When things began to shutdown at Ford Motor Company due to the pandemic, the automaker gave some of its car designers a special project. Instead of drafting up technical imagery and layouts for new product designs, the staff was directed to craft activity sheets to help amuse kids, and their parents, who were finding themselves now having to stay home for an extended period of time. You can check out what they came up with at the Ford Motor Company website.
There are coloring pages of Mustangs and Ford Trucks along with activity sheets that include follow-the-number pictures, word puzzles and mazes. They've also added THANK YOU messages for the heroes who are braving the coronavirus to provide medical aide and other crucial services during this public health emergency that can be decorated. Send one of these messages to someone you know as a thank you card or post it on social media as a public message of support. I've included a couple of examples below and a whole variety of Ford Motor Company activity sheets can be downloaded for FREE and printed out by visiting here.
You'll see that each of the coloring pages for the vehicles has the name of the staffer and their role at the company displayed on it. Sketches range from realistic images of Ford vehicles to more whimsical illustrations like an illustration of a truck that looks like it could be a character in a Disney-PIXAR Cars movie and a picture of a rhino being hauled in the trailer bed of a F-150. These activity sheets and coloring pages can be a fun way to pass some time. We had a good time with them!
You don't have to be a gearhead or car geek like this dad blogger to appreciate these activity sheets from Ford. Though if you are you'll absolutely appreciate the History of the Mustang illustration included among these activity sheets. In the variety of coloring pages, thank you messages, and games there is something for everyone of any age to enjoy. Take a break and just relax coloring or doing a word puzzle. Head over to the Ford Motor Company website to look over and download some of these free activity sheets while you have some family downtime.
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Avengers Assemble! For a limited time you can find your favorite characters from Marvel Studios' AVENGERS ENDGAME movie within McDonalds Happy Meals. Now through May 20, toys based upon this blockbuster movie will be available within Avengers themed Happy Meal boxes.
24 different characters from AVENGERS ENDGAME will be available throughout the promotion. These will include Ant-Man, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Thor, War Machine, along with two surprise mystery characters. Some of the figures even light up! As you collect these AVENGERS ENDGAME Happy Meal toys their bases can be connected making for a nice display.
Thanks McDonalds for sending a couple of these Happy Meal toys to ageekdaddy.com along with some coupons for free ice cream to stop by a restaurant to enjoy after we've seen the movie.
For more information about these AVENGERS ENDGAME Happy Meal toys head over to happymeal.com plus enjoy these Avengers themed activity sheets below courtesy of McDonalds. Also don't forget to scan your toy as well as the milk jug, go-gurt and apple slices packaging in an Avengers Happy Meal with the McPlay app for access to some fun games and other digital features.
Of course you have to snack on HONEYwhile enjoying a Winnie-the-Pooh story! We had a friendsgiving celebration having fun with coloring pages, eating biscuits with honey & watching Walt Disney Studio's Christopher Robin. Our friends over at Disney sent my family a special gift basket filled with a special Hunny Pot Jar that had a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code Combo Pack tucked inside it so we could see the movie before its official home video release. They also threw in a cookbook filled with honey themed recipes and some of that delicious sweet gooey stuff to fill up our bellies while enjoying the movie.
The kids had a good time coloring some Christopher Robin activity sheets featuring the characters from the movie. Which is your favorite? Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger or Pooh Bear? My daughter loves Piglet, my wife adores Winnie-the-Pooh and my son is fond of Eeyore but I have to say Tigger is my favorite. Tiggers are wonderful things after all! Their tops are made out of rubber with bottoms made from springs. They are bouncy, trouncy and pouncy! Tiggers are fun, fun, fun!
Bring home Christopher Robin for an entertaining family movie night beginning November 6, 2018 when it is released on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital. Enjoy these free coloring pages of favorite Winnie-the-Pooh characters that are featured in the movie courtesy of Walt Disney Studios. Just download, print out and you are good to go! My children love to color and this is a great activity to add some extra fun to your Christopher Robin family movie night.
In the movie, Christopher Robin -- now an adult living in London with a wife and young daughter -- receives a surprise visit from his old childhood pal, Winnie-the-Pooh. With Christopher's help, Pooh embarks on a journey to find his friends -- Tigger, Eeyore, Owl, Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo -- who have disappeared from the Hundred Acre Wood. Christopher Robin embarks upon an adventure back to his childhood stomping grounds which reunites everyone for the first time since he left home to go to boarding school as a boy and inspires the lovable bear and his gang of friends to travel to the big city to help Christopher rediscover the joy of life.
In addition to being an amusing movie that all ages will enjoy. It is rated PG for "some action" but to be honest I don't know why this isn't rated G. It is a heartwarming story filled with humorous situations and touching moments without any scenes that I thought would be concerning for children to see.
Christopher Robin also has an important message for parents about being present in the moment with your family. As Christopher's wife points out to him during an argument about focusing too much on his job and not enough on their family. She says to him "You are working so hard for a better future you are missing out on your life which is going on now right in front of you." With some help from his childhood friends from the Hundred Acre Wood, Christopher obtains a new perspective on priorities. We all have professional and personal matters that can pull us away from our families and this movie is a nice reminder that we need to make time to be present in the moment with loved ones. Embrace that thought by spending some time watching Christopher Robin with your family.
I assure you Christopher Robin will make an excellent addition to your home entertainment video library. It is one of those movies your family will watch over and over again. For more information about the movie, head over to movies.disney.com/christopher-robin.
We baked up some hot biscuits and drenched them with honey as a treat to eat while watching Christopher Robin. My son and daughter thought this was a sweet snack! I'm sure Pooh Bear would agree! Pick up some honey and a Blu-ray, DVD or Digital edition of this movie to have yourself a splendid family movie night. It will be fun, fun, fun!
A Geek Daddy received a Christopher Robin Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Combo Pack for free along with some other promotional swag from Disney. Opinions expressed in this blog post are honest and my own.
Who else is excited about seeing HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY?!!! A Geek Daddy's family is anxiously awaiting the movie's arrival at theaters across the USA on May, 25, 2018. My kids have been having some fun while waiting for their chance to see this new Star Wars movie with some coloring pages Walt Disney Studios sent our way and I wanted to share them with you as well. Go ahead and print out these coloring pages of Han Solo, Chewbacca, the Millenium Falcon and a new character named Qi'ra to pass the time while waiting for HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY to fly into theaters:
Directed by Ron Howard, the film shows a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld where Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes. The movie is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for sequences of sci-fi action and violence.
My family is going to be flying to the movie theater faster then the Millenium Falcon made the Kessel Run when the release date for SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY arrives! My kids are roaring to go!!! Enjoy the coloring pages and may the Force be with you!
May the Fourth be with you! In honor of Star Wars Fan Day, May the 4th, Walt Disney Studios has provided A Geek Daddy with some free SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY themed activity sheets and coloring pages to share with you. Just download the embedded images, print them out, and have some fun.
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY opens at theaters across the United States on May 25, 2018.
Directed by Ron Howard, the film shows a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld where Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes. The movie is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for sequences of sci-fi action and violence.
My family is going to be flying to the movie theater faster then the Millenium Falcon made the Kessel Run when the release date for SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY arrives. Who else is excited to see this Han Solo origin story?! While you are counting down the days for the film's theatrical debut, enjoy these activity sheets and coloring pages to pass the time:
Disney Pixar as part of its announcement of the home entertainment video release of COCO kindly sent a complimentary Blu-ray + DVD + Digital movie pack of the animated film my way to enjoy. My daughter and I had really liked seeing COCO when it was at the theaters and I'd given it A Geek Daddy nod of approval for combining an excellent dramatic script, entertaining musical performances, and impressive visual elements into a fantastic film for a movie review. My son and wife hadn't seen the movie yet though so we were excited to add it to our home entertainment library and watch it for a family movie night.
Available now via Blu-ray, Cable On Demand, Digital Download / Streaming, and DVD, this movie takes viewers on a Dia De Muertos holiday themed adventure through the Land of the Dead. This isn't a scary journey though but rather a family-friendly tale. While COCO does feature skeletons as some of the main characters they are more charming than terrifying promoting themes of respecting and valuing one's ancestry, culture and family.
The story within the 2018 Golden Globe WINNER for Best Animated Motion Picture revolves around a twelve year old boy named Miguel. Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
Based upon the Mexican theme of the movie, I picked up take-out from Del Taco for dinner on our COCO family movie night. Then my kids enjoyed themselves for awhile with some coloring pages featuring characters from the movie. I've included them below so you can download and print them out to use for your own COCO family movie night. Then we watched the COCO Blu-ray on TV. It was a hit with the whole family as my wife and son seeing it for the first time liked it as much as my daughter and I had during the theatrical screening.
Of course the home entertainment edition of COCO also comes with lots of extra features included with the movie. There is more than 2 hours of bonus material focused on artistry of the film and the music within it. Plus there is a skew of concept art and deleted scenes that didn't make it into the final movie like this one:
FUN FACTS
While watching the movie here are a few fun facts to keep in mind and look out for in COCO:
All of the guitar playing in COCO is technically accurate. Filmmakers videotaped musicians playing each song and strapped GoPros to their guitars to give animators reference footage. Special effects simulate the guitar strings vibrating to make the motion blur of guitar-playing look good.
The shoemaking facilities in COCO were inspired by a real shoemaker’s shop in Oaxaca, Mexico. To showcase this generations-old business, artists included details like rolls of leather in the back of a truck, defunct shoemaking tools stored in the attic, and even an old Rivera Family Shoemakers sign near the entrance to Miguel’s attic hideout.
The film's creative team was so dazzled by the vibrant alebrijes they saw in their travels throughout Mexico doing research for the movie, they wanted to incorporate the folk art into the story. The alebrijes are brought to life in COCO as dynamic spirit guides throughout the Land of the Dead.
When Miguel stops to check out a table of alebrijes in Santa Cecilia there are two small clownfish alebrije included in the scene that were inspired by Marlin and Nemo from “Finding Dory.” Other veteran Pixar characters, like Kevin from “Up,” were used as base models for the animated alebrije characters in the Land of the Dead.
Miguel meets legendary artist Frida Kahlo during his journey in the Land of the Dead. Filmmakers used various references—including the artist’s own work—to create the character, designing a variation of the Tehuantepec-style costume Kahlo often wore. Inspired by Kahlo’s pet spider-monkeys that appear in many of her self-portraits, filmmakers created a monkey-alebrije for Kahlo’s spirit guide.
Miguel’s loyal canine companion Dante is a Xolo dog—short for Xoloitzcuintli—the national dog of Mexico. Nearly hairless, Xolos often have missing teeth, and for that reason their tongue naturally hangs out. Filmmakers included this detail in Dante’s design— his tongue behaves like a character itself. To achieve the look, they borrowed the rig used in “Finding Dory” for “septopus” Hank’s dynamic tentacles.
The song “Remember Me,” heard multiple times in the movie, was written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the team behind the Oscar®-winning song “Let It Go” from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ 2013 feature “Frozen.”
COCO is great addition to the Pixar legacy of incredible family-friendly movies that is sure to be watched over and over again if you purchase it. I especially like that the digital version is part of Movies Anywhere which allows you to store your library of movies in one place via the cloud and access them from a variety of options. With Movies Anywhere you can purchase a movie from iTunes and stream it to your television or upload it to an Android device no problem. Buy a movie from Google Play and you can upload it to an iPad or watch via Roku. Movies Anywhere puts consumers first allowing you to view your movies at home and on the go through the device that is most convenient for you.
COCO is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America because it has thematic elements involving death and the skeleton imagery is a major visual component of the film. For more information, visit movies.disney.com/coco
