Alysa
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Hi everyone. I've been bad about keeping up to date with our movie nights. I've done several over the summer. Hope it's okay if I post a bunch all at once.
Tron
We did chocolate cupcakes with glow in the dark bracelets to decorate them, and blue gatorade with glow in the dark ice cubes from Artist's Point at Wilderness Lodge. For our craft we painted frisbees black and glued glow in the dark necklaces on to them. Then we went to the park for a disc game.
Lilo and Stitch
We had Hawaiian Pork Roast for dinner with lovely fresh pineapple. And then we made leis with construction paper and plastic straw spacers.
Robin Hood
I made birds nests with berries in them (rather than burnt stew). Then the kids made Robin Hood hats and played a game where they had to sneak up on the Sheriff of Nottingham while he was sleeping (Grandad with his eyes closed). If he heard them they had to go back to the start but if they were able to tap him without him hearing, they got to steal a gold coin (chocolate) from his money bag.
Bug's Life
A huge pile of berries and seeds for snack. Then for the craft the kids painted a watercolour background and a foreground with a contrasting colour. They used a butterfly shaped hole punch and punched butterflies out of the foreground, folded the butterflies slightly and glued them to the background.
Make Mine Music, Melody Time and Fun and Fancy Free
We did a triple bill for this night with all the Disney Shorts films. We had a baseball hot dog stand for the dinner from Casey at the Bat from Make Mine Music. We served hot dogs, caramel corn, fudgsicles, pop, chocolate bars and rum and cokes for daddies. I gave the kids each $7 in chocolate loonies and toonies to buy dinner with and the girls put themselves in charge of the toy cash register.
We did two crafts this time because of the extra movie. First my son painted a flower pot in a pattern to go with his room and he planted magic beans for Mickey and the Beanstalk from Fun and Fancy Free. You can't see them here but the beans are already huge and look ready to carry him off to the giant's house any evening now.
For the second craft my daughter painted an apple tree from Johnny Appleseed from Melody Time. It's really quite pretty.
Song of the South
For this movie night my daughter researched the underground railway online and wrote a journal entry about what life would have been like escaping to Canada. I found a really amazing and helpful site which she learned a lot on at scholastic Then we made sweet potato pie for dessert and I made a little Br'er Rabbit out of crust on the top.
Oliver and Company
For the craft, the kids did a New York city scene with a water colour background and a black pen silhouette of buildings. Then we served linked sausages for dinner like the ones Dodger steals.
Emperor's New Groove
My daughter made spinach puffs all by herself. A great, easy recipe that was super for teaching her cooking skills. Then for the craft I gave the kids a little animation lesson. We took a character the kids love (Bucky) and I showed them how to draw him. They wrote funny quotes from the movie under their drawings and we put them up in little fridge magnets.
Aristocats
My daughter the cat lover adored this one. I put salmon and milk in a couple of bowls and served it for dinner. Then I gave her a sewing lesson and we made a Marie tissue box cover and she LOVED it!
Dinosaur
For the snack we made volcanoes with chocolate cupcakes and red and orange coloured chocolate. It had been so long since I had seen Dinosaur, I think I was mixing it up with Fantasia. My husband suggested a flaming marshmallow might have been more appropriate as a meteor but volcanoes may have been the reason for dinosaurs eventual extinction so I'm letting it stand. Then we just did some easy archeology kits and built a skeleton from a kit.
Sword in the Stone
I bought silver goblets from the goodwill for $3 each and the kids decorated them with jewel stickies. They drank wine out of them (grape juice) and I made cupcakes with grey icing. I designed and printed stone cupcake liners because my husband said they just looked like cupcakes with grey goop on top. The kids pulled little toy swords out of them. For the craft the kids made a pointed Merlin hat and Arthur's crown.
Little Mermaid
For our latest movie night this weekend we did The Little Mermaid. The kids made sea shell picture frame boxes and we put pictures in of the kids meeting Ariel at Disney. For the snack we made cupcakes with wave cupcake liners, sand (raw sugar), and shells (well washed) holding pearls (scotch mints).
If you want any recipes or craft instructions just let me know!
Tron
We did chocolate cupcakes with glow in the dark bracelets to decorate them, and blue gatorade with glow in the dark ice cubes from Artist's Point at Wilderness Lodge. For our craft we painted frisbees black and glued glow in the dark necklaces on to them. Then we went to the park for a disc game.
Lilo and Stitch
We had Hawaiian Pork Roast for dinner with lovely fresh pineapple. And then we made leis with construction paper and plastic straw spacers.
Robin Hood
I made birds nests with berries in them (rather than burnt stew). Then the kids made Robin Hood hats and played a game where they had to sneak up on the Sheriff of Nottingham while he was sleeping (Grandad with his eyes closed). If he heard them they had to go back to the start but if they were able to tap him without him hearing, they got to steal a gold coin (chocolate) from his money bag.
Bug's Life
A huge pile of berries and seeds for snack. Then for the craft the kids painted a watercolour background and a foreground with a contrasting colour. They used a butterfly shaped hole punch and punched butterflies out of the foreground, folded the butterflies slightly and glued them to the background.
Make Mine Music, Melody Time and Fun and Fancy Free
We did a triple bill for this night with all the Disney Shorts films. We had a baseball hot dog stand for the dinner from Casey at the Bat from Make Mine Music. We served hot dogs, caramel corn, fudgsicles, pop, chocolate bars and rum and cokes for daddies. I gave the kids each $7 in chocolate loonies and toonies to buy dinner with and the girls put themselves in charge of the toy cash register.
We did two crafts this time because of the extra movie. First my son painted a flower pot in a pattern to go with his room and he planted magic beans for Mickey and the Beanstalk from Fun and Fancy Free. You can't see them here but the beans are already huge and look ready to carry him off to the giant's house any evening now.
For the second craft my daughter painted an apple tree from Johnny Appleseed from Melody Time. It's really quite pretty.
Song of the South
For this movie night my daughter researched the underground railway online and wrote a journal entry about what life would have been like escaping to Canada. I found a really amazing and helpful site which she learned a lot on at scholastic Then we made sweet potato pie for dessert and I made a little Br'er Rabbit out of crust on the top.
Oliver and Company
For the craft, the kids did a New York city scene with a water colour background and a black pen silhouette of buildings. Then we served linked sausages for dinner like the ones Dodger steals.
Emperor's New Groove
My daughter made spinach puffs all by herself. A great, easy recipe that was super for teaching her cooking skills. Then for the craft I gave the kids a little animation lesson. We took a character the kids love (Bucky) and I showed them how to draw him. They wrote funny quotes from the movie under their drawings and we put them up in little fridge magnets.
Aristocats
My daughter the cat lover adored this one. I put salmon and milk in a couple of bowls and served it for dinner. Then I gave her a sewing lesson and we made a Marie tissue box cover and she LOVED it!
Dinosaur
For the snack we made volcanoes with chocolate cupcakes and red and orange coloured chocolate. It had been so long since I had seen Dinosaur, I think I was mixing it up with Fantasia. My husband suggested a flaming marshmallow might have been more appropriate as a meteor but volcanoes may have been the reason for dinosaurs eventual extinction so I'm letting it stand. Then we just did some easy archeology kits and built a skeleton from a kit.
Sword in the Stone
I bought silver goblets from the goodwill for $3 each and the kids decorated them with jewel stickies. They drank wine out of them (grape juice) and I made cupcakes with grey icing. I designed and printed stone cupcake liners because my husband said they just looked like cupcakes with grey goop on top. The kids pulled little toy swords out of them. For the craft the kids made a pointed Merlin hat and Arthur's crown.
Little Mermaid
For our latest movie night this weekend we did The Little Mermaid. The kids made sea shell picture frame boxes and we put pictures in of the kids meeting Ariel at Disney. For the snack we made cupcakes with wave cupcake liners, sand (raw sugar), and shells (well washed) holding pearls (scotch mints).
If you want any recipes or craft instructions just let me know!
My BFF and her family were supposed to join us, but we didn't want to risk sharing our illness with her kids, so we went it alone. 
...so I had to make do with what I could find:
):
Oh Chelley, you are wicked!!! 
