Post family Disney-theme night ideas HERE!

[dukehoopsfan]

JJ in wonderland - just LOVE your countdown chain. I am going to "borrow" this idea for our big family trip to WDW at Christmas!

 

[JJ in wonderland]

JJ in wonderland - just LOVE your countdown chain. I am going to "borrow" this idea for our big family trip to WDW at Christmas!

Thanks! It would like so cute with green and red on the Mickey head and a santa hat for Christmas!

 

[Jennifer84]

You guys are so creative!! Here's our first movie night.



Mermaid juice (blue gatorade), goldfish crackers



Ursula hotdogs



my ds looks like he's bored, but he was really having fun!



DD coloring her mermaid



My other DD



DS coloring his crab



We also had Velveta shells and blue jell-o, but I didn't get pictures of them for some reason

 

[Suzanne74]

I didn't see anything about Nemo on the front page

Quick clown fish "recipe" here
http://spoonful.com/disney/top-litt...ry#carousel-id=photo-carousel&carousel-item=8

Spinach Squirt-ata
http://spoonful.com/recipes/spinach-squirt-tata

Nemo Bento box ideas
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/recipes/finding-nemo-bento-*aid-e3603f00/

Activity:
Make jellyfish to hang up by using paper plates folded in half, painted or markered and ribbon tapped to represent tentacles.

 

[JJ in wonderland]

So we had Mary Poppins night which my brother and his girlfriend joined us for. DH and I love this movie, last year for MNSSHP we dressed as Mary and Bert.

I themed the food to the Jolly Holiday Cafe in Disneyland to get ourselves ready for our first DL trip.

Since it was almost 100 degrees and I got home from work at 6 it kind of limited what I wanted to do. I really need to take the day off next week to prepare haha.

To drink I tried to make Practically Perfect punch, which was limeade with pomegranate juice mixed in.

For dinner Waldorf Chicken Salad and individual ham and cheese quiches..

Dessert I made chocolate spoons with cherry "sugar" and mini dipped caramel apples like kids eat at the fair.

(The apples I did not do a full dip just a little flavor on top)

and next week...

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Tonight was our first movie night counting down for our next trip, in August. This is an impromptu trip, so we don't have many weeks to go!

On the menu was "Croque Monsier" (grilled cheese), green beans, and Enchanted Rose strawberry shortcake (got the idea from this thread). My hair appointment ran much longer than I anticipated, or I would have remembered that I bought a special loaf of bread for these sandwiches. I also forgot to clip a red rose from my flower bed for the centerpiece. Ah, well.

Belle joined us for dinner!

Our "stained glass" craft

Table decorations came out of DD's room

My plate. The adult's sandwiches had Baby Bell Swiss cheese (I am on WW, so anything to cut back), raspberry preserves, green onion, and chopped pecans on them. DE-LISH!

Dessert

This Belle is not camera-friendly

Next week's movie is Lion King! We will be at our vacation cottage, so it should be interesting. Hope I remember to pack everything!

 

[kayrosek]

Love this thread. My kids and I have been looking at it a lot since we are going to start doing Disney Theme Family Nights. Since my kids are older I am going to borrow the idea of another Dis mom and let them each take turns planning theme nights. Tonight we are doing our first trial run that two of the girls are helping me pull together at the last minute. I'll be back to post pictures later.

 

[Becc1]

We had to have a Teen Beach Movie Night because my kids and my friends DDs were so excited about the premiere!



We started our celebration at the pool, temps here have been over 100 every day this week so there was no where we would have rather been than cooling off in the pool





Dinner was Hawaiian BBQ pulled chicken sandwiches, chicken drumsticks, potato salad and fruit.









Ocean water to drink!



Beach cupcakes for dessert, the girls did the decorating, they each had a step. One frosted, one dipped the cupcake in the crushed graham crackers (sand) and the other placed the chocolate seashells on top!



Movie Snacks, goldfish, beach balls (cheese balls), flip flop cookies (that my friends DD decorated for me) and lobster and shark gummies.







I had printed out this Lingo Bingo game from online, you have to listen for the lines in the movie and try to get Bingo. The game lasted like 10 minutes because it was just too hard to play and get into the movie. The kids each got a beach ball as a prize!

We all really liked the movie, even DH who came in during the second half of the movie! My DD is already asking if we will have a movie night for the sequel!

 

[Zeebs]

I didn't see anything about Nemo on the front page

Quick clown fish "recipe" here
http://spoonful.com/disney/top-litt...ry#carousel-id=photo-carousel&carousel-item=8

Spinach Squirt-ata
http://spoonful.com/recipes/spinach-squirt-tata

Nemo Bento box ideas
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/recipes/finding-nemo-bento-*aid-e3603f00/

Activity:
Make jellyfish to hang up by using paper plates folded in half, painted or markered and ribbon tapped to represent tentacles.

They are fantastic I look forward to using those at some point, many thanks.

 

[Suzanne74]

We have had 2 nights this week. We are less than a month away and need to catch up!! Pretty simple and I have no pics


Fantasia:
We made wizard hats out of blue construction paper. Stapled them into a cone hat and cut out yellow moons and stars. The girls wore them with their red fleece christmas robes and turned them over for popcorn holders during the movie (got this idea from cozy cone popcorn holders.)

We ate Mickey waffles (I have the Belgium griddle) and I made mops out of turkey bacon. I covered the outside of Dixie cups with brown paper and filled with blueberries for the buckets.
Dessert was watermelon Mickey ears (I have the cookie cutter) and the popcorn.

The Little Mermaid:
We made jellyfish out of paper plate and ribbon and lined them along our mantle before the movie.
Dinner was warm crap dip with goldfish crackers surrounding the rim. We also had flounder fillets, shrimp scampi, coral (broccoli) and garlic bread shaped as mermaid tails.
Dessert was a 9x12 glass Pyrex full of rainbow Swedish fish "swimming" in blue jello.

 

[oopsiDAISY]

We just hosted an Indiana Jones themed birthday party for our son.

Decorations:








Scavenger Hunt:







Archeological Dig:





Cake:



And my favorite picture from the



And what party would be complete without mustaches?

 

[atruemom8]

Hope everyone's summer has been well. We just returned from the beach and will resume dinner and a movie since school is so close. ( Its how I make sure the family slows down at least once a week) We selected Oliver and company this week. I was wondering what you ladies could come up with. I did see the earlier post with Fagin's pick pocket sandwiches. I am thinking they will make their own pizza pita pockets I am just wanting to complete the meal. Any thoughts?

In addition I am also looking for all of your insight. I am sad to say at 33 years old I have never been to Disney. Yet I am a huge Disney fan..( well I thought I was until I have seen some the boards out here)..LOL... I have seen on here where some of you do a dinner and park planning or research to get the family prepared for a trip we are hoping for spring 2015.. it takes a while to save when there are 10 of us!! I would love to have guidance on how to go about this.
Thank you all.. much love

 

[My2Qtz0205]

Hope everyone's summer has been well. We just returned from the beach and will resume dinner and a movie since school is so close. ( Its how I make sure the family slows down at least once a week) We selected Oliver and company this week. I was wondering what you ladies could come up with. I did see the earlier post with Fagin's pick pocket sandwiches. I am thinking they will make their own pizza pita pockets I am just wanting to complete the meal. Any thoughts?

In addition I am also looking for all of your insight. I am sad to say at 33 years old I have never been to Disney. Yet I am a huge Disney fan..( well I thought I was until I have seen some the boards out here)..LOL... I have seen on here where some of you do a dinner and park planning or research to get the family prepared for a trip we are hoping for spring 2015.. it takes a while to save when there are 10 of us!! I would love to have guidance on how to go about this.
Thank you all.. much love

I don't think I've seen Oliver and Company, but I went through this entire thread and made a spreadsheet of all of the ideas. Beside the pita pockets, I have "Big Apple Apple Bars" as the dessert. The theme for decorations would be New York/Big Apple.

We have done a movie night with our park planning DVD as our movie. You can make a pizza in the shape of Mickey's head, and maybe an ice cream sundae with Oreos as Mickey's ears for dessert.

HTH!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

First up: a trip to our local zoo! We headed to the Africa section first.

DD on safari in our backyard:

Mufasa hanging out on the swing:

Dinner: "Zebra" steaks, Pride Rock baked potatoes, "Trees of Life" (broccoli)

Dessert: Rafiki's Banana Pudding Ice Cream Cupcakes (Weight Watchers recipe)

Our crafts. I made the lion mask, DD made the giraffe mask all by herself (I cut the shape and the eye holes)

Next up is Alice in Wonderland! I am excited because the kids haven't seen this one yet, and we will have breakfast with Alice & the Mad Hatter next month.

 

[JJ in wonderland]

DH and I watched jungle book this week.

Instead of making Indian we decided to buy. We started with Chilli Pakora which is hot green chillies made into fritters, then I had Aloo Gobi and DH had Mushroom Mattar and roti.....

For dessert I made,
Baloos Eancy Ants Fruit salad with Indian Melon, Papaya, and Dragon Fruit

and King Louis Mans Red Fire Banana Toffee Mousse ruin towers

Next week we go to France with the Aristocats!

 

[My2Qtz0205]

I am impressed by your adventurous eating. How was the fruit salad?

 

[JJ in wonderland]

The fruit salad was very good, I love dragon fruit but its pricey around here so any excuse to buy it Indian melon is similar to honey dew.

 

[rachael95]

Tired of me yet?

Peter Pan was accomplished at my parents house and I was so excited for this one, that I went all sorts of crazy!

Here's our table! Found the pirate table décor clearance at WalMart. Bought the cheap plastic goblets at Dollar Tree along with some craft jewels. Used a glue gun to glue the jewels to the goblets.

Menu: Pirate Ship Pizzas, Pirate Treasure (corn), Pirate Swords (fruit), Cannon Balls (chocolate chip cookie dough truffles), and Tick Tock Croc cake for dessert.

This was an awesome idea! Thank you so much for sharing. I love it. Definitely when DS is a few months older, I think we're going to be doing this. I love those pirate ship pizzas and the goblets. Such good ideas.

 

[My2Qtz0205]

The fruit salad was very good, I love dragon fruit but its pricey around here so any excuse to buy it Indian melon is similar to honey dew.

May have to try that for our Jungle Book night.

 

[oopsiDAISY]

The Disney Insider had a great article today with Star Wars snack ideas and recipes. Thought I would share the article here for anyone interested in having a SW movie night.

http://blogs.disney.com/insider/articles/2013/07/30/celebrate-disney-fandom-with-star-wars-snacks/