{"id":39934,"date":"2015-06-17T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/?p=39934"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:30:37","slug":"disney-movie-theme-night-monsters-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/disney-movie-theme-night-monsters-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Movie Theme Night: Monsters Inc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What exactly is a Disney Movie Theme Night?\u00a0 If you ask my kids, they’d tell you it is one of their favorite things that needs to happen more often.\u00a0 For me, it’s a great way to gather our family together for a night of fun and memories.\u00a0 A Disney Movie Theme Night is a whole evening of fun activities and food that compliment a chosen movie.<\/p>\n

The first step of throwing a movie night, begins with picking a movie.\u00a0 For this post, I chose Monsters Inc., as this is a family favorite that we hadn’t watched in a few months.\u00a0 Now with a movie in mind, it was time to come up with some crafts or fun games we could do.\u00a0 I also had to think about how I could incorporate the theme into our dinner and dessert.\u00a0 If you need some inspiration, do an internet search and then adjust the suggestions to fit your family.<\/p>\n

Once I had a plan in mind, I needed to\u00a0decide when we would do this.\u00a0 I\u00a0chose the Saturday before Easter\u00a0so we could\u00a0include the egg coloring into the plans.\u00a0 With my husband on board, we gathered and shopped for the items we would need to have for our first movie night.<\/p>\n

Saturday arrived and I put up the schedule and also the Laugh Meter for the kids to see.<\/p>\n

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#1: Randall’s Color Changing Eggs<\/p>\n

I set up the table for egg coloring by putting down newspaper for spills, getting the egg dye put in glasses and then spoons for getting the eggs out of the glasses.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I called the family out to the table and the egg coloring began.\u00a0 Each kid was given 6 eggs to color.<\/p>\n

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When we were done, the kids helped me clean off the table so we could move onto the next activity.\u00a0 Time to check our Laugh Meter and we colored in some of it.<\/p>\n

#2:\u00a0 Dinner<\/p>\n

We had Boo’s Baby Meatloaf (meatloaf cooked in muffin pans), Mr Waternoose’s Lumpy Grumpy Potatoes (mashed potatoes with skins on & left lumpy), Sulley’s Sauce (applesauce with blue food coloring added) and Celia’s SSSsssoda (any soda).<\/p>\n

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The kids thought the blue applesauce was weird, but it didn’t keep them from eating it.\u00a0 We finished our meal and added colored more in on our Laugh Meter.<\/p>\n

#3:\u00a0 Monster’s Inc. Movie<\/p>\n

Time to sit down and watch the movie.\u00a0 I’m a fan of the Pixar division of Disney and really like this movie.\u00a0 I fell in love with Sulley, the large, blue, fuzzy monster and his best friend Mike, the round, green, one-eyed monster.\u00a0 Sulley & Mike make up the #1 Scare Team collecting screams that power Monstropolis.\u00a0 The two friends are put to the test as they help Boo, a human child, get back home.\u00a0 The movie is full of jokes and gags that will keep everyone laughing.\u00a0 Make sure you watch all the way through the credits.\u00a0 We checked our Laugh Meter, when the movie was over,\u00a0and filled it in more.<\/p>\n

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#4:\u00a0 Roz’s Paperwork<\/p>\n

I set up the table with paper, crayons, dice and pre-made slips of paper with different features written on them. (arms, legs, eyes, noses, mouths, horns and ears).<\/p>\n

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The family joined me and I explained that we would be drawing a monster.\u00a0 First thing to do is draw a body shape…..nothing else.\u00a0 Each person can have a dice (or you can pass one around) and then I chose a slip of paper to see what we would be adding to our monster.\u00a0 Everyone rolls the dice to see how many of that feature they would have to draw onto their body shape.\u00a0 So if I pulled horns, the first person would roll the dice.\u00a0 Let’s say they got 4, they would draw 4 horns.\u00a0 The next person would roll and\u00a0they got 1, they would only draw one horn.\u00a0 This continues until everyone has rolled the dice.\u00a0 After everyone has added the horns, you pull the next slip of paper and start the dice roll around the table again.\u00a0\u00a0Continue doing this until you’ve added all the features to your monsters.\u00a0 Since everyone\u00a0is going to\u00a0roll different numbers,\u00a0this will make every monster unique.<\/p>\n

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We displayed our masterpieces for about a week, which was a great way to remember our fun night.\u00a0 We checked our Laugh Meter and we were getting close to having our tank full!<\/p>\n

#5:\u00a0 Mike’s Monstropolis Sundae<\/p>\n

I set up the table with a large bowl filled with vanilla ice cream, a large dish with different candy toppings, chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, whip cream and individual bowls and spoons.<\/p>\n

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This sundae is over the top and the kids reactions when they realized they were going to be adding all these different things to the bowl was priceless.\u00a0 Each person got to add an item.\u00a0 We started with the chocolate syrup, then the caramel syrup and then the kids picked Swedish Fish, Nerds, Gummy Life-Savers, Hershey Chocolate Bar pieces and marshmallows to add to the bowl.\u00a0 We then topped the concoction off with an entire can of whip cream!\u00a0 The kids laughed and licked their lips in anticipation of tasting their creation.<\/p>\n

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We served everyone a bowl of the sweet sundae and even with our two grown sons joining us for dessert, we were unable to eat it all.<\/p>\n

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After dessert, we checked the Laugh Meter one last time.\u00a0 It was full (and so were the rest of us)!!\"imageedit_1_7400220923\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We had a very fun night and it was a great way to spend quality time with our children.\u00a0 The kids still talk about our first theme night and look forward to being surprised by another one in the near future.<\/p>\n

What movie will inspire you to try this at your home? Have you ever done a themed movie night before? What are your tips?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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