Have an art-fest with your kids and string up their work on a clothes line across your kitchen or movie room. The daycare has a clothesline strung up across the room with children’s artwork hanging from it on clothes pins. * Where there are kids, there’s art work. Parents, now is a great time to get down and play with your kids! Introduce your kids to their toys kind of like Andy does and then play with them like Andy does. He tells her their names and what each one is good at or what they are known for. *At the end of the movie Andy introduces Bonnie to all of his beloved toys. Then have them show you the best way to play with their toys. Have your kids point out the differences in the way the toddlers play with toys versus the older kids.

*The different ways in which different aged kids play is a big part of this movie.

Come up with your family’s own system of nonverbal communication using hand signals, whistles or flashlight patterns. * During this escape scene the gang also has all kinds of signals they use to communicate with each other from distances. toy cars as skates, an exercise ball to roll on or other furniture to hop along). Then explain that they can’t touch the floor to get there but they have to use other more creative ways to get to their destination (i.e. Or pause the movie when Buzz is trying to get up to the air vent, point out where the kids need to get to (the side of the couch, or the doorway) and where they need to start from. Set up an obstacle course in your movie room and pause the flick when the Toy Story group is trying to escape from Sunnyside.

* Andy’s toys are notorious for extravagant escape plans. Let everyone use the toppings to make their own Potato Head face. Make pizzadillas for dinner using tortillas, mozzarella cheese, pizza sauce, pepperoni, olives and whatever else you like. Potato Head does what he can to walk around using all of his body parts on a tortilla. * Have some Daycare style snacks of course! Cut up some carrot sticks, lay out the cheese slices and crackers, put some grapes in a bowl, and load up on juice boxes. Will they be able to escape the craziness? Will you be able to liven up movie night? Find out with these Family Movie Night Activities! Movie Snacks: When Andy’s toys get accidentally donated to the Sunnyside Daycare, they realize that things are never as they seem.

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