Frozen/Tangled cross-over

Anyone else see this Frozen (2013) and Tangled (2010) cross-over?

Both our princesses think their cool or filled with "sophisticated grace", and then proceed to smack themselves in the face.  We think we can all relate to this one. :)

Frozen Birthday Party

We love doing parties.  We love Disney.  So naturally, we love doing Disney parties!  One of us recently turned eight years old, invited a few friends over, and had a Frozen party!  This is what we did, and we hope you can benefit from reading our ideas!

At the time of our party, most major retail stores were out of or did not carry many Frozen-themed party items. At all.  Rather than pitying ourselves, we went more homemade.  Thankfully, we found that Anna (the other side has Elsa) balloon and paper plates at Party City.  We used sky-blue table cloth, ribbon, and balloons.  We had a white table cloth going across the table to add variety.

Here you can see closer-up what we found to use.  You may notice we used Cinderella-themed confetti. Since the package comes with three different bags, we were able to use the simpler bag with plainer confetti but the exact colors we wanted.

To add some more wintry-themed decoration, we made white paper chains to hang on the wall.  We also used white coffee filters to make snowflakes, as you can see in the picture.

As an activity AND snack for the young guests, we turned this...

...Into this!  A cool and delicious take-home treat!

For food, we served baby carrots, Craisins (raisins are healthier, but who needs healthy at a birthday party?), pretzel sticks, and mini marshmallows.  We also found some cookie-n-creme flavored Hershey Kisses that happened to have light blue wrapping.  The guests loved it!

We drew an Olaf onto a white piece of poster board and cut carrot shapes out of orange construction paper to make a "pin-the-nose-on-Olaf"game!  We wrote the guests' names on the carrots as to not lose track of who's is who's.

As a craft, we cut out Elsa crowns with light blue card-stock using this template from My Sister's Suitcase blog: Elsa Crown Template We let the guests color and place stickers on the crown to personalize it and make it their own.  While they waited for us to fix their crown to fit their head, we let them choose between an Anna or Elsa coloring sheet.  Here are the ones we like best:

We didn't just want to fill our guest's "treat-bags" with junk candy their parents would have to say "no" to.  However, the lack of Frozen-themed items made this more difficult to do.  As you can see in the picture, we mostly went with blue items.  We gave each bag a marshmallow Rice Krispies Treat, a mini composition notebook, a Chapstick, an 8-pack of all blue-ish crayons (we love you, Crayola), and two cookie-n-creme Hershey Kisses.

We hope you're able to glean a bit from our ideas.  Have a great time at your Frozen event, because we sure had a blast at ours!

Beauty and the Beast Trivia Quiz

Beauty and the Beast is a favorite Disney classic of ours.  Test your knowledge of this tale as old as time with the trivia questions below.

1. What year did Beauty and the Beast come out?
a. 1936
b. 1991
c. 1952
d. 1998

2. What is the name of the footstool/dog?
a. Emperor
b. Benny
c. Sultan
d. Rover

3. Out of all of the Beast's enchanted objects, only one calls Belle by name. Who is it?
a. Chip
b. Lumiere
c. Mrs. Potts
d. Cogsworth

4. What is the name of the feather duster?
a. Fancy
b. Dusty
c. Fifi
d. Jamie

5. What is the beast's real name?
a. The Beast
b. Adam
c. Harry
d. Wesley

6. Beauty and the Beast was the first animated movie to be nominated for which Oscar category?
a. Best Actress
b. Best Picture
c. Best Visual Effects
d. Best Animated Picture

7. Which song was not in the original theatrical version of Beauty and the Beast?
a. Belle
b. Be Our Guest
c. Gaston
d. Human Again

8. Who are the first two objects in Beast's castle to see Belle?
a. Mrs. Pots and Cogsworth
b. Lumiere and Cogsworth
c. Lumiere and Chip
d. Mrs. Potts and Chip

Are you ready?

Here are the answers!

1. b. 1991

2. c. Sultan

3. a. Chip. Fun little fact: Originally, Chip didn't have much dialogue, but after casting, they loved his voice so much they added more.

4. c. Fifi

5. a. The Beast. An old 90's computer game once put him as "Adam", and thanks to the internet, the rumor has spread.  If you're still convinced the Beast's real name is Adam, you can watch this video made by a fellow Disney fan: The Beast's Real Name is NOT Adam

6. b. Best Picture. Best Animated Picture wasn't a category until 2001.

7. d. Human Again was cut from the film before production, and wasn't added until a 2002 home-video release.

8. b. Lumiere and Cogsworth

Photo from Disney.com's Beauty and the Beast picture gallery

How'd you score?  We hope you enjoyed this quiz and maybe even learned a thing or two.  Next time you watch Beauty and the Beast, you can shout out all your new trivia facts to your friends for their enjoyment (or annoyance). :)

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique is where "Fairy Godmothers-in-training" will give any little princess her own princess hairstyle!  Having quite a few little girls ourselves, we've done this experience several times.  Here we hope to share with you our experience and tips.

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in WDW has two locations.  One is in The World of Disney store in Downtown Disney, the other in Cinderella's Castle at Magic Kingdom.  We normally like to use the one in Downtown Disney.  The experience takes about 30 minutes to an hour's time.  When we pay for park tickets, we like to spend our time with park experiences, whilst Downtown Disney is completely free to enter.

Location at Downtown Disney

There are four packages to choose from.  The coach package is the basic and costs $54.95.  It includes the hairstyle, glitter & make-up, and the sash.  The crown package is just $5 more and includes getting her nails painted.  Recently added is the courtyard package at $94.95. This includes all what's mentioned before with the addition of a T-shirt and tutu.  For $100 more, there's the castle package. It does not include the T-shirt or tutu, but rather an entire princess costume plus accessories.  This package also includes one 6" by 8" and four 4" by 6" pictures with a frame.  Additionally, they have the Knight package for boys at $15.95. This includes hair gel and a play sword & shield.

They have four styles to choose from: Fairytale Princess, Disney Diva, Pop Princess, & Color Star.  Whichever hairstyle your princess chooses does not effect the cost.  Remember, whatever they use on her, she can keep and take home.  Think about the faux hair, tiara, Mickey hair clips, mini make-up palate, comb/brush, nail polish bottle, etc.  These always make fun souvenirs for the little princesses.

We usually like to use the crown package ($59.95) and bring our own princess dress from home. We often plan our appointments for the day before we hit a park.  At night, we gently remove the tiaras, clips, & faux hair.  To help keep it all up, we like to add a night cap or a shower cap (in a pinch, a clean pair of undies works too!)  And then in the morning, we put the tiaras, clips, and/or faux hair back on.  And ta-da!  Their hair is perfectly intact and sparkling like yesterday!  We've found that it's really fun to go in the parks with princess 'dos because often times Cast Members will pay you some extra special attention and even the average guest can't help but call her a princess.  We have been able to let the hairstyle last 2-3 days doing this.

Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo!  May all your princess dreams and wishes come true!

*Picture from http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/marketplace/p48135-downtown-disney-marketplace-69.html