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Hey party peeps! It’s movie night once again in our house! We have a movie night a few times a month and we LOVE IT! This weekend it was THE BOXTROLLS FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT which was particularly exciting because my family hasn’t seen it yet. I’ve heard great things about it so I was excited to enjoy it with my family. Without giving too much of the story away, the movie is about a boy named Eggs who was raised by a group of trolls who love to build things from trash they collect during the night in the city above the sewers where they live. It has a great family lesson of believing in yourself, standing up to injustice and classism. My family had quite the conversation when it was over. Dancing to the music that plays on the DVD while waiting for it to start has become a tradition with my family as you can see!
TOWER OF POPCORN!
I saw these cool plastic stackable jars in the party section of Walmart that actually are meant to hold candy, but I thought they would be perfect to hold individual portions of popcorn for each of the kids! Inspired by The Boxtrolls in the movie, who are builders, I stacked the popcorn containers one on top of each other until they made a tall Tower of Popcorn! The kids loved this new display for the popcorn. As usual, the kids fill up our popcorn maker with extras of our favorite Pop Secret microwave popcorn so they can help themselves to more during the movie.
POPCORN MIX-IN BAR!
On a recent trip to Walmart I saw The Boxtrolls DVD had just released so I picked it up along with our favorite Pop Secret microwave popcorn. We love the movie theatre flavor and have it for every movie night. This time to give our movie night snack a different spin I decided to setup a Popcorn Mix-In Bar instead of having boxed movie candy with our popcorn which is what we normally do. My kids LOVED being able to come up with their own mix by adding scoops of chocolate covered raisins or candy coated chocolates to their popcorn. YOU MUST TRY THIS! It tastes amazing! The sweet and salty combination is so yummy. My favorite mix-in was the chocolate covered raisin which was awesome when put on the warm popcorn! The chocolate melted just a bit. YUMMY!
Have you seen The Boxtrolls movie yet? I won’t spoil it for you, but it has a GREAT lesson and our family had an awesome discussion about it afterwards. Gotta love a movie that teaches a valuable lesson AND encourages discussion with your kids. Grab The Boxtroll DVD and a 10ct box of Pop Secret Movie Theatre Butter Popcorn today from Walmart (while supplies last) and have a movie night with your family this weekend! Be sure to come back after you do and tell me what you thought about the movie.
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR YOUR FAMILY MOVIE NIGHTS?
Cheers!
Tonya
I love the sweet and salty mix of this. What a great snack idea this is.
Fun night and a great movie. My kids enjoyed it very much. I like popcorn during a movie with candy melted inside it..
Oh my goodness! How fun! Your kids must be the envy of the entire neighborhood! I miss my movie nights with my daughters. They’re both grown now and live far away. Enjoy yours while you can!!
We stock up on lots of candy, lots of popcorn, and lots of blankets!
That’s such a clever use of those stackable jars!
Oooooo what a fabulous movie night!!!! I have never heard of this movie but need to look it up… My princess would probably love it!
Wow – it’s really a good thing that I didn’t know about mixing chocolate with popcorn – I love popcorn – and now I usually just have a cup of tea with honey 🙂
I LOVE the popcorn maker!!! My kids are still young so they don’t have a big enough attention span to watch an entire movie…for now we are enjoying anywhere from 10-30 minutes, lol!
We saw this movie and all loved it. Even my 13 year old son liked it. Great snacks for a movie night in too. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, we never had a movie like that at my house when I was growing up! That snack bar could be at a real theater lol. I loved Boxtrolls and hope they win for best animated film at the Oscars!
Wow, I love your movie night setup. Now that’s the way to do it. Looks yummy too, sweet and salty together!
Such a great movie and what a fun family night!
That snack looks amazing! My kids would love that during the movie! It also looks really good!
Wow, looks you had fun with your family. I think my kids would love this pop secret. Looks so sweet butter popcorn and have fun to watch movie.
I have been dying to watch this movie with my kids. And of course you can’t have a movie night without popcorn!
Oh wow! How fun is this night? I may need to borrow this idea, my kids would love to have a special movie night with a popcorn bar!
Okay whoa, I want to go to your house to watch movies. I love the popcorn machine. Fun fact: when my husband is away on work trips,I have popcorn for supper. No joke.
I would love to try having a mix-in bar as well at home when we watch together as a family. Some of us might even get more excited on the food than the movie.
We make popcorn too, but never like that. I will have to try making an add – in station. My girls would love it.
That’s such a great idea with the mix-ins. I often eat chocolate and popcorn together, but to actually add it into the popcorn is even better!
Popcorn, chocolate and movies? What could be more perfect that those for a quiet weekend?
Your pictures are stunning! I really enjoyed the movie, it was more than I expected it to be.
That popcorn tower is probably one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen!! I really love how you made it such a fun night for your family!
I always look forward to your reading your posts. There’s always a new great idea to pick up. I like how you put some of those candies to go with the popcorn. It sounds so simple but not everyone would be able to think about it. Movie nights with kids become extra fun!
Your popcorn bar is really a cute idea! I know the kids would love adding their own extras!
This looks so fun! Can I come over for the next movie night? We don’t do it often enough!
When we have a movie night we always make a bunch of snacks. We get comfy and start the movie. I will be watching The Boxtrolls this weekend with my friends little girls.
This is a cute and fun idea for movie night! We love the Box Trolls too!
This movie looks so cute. And you can’t go wrong with popcorn and M&Ms!
Love love loooove these pictures and you have such a beautiful family! That popcorn tower is some kind of epic!
That popcorn tower is great! My family loves popcorn, it looks even better with all those additions! 🙂
We LOVED the Boxtroll movie! Plus we have Friday Night Girls Night with tons of popcorn – I must have this tower!
we have movie nights all the time, I so need some of those bowls, super cool idea
I need those stackable dishes! So cute. We had a popcorn maker like that for a while but it seems like it took forever to pop the corn so we just use the air popper now. We use flavor seasonings on our movie nights. I dont keep a lot of sweets in the house, but I might have to try a mix in bar one night.
I love the idea of a Popcorn Mix-in bar. Everyone in my house likes their popcorn prepared differently, so it’s hard to decide what kind to snack on during movie night.
You must be the coolest mom on the Block! I like the mixture of Salty and Sweet. Really Nice Set-up
Pretty sure that’s the coolest popcorn station I’ve ever seen. 🙂 I want to see that movie.
I love your popcorn bar idea. I’m all about M&M in my popcorn. Movie night here is a night of snuggles and good movies.
I want to come to your house on movie night! I cannot wait to see this movie – perfect snack to go with it too!
This is such a great idea, I love movies and family movie night are so much fun. I haven’t seen Boxtrolls, but I saw the previews it looked so good.
Awesome setup. Love the sweet and salty choice.
We haven’t seen Boxtrolls yet but my daughter has been dying to check it out! It looks like a cute family friendly movie and perfect for our movie night!
I love the idea of making popcorn and then letting the kids add in sweets to it.
Can I come to your next movie night?! I am a popcorn fanatic and this looks amazing to me!
You always have the best ideas. Your photos are great, too. I just love the idea of the popcorn set up and letting my kids mix in their own favorites. Thanks for sharing.
I sleays enjiyovie night at our house.I like the popcorn add in bar idea.
That was the BEST movie night I have ever seen. How cool is that Tower of popcorn. Brilliant. Love that popcorn machine.
Gotta love that mix-ins bar. We always have our movie night on the weekend, but usually we just munch on anything that we have or eat ice cream.
We love Movie night in our house. We have not seen the Boxtrolls yet. I am getting inspired to have a BoxTrolls Movie Night now! Great pics and ideas.
We love doing movie night! I haven’t added candy in popcorn yet, but I need to try it. Thank you for linking up on Moms and Munchkins.
Okay, since I am obsessed with popcorns, I MUST NOT have this machine in my house. I would have like hundred tons. But so much fun is going on here!
I love the popcorn mix in bar idea. We did something like this for my daughter’s graduation party last year and it was hit.
I love little add in’s like these for my popcorn. My kids think I am awesome when we do it. We are all wanting to see the Box Trolls movie
Love the Mix in bar! I have got to rent the Boxtrolls soon, my son has been begging to see it.
I should give this a watch and have some popcorns with it as well, haha!