Showing posts with label Princess and the Frog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Princess and the Frog. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Movie Night - Princess and the Frog

It's Mardi Gras! We celebrated yesterday (so we could as a family) with a Princess and the Frog movie night.


We had Ashlyn's toys by the TV and here's how we decorated the table (one of the masks is more plain than the others because I thought Aaron might not want to wear a feathery one lol).


Dinner was red beans and rice with sausage, black eyed peas, and cornbread. We had "swamp juice" (7-up with green food coloring) to drink. Technically you couldn't tell too much that it was green since it was in colored cups, but it would look really cool in clear or white cups.


Dessert was just cupcakes with lemon frosting and yellow, green, and purple sprinkles (beignets and frog cake pops would be perfect, and I've made them before for other things, but I wanted to do something with the sprinkles and keep with the same colors as our table decor).


For activities, Ashlyn colored a Tiana cut-out.


We all wore beads and masks and played with these fly-catching frogs I made earlier in the day.


During the movie we would try to catch flies with Tiana and Prince Naveen during that scene and stuff like that. It was really fun.

There are a ton of fun ideas to do for Princess and the Frog and I just wish I could do them all! I may just need to do full movie days instead of just nights sometimes! ;) I REALLY wanted to do something else decoration-wise, but I needed white Christmas lights and when I opened our Christmas bins, we only had multi-colored lights. Oops! But, I wanted to share the idea with you in case you want to do it. I really wanted to string them up along the wall to look like a line of fireflies. How cool would that have been? :) If you do this for a party or movie night, let me know how it turned out. Let's just say I'll be buying white Christmas lights this year for next year's Mardi Gras/movie night. :) Anyway, in a couple of weeks we'll have our next movie night... Mulan! I'm also thinking of posting another movie night poll in a couple of weeks, so I hope you come back and vote!

Monday, December 19, 2011

Start Your Week Off Right

Each Monday I post a quote from Walt Disney, a Disney movie, ride, etc. to keep the Disney spirit going... even on a Monday!


Prince Naveen: I am Naveen, Prince of Maldonia, and she is Tiana, the waitress.
[leans close to Louis]
Prince Naveen: Do not kiss her.

- The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Some cool facts about the movie (according to imdb.com):

* Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Tyra Banks were all considered for the role of Tiana. Alicia Keys and Tyra Banks personally lobbied the studio for the part.

* Anika Noni Rose (Tiana) requested that Tiana be left-handed since she herself is left-handed.

* The star Ray calls "Evangeline" is in fact the planet Venus. Venus is known as the Roman goddess of love.

*Aladdin's magic carpet can be seen on the right during one of the city shots (something else to add to my list of things to look for in Disney movies!).