The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe book and a movie night

Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here and I’m updating this post to make it work for how I do the current Books made into movies, because this was one of the very earliest ones I wrote, and also I didn’t do a good job of explaining what snacks we had. This is a 4th grade books made into movies, and I have almost all of those books all written up!

Back to past Ticia 2014.

Continuing the grand tradition of Book and a Movie night we read “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,” and then watched the movie.

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I remember first reading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe in 4th grade for a school assignment and falling in love with the world behind it.  When I was older and found out C.S. Lewis’ whole worldview and his thought process I loved it even more.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe project-based research projects

For this book and a movie the kids all did some research to go with their projects.  Batman decided to learn about World War 2 planes.  Superman wanted to learn about medeival combat, and Princess was going to tell us about mythical creatures, but she changed her plans to acting out the meeting between Mr. Tumnus and Lucy.

This is one of our goals for “A Book and a movie,” to go beyond the traditional book report and into different ideas.  So Princess got to act out her favorite scene in the movie using popsicle stick puppets.

Superman’s so-called report on medeival weapons turned into acting out the giant battle between the White Queen’s forces and Aslan’s.  Batman’s report on World War 2 planes was quite impressive, but unfortunately there are no pictures of it.  He created some great visuals labeling all of the different parts of the plane and talking through all of it.  Then we got to the watching of the movie and the snacks.  Oh the snacks.

I think the snacks are the kids’ favorite part of our book and a movie night.

A more traditional The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe book club

If you want a more traditional and great book club that I can highly suggest, then I would look at the Chronicles of Narnia Literature Study.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Movie Night Snacks

Instead of completely surprising the kids with our snacks, I’ve started having them help me plan what snacks we might eat for our meals, which has led to some amusing snack ideas, but it worked fairly well for “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”

Future Ticia 2025 says I originally had pictures for each snack, but I don’t really need to do that, so I’ve since deleted those pictures.

• Weapons- pretzel sticks dipped in melted chocolate chips to create swords and maces. This disappeared very quickly.
• Signs of spring- Maple Leaf Cream cookies, fresh new leaves showing up to encourage the characters
• Snow-Mini Marshmallows, which went perfectly with our Hot Cocoa that we kept available. Future Ticia 2025 would have made meringues for the snow.
• Melted snow- Future Ticia 2025 would also add in melted snow as Sprite for an additional drink
• Turkish Delight– While there are dozens of recipes online for it, I knew my baking skills were not up to the task, so I ordered some.  The kids really weren’t sure about it, but gamely gave it a try, and left them mostly untouched. I need to go back and find it, but there is a fascinating article talking about how different cultures picture what turkish delight must taste like. I’ve also been told that fresh turkish delight tastes so much better than storebought ones.
• Beaver dams- bird nest cookies, minus the eggs, which the kids wholeheartedly approved of
• Trail food- Future Ticia 2025 would add in some sorts of trail food to get some sort of meal type thing, and this would be a nice solid bread with lunch meats and cheeses to snack on.

Future Ticia 2025 is highly amused because later years we would have had so many more snacks, so when I go back to expand this I might well add in more snacks later on.

More The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe resources

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe DVD

  

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe… by Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons