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How To Host An Epic Jurassic World Movie Night

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Family movie nights are one of our favorite ways to spend family time together in the fall and winter. When the weather turns cold and the evenings get dark early, it’s time to host a family movie night. And now that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is available in stores on Blu-Ray and on digital download, you can host an epic Jurassic World Movie Night with your kids.

This post is sponsored by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Jurassic World Movie Night Snacks

We received a cool Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie night kit to help us spread the word about the movie’s Blu-ray™ + DVD now available in stores. Our kids were thrilled to get movie themed shirts, candy, and popcorn.

But you don’t need to receive a movie kit in the mail to host your own dinosaur party.

How To Host A Jurassic World Movie Night

Family movie nights are fantastic because you can put as much or as little effort into it as you want. How far you go with movie themed treats and decorations may also depend on how old your kids are and whether or not you invite cousins or other extended family and friends.

Jurassic World Family Movie Night

Here are 5 tips to make the most of your family movie night…

  1. Break Out The Popcorn – But Don’t Break Braces

    We LOVE popcorn! For us movies mean popcorn, but now that my 13 year old daughter is wearing braces, she can’t eat popcorn.

    Eating Popcorn and Watching Jurassic World

    The orthodontist explained to Julia how it is bad for your teeth to eat popcorn while you have braces. She has been great about avoiding eating popcorn.

    Do Not Eat Popcorn With Braces

    So during movie night, while the rest of us eat popcorn, Julia eats other snacks like popcorn twists which are a tasty alternative that don’t have any kernels to get stuck in your teeth or break your braces. Spokes are another delicious popcorn alternative that Julia loves.
     

  2. Pick A Movie Everyone Will Love
    Fortunately, everyone in your family is likely to love Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

    Watching Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

    Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Movie DVD

    Our girls are ages 10 and 13 and they thought the movie was awesome! It’s fun for adults too… who doesn’t adore Chris Pratt?
     

  3. Start The Movie After A Good Dinner
    Timing means a lot in life. We find it’s best to have movie nights after a good dinner so the kids aren’t only eating movie snacks and then trying to go to sleep after binging on sugar.

    If you are making pizza part of movie night, consider making your own pizzas at home. Even when it’s cold out, we love to grill pizzas. You can keep the toppings simple for the kids and spice your own up a little with our recipe for grilled pizza.

    Alongside your pizza, serve up lots of raw veggies with this delicious homemade veggie dip.

     

  4. Serve Movie Inspired Snacks – And Sneak In Veggies If You Can
    The best part about making Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom movie snacks is that you can GO GREEN!

    Jurassic Juice Dinosaur Power Smoothie

    We all know the healthiest foods are green, so play into that and use your kids’ passion for dinosaurs to get them eating green foods and drinking green smoothies.

    Janice and I love green smoothies and we have shared two delicious and healthy green smoothie recipes in the past here at 5 Minutes for Mom: Green Machine Smoothie Recipe and Sweet Kale Smoothie.

    So use one of our green smoothie recipes and tell your kids that you’re serving Jurassic Juice Dinosaur Power Smoothies.

    The best part about smoothies is you can add whatever you have available and change up the recipe whenever you want. Some of the best ingredients you can add to turn your smoothies a healthy green are kale, spinach, avocado, and spirulina.

    Our favorite green smoothie to turn into a dinosaur drink is our Sweet Kale Smoothie. This power smoothie will fill you and your kids up with a good healthy drink so you don’t have to feel so guilty about popcorn and other candy treats you may munch on during the movie.

    Click here for the full smoothie recipe and tips to make your green smoothies kid friendly.

    You can also make your kids these healthy Green Smoothie Popsicles. When your kids are excited about dinosaurs, you can’t go wrong with green!
     

  5. Watch The Special Features

    The best part about buying a Blu-Ray™ or DVD are all the special features you get to watch.

    I love going behind the scenes to learn more about the making of the movie and see interviews with the actors. And with a movie like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the features are extra exciting. In fact, with this movie, there’s more than an hour of bonus content!

    Since your kids will have gotten inspired by the dinosaurs in the movie, it’s a great time to extend their learning deeper into dinosaur education.

    And since there are so many movies in the Jurassic Park series, you can host several family movie nights and watch them all.
     

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is now available on Blu-ray™ and DVD. We suggest the combo pack that includes Blu-ray™ + DVD + Digital.

Jurassic World DVD

Building on the wonder and adventure that has mesmerized audiences worldwide, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom continues one of the most thrilling series in movie history with an adventure 65 million years in the making, captivating audiences of all ages with a stunning new chapter filled with more dinosaurs than any other Jurassic film.

Whether your kids have seen every film in the Jurassic series, or this is the first one they’ve seen, they will love the adventure and incredible plot twist.

I remember watching the first Jurassic Park as a kid and it’s so great that now I can enjoy the whole series with my own kids.

This is definitely a movie that kids will watch over and over, so it’s a perfect one to buy on Blu-ray™ or DVD.

Take a look…

Giveaway

Would you like to win a Jurassic World Prize Pack including:

  1. Copy of the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Blu-ray
  2. Jurassic World Hat
  3. Jurassic World Candies

Leave us a comment letting us know if your family enjoys the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies and what you like to do for family movie nights. Then complete your entry using the entry form below.

Sorry to our Canadian friends, this giveaway is open to the US only.

 

To win more great prizes, check out these giveaways.

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How To Host An Epic Family Movie Night

 

Jurassic Juice Dinosaur Power Smoothie - Healthy Green Smoothie

 

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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  1. My husband and kids have seen the Jurassic Park movies and love them! We pop the popcorn, order pizza and wings or make them at home and get the candy and soda!

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  4. The kids and I like the Jurassic Park movies but the wife not so much. We like to fix popcorn or order pizza and sit on the sectional and watch movies.

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  6. We absolutely love the Jurassic Park Series. Our favorite movie is the first one. My dog Roxy loves the T-Rex scenes the best, particularly when the lawyer gets ate.

    To be fair, though, she loves any movie with a T-rex. Even Land of the Lost old tv series T-rex.

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  8. We have watched all of the Jurassic Park/World movies and enjoyed them. Our movie night is usually also pizza night.

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  12. I always take the fam to see the Jurassic Park movies in theaters. We love them. On family nights we like to mix it up, picking something different weekly. Saturday is our night because no one has any commitments.

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  17. My family loves the Jurassic line of movies! For family night, we have popcorn and candy when watching a movie together.

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  18. We are a Jurassic loving family. We usually barbecue at my brothers. He has an awesome roomsize screen/projector and great sound system so its a pretty vivid experience!

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  20. Yes we love these movies! They are so action packed there is never a dull moment. We usually have movie night later after I am done working so we always make a bowl of popcorn and also have peanut butter cups while watching.

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  21. Yes, we love the movies! For movie night we typically make homemade pizza or order takeout and just enjoy each other’s company and watch a bunch of movies.

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  22. If its got dinosaurs in this house its a hit with everyone so of course we love the Jurassic movies. We love to make a huge pallet in the floor for everyone with lots of popcorn and snacks.

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  23. We love anything Jurassic Park and/or Jurassic World! For movie night, we love lots of snacks, lots of laughs, and lots of memories.

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  26. We love the Jurassic Park movies and this one would be great for our movie night, because we haven’t seen it. We usually just have popcorn on movie night and soda. Thanks!

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  31. We are a Jurassic Family and watch every movie that comes out. Saturday night is our movie night and it’s not complete without pop corn.

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  34. We love the Jurassic Park movies. On movie nights we alternate who picks the movie. That way the kids get to see the newer ones they like and we get to introduce them to more classic movies that we like.

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  36. My family and I really enjoyed the Jurassic Park movies. Our family movie night includes making fun family snacks before the movie starts.

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  40. We love all the Jurassic Park movies! For movie nights we take turns picking out the movie and we usually make homemade pizzas so we all get what we want in the toppings department and we make popcorn

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  50. My Daughter and her family love Jurassic movies! They have movie night on Friday evenings complete with pizza, popcorn, pillows, and blankets. I love when I can go over and enjoy with them.

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  51. We love the Jurassic park movies but have not seen the latest one yet. For movie night I always make popcorn on the stove, I keep a supply of really good popcorn that I order online.

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  53. We do love the Jurassic movies. For family movie night we make a picnic on the floor and just sit back and watch the show.

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  57. All 5 of us LOVE the Jurassic series, although only my husband and son have seen the latest Jurassic World movie in the theater. I can’t wait until the rest of us can screen it! For family movie nights, I like to pop up a bunch of popcorn – everyone gets their own bowls so no arguing happens, lol – dim the lights, and crank up the volume a little loud. My daughter talks through movies and that drives the rest of us crazy, haha! It’s always a fun time. Thanks for the chance to win these prizes!

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  60. My family loves movie parties- we have themed food or snacks, sometimes do decorations and crafts related to the movie theme. Because my kids are young the movies are usually animated but my husband and I have watched all the Jurassic park/world movies together once the kids are in bed.

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  63. my family and i really enjoy the jurassic world movies and the jurassic park movies. they are fun to watch.

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  71. My boys love movies and they are obsessed with dinosaurs. We enjoy eating popcorn and watching movies Friday and Saturday night.

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  73. Hi yes we love these movies so much! We like to keep movie night casual with pizza or popcorn. the whole family is together so that makes it fun!!! thx

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  74. we have enjoyed the series so far from Jurrassic we also have all our movies in a box and we pic from the box for faily movie night …always fair

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  76. Yes, we enjoy watching movies in this series. On family movie night, we like to have a special meal like pizza r tacos or have a fun snack.

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  77. We’re all huge fans of the Jurassic movies! When we do have a movie night together, we like to enjoy movies with snacks, sometimes popcorn, other times chips. And of course, an ice cold beverage, usually a soda.

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  78. We do enjoy these movies a lot, the original being the fav. We love making some fun snack and everyone grabbing a seat and blanket

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  79. “Leave us a comment letting us know if your family enjoys the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies and what you like to do for family movie nights.” We do enjoy these movies, and family movie nights should involve a lot of soft drinks and popcorn!

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  81. My whole family loves the Jurassic Park movies! At our house, just about every night is movie night. We like to snack on popcorn or sunflower seeds.

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  83. We love all the Jurassic movies, from the very first one. Big fans and we love a good movie night with the family. Popcorn, pizza, and snacks!

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  85. We all love the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies and we love to curl up together and enjoy a snack night on the couch watching movies together!

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  86. My family loves the Jurassic Park and World movies. Our movie nights involve hanging out on the couch with a big bowl of popcorn

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  87. We have not gotten to watch these yet! Have watched the old ones but not the last two. We would have a pizza and movie night.

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  88. Yes, we are Jurassic Park and Jurassic World fans! We love to have movie night with pizza and popcorn!

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  89. My family loves the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. We like to do pizza and popcorn on movie night.

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  92. My dad and I do movie nights when he stays over. We snack out all night while watching movies, we are looking forward to seeing the new Jurassic Park.

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  100. We love them and for movie night, we pop up some pop corn, cut up some cheese with crackers and get the big comforters out and all curl up on the couch and watch.

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  103. Oh yes, we love all the Jurassic Park movies!! The junk food varies but we all have our own pile of snacks and enjoy watching a good movie together every Sunday night. Always look forward to family night!

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  104. We love the jurassic park movies. My favorite family movie night is everyone together laughing and enjoying each other’s company.

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  105. Our family loves the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. We have seen all 5 movies many times. Usually we have themed movie night once a month. Right now we are going Disney movies since we are going to Disney world. We usually try to do a food menu that matches the movie theme and we will also play games and do a craft.

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  106. My husband and I love Jurassic movies!
    On movie nights my daughters love to make hot cocoa and popcorn. Then we cuddle up on the couch with tons of pillows and blankets !

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  108. My family loves movie nights. My husband and I have 5 children and it’s one of the few family things everyone agrees to do together. We have one night a week that we sit down after dinner with popcorn and candy and watch a movie. I look forward to it every week. My teenagers won’t admit it but I think they enjoy it as much as my younger kids.

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  114. My family loves the Jurrasic Park movies! And we do love family movie nights. My kids like making their own individual sized pizzas for movie night. I just make the pizza dough and they do the rest.

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  115. We are big Jurassic Park fans especially me and my youngest son. I have all the Jurassic movies except this one and i can not wait to see it! I actually have a small collection of older and newer pez dispensers too, this is an awesome prize pack!

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  116. We love the Jurassic Park movies! Our family movie nights consists of popcorn, a good movie, and quality time with the family!

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  118. My family loves the Jurassic series. For family movie night we usually pop up a new style of popcorn and also a tried and true sweet peanut butter popcorn.

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  120. We love all things Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. I make sugar free, air popped kettle corn or mostly sugar free, air popped caramel corn.

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  121. When the original movie came out my daughter was quite young and watched it no problem, couple of years later it was too scared lol. Movie night means dimmed lights, cosy blankets and popcorn

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  123. We do enjoy them. My daughter keeps asking to go to dinosaur world near us. We like to watch them at home with snacks.

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  124. Half and half – I love them, but then scary isn’t everyone’s preference.
    We like to settle in with a cat and an iPad to look up casts etc.

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  125. My family enjoys the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies and we always have snacks when having movie night. We also take turns choosing what we want to watch.

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  126. My family enjoys the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. What I like to do for family movie nights is watch a movie with popcorn and soda. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  127. We love them. Especially my husband and 11 year old. We haven’t seen the newest one yet. But we are hoping to soon. Our ritual with movie night is PIZZA and popcorn! Then we all 3 get on our huge sofa under some blankets and have us a nice cozy evening.

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  134. Yes, our entire immediate family and some of our close extended family all LOVE the Jurassic movies, including Fallen World, and at least one of them, my nephew, does, exceptionally so!
    I personally also liked all of the Jurassic movies, but for me, the most recent, Fallen World one, was my absolute favorite! I cried several times in the movie and also laughed randomly throughout too.

    We’ve always had frequent movie nights with our 5 kids and even though our kids are now 23-31 and on their own and we have a grandson now, we STILL enjoy movie nights together when we get together.

    I’d love to win this movie for either my nephew Jon, (IF he doesn’t already have it, since he loves it SOOOOO much and is a mind-boggling dinosaur facts walking encyclopedia, WOW he knows his stuff!!!) or for my very dear cousin’s 2 kids, Cloey and Ricky who would also LOVE it!

    My husband and I love dinosaurs too, even though we’re empty nester grandparents now. We went to see Fallen World as a date- just the 2 of us and we went on a date to the Detroit Zoo to go through their animated really cool DINOSAURIA while it was there recently!

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  136. Yes we love Jurassic Park movies at my house. My 10 year old son is super into dinosaurs still, has been since he was two. For movie night, which we do at least twice a month we order pizza or make it at home, and enjoy brownies for dessert usually. We also wear our PJs most home movie nights.

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  138. My family does enjoy the Jurassic Park movies. We have seen the first two. We have not seen the new Jurassic World yet. We like all cuddle together under a blanket on our big sofa and eat popcorn during family movie nights.

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  140. We love all the Jurassic movies. Our fave thing to do is having Sunday movie nights with snacks and everyone gets a pick of a movie each week.

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  144. Absolutely love the movies. We love to have a BBQ during the warmer weather and pizza and snacks on colder days. Always tons of popcorn.

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  145. We gather all our favorite movie treats and kick back to watch the show! I haven’t seen all the DVD’s of Jurassic yet, but that Chris Pratt is certainly easy on the eyes.

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  151. The first couple Jurassic Park movies were great, I haven”t seen any of the new ones yet. For movie nights we just pop in a movie and enjoy.

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  154. We love the Jurassic movies, and were kinda old school the whole family gets together makes some popcorn and get some snacks and just enjoy the movie as a family

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  155. We love the new Jurassic Park and the old! we cant wait to see this one too! we usually try and have a movie night once a week!

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