipes/craft-585077-tissue-tube-candelabrum-t/

We also played Yahtzee Jr. Enchanted Tales Edition after the movie.

My niece loved this night the best I think. She dressed up as Snow White and when she saw the table she oouuued and ahhhhed more than Christmas morning!
Only 2 more months until we’re off to Disney!

 

[belle231]

How do u post pics? Sorry to ask I know someone just asked a few pages back but I can't seem to find it. I took pictures tonight and wanted to post them. I opened an account with photobucket now what?

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

We did UP last week, here's some pics. We didn't do any type of activity because we did it during the week and fiance had to be up early the next morning for work(actually just blowing up all the balloons made DD super excited lol and just throwing them around). So here's some pics:
We just had hot dogs like Russell has in the movie, beans, and french fries.

of course Dug was our guest of honor

The "yummy" food (I don't really like hot dogs if they are not on the grill lol)

Debating between Nemo and Bedtime Stories for next week.....probably Nemo!

 

[belle231]

The kids loved the idea of drinking out of "big" cups The center piece is a bank that i got for christmas and i thought it would be neat with the theme. I didnt have red roses so i just used what i had. Also I just made food we like because we are picky eaters we had beastly meatloaf, belles mashed potatoes, and magical peas. I let the kids help make cookies that they ate for dessert and i just had a few little extras that they enjoyed with hot choc.

tootsie roll rose was one of our craft ideas, alittle hard for my 4 year old

Next week Jungle book.

 

[pixeemom]

great pics, so how did you do the tootsie roll rose?
i've never seen that before

 

[belle231]

I microwave the tootsie rolls unwrapped in the microwave until they are soft usally 15 sec. Then I flatten them down to shape a petal. When they are all flattened (keep picking them up to make sure they don't get stuck to the plate until they are cooled down) I pick one up and squeeze the bottom together, make that your center of your flower then I just keep adding the other petals on to the center pushing them together and you should have a flower I learned it in highschool about 12 years ago and just always remembered how to do it.

 

[pixeemom]

I microwave the tootsie rolls unwrapped in the microwave until they are soft usally 15 sec. Then I flatten them down to shape a petal. When they are all flattened (keep picking them up to make sure they don't get stuck to the plate until they are cooled down) I pick one up and squeeze the bottom together, make that your center of your flower then I just keep adding the other petals on to the center pushing them together and you should have a flower I learned it in highschool about 12 years ago and just always remembered how to do it.

wow, thanks for sharing the info!!!

 

[belle231]

Sure anytime have fun!