Santa’s Coming!!! Elf Party for a Family Movie Night

This post is spon­sored by Ori­en­tal Trad­ing Com­pa­ny, but as always, all ideas and opin­ions are my own!

 

The hol­i­day sea­son is offi­cial­ly upon us, which for many means it’s time to break out the dec­o­ra­tions and the fam­i­ly tra­di­tions! The weeks and days lead­ing up to Christ­mas are my absolute favorite, from deck­ing our hum­ble halls to blast­ing fes­tive music in the car to watch­ing clas­sic hol­i­day movies with the fam­i­ly! I’ve loved intro­duc­ing my daugh­ter, Anabelle, to both the time-hon­ored films, as well as the new­er ones that have become new year­ly stan­dards in our house­hold. One of the movies that falls into the lat­ter cat­e­go­ry that has also become a pre­ferred choice ’round these parts is with­out a doubt the movie, Elf! So I decid­ed to kick off our Christ­mas with a fam­i­ly movie night elf party!

I could­n’t resist all the fun and fes­tive items I found at Ori­en­tal Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Christ­mas Store, which led me to part­ner with them to put this lit­tle par­ty togeth­er! Instead of styling a food table, I decid­ed to include all the decor and good­ies in the liv­ing room itself since we would be spend­ing all of our time on the couch watch­ing the movie. Why make it more dif­fi­cult, espe­cial­ly if any­one want­ed sec­onds?! As far as the menu went, I kept it sim­ple with some­thing salty, some­thing sweet and just a lit­tle some­thing to drink!

First off, I think it’s prac­ti­cal­ly ille­gal to watch a movie with­out pop­corn, right?! So I found these adorable mini red and white striped pop­corn box­es that worked per­fect­ly to pass around to every­one. I embell­ished them with elf hats for just a lit­tle added touch. The use of pop­corn box­es is a super sim­ple way to add col­or to your dec­o­ra­tions and makes it so much eas­i­er to pass out to your guests! I also used these pre­cious hol­i­day char­ac­ter stress toys, includ­ing rein­deer, San­tas and elves, to spruce up my dis­play and dou­ble as favors.

You can’t host an elf par­ty with­out the elves’ favorite food: sweets and can­dy! After all, Bud­dy the elf claimed that the “elves try to stick to four main food groups: can­dy, can­dy canes, can­dy corns and syrup!”. One of Bud­dy’s favorite dish­es to serve is spaghet­ti with syrup and a vari­ety of sweets driz­zled on top, so that’s exact­ly what we had to have. As appe­tiz­ing as it all sounds, I thought it would be fun to trans­late it into a cup­cake with a DIY top­pings bar! I went ahead and frost­ed the cup­cakes ahead of time to look like spaghet­ti noo­dles. I sim­ply tint­ed the frost­ing with some ivory soft gel paste (or you can also use just a bit of yel­low food col­or­ing) and cov­ered the sur­face of the cup­cake with the use of a small spat­u­la. Then, I used a small round tip to pipe the noo­dles over each cup­cake in a hap­haz­ard man­ner, just mak­ing sure I was cov­er­ing the cupcake.

For the top­pings bar, I offered most of the items Bud­dy him­self put on his own bowl of spaghet­ti! I picked Christ­mas choco­late can­dy in red, green and white, then sup­ple­ment­ed it with mini marsh­mal­lows, choco­late and maple syrup and Pop Tarts to break up and driz­zle over the spaghet­ti cup­cakes. Adding the top­pings allows the guests to cus­tomize their own cup­cakes and pro­vides an addi­tion­al activ­i­ty dur­ing the party!

As you can see, it can get a lit­tle messy assem­bling the cup­cakes, so don’t for­get to have some plates on hand to catch the excess that falls off, like these cute elf dessert plates!

When brows­ing through Ori­en­tal Trad­ing’s vast array of Christ­mas offer­ings, I came upon these pre­cious elves char­ac­ter lol­lipops and just HAD to have them! Look at their sweet faces… lit­er­al­ly! Lol! I had a taxi mug I had bought years ago on a trip to NYC, so I stuffed the inside with foam, insert­ed the lol­lipops and filled the rest up with mini marsh­mal­lows… or mini snowballs!

An item that is preva­lent in the film is a snow­globe that is gift­ed to Bud­dy the elf as he leaves the North Pole on a search for his father who works at the Empire State Build­ing. I got these Christ­mas Col­or Your Own Snow­globes and added graph­ics to the inside to match my theme. These snow­globes could also be used as a par­ty activ­i­ty, whether you uti­lize the inserts that come with them or allow guests to cre­ate their own! I found it eas­i­est to put water in a lit­tle squirt bot­tle, then insert­ing the tip in the open­ing and fill­ing the globes to capacity.

Since I had a lim­it­ed amount of space on my tray, I decid­ed to serve drinks and dis­play addi­tion­al par­ty items on a sep­a­rate cart. I used my white met­al cart, but you can also use a shelf or a bar cart, which could be fun to pass out drinks and refills! These Believe decor blocks were per­fect to add col­or to the dis­play and fit per­fect­ly with the film’s theme! And I could­n’t wait to serve drinks in the absolute­ly adorable Christ­mas orna­ment cups! I real­ly liked that they had tops to avoid spilling and came with col­or coor­di­nat­ing straws. And last­ly, I just could­n’t resist the super cute elf boot bags that not only added mag­ic to the pre­sen­ta­tion, but also served as per­fect favor bags for the snow­globes, toys or leftovers!

We had such a fun time watch­ing one of our favorite Christ­mas movies at our Elf par­ty to get us in the hol­i­day mood! Bud­dy the Elf always puts a smile on our faces and coin­ci­den­tal­ly, smil­ing’s HIS favorite!

What movie puts you in the hol­i­day spirit?!

 

Merci Beaucoup!

This page may con­tain affil­i­ate links. For more infor­ma­tion, please read my Terms & Dis­clo­sure policy.