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Host a #Disneyside @Home Celebration

March 5, 2015 - 5 Comments

Disclosure: I received free products in order to host a Disney Side @Home Celebration. As always the opinions expressed here are my own.DisneySide2015_border

Recently we hosted friends and family to our house for a most magical celebration – our #DisneySide @Home Celebration party! I was lucky enough to be chosen to be a Disney Side @Home hostess again this year. You can read the re-cap of last year’s celebration here. We received our party kit in the mail a few weeks ago and the girls were just over the moon excited that we were fortunate enough to get selected again to host.

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If you’re at all like me, planning for Disney – or a Disney Side @Home Celebration – is more than half of the fun! Together as a family we selected the theme for our party and decided on “Classic Mickey” because the party kit we got was a multigenerational kit and we thought this would have broad appeal across all ages. We printed out fabulous invitations on the HP printer paper that was included in our kits and encouraged all our guests to join us in costumes showing their #DisneySide too!

There are so more great ideas and suggestions on planning your own Multigenerational Disney Side @Home Celebration here!

We loved planning the menu and food for our Disneyside @Home party and decided on Hot Diggity Dogs (pigs in blankets), Minnie’s Meatballs (more on these in a bit), Mickey pretzels, Mickey ears cupcakes, Kickin’ Chickin Buffalo Chicken dip, Duff Goldman’s Tie Dye Cake in a Mickey Mouse head shape and other fun and tasty treats!

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The kids and I had so much fun making this cool tie-dye Mickey cake with Duff Goldman’s awesome tie-dye cake mix and the Wilton Mickey Mouse pan included in our @Home Celebration kits! Then later, I made homemade buttercream frosting to ice the cake.We also made cupcakes and frosted those with the homemade butter cream icing and then we put in two mini Oreos for Mickey ears and viola!

Another HUGE hit at the party were our delicious Soy Vay Tropical Teriyaki Meatballs (or “Minnie’s Meatballs”). To make these we bought frozen homestyle (not Italian) meatballs (we used the Walmart Great Value brand but Ikea Meatballs or Trader Joes’ frozen meatballs would also work great) and heated them up before putting in a crockpot. We then poured in a whole bottle of the Soy Vay Veri Veri Teriyaki and added some frozen chunks of pinneaple. They simmered on low for a bit and that’s it! Everyone gobbled them up and said how delicious they were! So easy and so tasty and fun!

As I said, part of the fun of this celebration for me is in the planning and I love thinking of new ways to show our Disneyside at home. Last year I made this fun wreath to hang on the door. This year, I decided to make a Mickey door mat that was so super easy and I think turned out pretty cute. I also cut mickey heads and placed them all around on windows. We had Disney photo booth station where guests could wear Mickey ears or princess hats and get their photos too!

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Again this year, my good friend hand made these incredible custom wine glasses for the adults which were so much festive to use and each guest even got to take their glass home with them, too.

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Each family also got to go home with an ABC Family goody bag filled with fun treats like a pack of HP Photo Paper, Twinnings tea, a coupon . The kid goody bags were actually purchased from Subway (I could NOT resist these adorable classic Minnie and Mickey messenger style bags) and then filled with Disney stickers, pencils, and other treats.

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Including in our hostess kits were some fabulous treats and goodies from the incredible sponsors of the #Disneyside @Home celebrations including All, Whisk,  Twinnings of Longon, Soy Vey, HP, DisneyParks and more.

Of course, no DisneySide party is complete in our house without PRINCESSES! We had several including my two girls and a bevy of other bejeweled princesses ready to party.

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Our party kit included all sorts of great games and activities including Disney Bingo, pin the smile on Mickey, Tree of Life family trees, Disney trivia and more! In addition to all the great Disney themed games and activities we also encouraged our guests to bring their lanyards and trade pins since pin trading has become such a special part of Disney for our family. And of course each guest (kid or kid at heart) got to pick their favorite pin from our pin favors. One of my favorite moments of the party was when a dad was leaving and I asked if he got his pin yet and he said he thought that was just for the kids. I replied “Oh no – EVERYONE gets to show their Disneyside tonight!” We also made up some of our own games including “Pass the Palace Pet” which was like hot potato but with a Palace Pet and princess freeze dance, too!

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It’s been such a brutally cold and icy winter and the day of our party was no exception. There was snow and ice warnings and at one point I was not sure if anyone was going to make it. But the majority of our guests did still come out – I guess it’s hard to keep folks away from Disney magic and fun!

If you want to have your own Disney Side @Home Celebration anytime of year check out www.disneysidecelebrations.com for tips, recipes, party suggestions, and other fantastic resources to get you started! And I’d love to know how you show your Disney Side – feel free to leave a comment below with ways you like to show your Disney Side and bring the magic home all year long.

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To help one lucky phillfun4kids reader show their Disney Side I’ll be giving away a surprise Disney Side @Home Celebration mystery package! Simply fill out this easy Rafflecopter form and some Disney magic might be on its way to YOUR door soon!

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Thank you so much to DisneyParks and MomSelect and all the amazing sponsors including HP, Soy Vay, Duff Goldman, Twinnings of London, and others! Dreams DO come true!

Disclosure: I received free products in order to host a Disney Side @Home Celebration. As always the opinions expressed here are my own.

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Filed Under: #Disneyside, Disneyside @Home Celebration

Our Disneyside @Home Celebration

February 27, 2014 - 8 Comments

This weekend we had the most fun showing our #Disneyside by having a party with some friends to celebrate all things Disney! Honestly, I am always game for any and all excuses to be thinking about Disney so when the opportunity to be a Disney Side @Home Celebration Host came up I was thrilled and grateful beyond belief to be selected to participate!

To help get our Disney Side parties underway Disney Parks and MomSelect sent us some fabulous supplies and awesome goodies in our Disney Side @Home Celebration Kits. My kids and I were so eager to see what was in our kits and couldn’t wait to open it up when it finally arrived.

I immensely enjoyed planning the Disney Side party and trying to think about what surprises and Disney magic we could share with our guests. Because there’s nothing quite like pinterest when planning a party or getting craft inspiration, I had a blast getting ideas from other Disney sites and fans there. Check out the Disney Side @Home pinterest board I created. Here is a wreath I made for the party to help welcome guests with a little Mickey magic!

Also take a look at the Disney Side Celebrations website for great inspiration, recipes, virtual tools, and so much more! You can even get cool Disney Side photo borders and effects by using the HP Photo Creations app available on this site, too. 

Invitations to our big event were created using the HP Photo Paper that was included in our Celebration kits. Here they are! This is used with a photo we took in front of Cinderella Castle on our first trip to Disney World in 2012. This picture makes me ridiculously happy and I hope it helped conveyed to our guests some of the excitement of what was to come! 

After much planning and trips to Michael’s and the party store and the grocery store (and the wine store!) our Disney Side party was this past weekend and we had about 40 kids and adults over to come show their Disney Side with us and just have a great fun time.

Guests were encouraged to come dressed up as their favorite Disney character or theme which I’m so pleased to say they embraced! One family even was decked out in a Star Wars theme with the mom wearing a Darth Vader tutu she hand created and a custom shirt she made herself. She also made her daughter a Minnie Mouse outfit with tutu and ears and everything – so cute! Other guests wore their Mickey ears or princess dresses or Star Wars shirts. It was great to see how everyone chose to show their unique Disney Side!

We had a Disney Frozen Sing-A-Long which was a huge (HUGE) hit. We also did pin trading and had a Disney Freeze Dance too. For food we tried to keep in theme and had Mickey Mac’n’Cheese, Minnie’s Meatballs, Buffalo Bill Chicken, Mickey’s Clubhouse sandwhiches (bread and cheese were cut with Mickey cookie cutters!), Princess fruit wands, and hidden Mickey Cupcakes too. Planning all the food and thinking about how we could incorporate Disney theming into every aspect was so much fun!

A good friend of mine even made these incredible custom wine glasses for the adults which were so much festive to use and each guest even got to take their glass home with them, too. Each family also got to go home with the so sweet “So This is Love” poster provided by Disney Parks as well as a pack of HP Photo Paper. Kids got to pick a pin for their lanyards and also went home with a fun goody bag I made with other great items that came in our Disney hostess kits like balloons or ESPN Sports bracelets and tattoos and stickers and other Disney themed items I either picked up at the dollar store or Michael’s.

If you want to have your own Disneyside @Home Celebration anytime of year check out http://www.disneysidecelebrations.com/ for tips, suggestions and fantastic resources to get you started! And I’d love to know how you show your Disneyside – feel free to leave a comment below with ways you like to show your Disneyside and bring the magic home all year long!

Our celebration was such a blast and I’m so grateful to Disney Parks and MomSelect and all the wonderful sponsors (including Disney Parks, American Tourister, HP, Two Smiles, ESPN World of Sports, ABC’s The Chew, Craisins, and Hanes) for the incredible opportunity to have fun showing our Disneyside! And of course big thanks to all of our family and friends who came out and showed your Disney Side too – we hope you had as much fun as we did! What do you think? Should we do it again next year?

Disclosure: I was provided with a #Disneyside @Home Celebration hostess kit that included many of the supplies used for the party. No monetary compensation was provided. As always all opinions expressed about all things Disney being magical are my own. 

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Filed Under: #Disneyside, ABC's The Chew, Disney, DisneyMom, Disneyside @Home Celebration, Frozen, Frozen Sing-Along, Hanes, HP, Mickey Mouse, MomSelect, Two Smiles

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