I can't post pictures for some reason, maybe cuz I'm a newbie, but we had a fun family night this Monday. My husband and I work together to make our Mickey Mondays extra special. I pick a theme, He tackles the food that goes with our theme, and I cover decorations and activities. We hardly ever watch a movie for our family night, because we are usually focusing on a ride or show from WDW. This week was the Seven Dwarves Mine Train! We had 7 tiny items on our menu, from the simple "Sleepy's crunchy dwarf hats" (Bugles) to "Dopey's jiggly gem dessert". (jello squares!)Everything was tiny and he had a plate with 7 of everything! Miniature hot dogs in little buns, Mini hamburgers (he used kona Hawaiian rolls as the buns), mini-pepperoni pizzas, small twice baked potatoes. (made using those little finger potatoes) and golden mac & cheese cups made in a tiny muffin pan! He really outdid himself. As for me, I decorated my favorite way, by using things we have around the house or re-purposed from other parties. For example, we have candle lanterns as decor in our living room, so I borrowed those as a centerpiece, along with a tin bucket filled with apple candles snagged from the fall decoration bin. (A nod to Snow White) I sprinkled gems we had left over from various crafts all around the lanterns and pail, and gathered some up in little tin containers I had. It doesn't have to be much to make it special. Activities were games, like search the mine for gems. Our game room in the basement is pretty dark, even in the day, so I cracked glow bracelets in 2 colors for the kids, and had them find their color bracelet. There were 5 for each of them to find. At the last minute, I strung up 2 strands of Christmas lights to make it look a little less scary down there. This was probably their favorite activity of the night. The other activities were
Pass the Poison Apple,(hot potato)
Wishing Well coin toss (only we used paper apples), and
Dopey’s Memory/Trivia: Need seven dwarves made of Hershey’s kisses with answers to Snow White trivia on the bottom. Also need questions. How to play: Ask a question. The kiddo whose turn it is gets to look underneath one kissable dwarf to see if they have the right answer. If they get it right, they get to keep the dwarf. We let daddy play, and the kids won, each earning 6 dwarves. The dwarves took me a half hour to make, maybe a little more. But they were so cute that my kids still haven't been able to eat them. They were definitely appreciated, even though I didn't take the time to make sure I made one of each specific dwarf...for example, they all have beards, (so there is no Dopey) and I didn't add glasses to make Doc authentic. I have pictures of everything on my blog and lots more ideas for family nights, too. Just look under Mickey Mondays. I also do fun countdowns with my kids for Disney and holidays. I don't make anything from my blog, or anything, I just like to feel that what I'm writing is actually getting seen! Also, I just like to share my love of Disney!
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