Family Movie Night: Alpha and Omega & Little Giants

We were able to fit in two movie nights this weekend which the kids, of course, thought was the coolest.  On Friday night, we watched Alpha and Omega.  It is a cute movie about 2 wolves that get relocated from Canada to Idaho and have to try to find their way home.

For the treat, I made wolf cupcakes which I learned how to do from this video.  The cupcakes looked kind of Halloween wolf more than friendly cartoon wolf but they followed the theme well and the kids thought they were cool.  I meant to make them a light gray color but added to much black coloring gel so they were black wolves.

On Saturday night we watched Little Giants.  I wanted to do a football theme since it was Superbowl weekend (which is practically a holiday in our house) and we hadn't done a football movie yet.  I forgot what a good movie this is - I hadn't seen it in nearly 20 years (yes, I am getting old!).  The kids really liked the movie and the treats.

To make the treats, make rice krispie treats using this recipe and shape them into footballs.  Dip the tops in chocolate and once the chocolate has set, use white chocolate for the laces and lines.

L-Monster couldn't have a treat but he was dressed for the occasion! And V-girl has on her hat that we bought at $2.99 sale at Children's Place and she hasn't taken off since she got it.  She is even sleeping in it tonight.

Family Movie Night: How to Train a Dragon

How to Train a Dragon was such a cute movie!  We hate friends over to enjoy this movie night with us and all the kids really liked it.

For the treat, I made cupcakes and frosted them into a mound with light brown frosting and I had the kids make viking horns that stuck into the cupcakes.  I found the horns online - I searched again but can no longer find them :( - printed them and then had the kids cut them out and glue them to toothpicks.

I also would have liked to have viking hats for the kids to wear - here is a template - but I ran out of time.  Again.  Oh the joy of babies! lol!

Even without the viking hats, the night was a success!

Family Movie Night: Iron Man 2

I knew that Iron Man 2 was coming out soon so when I saw  this Iron Man candy at the convenient store, I snatched them up and stored them until the DVD release.  I always feel bad when I don't go to more effort for treats but the kids never care - they just love sugar (in any form!).

For the first Iron Man, I made an arc reactor cake (you can view it here) and printout masks (like the one here).

Family Movie Night: Marmaduke

This movie was only so-so which is a bummer because the kids were REALLY excited to see it. But as V-girl said, "it wasn't as good as I thought it would be".

For the treat, I put Cocoa Puffs, Milk Duds and Whoppers in a plastic bowl to look like dog food.  And I cut bones out of chocolate chip cookies.  If I would have planned ahead better I would have bought cheap plastic dog bowls and painted their names on.

V-girl asked that I please point out that she has shorts on. ;)

Family Movie Night: ET

Anybody want to guess what our treat was for ET?  If you guessed Reese's pieces, then you guessed right!! It just seemed like a no brainer. :)

Family Movie Night: Diary of a Wimpy Kid

My kids were super excited to watch this movie!  They looked up when it was coming to DVD and asked if we could watch it for movie night that week.

I wanted to do something different for a treat - I feel like I always do cookies, cakes and cupcakes - and wanted to make the treat look like a diary.  Well, not a diary, a journal.  I looked at looked at the grocery store and the best thing I came up with was frosted pop tarts.  I used frosting to make the pop tarts look like a journal.  I drew the main character on one side and "writing" on the other.  And of course I had to pair it with a piece of cheese which immediately ignited a "cheese touch" game in our house.

Family Movie Night: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

For Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief I decided to make lightning bolt cookies and we had Voltage Mountain Dew.

As you can see from my cookies, they didn't turn out too well. When K-man saw them he thought we were watching a movie about tornadoes.  Again, I used store bought cookie dough and as you know, THAT is the problem.  I think I really need to think about making and freezing the cookie dough so I always have it on hand.

I rolled out the cookie dough and cut each one into the shape of a lightning bolt.  I frosted them with light blue frosting and sprinkled them with blue pop rocks so they would add a little pop and fizz when then kids ate them.

My niece, the Kirsten8or who is was reading the book series and is very into Greek mythology joined us for the evening as did our neighbor Ethan who is very into our movie nights. :)