One of our favorite family tradition is all snuggling up together and enjoying a family film and to celebrate this we are working with Sky Movies this Christmas and sharing their personalised Sky Movies #MovieMe Christmas Cards, along with our festive sugar and spice seasoning and free popcorn box printables.
The four family films available to choose from will all premiere on Sky Movies throughout the Christmas period, on the following dates. Each film will also will be available On Demand and on Sky Go:
- Muppets Most Wanted – 19th December
- The LEGO® Movie – Christmas Eve
- Frozen – Christmas Day
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – New Year’s Day
We decided, well the boys decided that they wanted to create bespoke The Amazing Spider-Man 2 cards. Both of them are huge #Spiderman fans, in fact as a family we all love a bit of Marvel.
So here are their cards……………….
But this isn’t something that is exclusive to bloggers, you can create your own card from the choice of one of four movies; Frozen, The LEGO® Movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Disney’s Muppets Most Wanted.
You can even add your own name before sharing the card .
If you make a card then do be sure totweet @SkyMovies and @Mum_themadhouse using the #MovieMe hashtag so we can see it. You can also opt to receive a printed postcard version of your #MovieMe card (whilst stocks lass) which would be perfect for our Christmas Memories Book.
It is really easy to do, the mini mads did this all on their own. To join in with this festive fun activity all you have to do is visit skymovies.com/movieme and follow the simple step-by-step instructions.
To go with the fabulous movies on Sky over the festive period, you will need Popcorn and I am sharing our family favorite with you here.
Our favorite festive Popcorn recipe
This recipe was actually inspired by Nurturestores Festive Play dough. We made this last year for Christmas and the boys loved the smell of the herbs and spices, so we used it to make our own seasoned sugar. It is like the whole smell and Taste of Christmas in a sugar form.
- the zest of an orange or two clementines
- A vanilla pod
- a good grating of nutmeg
- three cloves
- some ground cinnamon
- a bay leaf
We whizzed this up in our mini herb blender and then add it to caster sugar. We keep this festive sugar in a kilner jar and add it to allsorts, including pancakes, porridge, ice cream and even tea!
We like to air pop our corn and once it is popped we coat it with some vegetable oil spray before sprinkling our festive sugar spice over it and enjoying.
Free Printable Festive Popcorn Boxes
Also thanks to The Purple Pumpkin Blog I have some fab exclusive free printable festive popcorn boxes.
- Popcorn Boxes – Chevron
- Popcorn Boxes – Candy Cane
- Popcorn Boxes – Dots
- Popcorn Boxes – Hearts
- Popcorn Boxes – Snowflakes
- Popcorn Boxes – Multi Stripe
- Popcorn Boxes – Stars
So whilst you are printing your popcorn boxes, why not get in the mood with Sky Movies Christmas advert. Are you in the mood for Christmas yet? I know I am.
This post is in collaboration with Sky Movies
Loving the idea of the festive popcorn, I’ve never thought of that before.
Loving the festive popcorn recipe! Completely agree how the printed cards would be a perfect keepsake for the Christmas memory box.
Wow Jen you are so creative! These are fantastic, and the recipe sounds delicious. Really makes something special at minimal cost. Lovely idea!
We were planning our Movie night with our Hot Chocolate santas so these are ideal. Love the cards thank you for sharing.
Lots of good stuff in this post! The cards look fun, and the sugar and spice seasoning sounds divine….
Love the idea of sitting down for a family movie… wonder if we can achieve it this year?! 😉
Fab idea with the festive popcorn! Will have to try that one
We love settling down to a good movie too, especially over the festive period. This popcorn recipe will definitely get a run out in our house this month – it looks great, thanks! We would be lost without Sky Movies, we really would.
We love snuggling up together and watching a family film, and I think it’s even better when it’s Christmas with the tree lights twinkling in the corner of the room. I will definitely be trying out your popcorn recipe and will have to pop over to the Sky Movies site to look at those postcards.
Love the sound of your festive popcorn! Settling down to a family film is one of our favourite things to do too!
I like the sound of festive popcorn, it puts my 3 minutes in a microwave special to shame!
I want to come round to yours for movie night, it sounds like so much fun x
We love popcorn as a snack during movie session… we always make few bowls so we can have different flavours inc our latest fave – lemon pepper 🙂
Love the cards, am doing them with eliza now
Wowsers, festive popcorn! Sounds delicious and a definite must try! We love snuggling up to watch Christmas movies too. Have a lovely Christmas xx
popcoen and movies are my favourite things at this time of year 😉
Thanks for linking up with this week’s parenting pin it party. x x