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Crafts and Recipes for a The Little Mermaid Movie Night

Published on Apr 28, 2020

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Take your children for an under-the-sea journey! Set the scene with these crafts and recipes impressed by The Little Mermaid, now streaming on Disney+!

The Little Mermaid Coloring Page

What You’ll Need:

Printable PDF
Regular paper
Markers, crayons, or coloured pencils

How to Make It:

Download the PDF above, print, and get coloring!

Mermaid Tail Cupcakes

What You’ll Need:

Your favourite cupcake recipe
White frosting
Teal or white sweet melts
Teal and purple meals coloring (Alternatively, combine inexperienced and blue for teal, and crimson and blue for purple)
Sprinkles
Cupcake collar in scale print, iridescent, or different mermaid designs!
Mermaid tail silicone mould
Cupcake liners
Large zip closure plastic bag
Scissors

How to Make It:

Prepare the cake batter in accordance with your favourite recipe.
Place cupcake liners right into a cupcake tray, and fill each with cupcake batter about 2/Three of the way in which. Bake in accordance with the recipe directions. Set apart to chill.
To make Four mermaid tails, place about 2/Three cup of sweet melts in a microwave protected bowl. (Note: Amount varies relying on the scale of the molds and what number of you need to make. Increase as wanted to make extra mermaid tails.)
Microwave for 30 seconds at a time, stirring incessantly.
If you solely have white sweet melts, add meals coloring to the melts to create a teal shade.
Using a small spoon, fill the molds. If you overfill, it’s okay – you possibly can trim any extra off as soon as set.

Place the mould within the freezer for 10 minutes.
Remove the mould from the freezer and punctiliously come out the mermaid tails. If it’s essential to reduce off the surplus, place on a reducing board and use a small paring knife to scrub them up. Store within the fridge till you’re prepared so as to add them to the cupcakes.

Place frosting in a bowl. Add meals coloring to make it purple. Mix till the colour is easy and evenly distributed.

Scoop the frosting into a big zip-closure plastic bag. Twist the bag to maneuver the frosting into one nook of the bag, then reduce a small nook off. Tada! Piping bag!
Pipe frosting onto every cupcake.
Remove the mermaid tails from the fridge and place one into the middle of every cupcake.
Top it off with sprinkles and a mermaid-inspired cupcake collar.

Ariel’s Starfish Treats

What You’ll Need:

Tortillas
Sugar
Food coloring
Cooking oil (vegetable or canola)
Cinnamon (Optional)
Candy eyes
Frosting

How to Make It:

Prepare the coloured sugar. Put about ½ to 1 cup of sugar in every of three bowls. You can optionally add cinnamon for style, however observe that this may occasionally fade the vibrancy of the colour only a bit.
Add Three-Four drops of meals coloring into the sugar bowls and use a fork to interrupt it up and stir it round. It might take a pair minutes to combine it collectively nicely. Use the fork to interrupt up any darkish clumps. Repeat with the opposite colours.

Next, use a small knife or kitchen shears to chop out as many star shapes from tortillas.
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Pour about ½ inch of cooking oil in a pan and warmth it to medium-high.
Place one star within the oil to check the warmth. It ought to begin to bubble and sizzle as soon as it touches the oil. If it doesn’t, flip up the warmth just a little bit and check out once more.
Once the oil is heated nicely, use tongs to put a couple of stars within the oil and allow them to fry.
Turn them over as soon as the sides look mild brown, and take away them as soon as the underside can be mild brown.
Place them on a plate with a paper towel (to assist take in extra oil and funky for a pair seconds).
Use the tongs and/or a fork to put the celebs within the sugar and coat them fully. Turn them over a pair occasions, scoop the sugar on high, and roll it throughout in there to get it properly coated. Lightly faucet off any further sugar.

Place sweet eyes on the celebs! You can use frosting or gel frosting to assist preserve the eyes on, or serve them flat and let the eyes relaxation on high.

Ariel’s Grotto Candelabra

What You’ll Need:

A small candelabra
White, teal, inexperienced, and purple acrylic paint
Paintbrush
Decoupage glue
Hot glue
Small sea shells
Metal or plastic fork, spoon, and knife

How to Make It:

If the candelabra is a darker shade, begin by portray a primer coat of white paint. Let dry fully.

Paint the candelabra with a coat of teal paint. Let dry fully, then evenly brush inexperienced and purple in random spots so as to add accents of shade.

Repeat the identical steps to color the silverware. Let dry fully.

Seal the candelabra and the silverware with a coat of decoupage glue. This creates a extra completed look!
To connect the silverware, apply a beneficiant quantity of sizzling glue inside every of the candle holders, and place and maintain the silverware upright contained in the candle holders till the glue units.
Attach a couple of shells across the candelabra with sizzling glue.