Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[MiniMelissa]

This was our first movie night which was right after Valentine's Day so Lady and the Tramp was very fitting. I hadn't seen the movie in years and forgot how much I liked the characters. We did a couple of coloring pages from spoonful.com and tried to make the paper cuties from that site, but we are apparently just too impatient to try and get them to look right

I loved our table setting....

 

[MiniMelissa]

Our second movie night was Disney's Dinosaur. The thing I love and look forward to with our Disney Movie Nights is seeing movies that I haven't seen for a long time. I think the last time I watched Dinosaur was at least 10 years ago! It is such a good movie and I love the scenery.

Our meal consisted of

For our activities we did a coloring page and we also made Dinosaur Feet out of craft foam. Our family had such a great time with this....even my mom's dog got in on the action!

 

[MiniMelissa]

Sorry for being such a post hog, but I wanted to get caught up ....

Anyway, the most recent Disney Movie Night we did was A Bug's Life. This is one of my son's favorite movies (even at 16). I think it is because the last time we went to Disney World (2007) he got to start the It's Tough To Be A Bug show which he loved!

We started out the night making some construction paper leaves for decorations above the table which I think made a difference for our night...it just kind of kicked it up a notch

We also made some bug masks using the printouts from the Terminix site

We decided to eat before we watched the movie since it took one of our family members longer than expected to get to my mom's house. Our meal consisted of:

During the movie we snacked on some PT Flea's Circus Mix

After the movie we made caterpillars out of wooden clothespins and turned them into "beautiful butterflies" by coloring papertowels with markers, misting them with water, and drying with a hair dryer. They turned out so cute! We glued magnets onto the back of some and others we hung from our leaf decor. It definitely looked like spring inside, even if it still looked like winter outside.

 

[Snickals]

LOVE looking through all the photos and wonderful ideas!!! We have 'family movie night' every Saturday, and am introducing my little girl to the wonderful Disney movies. She's only 19 months, so haven't started themed nights but this thread is just so GREAT!!!!

 

[shm_helene]

There are sooooo many awesome ideas on here! I was just wondering what age you've done these at. My dd will be 3 in July and is really picky with her food and doesn't like crafts much...I was wondering if maybe she is just a bit young yet?

 

[dsnyobsessed]

Just started using these boards! How do I access the individual boards for each movie? I can see the index that has been posted, but how do I find the right posts?? Thanks for helping a newbee!

 

[Raidra]

We did Disney Movie Night every Saturday for almost a year in preparation for our trip this past January, but now that we don't have a trip planned, we've spaced out our parties a bit and changed the theme to an area of one of the parks. For instance, last month we did Big Top Circus, watched Dumbo, the kids put on a Sideshow, etc, etc.

The kids want to do Tomorrowland this weekend, and I'm looking for some ideas! My husband suggested we let the kids drive around the block (we live on a very quiet street, and they sit on our laps in the driver's seat) for the Speedway. I was going to print out a bunch of pictures of Zurg and whatnot and have the kids shoot them with their Nerf guns. From some other posts on here, I'm going to do Laugh Floor Smile Fries and Space Mountain Rocks (Pirate Booty or Cheese Balls). But I need more ideas to round everything out! Food, decorations, activities, whatever! I'd love it if we could incorporate Carousel of Progress somehow..

We'll probably watch either Monsters Inc or Lilo and Stitch.

Thanks!

 

[CharmingElla]

Dsnycrzy and MiniMelissa I love both of your parties! Great ideas!!

 

[CoolSurfPenguin]

T is for Tiger - The Tigger Movie (http://lifeisfantasmic.blogspot.com/2013/04/t-is-for-tiger-tigger-movie.html)

We had olives, a Tiger sandwich (I didn't want to attempt a Tigger sandwich because I knew it wouldn't turn out nearly as pretty as the one in the link with only 1 kind of cheese), carrots, cheetos, a Tigger tail from Disneyland (I only gave Lil Dudeman a small smackerel so that our whole family could share it, but he didn't even like it... more for us!), & curly fries (orange & bouncy like Tigger's tail).

 

[Becc1]

Our Mary Poppins day

We had an early lunch instead of doing dinner. And yes my kids are still in their pjs, it was a lazy Saturday morning for us

Lunch was sandwiches, pasta salad and beans, not the most English meal I know but we did have penguin shaped pb&js!

After lunch we went to the park where the kids did chalk drawings like Bert does in the movie

We then flew some kites, the kids were absolutely hilarious. My DD was the only one who could actually keep her kite in the air and then of course she set it down and it blew away and went into the pond!

We came home to watch the movie and have tea and some "spoonsful of sugar" cookies

And of course we had cupcakes for dessert!

 

[Deffenm]

I love seeing what everyone does. Now that we actually have a trip planned we can begin doing these again. Of course this trip will just be my daughter and myself, my boys have other commitments that they wanted to do instead, they are getting so big. They do however like to do the disney themed nights so they at least can still participate.

 

[Brojoef]

For Lilo and Stich we cheated a bit and got take out from our favorite hawiian place. We enjoyed Hula Chicken, Macaroni Salad, Sticky Rice, Hawaiian Roles and Fruit Skewers.





Printed images for centerpiece and cut out a leaf shape from poster board for a placemat



Fruit skewers inserted into the top of a pineapple



Aloha Cupcakes for dessert

 

[Brojoef]

For The Incredibles movie night, we had Super Hero Sandwhiches, Dashes Fast Fries, Violet's disappearing Salad, Syndrom Stopper drink, and for dessert Frozone Ice Scream

 

[Brojoef]

A Bug's Life movie night was so much fun. I think partly because spring has just arrived and so there was lots of fun bug/spring items at the dollar store which is always are go to place for movie nights.



For dinner we ate some picnic/BBQ type foods. We also had lady bugs which were stawberries slice in half with mini chocolate chips inserted in the berry. Green grapes on skewers also make great caterpillars.






Dessert- Dirt Cups: Chocolate Pudding, Cookie Crumbles and Gummy Worms
Walking Sticks: Pretzel Rods dipped in Chocolate

 

[Deffenm]

Those are great ideas! I am glad spring is finally here too.

 

[MiniMelissa]

@ Becc1 -- I love the penguin cupcakes! They are so cute!

@ Brojoef -- I adore the pineapple top with fruit skewers -- what a bright, fun, and delicious idea!

 

[MiniMelissa]

My son returned from his choir trip to Disney World so we decided to move up our Disney Movie Night to coincide with his return (his request). My sister picked the movie Beauty and the Beast which I love!

I have been sending out invitations for each of our movie nights, but usually forget to take a picture -- not this time


My mom and I spent some time creating our enchanted guests the night before our Disney Day.


Lumiere (Thanks to spoonful.com)


Cogsworth (Thanks to kimskandykreations.blogspot.com)


Babette (Again thanks to kimskandykreations.blogspot.com)


Chip (my sister's cup from when she was little)


The Enchanted Rose


We also decided that we would try our hand at some French phrases during our meal. I'm sure we butchered the pronunciations -- my apologies to the French


For our meal we tried to stay true to some of the dishes mentioned in the Be Our Guest song. So we had:

Beef Ragout


Cheese Souffle


Gray Stuff (cookies and creme mousse)


Beauty and the Beast Bordeaux


Gaston's Eggs


We watched the movie after our meal and once that was over we were going to make some "stained glass windows" out of waxed paper, crayon shavings, and construction paper. However, Mother Nature decided that we needed to have yet another snow storm in MN (apparently she forgot it is the middle of April) so our craft time was eliminated.

Instead of our crafts we made Cogsworth Cupcakes for our after movie dessert (thanks again to spoonful.com).


It was a lot of fun and a great way to welcome my son home. He was telling us about all of the fun he had at Disney World and made us really look forward to our upcoming family vacation.

 

[Alysa]

These are amazing!!!!

dsnycrzy, I've wanted to post for a while now to tell you how great I thought your nights were. And your kids are all adorable but you little boy? I just want to gobble him up, he's so cute!

Marissa, Yours are amazing as always, love the blog - the Tigger tail is so cute! Do you have a recipe?

Becc, Those cupcakes are adorable. And welcome spring! I'm so glad it's warming up - the kids look like they had a blast. I love the pic of your daughter sipping tea.

Brojoef - your tables look so pretty, like they were professionally styled! My favourite is the Incredibles. We are doing that one this week. I'm sewing a red tank and a bib for my violet and jack-jack this week to get ready. Mine will be nothing like as fabulous looking though!

Melissa - your night is so awesome! I only do one food and one activity per movie night. Your was so great! Love the rose! Is that a craft? And I'm jealous of your soufflé - it rose so beautifully!

 

[oopsiDAISY]

So, this past Saturday was our Swiss Family Robinson movie night. This can be chalked up as somewhat of a FAIL. Our library DOES have the movie, I have checked it out there before. I had every intention of calling ahead to have it set aside for us. Work was extremely busy last week, and the phone call was never made. So, Saturday morning we stopped at the library hoping against all hope that it was there...

It was not. How do you have a proper movie night without the movie??? Well, we just improvised, that's how. We ended up renting Life of Pi and watching it instead. Not a perfect scenario, but we wanted our movie night, and I had everything else ready to go. So there you have it.

Without further ado, our Swiss Family Robinson themed Life of Pi movie night...

Invitations in disguise:


The invitation:


Decorations:




The evening started with Coconut Races on the front porch:






Then it was time for dinner...

Swiss Family Casserole:


Tropical Island Fruit Salad:


Castaway Coconut Pie:


The spread:


And our next movie night theme:

 

[MiniMelissa]

Alysa -- the Enchanted Rose is a 2 liter bottle with the bottom cut off and a silk rose suspended by fishing line which is tied around the top of the bottle (under the cap). My husband claimed this as his project since it involved fishing line....LOL! I just go with whatever gets him most involved in our movie days and if playing with fishing line and flowers makes him happy, I'm all for it