The lazy days of summer are drawing to a close. School is back in session, or for some, will be soon. Homework, practices, sports games have all begun, leaving only a night to two available for family time and by then, everyone is too exhausted to go anywhere. So what do you do? In our home, we have Family Movie Night. Once a week, we pick a movie that everyone can enjoy, turn down the lights and escape into the world of make believe for a little while. To make Family Movie Night something everyone looks forward to I like to pick a theme based on the movie and plan a light dinner, drinks and/or snacks accordingly. I also head to my local dollar store and stock up on movie size candies and, if I’m lucky, I can find the red and white paper popcorn bags for individual servings and I arrange them all on the “concession stand” – a table in the living room.
This fall we will I am so excited because Disney just released five Classic films for the first time ever on Blu-Ray. Hercules, Tarzan, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Three Musketeers and finally, The Adventures of Ichabod Crane and Mr. Toad. My daughter used to love for us to read her the Hercules story before bed (she loves Meg, I am partial to Pain and Panic) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks was a movie from my childhood that I can now share with my kids. And of course who can forget Mickey, Donald and Goofy and their quest to save Princess Minnie, the beautiful soundtrack of Tarzan, the traveling adventures of Mr. Toad and the spooky tale of the Headless Horseman. To celebrate their release and the re-introduction of our own Family Movie Nights, I have already put together my event themes!
Tarzan – Jungle theme decor. “Gorillas Nest” pasta salad with English biscuits and Terk’s chocolate covered bananas for dessert.
Hercules – Greek theme decor. Gyros and Greek salad for dinner, lightening bolt shaped cookies.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Magic/witch them decor. Meatloaf “bedknobs” with witches broomstick breadsticks, Comic Creepers Oreo Cookies.
The Three Musketeers – Everything in three theme. Tri-colored pasta salad with chicken, steamed carrots, pea and green beans, and triple berry pie.
The Adventures of Ichabod Crane and Mr. Toad – Thanksgiving themed. Roast turkey breast sliders with cranberry spread, mashed potato balls and pumpkin pie brownies.
Disney Mamas has three sets of these five classic films to give away. Details for entry are below. Do you have any ideas for family movie night? Share them with us in the comments section. We can’t wait to read them!
You can enter up to two times per person via different entry methods mentioned above. This giveaway will end August 21, 2014 at 12:00 AM PST.
The giveaway is open to residents of the Continental United States only, ages 18 years old and up.
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My daughter adores Princess Sofia!
My youngest loves Mickey Mouse clubhouse and my oldest loves sophia
Sofia the First is there favorite.
Order a pizza and hang out with the family.
We recommend Papa Murphy’s Take-n-Bake!
Movie night ideas. Forts and pallets, Disney tees, all our disney pillow pets, lots of popcorn:)
I’m coming over! Save me a seat! LOL!
Bed nobs! It’s been years!
That’s the one I’m excited about most. 🙂
For Three Musketeers, I think I’d go more with an Americanized French food theme (NO escargots!). It would start out with cheese and either sliced baguette or mini-croissants then go on to roasted chicken and either au gratin potatoes or fancy mac & cheese and then dessert. Chocolate mousse or mini eclairs would be fun! A bit much for movie night but it sure would be fun!
That sounds wonderful!
Blankets, pillows, popcorn, junior mints, and milk duds – that’s how we do movie night 🙂
That sounds like a great movie night!
For Ichabod Crane I would do more of a Halloween type theme but using only black, white and gray for colors. Maybe carve pumpkins. White chocolate covered marshmallows decorated like ghosts. Pumpkin spice beverages. Buy toy horses and men figures to put on them. Remove the men’s heads and paint the body and horse black. lol Maybe more detail than you were looking for with this. For Three Musketeers movie, it doesn’t have anything to do with the setting but the movie always makes me think of the candy so I would do a 3 Musketeer flavored cupcake.
That is a brilliant idea!
We open out the sleeper-sofa and load it down with pillows and have popcorn and fondue.
I like the theme ideas!
That sounds delightful!
We pop popcorn and my son gets all of his toys that are relevant to the movie we are watching and we all watch together
Ah! That’s cute!
Get some popcorn with my girls and cuddle up. That or have a sleepover in a tent in th back yard and watch on the iPad!
I love movie night! No kiddos around here yet, so we do more action, comedy, or romance themed movies — Mine and his favorite Disney movie though is Fox & The Hound 🙂
Buy pretzel sticks, order a pizza. Some apple juice, and then the feature entertainment
Theme ideas are cute especially the chocolate covered bananas for Tarzan!