These small trinkets bring holiday fun to our home.  For my Disney-obsessed girls, we were so thrilled with the Moana theme he chose for himself recently.

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First, Joey our Elf on the Shelf dressed himself in a grass skirt and flower lei.  The grass skirt is made of lime green crepe paper.  If your elf wants to make his/her own, one would need to cut slits into the paper three-quarters of the way through the width.  For a full skirt, the crepe paper will be wrapped around the elf several times.  Use a small piece of tape to close the skirt in the back.

To make a flower lei fit for an elf, cut a drinking straw into small pieces.  Then cut several flowers from construction paper.  Use a hole punch to make a hole in each flower (or carefully cut your own hole if your sleeping children might be awakened by an elf retrieving that hole punch.)  Alternate stringing the flowers and straws onto a piece of ribbon.  Tie closed.

Tell your elf if he/she is looking for a lei for kids, try this Moana Candy Lei.

For the Moana card, Joey cut a wave design on the bottom of the paper.  Just like Moana, the ocean calls to him too.

 And speaking of hearing things calling to you, the girls were delighted that our Elf on the Shelf ordered the Moana soundtrack.  We’ve had a blast listening to all of the songs, especially “Your’re Welcome.”

Disney’s Moana is in theaters NOW! Tell your Elf on the Shelf you’d love the soundtrack or movie tickets.

To make our upcoming viewing of Moana even more fun, we’ve made candy leis.  What’s a movie without candy, right?  Considering we’ve got buckets of leftover Halloween candy at home, it didn’t cost us anything to make these fun Moana inspired treats.

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In Disney’s Moana, young adventurous Moana (voiced by Auli‘i Cravalho) follows in the footsteps..or wavelengths…of her wayfarer ancestors.  She, with the help of demigod Maui (voiced by Dwayne Johnson), sets sail of a mission across the Pacific to save her village from a legendary darkness.  This new clip features the original song “We Know the Way,” written and performed by Opetaia Foa’i and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Now let’s sail into how to make Moana Candy Leis!

How to Make Moana Candy Leis

Materials:

• Individually packaged candy
• Cellophane
• Tape
• Paper Hawaiian flowers
• Curling Ribbon

Instructions:

Start by unrolling your cellophane wrap and cutting a piece 12 inches wide.  Next, lay your candy along the cellophane wrap approximately one inch from the edge. We raided our leftover Halloween candy, looking for packages that fit the Moana color scheme in this poster.

Lots of green and blue (like Crunch bars) candy with touches of red and maybe even yellow (Starbursts, for example).

A couple of notes about that:

• • I prefer doubling candy so you end up with more per section and just more overall.  Because, well, it’s candy. Stick with similarly sized pieces when doubling.
  • If you’ve got awkwardly shaped or long candy, try taping the packing down so you end up with rectangular pieces.
  • You’ll want to leave spaces between the candy for ribbon ties and flowers.

After you’ve arranged your candy onto the cellophane, start slowly rolling the candy in the wrap.  I’ve found it is best to work with a partner, each rolling opposite ends.

Secure each section with curling ribbon.
If needed to keep candy secure, place a small piece of tape at the back of each section.
Bring the two ends together and secure with more curling ribbon.

To give my candy lei a Hawaiian and Moana feel, I added 3-inch blue and green flowers.  They were cut out from my Cricut, but you could easily grab some free flower clipart or cut them yourself from cardstock. I cut a slit to place them on the candy lei.

Moana will be making waves in theaters November 23, 2016 and is rated PG.  We can’t wait to “sea” it!