Movie night

Posted by: candimich on: June 16, 2009

In: creative play | indoor play
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All kids love a good movie. But parents get tired of having their kids stare at the TV all day. Why not make movie night fun?

The first thing is to pick a movie. How can you get into a movie? With tickets of course… Using paper you can cut rectangle shapes and you and your children can make movie tickets. If you want, you can number the tickets so that people can “find their seats”. Next you can make your movie aisle. You can either get some red velvety fabric, simply use red construction paper, or even use a sheet, curtain, or blanket. If you choose to use fabric, cut it and make it like a red carpet. If you choose to use paper you can simply tape the pieces together.

Make the long carpet go right down the middle of the room towards the TV like a movie theatre aisle. You can put some folding chairs (or even kitchen chairs) lined up on either side of the carpet to make the room look like a theatre. Don’t forget to number the seats… You and your child can write large numbers on paper and tape them onto the seats to match the numbers on the tickets.

For food you can serve meals that are offered at movie theatres like nachos with cheese, hot dogs, popcorn and drinks. You can also buy some white lunch bags and as another project in preparation for the movie night use crayons, colored pencils, or markers to draw and color the red vertical stripes on the bag. This is to make them look like popcorn bags. If you’d rather not do the project you can simply buy popcorn to make and serve it in a bowl. It’s great if you have a popcorn maker because kids can actually see the popcorn popping. Another cool popcorn idea is to get the large popcorn bucket that they sell in the stores. You make the popcorn right from the bucket and it looks just like at the movies.