Did I say no purple dragons? Did I?

Well, another Wednesday or two have come and gone, so I thought this Wednesday would be an ideal time to get back to it.

Our next Disney night was The Sword in the Stone!  I don't think the Bean had ever seen The Sword in the Stone, so she wasn't particularly excited about this one.  In fact, I heard a rumor that she may have gone to her Papaw and pretended that she hadn't already drawn a movie with her JG so we could do a different movie.  The second movie she drew was Aladdin, but she got in a little bit of trouble for the trickery, so we stuck with The Sword in the Stone.  After the kerfuffle, I felt as though I would have to make The Sword in the Stone awesome so she wouldn't wish we were doing Aladdin instead.  However, considering how awesome The Sword in the Stone is on its own, that wasn't hard to do.

We went with a rustic dinner based primarily on the following image from The Sword in the Stone.

 

Here, Sir Kay is eating what I can only presume is a turkey leg, so we had turkey legs and rustic vegetables.  The turkey legs were surprisingly easy because they are sold in a package at Kroger, and all I did was wrap them in aluminum foil and heat them in the oven.  I didn't add any seasoning or anything, and they were delicious.  For the rustic vegetables, I just chopped up a bunch of veggies (potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, zuccini, tomatoes, and onions); tossed them with chopped garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, and Cavender's; and roasted them in the oven until they were soft, stirring occasionally so they wouldn't stick too much.  It was a very simple, but very delicious meal.

The dessert was a little more exciting.  As mentioned previously in this blog, I make an awesome gluten-free carrot cake, so I went back to the carrot cake cupcakes for this dessert.  However, instead of using the traditional cream cheese icing, I made a regular cream cheese icing (it contains MUCH more powdered sugar as well as few other things like shortening) and used black food coloring for a good gray color.  Then, I melted a bit of white chocolate and bit of milk chocolate, colored the white chocolate with the black food coloring, and made chocolate swords!  Viola!  Your very own (delicious) sword in a stone!

Instead of doing a craft for The Sword in the Stone, we did two activities based on scenes from the movie.  In one of the first scenes where the Wart really gets to experience magic, Merlin turns him into a fish!  So our first game was a fishing game.  The first step to making the game was getting the fish.  I made one of the fish look like Merlin and another look like Wart, but the rest were just random fish (or objects you might accidentally catch while fishing).  I just drew the fish with crayons (and the help of my Big Lil' who did the random fish), cut them out, and attached magnets to the back.  For the actual fishing poles, we just attached string to a stick, and then put a paper clip on the end of the string.  Then Small Fry set up a tarp (she wanted it to be blue, like water) and sat behind the tarp while the Bean and her BFF went fishing.  The paper clip wasn't quite enough metal to really attract the magnets, so Small Fry had to help out occasionally, but the girls loved it anyway.

The second activity was based on the scene where Merlin and Wart turn into squirrels!  Just like little squirrels, Small Fry hid little nuts (which in our case were just brown beads we found at Walmart) all over the house, and then our little squirrels had to go find them.  Since neither one of the girls had seen the movie, we watched, and then after it got to the scene where Merlin and Wart turn into fish, we did the fishing game, and then after the squirrel scene, we did the squirrel game.  Both of the girls had noticed beads all over the house, so they were very impatient about waiting for the squirrel scene.  Once it was time to go on an acorn hunt, they were running through the house like that crazy squirrel from Ice Age looking for those nuts.

We didn't really have winners or losers in either of these games.  Instead, Big Lil' made adorable fish full of candy for everybody, and everybody was a winner!  I don't know exactly how she did the fish (she made it look incredibly easy though) and I couldn't really get a good picture of them, but you can trust me when I say they were awesome.

In the end, I think the Bean decided that she liked The Sword in the Stone after all!

Godspeed!