Holiday Hallmark Channel Movie Party, Flavored Hot Cocoa Bar and holiday movie Bingo Game!

Invite your friends over for an epic holiday movie party! It’s easy with all the fixings from Cost Plus World Market. Create a flavored hot cocoa bar, two different bruschetta appetizers, flavored popcorn and a free printable holiday movie bingo game.

Cost Plus World Market & Hallmark Channel Have Partnered to Countdown to Christmas

Cost Plus World Market has partnered with Hallmark Channel this holiday season to celebrate Countdown to Christmas!! There are 22 ALL NEW original Holiday movies on Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas this year. I am SO excited!! They premiere every Saturday and Sunday night at 8pm eastern/7 central, with Hallmark Channel holiday movies running 24/7!

Hallmark Channel’s original movie – Mingle All the Way is a new movie that has Cost Plus World Market’s products and seasonal decor throughout the movie’s set!

You can shop at Cost Plus World Market for amazing holiday items, including unique ornaments, imported traditional holiday food and beverages. We love getting all of the imported chocolates for our kids’ stockings! We also love putting together gift baskets of gourmet food items from Cost Plus World Market as holiday gifts. There is so much to choose from!

Countdown to Christmas Sweepstakes

Cost Plus World Market and Hallmark Channel also have an incredible Hallmark Channel Movie Sweepstakes — where you can enter to win a walk-on role in a Hallmark Channel Movie and a $2,000 World Market gift card! SO fun!! 

Be sure to enter!! 

The holidays are a time to celebrate friends and family

And what better way to get in the holiday spirit than sitting down with a delicious cup of hot cocoa, a plate of appetizers and a Hallmark Channel movie? We threw a festive Holiday Hallmark Channel Movie Party and we even made a Hallmark Channel-theme bingo game you can play while you watch. The first person to get Bingo gets a prize!

Olive Oil and Sea Salt Baguette Crisps || Amore Bruschetta Artichoke || Garlic, Chives and Parsley Baguette Crisps

Artichoke Tomato Bruschetta Spread & Dip || Syrup Holiday Cheer set || Movie Night Popcorn Set

Christmas Party Food

Finger food is perfect for a Christmas party. Cost Plus World Market has an incredible selection of food – from traditional holiday food, to imported food, exotics chocolates and more! I picked out some delicious, easy food to create party appetizers. I put all of my food on a mobile bar cart which made getting things ready so easy. I prepared everything in the kitchen and then just rolled the cart over to the family room right before the party started! You can shop my party food and decor below!

Bruschetta Appetizer

I bought two different baguette crisps — garlic, chives and parsley and also olive oil and sea salt. Then I topped them with the yummiest artichoke and tomato and basil bruschetta toppings. I sprinkled some fresh herbs on top. SO easy!

Gourmet Popcorn

I also made fresh flavored gourmet popcorn with a World Market popcorn kit . I popped the corn, then added the topping. I put each flavor in a bowl and added a little tag.

Retro Christmas

There are so many cute holiday items at Cost Plus World Market. I thought a retro Christmas theme would be adorable for this party. The gold bar cart has a retro glam feel and is the perfect size for a party! I put my party food on the cart, The Red Flower Mugs are extra big and perfect for the guests to create their ultimate hot coca creation! The Retro Felted Merry Christmas banner from Cost Plus World Market was perfect to hang on the front of the cart. I continued the retro Christmas theme this Red Felted Wool Runner – it has pom poms!!

Christmas Entertaining

Gold Cole 3-Tier Rolling Bar Cart

White Hot Chocolate Drink Bar

TO make things super easy I made a big batch of white hot chocolate in my crock pot. I put this on about 5 hours before my party was scheduled to start. While the hot chocolate cooked I decorated and got things ready. It made the party so easy to throw. I found this amazing set of Red Heart Mugs I arranged the hot cocoa bar up on the top shelf of the bar cart. I put each of the toppings in a separate container — marshmallows, cookies, white chocolate chips, candy, peppermints, etc. You can add basically any type of toppings you want. Then I set the flavors out in front. When the guests came they took a mug, added the white hot cocoa from the crock pot and then came over to the cart and added the flavor they wanted and toppings! That way everyone could make their own ultimate hot cocoa creation! And for those guests that wanted milk chocolate cocoa – I found individual flavored mixes. 

Retro Holiday Dessert Plates II Red Felted Wool Runner

Retro Wool Felted Merry Christmas Garland II Retro Holiday Dessert Plates

Marble Wood Pedestal Stand II Red Jolly Mugs

Hallmark Channel Movie Bingo Game

We love Hallmark Channel holiday movies. So I decided to create a BINGO game you can play while you watch! Once everyone had their party food and sat down I handed out the movie bingo cards! We used marshmallows as game markers, While we watched the movie we marked off things we saw in the movie. Some of the markers are a tree, a kiss, a sled, etc. There are 8 different bingo cards and each one is different.

Click HERE to Download the Hallmark Channel Holiday Movie BINGO Cards

Bingo Prizes

I thought it would be fun to have bingo prizes. I found these beautiful Petal Lotus Capiz Candle holders at World Market. I wrapped each one in cellophane and added a tag. I decided to get one for each of my guests and we kept playing until everyone had scored a bingo! It was fun to send my friends home with a little memento from our holiday party. I loved giving them candles because it’s something that they can use all holiday season!

Get YOUR friends and family together and host a festive Hallmark Channel movie party with cute World Market decorations and food! 

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Do you have a favorite holiday Hallmark Movie?  

I love them all!

Have a creative day!

xoxo

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SING Animal Pancakes Movie Party

This post is in partnership with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

We LOVED the SING movie when we saw it in the theater over the holidays. Now that it’s out on Blu-ray and DVD, we added it to our library right away!! I love that SING is a heartwarming film with a wonderful message. The cast is fantastic and the music is amazing. We celebrated over the weekend with a SING movie night and we even made animal pancakes. The kids loved creating their favorite SING characters for dinner and watching the Blu-ray movie.

Pick up a copy of the SING Special Edition Blue-ray for YOUR next movie night! The new release features over 60-minutes of bonus content and incorporates three all-new entertaining mini movies featuring the cast from SING, as well as an exclusive Tori Kelly music video.

Here’s how we made the SING character pancakes:

SING Animal Pancakes Movie Party

I made different sized pancakes – some large and some small. The larger circles were for the character’s faces. The smaller size pancakes were great for making noses and ears. Then I put all of the different sized pancakes on a platter.

I also put different fruits and toppings out that the kids could use for eyes, ears and to color parts of the faces. The fruits we used were blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. The toppings we used were white frosting, chocolate topping, whipped cream and chocolate covered raisins.

Then I let the kids go crazy! It was SO fun!!

We loved seeing all of the SING characters come to life in pancake form.

Here are our favorites:

Rosita the Pig:

Buster Moon the Koala Bear:

Mike the Mouse:

SING Animal Pancakes Movie Party

We loved wasting SING just as much at home as we did in the theater. Watch the trailer:

From Illumination, the studio that brought you The Secret Life of Pets and the Despicable Me franchise, comes an animated comedy about finding the music that lives inside all of us. SING stars Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world’s greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award® winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and unappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family’s felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award-nominated Tori Kelly. SING is the musical comedy event of the year!

The Golden Globe nominee for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, SING features more than 65 hit songs including ‘Faith,’ a brand new song by the legendary Stevie Wonder (featuring Ariana Grande), marking his first song for a major film release in 25 years.

It was a fun night!!

And be sure to pick up YOUR copy of SING Special Edition NOW on Blu-ray and DVD!

And have a yummy SING pancake movie night OR make some Oreo animal cookies like the these:

And be sure to pick up YOUR copy of the Sing Movie Special Edition Blue-ray and DVD!

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Have a HAPPY day! 

xoxo

Thanks Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for partnering with us for this fun SING pancake dinner and movie night!

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My kids have been so excited to see the new Minions movie. So this weekend when the movie came out we had a little minion party and then a movie date! And to celebrate I thought it would be fun to have a little party before-hand. Ella and I had a great time making the Minion-themed food. And we completed the party with a printable banner – and I’m sharing it with you at the end of this post!

I wasn’t super familiar with Minions. But luckily Ella know all about those little creatures. She informed me that they love bananas. So we made some Minion Bananas.

And we also came across a fun Minions Cupcake idea from Plucky Momo – for these Twinkie Minions. You can get the tutorial on her site.

I also attempted to make a Minion Pizza with mozzarella and olives. It was pretty tasty!

Ella even added sprinkles to the cupcakes that spelled out Minions.

And here are the printables!

Just right-click this link or the image below and choose “save link as” to download the pennants. You can print two if you like to spell out the minions’ alarm sound! I’ve included a hyphen in case you feel it needs one. As always, it’s for personal use only.

Have you seen the movie?

Have fun with your minions!

xoxo

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