Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[Chelley00]

DH is working nights all weekend, so we had a simple Movie Day lunch instead of Movie Night. Cars!

Minnie holding the checkered flag (and the movie)

Place settings

Menu and activity sheet

Making stoplight cookies

Doc Hudson Hoagies

Stoplights

Buffet

Lightning Lemonade

Car races

 

[wdc2wdw]

I just want to say I LOVE this thread and all of your creative ideas! I will definitely use this leading up to our next trip (June 2013). How far in advance did you all start the Disney themed nights? Would January be too soon to start? Thanks!

 

[lledman]

I just want to say I LOVE this thread and all of your creative ideas! I will definitely use this leading up to our next trip (June 2013). How far in advance did you all start the Disney themed nights? Would January be too soon to start? Thanks!

We've only done 1 for our trip in October so far but the kids loved it. I plan to do another tonight and they are sooo excited, I think I'm just going to keep doing them even after our trip to prepare for our October 2013 trip as well - so I vote it's never too early to start.

 

[MissMickee]

Yes I am...I was thinking if I look around on the website, I might find an option to shrink the pics...I just haven't gotten around to it lol.

After you click "upload", you'll see an option, towards the top right, before the ad, that says "customize your upload options". In there, choose your photo size (mine's set to 320x240). As far as I can tell, you can't change the size after you've uploaded the photos.

 

[MissMickee]

In preparation for our December trip, I am planning Epcot theme nights. I have the Mickey heads with the country flag printed & in an envelope for the kids to pick the week before so I can prepare for that country. I have the menu basically picked for each country along with a dessert. I want a Disney movie to go along with each country, as well. Some countries are deeming themselves difficult with a movie (ie. Norway, Japan, Italy).

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated for everything!! Your ideas may be better than mine

Morocco - Aladdin is set in Iraq, and though they're not the same country, they do share similar foods/cultures.
Mexico - Three Caballeros
France - Beauty & the Beast, Aristocats, Lady & the Tramp, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hunchback of Notre Dame (a lot are based in France!)
Japan - Ponyo
China - Mulan
Germany - Snow White
Italy - Pinocchio
Canada - Brother Bear

 

[AUdisfan]

I just want to say I LOVE this thread and all of your creative ideas! I will definitely use this leading up to our next trip (June 2013). How far in advance did you all start the Disney themed nights? Would January be too soon to start? Thanks!

We're doing our first one this weekend in preparation for out trip in December. So excited to start the countdown!

 

[wdc2wdw]

We've only done 1 for our trip in October so far but the kids loved it. I plan to do another tonight and they are sooo excited, I think I'm just going to keep doing them even after our trip to prepare for our October 2013 trip as well - so I vote it's never too early to start.

Thanks! You convinced me (didn't take much, I know ). I'll start next week. Maybe have them pick the movie Sunday and do the Disney night Saturday? Now I'm excited...have to look at this thread for ideas

We're doing our first one this weekend in preparation for out trip in December. So excited to start the countdown!

Wow you're so close to your trip! What movie are you doing?

 

[Chelley00]

We started in May for our October trip. We try to do them every weekend.

 

[AUdisfan]

Wow you're so close to your trip! What movie are you doing?

We're doing Up. We wrote down the names of all the movies we might want to do and put them into our Mickey Mouse bucket. We decide on which movie to do by pulling a slip out of the bucket. It is a pretty fun way to decide.

 

[scholastica]

This is an awesome thread. My Disney plans are still up in the air but I still want to steal these ideas for just watching movies at home.

 

[Becc1]

To kick off the Olypics we had a Hercules Day/Opening Ceremony Night.

We watched the movie in the afternoon and during it the kids did coloring pages and we snacked on hummus and pita chips.

For dinner I made my first attempt ever at Greek food, I found some yummy recipes over on Pinterest (I LOVE Pinterest ) I made keftedes sliders with tzatziki sauce, kolokythokeftedes (zucchini and feta balls) and for my non adventurous eaters I made regular burgers with Zeus's lightening bolt fries.

Dessert was going to be baklava but it was just too much for me to do so I bought a chocolate chip Olympic ring cake During dessert the kids did a Hercules puzzle

Now onto our Opening Ceremony celebrations, my DH is really into the Olympics so he was very happy that our kids were excited about them this year. I made snacks to munch on while we watched and the kids played a cute bingo game that I found online.

Gold medals

Torches made from buggles and squeeze cheese

Olympic torch cupcakes

We also had Olympic onion rings that I didn't get a shot of.

Here's the bingo game, which unfortunately all children fell asleep before anyone won

 

[Princessmommymouse]

Been Lurking on this thread for a while! Love everyone's ideas! Will be adding some of my own soon!

We had our first theme night last night and it was a huge hit! We decided to start with Snow White, and work our way through chronologically! We were on a limited budget, so it wasn't fantastic, but I printed up tickets and little menus, carved out the centers of apples to use as cups for "poison" apple juice (dyed it blackish green and served in a punch bowl). We had a German inspired vegetarian meal of Tempeh in hearty mushroom Lager sauce (yes, my kids eat that kind of stuff! Licked their plates clean!), made caramel apple lollipops (slice the apples before dipping, much easier for little hands), cleaned the house like Snow White, made paper dolls I printed from spoonful.com, and watched the movie! IT WAS A BLAST! Can't wait to get pictures up of some of it!

Next up will be Pinnochio! Looking forward to that!

 

[Chicago Mo]

Olympic torch cupcakes

How did you make the cupcakes??? they are awesome!

 

[oopsiDAISY]

Becc1~ Where do you get the printable character stand-ups? I was looking for something like this for our Alice In Wonderland movie night this Saturday because I had seen them on here. I had no luck finding them. I made my own, but they are not nearly as cute.

 

[Missdisney00]

Movie : the little mermaid (under the sea)

not so sure what kinds of food any suggestions?

 

[DonaldDuckFamily]

Movie : the little mermaid (under the sea)

not so sure what kinds of food any suggestions?

I got my ideas from this board. Here is what we had:

The kids also dressed like they were ready to go to the beach in the middle of winter:

Have fun planning

 

[DonaldDuckFamily]

We also just had a luau for Lilo and Stitch.

The kids made surfboards:

Menu:

As you can see in this picture we made the Dole Whip cupcakes:

Getting ready for the movie:

We had a burn ban so we had to improvise with the fire pit:

 

[Becc1]

How did you make the cupcakes??? they are awesome!

I found the idea for the cupcakes on Pinterest! All it is is a cupcake inside of a ice cream cone , frosted and then I put trianle strips of red fruit roll ups!

Becc1~ Where do you get the printable character stand-ups? I was looking for something like this for our Alice In Wonderland movie night this Saturday because I had seen them on here. I had no luck finding them. I made my own, but they are not nearly as cute.

I have a couple of places I get the stand ups from. The first place I go to find them is the Disney site under characters and stars. Find the movie you are doing and sometimes they have the activities and stuff on that page directly. Here's a link http://disney.go.com/characters/#/characters/

If you don't see what you are looking for, go to the Disney Junior site and look under coloring pages, they have the stand ups there for alot of the movies, some you may have to color (I have my DD do those ones).

Another place is the Family Fun site, they always have great ideas and printouts for the latest movies!

 

[klineyqueen]

I love this thread. Thanks.

 

[Fall1]

Lisa - I LOVE the Hercules night!! That is one of DS and DD's favorite Disney movies, love the puzzle!!