Tag: Disney Planes

16
Jul
2014

Flying High with a Pizza Pie Planes Party! {Free Printable Menu Cards & More}

categories: Disney-Inspired Crafts, Disney-Inspired Party Planning, Disney-Inspired Treats, Free Printables, Reviews

Are you going to see Disney Planes Fire & Rescue this weekend? We’ll be there!

To say my son, Gavin loves airplanes, would be an understatement. There isn’t a day that goes by when discussing planes or something that flies isn’t part of our conversation and aviation is a staple in almost every play activity. This seven-year-old boy goes through flying toys as if he’s changing clothing. It’s not because he doesn’t take care of his toys, he wears them out or the plane gets stuck in a tree. With the movie release of Disney Planes last year (see my review here), Gavin’s love of airplanes unbelievably grew and he immediately started asking when Planes Fire & Rescue would be in the theater. Well, the movie release week has finally arrived!

To celebrate this exciting event I put together a couple “Free Printable” Planes-inspired items that I created and party planning tips to help you host a Pre-Show “Flying High with a Pizza Pie” Planes Party for your little aviators and their friends!

Planes Themed Pizza!

There are so many different types of pizza that you can have at a pizza party! Try offering the kids specialty pizza and place these silly menu cards close by. It’ll give young readers a chuckle or two before choosing their pizza.

Chicken Wing-man Pizza
Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo Flying Pizza
Ham & Cheesy Flight Attendants Pizza
Pepperoni Pie In The Sky Pizza
Flying High Cheese Pizza Pie

I’ve created this set of FREE printable pizza party menu cards for you to use. (For Personal Use Only) Simply print the Planes Pizza Party file (found below) on white card stock, cut the orange and blue colored cards out and fold along the white line.

Click on the Planes “Pizza Party Menu Cards” link for the five piece printable menu cards.

Planes Pizza Party Menu Cards

Dessert!

I made these Planes-inspired cupcakes for my son’s birthday party last year. Check out the super simple cloud icing tutorial for these soaring cupcakes here!

Another Planes-inspired dessert option are these Dusty Cookie Pops. You can see my simple tutorial here!

Decor! {Free Printable Template}

Now that you’ve got the food covered, time to decorate the food table! Add a simple planes garland to the front of your food table, to complete your pizza party table.

You can download the airplane template here!

Trace the template on orange and blue card stock for the airplanes to match the menu cards. Then add blue and orange table wear and your party will be soaring!

Still looking for more Planes party ideas?

Check out my son’s planes-themed birthday party here!

Now you’re ready to have the perfect Pre-show Planes-inspired Pizza Party! Enjoy your party and then off to show!

18
Nov
2013

Disney Lego Duplo Party

categories: Disney-Inspired Crafts, Disney-Inspired Party Planning, Disney-Inspired Treats

Ready, Set, Play!

Yesterday I was thrilled to be able to host a Disney Lego Duplo party for the companies House Party and Lego. Lego provided me with their newest Duplo lines, which happen to be Disney themed sets! How exciting it was when a huge box arrived at our home just a little over a week ago. I have to admit, my kids and I felt like it was Christmas. Inside the box we found six Duplo sets, three of the sets were themed Disney Planes and three sets were themed Jake and the Neverland Pirates. In exchange for the Legos, I had to throw a Disney Lego Duplo play date party for all of our friends to play with them. Can you imagine? Me, throw a Disney themed party? Just give me a reason and bring on the yummy party treats and warm up the glue gun!

Today, I’m excited to share with you some photos of our Disney themed Lego Duplo play date.

Welcome Sign

House Party provided me with an 8.5″ x 11″ digital file to print out as a sign to welcome our guests. Featuring Dusty and Jake, the sign was adorable, but the simple print needed to be spruced up a bit. I taped the paper onto foam core and hot glued Lego Duplo bricks around the edges. To hang the sign, I hot glued a red ribbon to the back of the foam core.

Snack Table

The little Disney Junior fans munched on Bucky’s cannon ball grapes, Izzie’s pixie dusted apple sauce pouches, Jake’s gold doubloon cookies and chocolates, Skully’s crackers and cheese, Jake and the Neverland Pirates fruit snacks and Lego Duplo themed rice treats.

Dusty’s Fuel Up Drink Station

I have to admit Dusty’s Fuel Up Drink Station signage was fun to make. My two-year old and six-year-old helped me build the “Fuel” letters the night before the party.

Play Time!

In addition to the six play sets, Disney sent us Jake’s latest movie to watch while the kids played, Jake and the Never Land Pirates Never Land Rescue. I think from this photo you can tell the kids were entertained! Lego Duplo bricks are specially designed for children ages 1 and a half to five years old. Many of the toddlers and preschoolers invited to the party had older siblings, so when planning for the party I designated a separate room for the “big kids” to play with age appropriate Lego bricks. As you can see from the photos, the big kids loved Lego Duplo bricks as much as the little kids!

One of the cool things that the moms discovered during the party was that older siblings very happily helped their younger siblings build the sets, with no adult help or fighting. There were 19 children at the party and it was great to see them all play together so nicely.

The kids were so proud to show off their finished pieces.

Once the sets were complete, they broke the bricks down and started creating again!

From toddling around, to playing with bricks, to fashioning a crown, the littlest ones enjoyed the day too.

Party Favors

I was provided with 12 sticker sheets and 12 Lego Duplo Planes posters to hand out to the children at the party. Unfortunately, that was not enough to give one to each child, so I decided to give the big kids the posters and the little kids stickers. I also made each child between the ages of 1 and 5 years old a customized Lego Duplo brick set. The small set consisted of enough bricks to make the child’s first initial of his or her name.

Before the party ended, I attempted to get a group shot of all our Disney Lego lovers. Unfortunately, a few could not be persuaded to leave the Legos for a picture. I’m sure you understand their reasoning.

Thank you to Lego and House Party for a fantastic day of fun!

Tomorrow on the blog I’ll share a quick tutorial for Lego themed treats. There wasn’t a single one left by the end of the party!

If you are considering purchasing these Duplo brick sets for Christmas, you should stop by again. On Wednesday I’ll share my review of the Disney Planes and Jake and the Never Land Pirates Disney Duplo brick sets.

I hope everyone enjoys this special Monday. If you’re visiting Disney today make sure you tell Mickey Mouse Happy Birthday!

09
Aug
2013

How to make PLANES cupcakes

categories: Disney-Inspired Party Planning, Disney-Inspired Treats

Zero Turbulence Decorating Tutorial Courtesy of Sweet Diehl’s

What an exciting day it is for the Mouse Ears Mom Blog! Today is not only the official theatre premiere of Disney’s “PLANES”, but I also get to welcome Mouse Ears Mom’s first guest contributor, Steph Diehl of Sweet Diehl’s !

I’ve worked with Steph on several occasions where she was able to custom design cupcakes for my children’s themed parties. She’s surpassed my expectations every time! The “PLANES” Inspired cupcakes that we are sharing with you today were co-created by Steph and myself. She made the amazing cupcakes and icing. I made the plane chocolate pieces that were placed on top.

Below is Steph’s wonderful tutorial for you to make your own “PLANES” cupcakes, including photos that she took while making them.

1. Here’s what you’ll need: cupcakes, of your choice, a large pastry bag (a zip lock bag will work), blue food dye, butter cream icing and scissors.

2. Step two, place a comfortable amount of butter cream into the large bag and squeeze some blue food dye into the bag as well. The more food dye you put into the butter cream the darker the icing color will be. Use your hand to mix the icing and the dye together inside the bag to achieve your desired color.

3.Step three. Cut a slightly large hole into the tip of the bag. If you have icing tips, you may use a large round tip for this.

4. Step four. Position the now open tip over one of the cupcakes, start at the top an apply even pressure with your hand and make a basic upper case G motion to cover the top of the cupcake with the icing.

5. Step five. Next place more butter cream into a small bag, you do not have to colour this one at all, since this will be for the clouds.

6. Step six. Cut a small hole into the tip of this smaller bag. If you have an icing tip I would use a small round tip for this.

7. Step seven. Last step, very lightly squeeze the bag and make little dots onto the blue ‘sky’ of the cupcakes, to look like clouds. Then ta da! Your sky is complete.

Isn’t the finished sky with clouds simply adorable?

Once your sky with clouds is complete it’s time to make the airplanes.

To make the airplanes, I used a candy mold. Each airplane is 1-3/4 inches by 1-3/4 inches and I purchased the airplane candy mold on-line. Just Google airplane mold and you’ll find it. I wanted to make a few Dusty inspired planes, so I used orange and white chocolate melts. Melt both of your chocolate colors in separate containers. I find it easier to work with squeeze bottles, but you could also scoop the melted chocolate into plastic bags and then cut the tips cut off.

Pipe a strip of orange melted chocolate in the body and tail of the candy mold. Very shortly after, add the white chocolate to the remaining part of each mold. If the orange chocolate has hardened, it’s possible that you won’t have a seamless piece, so try to work fast.

After filling the rest of the candy mold with white chocolate, let them sit to harden for about ten minutes. Once they are solid, the airplanes will very easily pop out of the mold. If they’re not popping with a slight twist of the candy mold, then they’re not ready to come out yet.

This is my miniature version of Cropduster Dusty.

For the final step, place the chocolate piece on top of the decorated cupcake sky. Here is our final piece.

Thank you again to Steph Diehl for providing us with a simple tutorial on how to make her adorable sky with clouds cupcakes! To see more of Steph’s creations you can find her on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Diehls/138845126143748

If you’d like to see more Planes party ideas, here is the link to the post about my son’s birthday party. It includes everything from our themed food menu, to the themed treats, to the fun activities and thank you gifts.

Airplanes Birthday Party

07
Aug
2013

“PLANES” Cookie Pops

categories: Disney-Inspired Treats

Chocolate Covered Nutter Butter Plane’s Inspired Dusty Cookie Pops!

I’m certain everyone knows by now that my household is pretty excited about this weekend’s premiere of Disney’s “Planes”. So in celebration of the premiere this week we are having some High Flying Fun! Last night, I decided to try to turn a Nutter Butter Cookie into the face and nose of Dusty the crop duster lead character of Planes. Pictured above is my end result. If you’d like to make a Cookie Pop Dusty, these are the steps that I took, including a few photos that I took along the way.

Gather all your supplies. I used white and orange chocolate melts, black icing coloring, plastic sandwich bags, scissors, a skewer, wax paper, pencil and one piece of paper, white Dutch mints, mini blue M&M’s, cookie pop sticks and Nutter Butter Cookies.
There are two ways to make this cookie, with or without the cookie pop stick. If you do not want your Dusty cookies on a stick, then skip this step. If you would like to make the cookie pop version, then you’ll start by attaching the stick to the cookie. To do this, gently separate the Nutter Butter cookie by sliding the two piece apart. Then melt your chocolate wafers. It doesn’t matter which color chocolate you use. Take your cookie stick and dip the top third of the stick within the melted chocolate. Lay the dipped portion of the stick on top of the center of the opened cookie. Gently put the cookie back together, with the stick in the center. Place them in the refrigerator for five minutes. This will allow the chocolate to harden around the cookie pop stick.
For those of you that chose to skip the cookie pop stick this will be your first step. Dip your Nutter Butters half way into the orange chocolate and lay them on top of a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. If you’re making the cookie pop version, dunk the entire Nutter Butter in white chocolate first . Then let them harden on the wax paper.
Once the chocolate has hardened, move onto dipping the bottom half white. Cookie Pop version, this is when you would dip the top in orange chocolate. Below is a photo of how your cookies should look.
Next, dip your skewer in the white chocolate and draw Dusty’s white face directly in the middle of the orange part of your cookie. Allow this to dry for a couple of minutes.
Take two mini M&M’s and place them on the bottom of white face that you drew.
Now to make the propellers! On a piece of paper, draw your propellers. FYI- Dusty has three blades. Place the drawing in between your wax paper and your cookie sheet. You’re going to use this drawing as a guide for making the propellers in chocolate. At this point, you’ll most likely have to melt your white chocolate again. After melting, I scooped the chocolate into a sandwich bag and added a touch of black icing coloring. Work the black dye into the white chocolate by kneading the bag between your fingers. This will turn it into a silver color. Cut a small snip out of a bottom corner of the bag and start piping the propellers. After making the blades, add a Dutch mint to the top. You might have to dip the mint in additional chocolate to make it stick. Move the paper along as a guide for each propeller. Let them dry for at least five minutes before moving to the next step.
Add a small dab to the bottom of the propeller and place it in the center where the orange and white chocolate touch. Make sure you don’t block Dusty’s eyes.
Let the entire cookie set for a few minutes You’re done!

Victoria enjoyed few bites!

These cookie pops are perfect for a Planes party or a special treat! I do want to caution you that these cookies are very sweet. Shortly after this photo was taken, Victoria shared the rest of the cookie with others. It’s a little too much chocolate for a two-year old aviator. As you can see, she enjoyed it!

04
Aug
2013

Airplanes Birthday Party

categories: Disney-Inspired Crafts, Disney-Inspired Party Planning

Flying Fun!

This week, the kids and I are so excited that Disney’s “Planes” premieres in theatres on Friday, August 9th. I don’t know about your kids but my son, Gavin, has been talking about the film’s release for months. Having been a plane enthusiast since the young age of one, this year Gavin really wanted to have a Disney’s “Planes” themed birthday party. Well, Gavin was born two months premature and let me say, if he had gone full term then the Disney “Planes” supplies might have been out in time for this party! Regardless, there was not a single “Planes” product available when I was planning his party and at that point, other than what was said in the original preview we knew little about the film. So, the party theme was tweaked a bit and was transformed into a “Flying” theme. This also gave me the opportunity to be creative with planning his special day around him, instead of a specific character. With the theatre release of Disney’s “Planes” this summer, I’m certain quite a few more children will also want to have a “Planes” birthday party this year.

Today, I thought I’d share some of the details of my son’s “Flying” party that you could incorporate into a Disney’s “Planes” Inspired Party.

Check In Table (Present Table)

Parents and Kids Table

I wanted to do a kids table but attending the party were a lot of small children that needed Mom or Dad’s help to eat. I decided to create runway style seating that included cloud place mat settings for parents and their children. At each child’s cloud flew a Match Box plane with a banner attached to it that said the child’s name. At the head of the table, blocked by the balloons in this photo, was a control tower.

Activities

Activities of the day included Flight Training, which involved making, decorating and flying paper airplanes. Aviators also completed Plane Maintenance, a.k.a. painting their own wooden plane. This station was featured in the first photo of this blog post. At the end of the party, we brought the kids outside and launched rockets.

Flight Inspired Food

There were two food areas, a Food Court and the Pilot’s Lounge. In the Food Court, we offered party guests a buffet of Gavin’s favorite food, Pizza. There was Chicken Wingman Pizza, Broccoli and Alfredo Flying Pizza, Flying High Cheese Pizza Pies, Pepperoni Pie in the Sky and Ham and Cheesy Flight Attendants Pizza. In addition we had prepackaged chips, like you’d find in a food court, plane propellers (fruit on a skewer) and Jet Fuel (a variety of drinks).

At the Pilot’s Lounge is where all the goodies, including cake, could be found. The photos above show a few items offered, chocolate-dipped airplane sugar cookies, juice boxes and the birthday boy’s cake.

Baggage Claim (Favor bags for babies, kids and adults)

Before Gavin’s guests left the party, they headed over to collect their baggage (favor bag). The babies that attended took their personalized mini luggage filled with a travel size baby body wash. Kids, two years old and above, were given one of the larger brown luggage pieces, shown in the middle of the table. Each luggage piece had a personalized luggage tag and thank you note. Inside was enough room for their painted plane, paper airplane, Match Box plane, and some surprises, such as a plane kite and a chocolate plane lollipop. The adults at the party left with their “In Flight” peanuts and a thank you note.

I’d like to thank Kerri Nichols for the wonderful Bi-Plane cake and Jeff, of Jeff D’Angelo’s Design Group, for the use of the vintage luggage pieces. Find out more about Jeff D’Angelo’s Design Group at:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeff-DAngelos-Design-Group/132909703465772

If your child asks for a Disney’s Planes birthday party this year, I hope these “Flying” party ideas will help you plan a party that Soars to Spectacular!

Tag: Disney Planes

Are you going to see Disney Planes Fire & Rescue this weekend? We’ll be there!

To celebrate this exciting event I put together a couple “Free Printable” Planes-inspired items that I created and party planning tips to help you host a Pre-Show “Flying High with a Pizza Pie” Planes Party for your little aviators and their friends!

Planes Themed Pizza!

Click on the Planes “Pizza Party Menu Cards” link for the five piece printable menu cards.

Dessert!

Another Planes-inspired dessert option are these Dusty Cookie Pops. You can see my simple tutorial here!

Decor! {Free Printable Template}

You can download the airplane template here!

Still looking for more Planes party ideas?

Now you’re ready to have the perfect Pre-show Planes-inspired Pizza Party! Enjoy your party and then off to show!

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Ready, Set, Play!

Welcome Sign

Snack Table

Dusty’s Fuel Up Drink Station

Play Time!

Party Favors

Thank you to Lego and House Party for a fantastic day of fun!

Tomorrow on the blog I’ll share a quick tutorial for Lego themed treats. There wasn’t a single one left by the end of the party!

If you are considering purchasing these Duplo brick sets for Christmas, you should stop by again. On Wednesday I’ll share my review of the Disney Planes and Jake and the Never Land Pirates Disney Duplo brick sets.

I hope everyone enjoys this special Monday. If you’re visiting Disney today make sure you tell Mickey Mouse Happy Birthday!

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Zero Turbulence Decorating Tutorial Courtesy of Sweet Diehl’s

Isn’t the finished sky with clouds simply adorable?

Once your sky with clouds is complete it’s time to make the airplanes.

This is my miniature version of Cropduster Dusty.

For the final step, place the chocolate piece on top of the decorated cupcake sky. Here is our final piece.

Thank you again to Steph Diehl for providing us with a simple tutorial on how to make her adorable sky with clouds cupcakes! To see more of Steph’s creations you can find her on Facebook at

If you’d like to see more Planes party ideas, here is the link to the post about my son’s birthday party. It includes everything from our themed food menu, to the themed treats, to the fun activities and thank you gifts.

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Chocolate Covered Nutter Butter Plane’s Inspired Dusty Cookie Pops!

Victoria enjoyed few bites!

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Flying Fun!

Check In Table (Present Table)

Parents and Kids Table

Activities

Flight Inspired Food

Baggage Claim (Favor bags for babies, kids and adults)

If your child asks for a Disney’s Planes birthday party this year, I hope these “Flying” party ideas will help you plan a party that Soars to Spectacular!

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