Tastes Like Chicken

I know!  I know!  It's been forever!  It's actually been so long that I don't remember when we actually did this particular Disney dinner party!  We have done three Disney dinner parties since this one though!  (Oh, and I also know that the title is a line from Lion King, but they say it when they're eating bugs, and we had a bug party, so it seemed appropriate!)

This particular Disney night was pretty last minute.  I went to my parents' that weekend not expecting to do anything Disney related because my mom was out of town and I was actually there to take one of my sisters to the doctor, but we decided to try one anyway because we have so many movies and so little time!  Therefore, I didn't mail anything to the Bean beforehand.  I'm also not sure that I'll be doing that every time.  I'm running low on stamps right now.

I knew from the beginning that I wanted to make a bunch of cute bug food for this Disney night.  However, it was surprisingly difficult to find a main dish that was bug related.  I guess because bugs are so small?  I finally found one here, and we made worm burgers!  (It's really just cut up hot dogs in a sauce--the recipe is on the original site.)

Along with our worm burgers, we had a few other bug foods.  There were butterflies, snails, and ladybugs.

 

The butterflies were done by Small Fry and the Bean and were stuck together with toothpicks.  The other things surrounding the butterflies were supposed to be chocolate covered bugs (they were really pomegranate seeds covered in chocolate--yum), but we decided they looked more like bug poop.  The snails were bread held in a roll with softened cream cheese and then toothpicked to a mini-pickle.  The ladybugs were nut crackers (partially because they're gluten free, and partially because they're delicious) with cream cheese, a pre-made olive tapenade, grape tomatoes, black olives, green onions, and basil.  I tried using black food coloring to put dots on the ladybugs, but all of those bloggers out there who have done that are better than I am, because it wasn't doing anything.  We decided they were cute enough like they were!  (They were also delicious even if the Bean wouldn't eat them.) 

There were also ants on a log and spiders that the Bean helped with (she loved sticking the raisins on the peanut butter) and she decided she loved the ants on a log even though it has celery in it!  Those are uncooked chow mein noodles for spider legs, and they added a delightful crunch.  Even though I don't like peanut butter (I know, how un-American of me), I thought the spiders were quite delicious!

We ended up with quite a spread!

For our drink we had bug juice, and there were worms in the ice!For dessert we had gummy worm Jell-O (and learned from experience, let the Jell-O cool a little before adding the worms, or they will melt) and no bake cookies with worms sticking out of them to look like worms in the dirt.  (We couldn't do a traditional crumbled Oreo worms in dirt thing because Oreos are not gluten free, but those would be good too.)

 The older of my younger sisters (I call her Big Lil' both because she's the biggest of my little sisters and because she's 6" taller than me, and she calls me Lil' Big--or sometimes I may call her the Bean's mom, cause, well, she is) made us antennae to wear during the movie watching.  We just used headbands, pipe cleaners, and pom-poms to make them, and they turned out very cute.  (Semi-funny story:  I couldn't remember what pom-poms were called, so I googled, "What do you call those fuzzy balls used in crafts?"  Google is so smart.  I was sure it was going to come up with at least one thing I didn't want to see, but it was good to me!)

See!  I told you those antennae were cute!  For our craft project, we made flying butterflies!  We took toilet paper rolls and cardstock and used them to make butterflies.  Once the butterflies were made, we took two long pieces of ribbon and tied two ends to little plastic bracelets (anything too big to go through the toilet paper tube would work, but we used the little dollar bracelets found in the party section at Wal-Mart), put the ribbon through the toilet paper, and then tied two more bracelets to the other ends.  Goodness.  That is a terrible description of this particular project!  Hopefully the pictures will make the project a little more clear, because then a person stands on one side holding two of the bracelets, and another stands on the other side, and when you separate the two ribbons, the butterfly goes flying down the ribbons, hence a flying butterfly!

 

 

For our activity, we used silly string to shoot bugs on a bug target! The Bean's BFF who lives a couple of houses up the street was able to join us for this particular party, so the Bean and her BFF had a bug shooting contest!  The BFF won the first round, but the Bean was victorious in the second round!

Overall, everyone had a blast and we're just getting more and more excited about going to Disney world!  It won't be long now!

I don't have a shopping list this week since it was so last minute, and as I said previously, those were more for my benefit than anything else!  So I suppose that's all!

Spoiler alert!  Our next movie is Peter Pan, and there may be some treasure hunting afoot!

Godspeed!