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.
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.
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.”
I made pretzel stick weapons using melted chocolate chips to form swords and maces, which disappeared very very quickly.
We had signs of spring cookies, these are some of our favorite cookies to buy,Maple Leaf Cream cookies (affiliate link), I chose the two box link because we always devour these fairly quickly, so why not buy two boxes at once?
Since it being winter was such a major theme of the movie we had to have snow (Mini Marshmallows), which went perfectly with our Hot Cocoa that we kept available.
And what would a movie night for The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe be without 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.
Our final snack I have no picture of, we made beaver dams (bird nest cookies, minus the eggs) which the kids whole-heartedly approved of.
More The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe resources
- Chronicles of Narnia resource list
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe unit
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe DVD
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Ah Narnia, a most wonderful world! I’m impressed at the different directions your kids took for their projects, ideas I never would have thought of – which of course speaks to the importance of allowing kids to follow their interests! And the snacks are so creative! I will keep this in mind, because we are in the process of reading the entire series (can’t believe it’s taking this long for us to get to it) and I’m sure they would very much appreciate these snacks to go with it!
We just started Prince Caspian today, and I’m really curious how the kids take to the other books in the series.
Turkish delight AND Chronicles of Narnia… two things that seemly feel too sweet to me. Never could really warm up to either of them 🙂
I didn’t really warm up to Turkish delight. Narnia seems to be one you either LOVE or just don’t like. I’ve yet to hear of someone thinking it was okay.
So many good memories!
You are so cool! I really like this, especially the snacks to go with it.
How is Tara doing?
As well as can be expected right now. The next few weeks are going to be pretty hard, then the holiday season will also make it hard for her.
This is the kind of day we would love to have — books, great projects and snacks! The pretzel sticks look absolutely yummy. I’m not surprised they disappeared quickly! 🙂
I know, what’s not to like, pretzels and chocolate, it’s like the ultimate snack.
We’re crazy for Turkish Delight…might be time for another Narnia night 🙂 I love, LOVE (really, really love) the themes each of the kids picked to explore.
I do too, it was so much fun to see how they’re minds worked for the projects.
Fresh Turkish Delight tastes amazing. This sounds like a great family learning experience.
So maybe it was because the Turkish Delight wasn’t fresh…..
I love it! I really like all of the ideas.
Thanks! The kids are loving this so much.