Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[MaddieC]

Just finished reading every page Can't wait to use all of the ideas!

We started doing family fun nights to count down to our August trip. Our first night was Lilo and Stitch last week.

Menu:
1. Lilo Kabobs
2. Stitch's Fruit Salad
3. Pleakley's Rice
4. Jumba Juice
Activities:
1. Make leis (flower cut outs, string, fruit loops; the fruit loops were also a great snack!)
2. Make a tiki (paper towel rolls)
3. Hoola dance
4. Limbo
5. Secret mission from Jumba!(the kids had to look for all of Jumba's escaped experiments. Each was on an index card and had the name, picture, and powers of the experiment.)

The table:

DD14 decided the living room should become a beach (she really did most of the work, and suprised us with the party!)

craft table

Making Leis:

Tiki's

Limbo (DD14 wouldn't let me put up the photos of them dancing! ) You can see the Lilo and Stitch soundtrack playing on our labtop in the backround. DD6 kept putting Hawiian Rollercoaster Ride on repeat!

Secret mission:

We never found the last card(there was 23) ...it will show up eventually!


We had so much fun! Next is "It's A Bugs Life"

 

[disjenne]

We finally had our first Family Movie Night and watched Lilo and Stitch. I enjoyed this so much we will be doing more than I had planned!

Our activity was swimming in our new "pool". DD2 was afraid of water until a few weeks ago so this was exciting for her.

I transformed the dining room into our own luau. We had leis, grass skirts, and lanterns.

We had a spread of PB&J Sushi for DD2 (has a hard time with meat), K'auai K'abobs, Stitch's Skewers, Lilo's Rice, Jumba Juice, and Lava Cakes! It was all so yummy. And I am sorry but I can't remember the DISer I found the names from. If I find it again I will site it here.

The food label's were made simply using MS Word and the Buka Bird font. I found all images online.

Then it was time for our feature presentation! I found these great movie tickets from http://mommasfabulousplayground.blogspot.com/search/label/Movie%20Tickets

We even have a concession stand with popcorn, salt water taffy, and swedish fish.

DD2 enjoyed most of the movie and DH and I enjoyed the rest!

I can't wait for our next movie night....Lady and the Tramp!! Ihope you enjoyed seeing our Lilo and Stitch night!

(Sorry the photos are different sizes. My laptop was going crazy!)

 

[MissMickee]

For those of you planning Brave nights, Disney Family has added a bunch of crafts and recipes to their website!

http://family.go.com/disney/pkg-disney-character-fun/pkg-disney-brave/

 

[MissMickee]

We had our impromtu Treasure Planet night on Saturday. My nephews stayed over and DN6 really wanted to join in on one of our "famous" movie nights. HAD to put one together for him. So I chose a movie he's never seen (and I LOVE!).

Table and decor. I bought some pirate hats at the party store and colored in the eyes with black markers and painted on 3 white eyes to match Capt Flint's pirate flag.

Food! We had big and little dippers (chicken poppers and tenders), Capt. Amelia's cat treats (Lucky Charms), Dr. Doppler's dog biscuits (graham crackers), powdered spheriods (donuts), Flint's treasure (toffee popcorn, Skittles, choc coins, Hershey's Nuggets), Zorellian Jelly Worms (gummy worms), caramel pecan Scroops (rolls melted on pretzels with pretzel legs and pecans on top), Bonzabeast Stew (choc pudding with gumball eys ) and to drink, Purp Juice (grape soda).

Activity... Black Hole Toss

Their prizes! Flarp (or to go with tonight's theme.. Morph!!)

Playing with "Morph"...

One movie night left before we leave!!!! Friday night will be The Lion King then we leave on Wednesday! I'm so excited (obviously!!) I have, however, promised DN that we'll do UP! soon. He had so much fun!

 

[disjenne]

Lisa, I all of your movie nights and parties! You do such a wonderful job on all of them.

 

[budafam]

We never found the last card(there was 23) ...it will show up eventually!

We had so much fun! Next is "It's A Bugs Life"

I love the card idea! I'm so stealing that for our upcoming Lilo & Stitch night I wish you posted pics of all of what they said... lol...

 

[jannel80]

I love the card idea! I'm so stealing that for our upcoming Lilo & Stitch night I wish you posted pics of all of what they said... lol...

I would love to know also! I love the idea and would have no idea what to write on the cards! We are doing Lilo and Stitch next month!

 

[jannel80]

Finally planned our Finding Nemo party for this Friday night. Can't wait! Will post pictures afterwards.

 

[MissMickee]

Lisa, I all of your movie nights and parties! You do such a wonderful job on all of them.

Thanks Jenn!

 

[MaddieC]

I love the card idea! I'm so stealing that for our upcoming Lilo & Stitch night I wish you posted pics of all of what they said... lol...

I know the last picture didn't come out that clearly. Basically I wrote all of the information from here: http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/stitch.html

On the front, blank, part of the index card I wrote the experiment number and name. On the other, lined side, I wrote its name, powers, weakness (if there was one), and other fun facts. There was also a picture on this side.

 

[disjenne]

Finally planned our Finding Nemo party for this Friday night. Can't wait! Will post pictures afterwards.

Can't wait to see!

 

[Becc1]

Today we saw Brave and had our movie night to go along with it

First off I just want to say how much we all enjoyed the movie, even my 16 yr old DS liked it!


I printed out these invites for our movie day/night for the kids

For decorations I went with a few printouts I found online, DD got a Merida doll last week and she had a horse that looks like Angus. Our craft was making family crests and I made one with my DH's family crest to use to decorate with. And of course DD made our banner as usual

While I prepared dinner the kids worked on some activity books that I found online

Dinner was tough for me, I really was going to go with something Scottish but I just couldn't find anything that would work for all of us so I went with a dinner scene I saw from a movie trailer and we had chicken drumsticks, sausage and roasted redskin potatoes and carrots.

Desserts were cupcakes and strawberry shortbread, which I was going to make homemade but because of time constraints I ended up using some store boughts ones

Crafts were making their own family crests with felt and as an activity they played with some bow and arrows that I got them. I had drawn a target on our fence with some sidewalk chalk for them but unfortunately our outside play got rained out

Over all it was a fun day!

 

[nancy drew]

I haven't been here in ages! I love all of the new family nights! I think we may have to start up our family nights again to get even more excited for our DLR trip in August!

 

[Lidian]

Becc1, what an awesome Brave themed night! I really love the family crests your kiddos made!

 

[tinkermama117]

Long overdue, but here are some pics from our Lilo and Stitch Night. We did a Luau theme. The menu was:

"Roasted" Pigs in a Blanket
Tropical Fruit Platter
Hawaiian Chicken Skewers
Coconut Rice

Dessert: Dole Whip Cupcakes (I found the recipe on Pinterest, but I had to modify it a bit due to time)

For an activity we practiced the hula. We were supposed to make skirts,but ran out of time.

Cute Pic of DD

DH and DS

DD and I taking a break from Hula dancing

We ate on beach towels

Finally, THE CUPCAKES!!

Our next night was The Princess and the Frog.

 

[Chelley00]

Tonight was Dumbo night at our house. DS7 was so happy to hear it was movie night again. Since DH and I were gone last weekend, we skipped a week and he really missed it. I don't know what he's going to do when we get back from our Disney trip and don't do movie nights anymore!

Clown Minnie

Table

If I see an elephant fly

Table settings

Menu and activity sheet

buffet line (we had some standard circus fair: hot dogs, popcorn, fruit, veggies, peanuts, animal crackers and cupcakes for dessert and lemon shake ups to drink)

fruit and veggie clowns

Peanuts and animal crackers

Big Top cupcakes

Activity #1, bean bag toss

Activity #2 pin the nose on the clown

This little brat was cheating. She could see and didn't tell us, and then we noticed she got a direct bullseye.

Next week is either Bugs Life, Cars or Princess and the Frog.

 

[Becc1]

Becc1, what an awesome Brave themed night! I really love the family crests your kiddos made!

Thanks Lidian!

 

[coconutsunshine]

I'm hopping on this train, absolutely love this thread!! We are going to have our first themed day this Sunday - DS chose Finding Nemo! Our little guy is only 2 so trying to do too much in the evening would just be too much for him so the whole day or half a day it is. I think what we will do is make the crafts throughout the week during craft time and then use them to decorate for supper of Sunday, it will be the week of NEMO!!

to everyone for posting pics and ideas, you are all so creative!

 

[jannel80]

We had such a fun Finding Nemo night! Thank you for everyone's great ideas on this thread! Sorry the pics are so big, I have no clue how to shrink them down!

Movie tickets:

Making paper plate fish:

Finished fish:

Jelly Fish invaded our living room:

Another craft:

The Food:

Snack Stand for the movie:

Got his ticket all ready to watch the movie:

 

[oopsiDAISY]

Wow~ya'll have been busy since I last checked in! LOVE the latest movie nights. That Brave night was fantastic! I just love all the creativity that abounds on this thread! Dole Whip cupcakes! Be still my beating heart!!! Can you post the recipe or a pinterest link for it? I would love to make some of those for our Lilo and Stitch night as well!