FMN: Jack the Giant Slayer

Tonight's movie was Jack the Giant Slayer! For out treat we ate "magic bean seeds" (also known as jelly beans 😉)

Season Finale of Game of Thrones, season 3

Since tonight is the finale episode of season 3 of Game of Thrones, it only seemed fitting to have a dinner fit for Westeros!

I used this recipe from the awesome Inn at the Crossroads for dinner. For dessert, I made lemon raspberry tarts. Since it was was Subday and I didn't want a lot of work, I bought mini tartlet cram users, filled with lemon pie filling, and topped with raspberries ( and dress lemon balm from my herb garden). We normally drink spiced wine with every episode but it seemed too hot for hot wine so we stuck with normal wine.

Yummy dinner and dessert! Now, let the Games begin!! 

FMN: Escape from Planet Earth

When I asked the big kids if they had any treat ideas for this movie, K-man immediately said, "slurpee!!".  Easy AND yummy - sounds perfect to me.  I also made "blue alien popcorn" from this recipe: http://life-should-be-delicious.blogspot.com/2011/07/jello-popcorn.html.

Kids loved the treats and the movie!  

FMN: Captain America

I love it when we find a movie that the kids like and we, the parents, like also.  Now that the older kids are getting tweenish we find movies like that a lot more often.  Captain America was one of those movies! We tend to be fans of comic book movies but this one was a little different because it is set in 1942.  The main character (played by the dreamy Chris Evans) has a lot of heart and good values which I really liked.

We started the night off with pizza that looked like Captain America's sheild.  I bought a pizza from the super market deli, rearranged the pepperonis and added a few more pepperonis where needed and a star shaped piece of mozzarella. We all thought it turned out pretty good! It didn't look quite as good after I cooked it but it was still easy to tell what it was.

For dessert we had Bomb Pops but you there are SO many possibilities!  Just think of all the different red, white and blue desserts there are for 4th of July... any of those would work great!

Halloween Family Movie Nights! Casper and Hocus Pocus

Casper came out when I was in middle school an I loved it!  That is when Christina Ricci was WAY cool and Devon Sawa was WAY cute (even if he only appeared in the film for about 30 seconds).  One of my best friends (then and now) and I used to hole up in our back family room with magazines and candy weekend and summer night after night talking and watching this movie.  That is probably why I could still recite most the movie by heart when I watched it with my kids 16 years later. And I still looked forward to the part when Casper turns into a real boy for only 1/2 of a song and float dances with Cat and says, "Can I keep you?"  AHHHHHH!

As with my most recent ongoing theme, this picture is pretty poor quality and even worse, I didn't even get a picture of just the treats.  Ugh!

I used caramel apples covered in tissue paper (wrap the apple in wax paper first) and tied with ribbon to resemble the popular lollipop ghosts. Like this:

Hocus Pocus

For this movie night I made witch hat cookies by "gluing" a Hershey Kiss to a fudge stripe cookie with frosting and adding an orange bow.  These cookies were super simple and fit the theme great!  I also made a batch and took them to a Halloween party the next night. They were a big hit!

Family Movie Night: Gulliver's Travels

I have to just say, there is something that I really like about Jack Black.  He makes me laugh and he plays the "quirky" guy SO well. I have never read the book (ya, I know, I some how bypassed it when in school) so I am not sure how it compares to the book but I thought the movie was cute and the kids really liked it.

Since Gulliver is a giant in his new land, I made lots of mini items for the treat so the kids could feel a little "giant" themselves.

We had mini pizzas, mini pigs in a blanket, mini candy bars, mini chocolate chip cookies (these were my favorite!), mini M & M's and mini apple pies (those were my hubby's favorite!).

(Again, I apologize for the bad picture.  It has become very clear to me that I need to find a better place to take pics than my messy counter that leaves a glare.  And maybe I should experiment with my camera to get better pictures.  If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them!)

FMN: The Mask and Tron Legacy

Although I seem to have a hard time finding enough time to post, our movie nights continue on!  I have a lot that we have done that haven't made it up yet so my goal is to get them up over the next couple of weeks.  They won't be in order because, well, honestly, I can't remember when we did some and I was too busy/lazy/etc to get the pics dated. :( Really though, you probably don't care WHEN they were done as long as you get to see WHAT was done. ;)

Here to start off a marathon of Family Movie Night posts: The Mask and Tron Legacy

The Mask

I apologize in advance for the quality of these pictures.  I took them on my phone and they didn't turn out too well.  V-Girl had a friend over for this movie night so I made masks for all the kids out of bright green construction paper.

 

I had the kids face their masks the wrong way. oops!  In the pic below L-Monster has his turned the right way. :)

For the treats, I topped cupcakes with yellow frosting and wrapped the base in matching paper that had a black stripe at the bottom. I added a black paper "feather" and sat them on a matching circle to make fedora hats just like Jim Carrey wears in the movie.

The picture is pretty bad but I thought the cupcakes turned out good!

Tron Legacy

It was pretty easy coming up with ideas for this movie since Family Fun Website has a section of treat ideas and printables!

I opted for the Tron Light Cycle Wheelie Pies which were easy to make (this was before Pilsbury came out with a whoopie pie kit which makes it even easier!) and they tasted great.  Except that I put in too much frosting.  When ever the kids complained of the amount of frosting (and that is usually all they eat) I knew I had gone overboard. LOL. ;p

I told the kids to get dressed in all black and then gave them glow sticks and we were set to start the movie!