We are going back to the days of old for this May the Fourth Be With You! Back when games were hard copies, the red circle of death was a fear that rested in the back of the mind, nawing its way to the surface with each and every start, and back when printables and fun activites papered websites to encourage the fanbase to showcase their fandoms. I am talking about 2012, when the end of the world was neigh and Star Wars The Force Awakens begin filming. Hard to believe that was 13 years ago! o.O
In 2012 Star Wars began it’s reawakening releasing fun games such as Kinect Star Wars (affiliate link), where fans could wield the power of the force without a controller. It was a fun time for both movie fans and gamers.
“Kinect Star Wars” brings Star Wars to life like never before. Harnessing the controller-free power of Kinect for Xbox 360, “Kinect Star Wars” allows fans to physically hone their Jedi skills, wield the power of the Force in their hands, pilot iconic starships and vehicles, rampage as a vicious rancor monster or even dance with iconic Star Wars characters. Using full body motions, players can live out the ultimate Star Wars fantasy to use the Force, battle with a lightsaber and more — no controller required. (StarWars.com)
With their Kinect Star Wars video game release, Microsoft Studios also shared several printable paper crafts that fans could print and create! Featuring Darth Vader, C-3PO, R2-D2, and more, the collection was (and is) a fun group of galactic creations! The Darth Vader printable is especially fun because he has a removeable helmet!
To celebrate the coming Star Wars Day, May the Fourth Be With You, we are pulling these Kinect Star Wars printables from the SKGaleana Vault and sharing them with all the fellow fans! To grab each printable simply click the images below and save the PDF to your computer. Then print and create! The best part is, each printable comes with instructions!
Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Time to celebrate moms in a big way with gifts, chocolates, food, and more. I know my mom loves it when we do all the chores in the house. It isn’t every day moms get to relax, so I encourage families to truly make this day special.
Like many moms, I consider my mom to be a superhero. She has always been there for me, has helped me fight some major battles, comforts me when needed, and so much more! While these attributes make her heroic, they are not the only reason I think she is a superhero, or at the very least, has super powers.
Picture this. Mesquite Texas, 2009. My mom and I sit in an old apartment complex at a square card table. Her back is to the glass sliding backdoor. I sit across from her, staring outside across several apartment complex rooftops. A solitary white sneaker decorates the balcony. The shoe has been there since we moved in, a lasting reminder of the residences before. I didn’t have it in my heart to remove such a masterpiece, so it continues to weather each crazy storm.
Tonight is no different. The rain cascades from the clouds, blowing left and right in the gale-force winds. Lightning traces the sky, popping from one cloud to another in an endless electric dance. The delayed reverberating booms shake the glass. It’s a classic Texan night.
My mom looks up at me, waiting for me to move my backgammon piece. She smiles. I know I have already lost. No one can beat her. This is one of her super powers. I take my first piece and move it five places. She chuckles. Oh the pain of losing before I have lost. I take my second piece and make a wall to help block her entrance into her home base. It’s my last dying hope to defeat her by making it impossible for her to move. Lightning streaks across the sky. I count the seconds before the sound hits the apartment while she rolls her set of dice.
BOOM! 10 seconds. The storm is two miles away. My mom checks the window and looks back at me. I motion for her to continue her advance. She grabs her first piece and easily jumps my makeshift wall. The start of my inevitable loss. She reaches for her second piece, a grin stretches across her face, Just before she grabs that second piece, the lights flash, lightning strikes the building next door, a huge explosive boom from the lightning shakes every surface in the apartment, and then all goes silent.
I check on my mom, only to find that she is no longer in her seat. I call out to her but I get no answer. I turn in my chair to check the rest of the house, thinking, ‘did I just miss the rapture?’. Nope, I find her. In fact, she is all the way across the room, holding onto the closet doorknob, rocking back and forth while laughing maniacally. If she had been in a white cushioned room, this would have seemed normal. Instead, I simply stare at her as I realize she has a new super power…She can teleport from one place to another in an instant. My guess is her power is charged by the electricity in the air. Maybe I am the one in need of that cushioned room.
I am not sure if every mom has these specific super powers, but I do believe that almost every mom is a superhero. The printable party kit below will help celebrate all the super moms out there. Simply download, print, and create to make the perfect Mother’s Day event!
To get the printables click the images below and save the PDFs to your computer. Then print on cardstock, cutout, create, and decorate. The banners make great accents to a room, the candy boxes can hold small chocolates, the cupcake toppers and wrappers will make perfect cupcake decorations, and the tiara will make a fabulous crown for the one you are honoring.
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We have all seen the news by now. A Minecraft Movie is a huge hit! From Chicken Jockey to Flint and Steel, fans have announced that this movie is number one in their gaming repertoire. The creators of A Minecraft Movie nailed so many of the game aspects. including adding a nod to the legend, Technoblade. Technoblade never dies!
To enjoy the craziness that A Minecraft Movie has created in theaters, I went with a friend to see it on the big screen. Of course, I had to write a review about the movie, but that is a whole other post. You can find the review here. Let’s just say I liked it. In fact, I liked it so much, I had to create a Cubeecraft of Steve!
I know. I know. It has been a while since I have created a Cubeecraft. And what better way to bring back the beloved square paper crafts than by showcasing the ultimate square himself, Steve. However, this is not the Steve we recognize in the Minecraft games. No…This Steve is inspired by Jack Black’s character from A Minecraft Movie.
To Build the Cubeecraft: Materials needed: Printer Card stock scissors x-acto knife
To make:
Cut out each item along the outer black lines.
Cut along the white on each tab using the x-acto knife Also cut around the beard so that it will stick our from the base.
Cut along each red line using the x-acto knife
Fold along each inner solid black line and slide each tab into the slots you created with an x-acto knife to form a cube of the head, body, arms, and feet. Be careful not to fold the lower part of the beard
Slide the arms through the red slots on either side of the body.
Slide the feet through the red slots at the base of the body.
Slide the now completed body through the red lots of the head.
Steve is done.
To get the Steve cubeecraft, click the image below and save the PDFto your computer. Then print and create by following the instructions. Because this is a cubeecraft, no glue or tape is required.
It is Danger… like you’ve never see before! Nickelodeon’s Henry Danger The Movie is available to buy now on digital! This feature-length original movie finds Henry racing through a maze of alternate realities with his new super-fan sidekick, Missy Martin. Facing a wild ride, Henry will need his best friend Jasper (Sean Ryan Fox) and his new super-fan sidekick to find his way out or be stuck in another dimension forever. Check out the trailer below.
Henry Danger The Movie Mask Craft!
The mask activity is a fun craft for the whole family! You will need
Paper Craft Masks
Black Sharpie
Maroon Paint Marker
Dark Gray Paint Marker
Silver Paint Marker.
Click the image below to download the instructions. Then simply create your mask to wear!
Henry Danger The Movie Digital Giveaway
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One of the coolest Easter decorations I have ever seen Disney offer, we are pulling from the SKGaleana Printables Vault today! Back when Disney had a site called Spoonful, Disney would release some fun paper crafts that would turn into perfect decorations. One of these beautiful DIY decorations was the amazing Alice in Wonderland Easter Egg Diorama featuring Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, the Queen of Hearts, Alice, and the Cheshire Cat!
This paper craft requires the artist to build a 3D egg and fill it with a unique Easter Egg Hunt scene inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum can be found holding their special colored eggs, Alice and the Queen can be seen finding their eggs, and the Cheshire Cat shows off his find front and center. It’s a crazy wonderous egg that is perfect for the holiday.
The Alice in Wonderland Easter Egg Diorama is a medium difficulty build with several tabs to glue in the right order to make the egg. While it does take a minute to build, it is a beautiful geometric creation with a lovely gold/yellow design.
Print the template on cardstock and cutout the pieces.
Make all the folds along the dotted lines
Using glue, secure A and B tabs on Bottom Half #1 to their corresponding pieces. Repeat this step with the A and B tabs on Bottom Half #2, then secure Bottom Half #1 and Bottom Half #2 with the C tabs.
Secure D tabs to the octagon to close the bottom half of the egg.
Secure all A, B, C tabs to Top Half #1 to their corresponding pieces. Repeat this step with A, B, and C tabs on the Top Half #2, then secure Top Half #1 and Top Half #2 with the D tabs.
Secure the E tabs to the octagon to close the top half of the egg.
Use the tabs on the background to secure the background to the inside of the bottom of the egg. You should find that the shape of the background aligns with the shape of the egg. Repeat this step with the middle ground and the the foreground to create the entire scene.
Place the top half of the egg over the scene and secure it to the bottom half of the egg with the remaining tabs. It is easiest to work your way from the back of the egg to the front.
Fold the top piece in half and butterfly the tabs outward. Secure the piece so the design is two-sided, then use the tabs to attach the piece to the top of the egg where indicated.
Attach the Happy Easter message to the egg, just above the hole
To download this amazing papercraft, click the image below and save the PDF to your computer. Then follow the instructions above to create this masterpiece,
Easter Weekend is here! Get ready for bright spring colors, blooming flowers, and family fun! With the family fun comes egg hunts, chocolates, and Easter baskets! These games and gifts showcase the love we have for each other on one of the most holy days of the year.
With the gifts, we want to include a message of love and laughter. There is no better way to do that than with an Easter card! Below, I have collected several Disney themed Easter cards featuring iconic Disney characters. Below you will find Bambi , Tangled, pop-up cards, several Wreck it Ralph styles, and a Thumper pop-up card. Let’s face it, being the cute bunny that he is, Thumper is kind of Disney’s Easter mascot.
To get the cards simply click the images below and download the PDFs to your computer. Then print and create to give to someone special on Easter.
Decorating Easter Eggs is an iconic activity for family and friends to enjoy for the Easter season. Those brightly colored butt-nuggets end up hiding in yards, in decorated Easter baskets, and they end up as brilliantly colored deviled-eggs. It’s a delicious treat and a fun tradition. Sometimes we need to place these eggs in a holder to help them dry or add to the Easter decorations. While many will use the egg carton, we can also use fun Easter Egg holders!
Below, I have collected several fun Easter Egg holders featuring Bambi, Mickey Mouse and friends, cuties Stitch, cuties Dumbo, cuties Marie, Fairies, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Sofia the First, and Wreck it Ralph. They are easy to use, simply download, print, and create.
To make the mini Easter baskets, you will need
Glue or tape
Scissors
template
Instructions:
Print the template
Cut out the egg holders.
roll each egg holder and glue or tape the ends.
Place the eggs in the holder
To get the templates, click the image below and download the PDF to your computer. Then follow the instructions for a fun Easter activity!
Easter is this coming Sunday! To celebrate the upcoming holiday, I thought it would be fun to release some older style Easter printables that are in the SKGaleana Vault. I foraged the collection and found this beautiful little gem, the mini Easter Basket paper craft from Disney’s Spoonful, a site that used to be dedicated to crafts and printables.
This printable features two mini Easter baskets, one pink and one blue, some printable grass, and several printable spring flowers and insects to decorate the basket.
To make the mini Easter baskets, you will need
Glue or tape
Scissors
template
Instructions:
Print the template
Cut out the basket.
Fold each side of the basket away from you. Fold each gray tab away from you. Put glue on a gray tab and attach it to the next side of the basket, on the left. Do this all the way around the basket and it will begin to take shape.
Cut out the basket handle and glue each end to the inside of the basket.
Next, cut the green grass in strips and arrange it in your basket. Decorate the basket with the flowers, butterflies or dragonflies. Add a plastic egg, Easter chocolates, or jelly beans and give it as a gift or use it as a table favor.
Click the image below to download the template to your computer. Then print and create for an adorable gift/decoration.
PAW Patrol is on a roll in the skies above and beyond Adventure Bay! Fans can join the PAW Patrol pups as they soar the skies to help their friends in PAW Patrol: Air Rescue, available on DVD now! Ryder and the PAW Patrol pups create the Adventure Bay Air Crew with all new flight gear and new air rescue vehicles–all while highlighting our fan-favorite pup, Skye!
Skye is my favorite PAW Patrol pup, so this new episode collection is above and beyond the best! We get to see Sky and the team save the new airport, save a stunt show, stop a crazy rocket-powered pogo stick, and more! It’s high flying, high octane, non-stop fun!
Along with Skye being the main character, we also continue to get the life-lessons we have come to love from PAW Patrol. Air Rescue continues to teach teamwork, problem solving, kindness, and how important it is to help others. I love these lessons woven within the episodes. <3
PAW Patrol: Air Rescue has over two hours of episode fun! The episode are:
Air Rescue: Pups Save the Airport Opening
Air Rescue: Pups Save a Hum-stronaut
Air Rescue: Pups Stop a Rocket-Powered Pogo Stick
Air Rescue: Pups Save the Sky-High Stunt Show
Air Rescue: Pups vs. the Hum-Cloud
Air Rescue: Pups Stop the Mid-Air Magnet
Pups Save the Mountain Surfers
Pups Save Humdingers Home Away from Home
Pups Get Your Goat
Pups Save the Crop Circles
Synopsis: When there’s trouble in the skies above and beyond Adventure Bay, it’s time for some high- octane air rescues! Launching from the all-new Adventure Bay Airport, the pups will suit up in aerial rescue gear and take to the skies to save the day!
PAW Patrol: Air Rescue (affiliate link) includes over two hours of episodes, PAW Patrol: Air Rescue is available now from Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon Home Entertainment for the suggested retail price of $10.99!
To celebrate the release of PAW Patrol: Air Rescue on DVD, and thanks to Nickelodeon, we are hosting a DVD giveaway! Use the form below to enter for a chance to win PAW Patrol: Air Rescue on DVD. Follow, comment, post on C daily, and more to earn entries! Many will enter, only one will win!
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From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures and starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black, “A Minecraft Movie,” directed by Jared Hess, is the first-ever big screen, live-action adaptation of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. And let me just say, the theaters have been crazy with fans creating a pop-culture phenomenon, much to the dismay of many theater owners. From riding on shoulders of fellow fans, to throwing popcorn, to bringing in live chickens, the theater’s “quiet” motto have been throw to the side as the audience enjoys the release of A Minecraft Movie.
After seeing so much excitement and insanity across social media, I decided to attend a showing with a huge Minecraft fan to see what all the craziness was about. [SPOILERS BELOW]
Steve (Jack Black) starts the movie off with an in-depth description of who he is and how he came to be in the Minecraft world. When Steve finally digs in the mines, his world is turned upside-down when he finds the square orb of Dominance and opens a portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination.
Fast forward to the 90s (my guess) and we find the less colorful land of reality. Shown to be a harsh landscape of failed dreams, death, and working to the bone to make ends meet. We happen upon Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), who peaked in the 80s after winning an arcade game. But now, he faces an eviction notice, failures, and a job as a non-thriving storage unit investor. I felt for Garbage Man. There was no decade like the 80s, and for many, it has been a hard timeline to relinquish. We all want that colorful time in our lives back. It truly was magical.
But, life goes on and time moves forward. Imaginations get curb stomped and we find ourselves in a vapid vacuum of reality, skirting by in a face-paced world like zombies with unrealized dreams, following the rules of others and told not to make waves, “Keep your head down and work harder.” This impossible-to-sustain scenario is further pushed when we meet Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers), and their real estate agent, Dawn (Danielle Brooks). Henry and Natalie lost their mom and have been forced to move to Idaho. With cheap rent and a job offer, Natalie finds that her childhood has been cut short to care for her brother. (Dreams are crushed everywhere in the real world). Dawn becomes the mascot of our time when she shows off all her side hustles she has just to survive and pay the bills; one, of which, includes a traveling petting zoo. Girl is never bored.
What does this pathetic version of reality lead to? The desire for more, of course. Henry wants to create. His imagination can’t be contained, and in a quick moment of curiosity, he ends up accidently getting the Garbage Man, Dawn, and Natalie sucked into the Overworld. Where the real word is dismal, flat, and harbors no hope, The Minecraft World features the direct opposite, and here is where the audience begins to get restless. Kids and adults begin vibing in their seats as the epic world of cubes flourishes in all its colorful glory. Eyes sparkle to life and popcorn buckets begin to jostle.
We watch as the cast learns how to mine materials and build their first make-shift hut. We watch as Minecraft creatures scurry across the land. We watch as creativity comes alive and a small group of people realize that this square world may not be as square as they think. Suddenly, a hopeless reality turns into a reality of possibilities. A reality where the creative are encouraged, in fact, creativity is essential to one’s survival! And too survive they must Minecraft!
This is where the audience loses their mind. We have Black’s character, Steve, sucking in the audience with iconic quotes and musical numbers. “I…am Steve”, “Chicken Jockey”, and “Flint and Steel” all lead to rambunctious fans shouting, cheering, and having a sporting good time. While I didn’t get to see the throwing of popcorn or people climbing on someone’s shoulders, there was quoting, clapping, laughter, and excitement. Of course, the theater I attended, did ask that we do our best to keep it quite so that others can enjoy the film. We did our best. However, the owner of Hayden Cinema did explain that he would be providing several showings where fans can be fans. He calls it “A Minecraft Movie: Chicken Jockey“! The one request… please no food throwing. How cool is that? So if you are looking to enjoy the movie as only a fan can, here are the showings for you in the state of IDAHO!
CHICKEN JOCKEY
I have to say that the audience participation really helped bring the movie alive. The excitement from the fans feeding into the creativity of Minecraft is fun and entertaining. While this is not a scene for every movie goer, it certainty ramps up the hype of such and iconic game-to-movie event.
Regarding the actual movie, I feel as if my review will clash with the more standard critics in the world, because I actually loved the movie. I didn’t go to the theater looking for comedy gold, but, a mining movie did supply it. Where some saw unimaginative, I saw creativity at its finest. From musical numbers to hilarious dialog, I thought the film had the ping of genius attached to it.
A Minecraft Movie is a non-stop film. From the moment we are introduced to Steve, the movie moves forward at a great pace and follows through with all of their foreshadowing. We start with Steve and his story, flow into The Garbage Man and his troubles, discover a misfit family, find Dawn and get sucked into the Minecraft world. And like most movies, the current events of our time are often laced within the story.
Lately the laced current events lead to jarring moments. Writers, actors, and directors struggle to seamlessly add the struggles of our time into their plots and often come out as almost indoctrination or in-your-face conditioning. And most of the struggles chosen to showcase are overused and have lost their emotional driving force. However, A Minecraft Movie easily takes the hardships of today, especially for the creative and gamers, and makes the movie flow seamlessly.
A Minecraft Movie focuses on several realities that those of us in the “real world” deal with daily. Creativity is squashed or is at best a ‘hobby’, kids are growing up too fast and sometimes are left to parent their siblings often sacrificing their own childhood, and there needs to be a balance of gaming and real life.
Cutoff Crafts put it simply, “The pressure to forsake creative endeavors and dreams because people demand it of you is strongly rebuked in this film” (Cutoff Crafts). We start with the dreams of Malgosha being trampled on by her family and by her community. It leads to Malgosha becoming the villain of the story. Basically, she takes what she learned and pressures an entire world to follow, “No creativity, no arts”, the Piglins should only be mining for gold. But making the anti-art character the villain competes with the norm of our time. Instead of squashing what makes each person unique, the film encourages creativity. Steve wants to see what each person can create and wants to see a world of fantastical builds. Perhaps that’s why Minecraft the game is so popular. It’s a haven for the creative and an outlet is a time of depravity.
And if you thought that theme was heavy, get ready for another zinger. A Minecraft Movie showcases a more controversial issue of children becoming parents. How a child, who is forced into parenting their siblings, loses part of their childhood. After the death of their mother, Natalie is forced to care for her sibling. While she is technically an adult, she does state in the film that she would have liked to be a child a bit longer. However, who would have taken care of Henry? It is a complicated feeling to love family but also feel robbed of time that can never be returned. You are only young once and growing up too fast is sad. This isn’t a theme we see often in our movies today, but it does show where we might be failing as a society. Even when it comes to rambunctiousness of shouting and cheering in the theater, we scream for the kids to stop and demand that they fit social norms through silence.
The final theme that hits home for my generation is the balance of game and life. Games can be an escape but they can also be too much of an escape. The Garbage Man and Steve both want to live in a world where they don’t have to interact with people and can just play games all day. They want to escape reality. But, by doing so, they remove the magic that they could bring to the world. Spending all day playing means that what you could change for the better is left to the next creative mind, if it’s ever discovered at all. I like how A Minecraft Movie basically states yes, this game is fun and creative, but don’t forget the real world exists and it’s not the same without you in it. Bring that creativity out into the open and share it with others. Remember the quote above, “the real word is dismal, flat, and harbors no hope”, you can change that by just being you!
From audience behavior to iconic messages of the time, A Minecraft Movie brings the heat and the fun for every generation watching. It is a kids film laced with lessons that all members of the audience can relate to. I can say with absolute certainty that I loved this film. It is definitely SKGaleana approved.
Ok, so I know i dove deep into the heart of this movie and maybe, even, overanalyzed a few themes. So what do you think? Is A Minecraft Movie as great as I am stating? Should the audience be chastised for their loud behavior? Share in the comments below.
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