Disney Family Movie Night- Dumbo

I haven’t watched Dumbo in so long I had a hard time remembering what it was all about!  I did remember that Dumbo is part of the circus, so planning was pretty fun for this week!
We started with our craft. We decorated lunch bags to use for popcorn while we watched our movie.

The finished product…

Matt found some circus music online that we listened to while we put on our own little circus.
Sami was a tight rope walker…
 Like the outfit??
Matt and Skylar tried their hand at juggling. Matt was pretty good at using two…and Skylar just thought we were throwing balls around! It was fun…

Then the girls dazzled us with their “ring of fire” tricks…

Then we played Wii Carnival Games

For dinner we had fun food you might eat at the circus. I made WAY too much, but it was fun!
On the menu:
Hotdogs
Peanuts
Popcorn (for the movie in our bags)
Cotton Candy
Soft Pretzels with Cheese
Elephant Ears (tortilla shells cooked in vegetable oil sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar…yummy!)
Clown ice cream cones for dessert

And these are our ice cream clown cones. My ice cream had started to melt by the time I found the camera…poor guy was looking a little sad!


A friend from dance will be taking her family to Disney this fall as well and they have started Disney movie nights! She asked me how I came up with what movies to watch. There were rides and characters we met that we weren’t 100% familiar with. So I went through the list of every Disney movie and picked out ones with rides and character encounters that I wanted us to freshen up our knowledge on!
Here is us after we rode Dumbo this last year…

My tip for Dumbo:
Ride it FIRST thing in the morning! It is a slow moving line, and a favorite amongst kids of all ages. Be sure to grab a fastpass for Peter Pan first then head straight to Dumbo! You won’t be sorry! =)
We had a lot of fun this week! Up next week…Bambi!