It's Easy To Make Mickey Cupcakes At Home

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Yesterday was National Cupcake Day. To celebrate, Minnie and one of the Disney chefs created adorable Mickey Mouse cupcakes. Just follow along to make your own cupcakes at home. All you'll need are unfrosted cupcakes, your favorite frosting tinted red, yellow m&ms or other small yellow candies for buttons, and Oreos for ears.

Learning To Cook With Goofy

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Disney's latest silly Goofy shorts are all about How To Stay At Home. The three animated shorts include things I think we've all experienced in the last year and a half: "How to Wear a Mask", "Binge Watching", and "Learning to Cook". They remind me so much of the old classic Goofy how-to shorts I watched growing up. So funny! Disney's How To Stay At Home shorts are available now on DisneyPlus.

Learn To Draw Pascal From Tangled

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Ready for more Disney Learn to Draw fun? This video will teach you to draw Pascal, Rapunzel's chameleon sidekick. 

Learn To Draw Baby Tuk Tuk

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I love Disney's Learn to Draw videos. It's fun to try you hand at drawing favorite Disney characters. Disney's latest video teaches us how to draw an adorable baby Tuk Tuk from Raya and the Last Dragon. 

Learn to Draw The Haunted Mansion

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Ready for another spookily delightful "Learn to Draw" from the Disney Parks? This time, Imagineer Stephanie Jazmines will teach us how to draw our own version of the Haunted Mansion. 

There are 999 happy haunts here, but there's room for 1000. Any volunteers?

Rattling Bones To Decorate Your Home

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One of my favorite Halloween cartoons is The Skeleton Dance, an old Silly Symphonies short. Its delightfully spooky with fun, silly music and, of course, dancing skeletons. If you'd like to add a few of these restless bones to your Halloween decor, try this printable craft from D23.

• First, save the image found here. 
• Print at least 5 pages of skeletons on card stock.
• Cut out each skeleton on the black lines.
• Make a small hole on each skeleton’s elbow with a hole punch.
• Thread string or ribbon through the front of each skeleton’s left elbow, across the back, and out through the right elbow, connecting the skeletons into a garland. 
• Hang your Skeleton Dance garland for some spooky fun decor.

Poison Apple Inspired Pumpkin

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I've always loved the spooky look of the poison apple from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It would be the perfect decoration for Halloween. Below is a video from Disney that will teach you how to turn a pumpkin into a poison apple imposter, at least for a while.

Intrigued? Head over to the Disney Parks Blog for the full instructions and to download the template. 

Learn To Draw A Pirate Scene

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Ready for your next Disney art lesson? In this video, you'll learn to draw a spectacular Pirates of the Caribbean inspired scene filled with buccaneers, pirate ships, ocean monsters, and sea battles.

Arrrrrrr Matey! It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

International Talk Like A Pirate Day is one of the more ridiculous holidays, but one that can be a lot of fun. If you need a little inspiration, well, look no further. Here are a few words and phrases to get you started.

• Ahoy - hello
• Arrrrr - yes! or hurray!
• Avast ye! - Hey you!
• Black spot - a pirate's death threat
• Blimey - an expression of surprise
• Briney deep - ocean
• Davy Jones' Locker - the place where drowned sailors go
• Heave ho - put your back into it
• Hornswaggle - to cheat
• Landlubber - a person unskilled at life at sea
• Me hearties - friends
• Mutiny - when the crew chooses a new captain while removing the old one
• Savvy? - Do you understand?
• Sea legs - to walk easily aboard a moving ship 
• Scurvy dog - an insult
• Scuttlebutt - gossip
• Shiver me timbers! - an expression of shock

Learn to Draw an Adventureland-Inspired Treehouse

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I love Disney's "Learn To Draw" videos. It's so fun to try your hand at drawing a favorite character at home. This time, instead of a character, you can learn to draw a treehouse scene inspired by Adventureland attractions like the Enchanted Tiki Room, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Jungle Cruise.

Learn To Draw Wall-E

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I love Disney and Pixar's Learn To Draw videos. They're a fun way to experience a little Disney magic at home. This video will teach you to draw Wall-E, the adorable, trash-compacting robot.

Learn How To Draw Little Green Men From Toy Story

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I love the Little Green Men from the Toy Story movies. They are ridiculously cute! I can't wait to learn how to draw them with this video from Pixar.

Let's Learn How To Draw Stitch

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We're rather obsessed with Lilo and Stitch at our house, so I thought it might be fun to learn to draw our favorite cute and fluffy alien. Disney has a ton of helpful How-To Draw videos, including this one of Stitch.

So, how did your Stitch drawing turn out?

Learn To Draw Bruni

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One of my favorite things to do in Disney World was taking the short drawing classes taught by Disney animators. It was fun to try your hand at drawing the various characters. In the last several months, Disney has released several videos that can teach you to draw characters at home. This video will teach you to draw Bruni, the adorable salamander in Frozen II.

Learn To Draw Olaf

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Have you ever wanted to learn to draw Olaf from Frozen? Well, here's your chance. Supervising Animator Hyrum Osmond teaches you the all steps to create an adorable Olaf in this video. Along the way, you'll pick up a few fun facts about everyone's favorite snowman.

Learn To Draw Multiple Mickeys

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Have you ever wanted to learn to draw Mickey Mouse? Well, you're in luck because Disney has three new videos that can teach you how to draw Mickey as he's looked through the years. First up is Mickey as he originally appeared in the late 1920s.

Next up, a more modern Mickey?

Finally, how about a pie-eyed Mickey?

Ready to try drawing a few more characters? There are several more videos available from the Disney Parks Blog.

This Winifred Sanderson Makeup Tutorial Is Spelltacular

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Halloween is just around the corner, but there's still time to find a costume. Perhaps this makeup tutorial from Disney and makeup artist Kay-lani will be the perfect look.

Jack Skellington Makeup Tutorial

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Are you looking for a last minute idea for a Halloween costume? Perhaps you love the Nightmare Before Christmas. If so, then this makeup tutorial from Disney and makeup artist Kay-lani is just for you.

Madame Leota Makeup Tutorial

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Are you still looking for a costume for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party or perhaps Halloween itself? This tutorial from makeup artist Kay-lani (@viva_glam_kay) and Disney may be just the ticket. Her transformation into Madame Leota from the Haunted Mansion is spellbinding.

These Disney Princess Mini Trees are Too Adorable

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If you've been looking to add a bit of Disney Princess to your Christmas decor, consider making one, or several, of these adorable trees. Each one was inspired by the outfit of a Disney Princess: Ariel, Rapunzel, Mulan, Tiana, and Jasmine.

These trees look fairly easy to decorate and would be a fun family project.

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If you'd prefer a Belle or Cinderella tree, instructions can be found here on the Disney Family website. Which tree will you make?