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One of the side effects of being a girl with an older brother is you have a lot of trucks, trains, zombies, and dirt in your life. While this might drive some little girls crazy, my Lyla just rolls with it all and puts her Disney Princesses inside a dump truck and drives them through piles of Superheros to get to her castle. On her first day of preschool she jumped into my arms and told me “I have a new friend and she LOVES princesses too.” I knew we needed a playdate for the girls and it was going to be all about the princesses. So when we were grabbing our copy of Sleeping Beauty Diamond Edition, we picked up a few Princess Party Essentials to set the scene for the perfect Princess Makeover Playdate for Lyla and her new BFF Louisa.

Throwing a Princess Makeover Playdate is actually pretty fabulous and pretty easy. We used a lot of the Princess toys and accessories that we already had and jazzed up the house with a few new special surprises. First you need to set the scene with snacks and special treats fit for a princess. I hit up the party section at Walmart and grabbed all of the Princess Party supplies at a great price! I got a lot of bang for my buck and the table looked adorable!

Of course, you need all of the essentials for a Princess Makeover, like great shoes.

Well manicured glitter nails.

And, of course, fabulous dresses with all of the necessary Princess accessories.

But more than the shoes, dresses and glitter nails, the best parts of being at a Princess Makeover is being creative and making something beautiful like these Princess paintings.

And using your imagination when playing and sharing with our friends

The girls had so much fun playing together they never got the chance to watch Sleeping Beauty. Guess that means we have to have another Lyla and Louisa Princess Playdate very soon! I’m sure neither of the girls will complain!

Did you pick up your copy of Sleeping Beauty yet? Walmart is the only place to get the Sleeping Beauty Diamond Edition and the special Bonus DVD combo pack. And if you need me to, I can sing Once Upon a Dream for you. I’ll start warming up right now.

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I’m a firm believer in “more is more.” Forget “less is more” when it comes to all of the good stuff like more kids giggling and playing, more blowing off steam with Mommy friends, more yummy snack, and always more snuggling during movie time. “More is more” can lead to lots of juice boxes being spilled on my couch, popcorn squished in my carpet, and the organized chaos that we call playdates, but it also leads to gems like this:

When these playdates started, the oldest kids were just babies that fit into one small room, and they only needed a few toys with flashing lights to entertain them. A few years later, and a whole bunch of siblings later, our playdates grew into preschoolers, toddlers, and babies that easily overtake your house, voices that echo through your hallways, and kiddos that have interests as varied as their little faces. But when you catch them (well most of them) all lined up on the couch, munching on popcorn, watching a new movie, I just want to SQUEEZE them all! So it did take a little magic, maybe a little a little fairy magic, to get them all to stop in their tracks and watch a movie. It was Disney’s The Pirate Fairy DVD that was released on April 1 (no April Fools here!).

Want a sneak peek of Tinkerbell and her fairy friends?

Trailer – The Pirate Fairy on Disney Video

SinceI was hosting the next playdate, mykids and I be-bopped over to Walmart to pick up The Pirate Fairy DVD and supplies for the playdate that would make it a little magical but also make it really easy on me. As an added bonus, Walmart is the only place you can find the combo pack with the Blue Ray/DVD and a special extra DVD of The Pixie Hollow Bake Off that includes ten animated shorts with Tinkerbell and her friends. Since we love Tinkerbell in this house, we will take all the extras we can get!

In the movie, Tinkerbell and the other fairies talk a lot about the magic behind blue pixie dust; it only seemed fitting that the the popcorn and fruit tray I picked up at Walmart had the same magical blue pixie dust (also knows as blue sugar sprinkles). “Be careful, kids,” I told the movie watchers, “if you eat too much, you might fly away!”

What party would be complete without cupcakes? Now while I make fantastic cupcakes (OK, no…no I don’t), Walmart’s bakery section helped me out again, and I just popped in pirate decorations to personalize the sweet treats for a Pirate Fairy Party. Since the bonus pack included the DVD Pixie Hollow Bake Off, I told the kids that Tinkerbell and baking fairy Gelata (voiced by Giada de Laurentiis) were the ones behind their yummy cupcakes.

With so many kids at different ages and stages, I was a little nervous that just one movie wouldn’t be a crowd pleaser, but it was clear that every superhero and princess loved watching Tinkerbell and her fairy friends use teamwork to save Pixie Hollow.

OK, kids, the snacks are gone and the movie is over. Your moms have gathered up your socks and shoes. What was your favorite part of today? Being with friends, of course!

Throwing A Princess Makeover Playdate

A Little Blue Pixie Dust for the Pirate Fairy DVD Playdate