Archive for Family Movie Night

14 Apr 2012
Family Movie Night

Family Movie Night-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

When I was a very little girl, my Grandma took me to the movies to see Snow White. The witch scared me so much it took me 25 years to get over it. I’m still not a fan, but that didn’t stop me from picking Walt Disney’s Snow White for our family movie night.

Want to recreate the fun at home? Here’s what we did:

Dinner
Snow White’s Dwarf Sized Roast Beef Sammies and Happy’s Honey Glazed Carrots

Dessert

The Evil Queen’s Special Apple Turnovers

Did I take pictures?  No.  They’re the mountain dew sauce ones and they’re not only super easy to make but so good you’ll want to push the evil queen off the mountain yourself to get at her apples.

What?

Thanks to Make and Takes, we also made these adorable pipe cleaner and pony bead tiaras!

I used some pipe cleaners we had at home and they really had trouble keeping their shape.  We braided two together, tightly, but to keep them on the girls heads we had to use bobby pins.

Family movies night doesn’t have to be hard to put together or super involved.  Big Daddy was out of town so the girlies and i had a great big girlie fest on Sunday night.  With gas prices sky rocketing, we’re going to be working on making more fun at home.   You can also check out previous Family Movie Night ideas here.

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25 Aug 2011
Family Movie Night • Tied Up

Last Week of Funner-Family Movie Night-School of Rock

We haven’t done the family movie night thing this summer, so I deciced when planning out our Last Week of Funner activities, that we had to do a movie night and I wanted it to be school themed.  I immediately landed on School of Rock starring Jack Black.

And then went to town planning out a school themed evening of fun.

We decided to make pencil toppers and book marks as crafts.  I can’t link you to the original site for the book marks.  They’ve been floating around Pinterest and I made a mental note that they’d be fun to make.

I had no paper clips and all we could find at the craft store were teal, so we opted to buy matching ribbons, but the best thing about them is that most people probably DO have paper clips and if you’re crafty, I bet you have ribbon scraps.  If you can’t tell how to make them from the picture (and I bet you can), here’s a link to some instructions, but they really are the easiest things ever and are super cute, too.

I had found a few sites that linked to making your own pencil toppers and that was my plan when we showed up at the craft store.  However, I found a make your own pencil topper KIT and decided it would take less time and effort to buy the kit.

The toppers are adorable.  If you want to make your own toppers, I found these adorable foam ideas as well as some super cute felt ideas.

Dinner?  Why, of course it had to be quintessential lunch food and I settled on Sloppy Toms, tater tots and corn.

And for dessert?

Well, we were supposed to have adorable oreo truffles dipped in chocolate and made to look like apples.  LIke this!

 

 

They did NOT turn out like that. The chocolate wouldn’t melt and just turned grainy and stiff. The truffles tasted fine, though they were no where NEAR spectacular and I’m pretty much not posting a picutre of our little brown balls with a pretzel stuck into the top. Pretend mine looked like the one up there. ;)  Becuase what they really looked like where brown balls of poo with pretzels.  Which aren’t attractive.  I tried to dye white melting chocolate red, so I’m wondering if that changed the composition of it.  It’s possible.  The kids and Big Daddy liked them. I thought they were too rich and decided I’d just rather eat a darn oreo.

 

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20 Nov 2010
Big Happenings • Family Movie Night

Family Holiday Movie Night-Fred Claus

I feel at this point that it would be redundant to tell you about how much I love Christmas.  That’s obvious, right?  And while I keep myself in check and don’t decorate until the week of Thanksgiving, it’s never to early to start partaking in another one of my favorite Christmas activities.

Christmas Movies!

Yes, the DVR will be getting a work out as the Princess and I make sure not to miss the best of the, admittedly, schmaltzy Christmas movies they play on ABC Family and the Hallmark channel.    We have a collection of Christmas movies and cartoons, of course, and to make sure we actually get to watch them this year, I’ve decided to implement a holiday movie night.  As we did with Curious George, we’ve made a craft and had a snack and I’ll be serving a themed dinner as well.

Since the North Pole is cold, we had soup for dinner.  It was hard to decide what kind to make because we’re a fan of so many, but I basically went out to allrecipes.com and made the best rated soup I could find (without digging too far or getting too obsessive).  I did reject Taco soup because, well, the North pole is north of the border.  Not south.  I landed on Delicious Ham and Potato soup. It’s very well reviewed and since it was mostly white (like snow!  Which they have at the North Pole!) I thought it was a good choice.  We really liked it and it was similar in flavor to our favorite soup (which I wrote about here. It takes the number one slot!) without as much fat and calories.  No heavy cream.  No bacon.

While our dessert was baking and the soup was simmering,  the big girls and I made Santa door hangers.

The Princess’s

Littlebit’s for the room she shares with Baby Bee.

(see those tiny hands going for Santa!  That’s why I used craft foam!)

We got the pattern from the door hanger from DLTK.com.  However, I knew that paper door hangers wouldn’t last long, so we bought craft foam from Joann’s.  I also bought foam adhesive that is sold along with the foam.  There were small sheets of sticky dots that adhered the foam.  It worked SO much better than glue.

I used the pattern, cut out the pieces and we traced them onto the foam.  It was simple. (I cut and Littlebit assembled).

But, the Pièce de résistance? The santa cake!  I googled, um, Santa Claus desserts.  I found the original picture at Happy Home Baking and followed her links to the Japanese site. Don’t know how to make chocolate curls?  Oddly enough, you can check out this Youtube video by Redbook for an easy to follow tutorial.

We had to use coconut, however, for Santa’s beard becuase I didn’t find peanut free white chocolate.  That was okay, of course, but if you can use white chocolate I would encourage it!  And you could probably use raspberries if you’re not a fan of strawberries.  It would look cute that way too.

I made and iced the cake and The Princess and Littlebit decorated it with Baby Bee helping.

It was pretty good.  And cute!

I’m really looking forward to sharing my other Holiday themed family movie nights with you, so be sure to check back!

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12 Aug 2010
Family Movie Night

Family Move Night-Curious George

A little more than a year ago, Big Daddy and I put down money on a house that we didn’t buy.  At that time, though, we realized that we needed to save money for the financial mess that was pending in our future (you remember that fiasco, don’t you?.  Like a lot of Americans, we knew we had to scale back and work a little harder at making our own fun.  We bought $5 pizzas from LIttle Ceasar’s and started having Family Movie Night (choosing movies from our own DVD collection).

At the same time, I stumbled across a blog by a woman who was doing Family Movie Night too, but she had themes.  THEMES.  Desserts to go along with the movie the movie they were watching.  I loved that idea, but life changed and things changed and it never got off the ground.

After Big Daddy shared with me how much money we’d spent the last few months, I knew that it was time to tighten the belt a little bit, so Family Movie Night Fridays seemed like the answer.  But this time?  I was bringing it!

Curious George Family Movie Night

For dinner, we basically had fondue.  I made this basic cheese fondue recipe,  a basic hot dog chili dip and some herbs in olive oil for bread dipping.

I cubed up bread, put out veggies and cut up some hot dogs.  I gave everyone a shish kabob skewer and we pretended they were jungle spears and we dipped our way through dinner. The kids really liked this.

We also did a few rounds of who could make the best jungle animal noise.

  • Littlebit was the best monkey
  • Big Daddy was the best lion (even though we concluded that lions don’t live in the jungle and it was ironic because they are the kings of it.)
  • The Princess was the best elephant
  • I was the best bird
  • Baby Bee was the best adorable small baby throwing her food to the dog.

After dinner (boy, are cupcakes an incentive to get kids to help you clean up) we made monkey cupcakes.  Normally, the monkey cupcakes I’ve seen have called for Nutter Butter cookies (which are a no-no in our house due to the Princess’s peanut allergy), but we improvised…

We made yellow cupcakes and frosted them with chocolate ice cream.

We used Vanilla Wafers for the monkey’s muzzle, chocolate chips for their eyes and rolos for their ears.  However, we found that the rolos were a bit heavy and the monkeys that had half vanilla wafer ears worked better and looked cuter.

Some red gel icing made monkey mouths.

The girls were super proud of their creations.  They even acted like monkeys in honor of them.

We capped off our nights by eating our monkey cupcakes while watching Curious George.  The movie.  Not the PBS series, even though I like that too (but I liked it better with William H. Macy as the narrator, if anyone’s asking).

More Monkey Activities

Want more monkey activities for your own monkey themed movie night? Check out DLTK’s monkey crafts page,  PBS Kids’ Curious George Parent-Child activity page, or for older kids, these adorable pipe cleaner monkeys.

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