Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[AKL LOVER]

@Kari--I love the "spaghetti and meatballs" dish that your stuffed dogs are enjoying. So cute

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

Kari!! I love the Lady and the Tramp night! Looks like a lot of fun and great theming!

 

[AKL LOVER]

Last night we did CARS! For dinner we had pulled pork BBQ race cars and 'Mack' wheels and cheese, and Radiator Wings. For dessert we had a tire tower and oil dipsticks. I've posted picks on my PTR if you want to check them out.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2615660&page=9

I had a blast decorating for this one!!! Maybe more fun than a grown woman really should...

 

[TinaLala]

We did Ratatouille last night

Parmesan chicken, linguini, and ratatouille. We made cheese fondue and an Emile trash cake and had grape WINE juice.

We sculpted Emile out of rice krispie treats and the trash out of fondant!

 

[Becc1]

We did Ratatouille last night

Parmesan chicken, linguini, and ratatouille. We made cheese fondue and an Emile trash cake and had grape WINE juice.

We sculpted Emile out of rice krispie treats and the trash out of fondant!

Love the cake!

 

[hmack]

I am now a Disney theme night convert.

I'm hoping that it have a Disney dinner once a month will help the next (gulp) 19 months go by a little quicker.

I don't know what our nights will look like as the girls are a bit older - 16&11 so I don't think we'll be doing the craft. But my youngest is really excited about helping to plan and cook.

I'll keep you all posted on how this goes....

 

[Becc1]

Our latest theme night was A Bug's Life. Best and easiest night food wise because for our "picnic" we ordered take out from a bbq place Unfortunately no food pics because my DH starting fixing the kids plates before I got a chance to get pictures Dessert was spider cookies and cups of dirt with gummy worms. As a craft the kids made caterpillars and colored A Bug's Life pictures. The kids loved the movie, it's been a while since they have seen it so they had kind of forgotten it. Now they are actually looking forward to It's Tough to be a Bug, in the past Emily and Ben have been a little scared of it but now they are both saying they can't wait to see the show again!

Can you tell Ben enjoyed the pudding?

 

[Becc1]

Last night we did CARS! For dinner we had pulled pork BBQ race cars and 'Mack' wheels and cheese, and Radiator Wings. For dessert we had a tire tower and oil dipsticks. I've posted picks on my PTR if you want to check them out.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2615660&page=9

I had a blast decorating for this one!!! Maybe more fun than a grown woman really should...

Great job! Love the Radiator Wings!

 

[PrincessMom4]

Great job! Love the Radiator Wings!

Becc1, I LOVE your Bugs Life themed night. It makes me want to rethink my nights planned.

Its Cars night for us tonight. We have TONS of decor from the Duplo lego ones to the die-cast cars to a bunch of other items. Its the food that is giving me a bit of a challenge.

 

[PartyFromSaturn]

We just did a Tinkerbell night and really enjoyed it! While DD3 napped, I got things ready. I set up her little table with her paints and some Tink Printables. Then from the Disney website, I printed out a few other crafts. One was a little fortune telling game that I loved when I was little. We just always had made them w/ pen and paper, so I thought it was so cool to see one that you could print out and it had the fairies on it. Then I put out a little dish of Nerds to be Pixie Rocks and decorated with gemstones and some of her favorite blinging jewelery.

I decorated with printouts of the web. The string of Blade lights you can make is really cute. I made ladybug cupcakes and dyed them green. For dinner, we couldn't think of a good main course, so we just called our tilapia Fairy Fish. We ate green beans with red onion, because the green and purple looked good together.

I also made homemade pretzels and called them Fairy Wings. They pretty much looked like wings if you used your imagination. We watched the movie both before and after we ate; it's a big favorite. I wish I would have had some wings for her, b/c she pretended all night that she was wearing wings.

This one was fun and we can do it again for the Fairy Rescue!

 

[hmack]

DD has decided that "Beauty & the Beast" will be our first themed movie/meal.

Can't wait to find inspiration on this thread.

 

[budafam]

Great ideas!

 

[Becc1]

My kids and I have been stuck in the house sick for the past 2 days so to have a little fun we've done some mini theme nights. With the release of Bambi yesterday we had Flower cupcakes (yes I know they look more like bears, lol) and the kids did coloring pages. And for Dr. Seuss's birthday we read lots of books, watched both of The Cat in the Hat movies and made The Cat in the Hat hats. For dinner we had Green Eggs and Ham and cheese frittatas, pancakes and drank Pink Yink Ink Drink (strawberry milk). The frittatas look a little frightening with the dye but they were yummy!

I swear they were good, they just look like green slime,

 

[-Hope-]

A friend (and fellow Diser twoboysnmygirl) do our Disney days together and after the activities the girls play while we plan. Our girls rarely watch the movies when we used them for theming so we decided to forgo the movies and it opened up a lot of possibilities. Earlier this week was... Soarin'.

This is my FAVORITE ride at Disney so it was lots of fun to think of fun ways to theme it at home.

As all good DISers know we had to have our FPes...

We also needed gliders...

These turned out to be really complicated to make but the girls had fun trying and kept refolding them into different paper airplane designs to try to get them to fly better.

We spotted some hot air balloons...

The girls had lots of fun with these too. They kept adding and subtracting beans trying to get them to float just right.

We also saw some oranges from the groves and in the background you can see the ocean water (courtesy of Sonic).

And finally there were fireworks over Sleeping Beauty's Castle.

To make these pics the girls colored white paper with lots of different colors. Then they painted several layers of black paint over it...

Then they added pics of Sleeping Beauty's castle (my printer is running out of ink so not the best castle pics but they worked) and Tinkerbell. Finally they used plastic toothpicks to scratch away the black paint in firework designs, revealing the colors underneath.

There was really so much we could have done but we try to stick to a budget when planning these things... that way we can do even more days.

 

[figment3258]

Just wondering iF someone could pm me on how to post pictures? We are having bamboo night tomorrow ad would like to post pictures. Thanks

 

[PartyFromSaturn]

Love the Bambi and Soarin' parties!! Can't wait to do both of those.

We have two boys who are only w/ us every other weekend. So when they arrived Friday, they had had one movie night (Incredibles) and they knew we had done two others, b/c they'd gotten leftovers (Fairies and Lady & Tramp). On Friday I was debating whether to make this an every week thing, b/c our trip is a long time off. I figured I would just see how the weekend went. So, first question, Friday at 5:05pm..."What Disney night are we having on Sunday?" Parties catch on quick around here.

I had figured I would do Cars if we did one. It seemed easy. It turned out GREAT! Saturday we made a racetrack cake. We printed out Cars crafts from the Disney website. We had the donuts stacked as tires and the stoplight graham crackers. We also had Sally Salad and Hubcap Pizza. I got a bottle of grape juice and removed the label and put one back on that said "Oil."

My favorite part was when DS12 made his pizza and wanted me to guess what it is. I guessed things he is usually interested in, like Halo and other video games. He finally looked around and said, "NO! What is the THEME here?" It was a whitewall tire he was making! I was shocked! He's slow to participate in stuff like this and I wasn't expecting that at ALL. So we made a BIG deal over his pizza. The boys liked this one and DD3 did too. She loves "Queen" and Mater.

 

[Dreamer & Wisher]

We are going to celebrate Mardi Gras tomorrow with some cajun food and Princess Tiana .

I am going to get a King Cake from the grocery store and I am debating on making some Cajun Food myself or getting it Take Out from a local Restaurant.

A friend of mine is bringing us some beads and Mardi Gras Cups and some Moon Pies.

 

[pesto78749]

Does anyone have any lunch box ideas? I want to make a disney lunch but the only thing I can think of is a sandwich in the shape of mickey! Please help!

 

[Becc1]

Our theme night this week was The Lion King. Sammy has really been pushing for this one because he knew we would have ribs as our main course and my kid loves him some ribs We started off the afternoon by watching the movie, movie snacks were twigs (pretzels sticks) and chocolate covered bugs (edamame). After the movie the kids did some animal puzzles and a craft. For dinner we had Simba's favorite zebra ribs, Pumba's pasta salad, Timon's tater tots, Tree of Life broccoli florets and biscuits. For dessert we had Lion paw print cookies and Rafiki's banana pudding. I set up a safari hunt for the kids in our basement so while I was cleaning up after dinner I sent the kids downstairs with binoculars and a camera to find the animals. Before bedtime Ben and I started a Simba puzzle that I finished up. It was a fun night, I just got a new camera so I had fun trying it out!

Some printouts that Emily colored

Sam's ready for the safari

 

[heatherbynum]

I love, love, love this thread Great ideas and I can't wait to have our first movie night.