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[3BellesAndABeast]

119 days to go and we decided to do Lion King for this week's movie night. We had Simba's Cub Sandwiches, Savanna Salad, Pride Rock Potatoes, Jungle Juice, Rafiki's Banana Pudding, Zebra Cakes, and Timon and Pumba's Grubs (gummy worms).

The girls colored pictures that I found on Disney Family, while I cut out and made the crowns that I found on the same site. DD9 had made posters with some of the characters and we hung those on the wall and decorated the buffet table with every stuffed animal we had. The girls wore their crowns and I went through the different attractions, restaurants, and shops at Animal Kingdom using a Disney World app on my phone. We had fun discussing things we wanted to see and do (and eat!). We played Disney Parks trivia on the same app during dessert. We all settled in to watch the movie. DD3 crashed in my lap right about the time that Simba and Nala found the elephant graveyard!

 

[tammilynne]

love all these ideas! how fun!

 

[oopsiDAISY]

Last night we had our Finding Nemo movie night. We had a VERY busy day yesterday, so we did not have time to do the planned art actitivity. I ended up printing off a Nemo activity sheet from Disney Family Fun for the kids to do instead.

The invitation:

I went a little more elaborate with the decorations this time. I was unable to find any Finding Nemo party supplies, so I went with the Clownfish color theme with the tableware.

DH helped me with this:

The food:

Working on the activity sheet:

And our next movie night theme is:

 

[budafam]

We had Aladdin night this past weekend. I posted pics on my blog (in my siggy, bottom link)

 

[mom2girls1974]

We have done a few nights now, our challange is that we are gluten, dairy and food dye free! So I make it all from scratch, and have to improvise a fair bit, but we have been having a blast. Our first dinner was Snow White, my oldests favorite movie for many years as a youngster.
We had Bratwurst, homemade GF Spatzle, and German cabbage. For dessert we had green apples and a wonderfull dairy free caramel dip.

Our second night (a week later) Little Mermaid, we had Ursala dogs (they were a huge hit) chips, raw veggies and then a fun GF cake.

We did Sleeping Beauty next, it was a breakfast for dinner night, all of us in our PJ's of course, we had GF "puff" pancakes, the grown ups had apple in theirs the kids had plain. And sausage plus a fruit salad. We did not have dessert this night.

Our night this week was 1001 Dalmations we had Shepards Pie, and "puppy chow" made with GF chex -it was SOOOO sweet -not the biggest hit in our house, but we all ate some.

Sorry no pictures, I am trying to take a picture each night before we dig in -but I do not decorate like most of you do and honestly it would be embarresing it is more about the food for me, and being GF/DF/ dye free it just looks so diffrent than all of yours that not sure it would hold a candle to your lovely spreads -we are loving it though!

 

[jannel80]

I've started a Pinterest page for Wreck it Ralph if anyone's interested in following. I found a few more ideas.

pinterest(dot)com/lisa_cox/wreck_it_ralph_party

Hi Lisa,

I tried to look up your Pinterest page for Wreck it Ralph and nothing came up. Can you give me the page again? Thank you!

 

[jannel80]

Hi Lisa,

I tried to look up your Pinterest page for Wreck it Ralph and nothing came up. Can you give me the page again? Thank you!

Nevermind, I found it! Great ideas!

 

[disney212]

We had our first theme movie night on Sunday. Family consists of me, DH, DD(23 teacher), DS (25 museum curator). Our movie was Frankenweenie. Menu consisted of Franken"weenies", "chiller" sauce (it was a build your own coney bar), Frightful fries, Electric cocktails and worms and dirt. Sorry but I didn't think to take any pictures, I will do better next time. Since we are adults we didn't have a craft but we did have a couple games; Pin the Tail on Sparky (we had a LOT of fun with that), and a quote game where I gave a quote from a Disney movie and they had to name the movie. We also had a sheet of questions regarding our upcoming trip in October. One of the questions I asked was, "I think our movie nights are stupid and I no longer wish to participate". I received a resounding "no" from everyone. Even the 25 year old son said he really enjoys them. We also had prizes (age appropriate) for the games; nail grooming sets, hand sanitizer (Star Wars themed), chocolate, and candy. We plan on having a movie night each month leading up to our trip. I will take pictures next time! I actually think the family enjoyed it more than I did.

 

[CoolSurfPenguin]

We watched Mulan to celebrate the Chinese New Year - Check it out here...

We ate teriyaki chicken, chow mein, orange chicken, a fortune cookie, fried rice, a honeybun snake (because it's the year of the snake & in the movie Mushu says "Let's go kick some honeybuns!"), and a Chinese donut (you know, the deep fried sugar coated yumminess you see in Chinese buffets).

We also made paper Chinese lanterns & did a little bit of training so we could fight if the Huns ever attack...

 

[CoolSurfPenguin]

Valentine's Day - Bambi: http://lifeisfantasmic.blogspot.com/2013/02/twitterpated.html

While watching Bambi, we ate frozen peas (couldn't forget our greens for Thumper), a PB&J deer sandwich, Thumper's carrots, Flower's pineapple & strawberry flower, strawberry hearts, and a heart cake since we were all twitterpated during Valentine's week.

I didn't see a lot of ideas for Bambi on here so I had to think outside the box a little... I think it worked out fine though (;

 

[DisneyChef]

Wow!
Those Bambi and Mulan nights sound great! I love your pb&j bambi, it's so cute! I'm hoping to start movie nights with my family soon, although we are unsure when our next trip will be. I have so many theme night ideas! I'll post them anyways so others can use them.

 

[Timandalicia]

We play going to Disney World. You can find almost every attraction song on you tube. We get out our tickets and maps and carry-ons. I make popcorn and roasted nuts. We do everything from go on the airplane to ride rides. My daughter loves to be room service, and my son is the jungle cruise skipper. I dj all of the appropriate attraction songs. We even go to the Mexican Pavillion for dinner. It's awesome to re-play the whole trip this way. Oh, and we even make a parade using the plush toys. The kids stand on the side line and wave to them as I parade them past to the music.

 

[DisneyChef]

That is such a great idea and is so cute! It sounds like so much fun!

 

[DisneyChef]

So here are some Ideas for BTMR.
MEAL: Main-Southern food...Fried chicked, corn on the cob, collard greens, and mashed potatoes. Drinks-Train oil...Chocolate milk w/ blue and/or green food coloring. Dessert-Mountain mud cups...Chocolate pudding in a cup with crushed m&m's and grahm crackers on top for dirt.

Activities: Grow your own crystals to mimick the stalagtites and stalagmites you see in the cave on the ride.(instructions below.) Play cowboy Charades! Print off a page of wild west/cowboy words and actions or write your own. use a cowboy hat as a basket. Play the same as regular charades. (maybe a prize for winner??) Decorate your own Bandanna. Buy white bandannas for everyone in your family at a local craft store. Decorate them with markers, and wear them the rest of the night.

Movie: If you have time or want to, you could watch a cowboy movie such as Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, or Tall Tale(which has Pecos Bill in it). I know that Roy and the Lone ranger are not Disney, but I always enjoyed them as a kid.
I hope someone finds these useful!

 

[DisneyChef]

For the Crystals you need a small plastic cup that is cut down to have 1'' tall sides. Take 1 piece of either limestone, or any shell and put it in the center of the cup. Next poor distilled vinegar on the shell until it is about halfway covered. Let it sit without being bumped and a semi warm area, but make sure it's not humid there. Check on them every 5 hours or so, because the crystals grow quickly. The crystals will continue growing for several days if you keep adding a little more vinegar to keep it halfway under. Kids love watch their crystal get bigger, but be care ful because if the crystals get to touching the plastic, they will eat right through it.(this can be quite cool to see though.) You could also try putting food coloring in one, and see if it makes the cystals another color.
This process does take some patience, but it's worth

 

[CoolSurfPenguin]

R is for Robot - Wall-E: http://lifeisfantasmic.blogspot.com/2013/02/r-is-for-robot-wall-e.html

We had ham & cheese squares condensed & stacked by Wall-E, earth dirt pudding w/ a gummy plant, a BnL strawberry-smoothie-in-a-cup, a milky way, star tots, space ice cream, & a chocolate Hal (Wall-E's pet cockroach) inside of his twinkie bed.

 

[CoolSurfPenguin]

Family Valentine's Dinner - Lady and the Tramp: http://lifeisfantasmic.blogspot.com/2013/02/family-valentines-night.html

We would have had Spaghetti & Meatballs like they do in the movie, but since Hubby isn't a fan of meatballs we ate Heart Shaped Chicken Parmesan & Spaghetti served with garlic bread, tropical fusion jello, & had Apple Pomegranate Martinelli's to drink.

Then we watched Lady and the Tramp together...

 

[MickeysFans]

Does anyone have ideas for villains? With the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom card game at MK, Kingdom Keepers books, etc. villains have a whole new life!
We play to watch House of Mouse/Villains, but I don't have nay good ideas for food for the dinner.
Thanks for any help!
12 days until we see The Mouse!

 

[tinkermama117]

Hi Everyone!
We started up our movie nights again. Our most recent one was Tangled. We posted the pics in our new blog. The link is in my signature.

Our next night is an Animal Kingdom theme. Kind of nervous about it since I don't know how I'm going to pull this one off. Any ideas?

 

[budafam]

I recently came across the movie "The Adventures of Brer Rabbit" and I want to do a movie night with this. Any ideas?