Preschool Sleeping Beauty Photoshoot

My granddaughter is 3 years old and loves to dress up as a princess. This month we chose Aurora from Disney’s  Sleeping Beauty  because I think of roses in late summer. Also, her dress is pink reminding me of August roses.

Princess Aurora is a loving, hopeful, joyful, graceful, imaginative 16 year old girl from medieval France. Her sidekicks are Flora, Fauna, Merryweather the good fairies.

Aurora quote: “They say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.”

Zephaniah 3:17 states, “The Lord your God is in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”

We visited a local rose garden for this photoshoot. She wore the same Sleeping Beauty dress and her white dress shoes had a bow and a little strap. I curled her hair before we left the house and lastly we put in the gold and pink earrings. I bought gold glitter cardstock and made her necklace. This gold glitter cardstock was perfect for cutting and there was no mess. Then she just held the single red rose too.


Her are some more of my toddler and preschool photoshoots:


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Disney Princess Party -5

Since we have taking Disney Princess Photos of her since she has been born, we decided to have a Princess party this year.

Princess Invitation

I hung up all of her princess dresses on a line and then put a galvanized tub in front. Then she dressed in her Ariel outfit and sat in the tub for the picture. Then I added the party information to the picture and gave it to her friends.


Princess Dress

We had part of her party at the local splash pad, so she just wore her swimsuit. At home she wore her outerspace dress that she found a a local resale shop and just HAD TO HAVE! I did get this “My Favorite Princess Calls Me Dad” shirt for her dad to wear.


Princess Decorations

Princess Pom Poms

I printed out 8×10 pictures of the princesses and found matching color of tulle and ribbons. I used 8 feet of tulle and then folded it into 3 foot sections. Then I used the ribbon to tie in the middle and cut the folded ends to be open. I laminated the princess pictures and punched a hole at her waist. Then pushed half of the tulle dress through. I spread the tulle starting at the bottom layer and then used glue dots to hold the dress tightly against the laminate. Then I used the ribbon that was tided around the middle to tie a bow and used another glue dot to hold it in place too. I used fishing line to hang them.

I made 12 Disney princesses; Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Belle, Elsa, Rapunzel, Jasmine, Tiana, Mulan, Moana, and Ariel.

At the splash pad we hung them on the fence between the banner pieces, I was very happy with how they turned out.

Photo Banner

Since she has dressed up as a Disney princess every month for 5 years, I just printed out a 5×7 from each photo session. I folded the top half of the black cardstock to form 8.5×8.5 square. I used double sided tape to attach the photos to white cardstock and then to the black cardstock . I attached a thick ribbon behind the folded cardstock and used glue dots to hold it in place. Then I attached large safety pins to each end of the ribbon.

We attached them to the fencing with the safety pins.

Princess Gift Bags

I printed out 4×6 pictures of the princesses and glued them to 5×7 white bags. Then I used some of the tulle left from the Princess Pom Poms to make little dresses for the bags. I attached them with glue dots and then added a tiny bow. Storm had fun filling the bags with goodies; mermaid slime, gem rings, princess tattoos, star wands, Disney stickers, star bubbles.

We placed the bags on a table with a princess table cloth.


Princess Food

I love making theme foods for my family. I make cupcakes for each princess and I also made another dinner food for each princess; including entrees, sides, drinks, and desserts.

Princess Cupcakes

I made 2 boxes of chocolate cake mixes and 2 boxes of vanilla cake mixes, then I baked them in colored baking cups.

Here is my buttercream recpie:

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup Crisco
  • 4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon milk (if thick)

Directions:

  1. Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
  2. Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
  3. Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.

I used food coloring to make the different colors of icing for each princess, then I used the Wilton 2D tip to make the ruffle looking dresses for them.

I printed out smaller versions of the princesses and attached toothpicks to them. I stuck these into the cupcakes to look like princess dresses.

I used these cupcake cases to transport them in.

The Disney Princess Meal

Sleeping Beauty Spinning Wheel Pasta

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Boil the pasta in salt water for 8 minutes.
  2. Drain and add a jar of alfredo sauce. I add some water the the jar and shake it to get more of the sauce out of the jar. (We have tried many of the jar alfredo sauces and the Bertolii is my family’s favorite.)

Rapunzel’s Braided Garlic Bread

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 Cup warm water
  • 1 TBS sugar
  • 2 1/2 teas active dry yeast
  • 3 Cup flour
  • 1 Cup hot water
  • 1 teas salt
  • 4 TBS melted butter
  • 1/2 teas garlic salt
  • 1/2 Cup Parmesan Cheese

Directions:

  1. Make a double batch and use half for Belle’s Pepperoni Roses.
  2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and prepare 2 baking sheets.
  3. Combine 1/4 cup warm water and sugar. Sprinkle yeast on the top and let it set for 10 minutes.
  4. Mix in 2 cups flour, salt, and the h0t water on low.
  5. Slowly add 1 cup flour and mix until dough is smooth and pulls away from the sides.
  6. Dump dough on flour surface and cup into fourths. Cut each piece into fourths again so that you have 16 pieces.
  7. Roll each piece into an 8 inch rope and then braid 3 of them together and place on a baking sheet.
  8. Let sit for 10 minutes while you mix melted butter and garlic salt.
  9. Brush butter on the bread and bake for 12 minutes.
  10. When the bread comes out brush more butter on it and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

Belle’s Pepperoni Roses

Ingredients:

  • Pizza Dough (I used the same dough that I made Rapunzel’s Braided Garlic Bread)
  • 1 jar of Pizza Sauce
  • Pepperoni
  • Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees, and prepare a muffin tin by lightly greasing them.
  2. Roll out your dough about 8 inches long and cut into 2 inch strips.
  3. Spread a thin layer of pizza sauce along each strip, leaving and edge along one side.
  4. Spread pepperoni slices along one long side of each strip with the pepperoni hanging off the dough.
  5. Sprinkle with cheese.
  6. Roll dough carefully longwise and place them into the muffin tin.
  7. Bake for 15 minutes and allow to cool before you serve.

Orange Chicken (to add some protein to our meal)

Ingredients:

  • 3 lbs Chicken Tenderloins
  • 1/2 Cup Orange Marmalade
  • 1/2 Cup Honey BBQ Sauce
  • 1/4 Cup Soy Sauce

Directions:

  1. Place the chicken in a crock pot on high for 3 hours.
  2. Mix other ingredients in a small bowl.
  3. Drain the liquid from the chicken and cut into 1 inch pieces.
  4. Place the chicken and sauce in the crock pot on low for another 30 minutes.

Jasmine Rice

Ingredients:

  • 2 Cups Jasmine Rice
  • 2 1/2 half cups water
  • Salt

Directions:

  1. Place all ingredients into your rice maker.
  2. Once it is done let it set with the lid on for 5-10 more minutes.
  3. Add salt and fluff with a fork.

Mulan’s Egg Rolls

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. I use MINH frozen Pork Egg Rolls from Sam’s Club and place them in the air fryer for 15 minutes.
  2. Allow to cool before serving. These were a big hit!

Pocahontas’s Gold (Corn)

Ingredients:

  • 8 ears of corn
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt & Pepper
  • Butter

Directions:

  1. Preheat air fryer to 400 degrees.
  2. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  3. Cook for 10 minutes, turning halfway through.
  4. Add butter and salt as needed.

Moana’s Watermelon Boat

Ingredients:

  • Watermelon
  • Other Fruit

Directions:

  1. Slice about a third of the watermelon off longwise. Cut a tiny slice flat off the bottom so the boat sits flat.
  2. Use a melon baller to cut out balls of watermelon.
  3. Once you get what you can out, cut out the rest of the watermelon so it can hold as much fruit as possible.
  4. We placed pineapple, strawberries, red and green grapes in the boat.
  5. Then I printed out a Moana flag and attached it with a skewer.

Elsa’s Snowball Punch

Ingredients:

  • 1 gallon Blue Hawaiian Punch
  • 2 liter Sprite
  • 12 oz Pineapple Juice
  • Vanilla Ice Cream

Directions:

  1. Chill all of the liquids before hand, then add them all to your punch bowl.
  2. Place about 10 large scoops of vanilla ice cream to the punch.

Tiana’s Swamp Juice

Ingredients:

  • 1 gallon Green Berry Rush Hawaiian Punch
  • 2 liter Sprite
  • 12 oz Pineapple Juice

Directions:

  1. Chill all of the liquids before hand, then add them all to your Jug.

Snow White’s Apple Dumplings

Ingredients:

  • 2 Cups flour
  • 1 TBS sugar
  • 1 teas salt
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup ice cold water
  • 2 granny smith apples
  • 1 egg
  • 3 TBS Sugar
  • 1 teas cinnamon
  • (SAUCE)
  • 1/2 Cup water
  • 1/4 Cup apple Juice
  • 1/2 Cup sugar
  • 2 TBS butter
  • 1/2 teas cinnamon

Directions:

  1. Mix together the flour, sugar and salt.
  2. Cut the cold butter into pea sized pieces and mix it into the flour.
  3. Add just enough water to bring the dough together. Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
  4. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  5. Roll out the dough to a fourth of and inch thick on a floured surface. Punch our 5 inch circles.
  6. Slice and peel apples. Combine3 TBS sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon and toss half of it with the apple slices.
  7. Fill each circle with apples and then place another circle top of the apples.
  8. Use egg wash to seal the edges of the circle and then press with a fork.
  9. Brush the top with egg wash and then sprinkle with more sugar cinnamon mixture.
  10. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.
  11. Meanwhile, make the sauce by boiling water, juice and sugar.
  12. Bring to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes until thickend.
  13. Add the butter and cinnamon while stirring.
  14. Once the dumplings are done, spread the sauce on top. and serve with vanilla ice cream.

Ariel’s Dingle Hopper Cake Pops

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Smash up 4 cupcakes with icing and 4 cupcakes without icing.
  2. Roll into 1 inch balls and chill for 30 minutes.
  3. Melt the almond bark in a bowl over boiling water and add purple food coloring
  4. Place a fork into each ball and dip them into the purple melt.
  5. Add the sprinkles to the top and refrigerate.

Cinderella’s Pumpkin Roll

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin Roll

Directions:

  1. I just bought a pumpkin roll instead of making it this time.

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5 years of Disney Princess Photoshoots

My beautiful daughter has dressed up as a Disney princess every month for 5 years. When I was pregnant with her, I strategically decided which princess I would photograph each month for the next 5 years. I also started collecting second hand props.

Every August 17, she dressed as Sleeping Beauty (2020-2024).


Every September 17, she dressed as Snow White (2020-2024).


Every October 17, she dressed as Cinderella (2020-2024).


Every November 17, she dressed as Pocahontas (2020-2024).


Every December 17, she dressed as Belle (2020-2024).


Every January 17, she dressed as Elsa (2021-2025).


Every February 17, she dressed as Rapunzel (2021-2025).


Every March 17, she dressed as Jasmine (2021-2025).


Every April 17, she dressed as Tiana (2021-2025).


Every May 17, she dressed as Mulan (2021-2025).


Every June 17, she dressed as Moana (2021-2025).


Every July 17, she dressed as Ariel (2021-2025).


Here are a few of her other photoshoots:

4 Year Old Sleeping Beauty Preschool Photoshoot

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is such a typical princess “happily ever after” story that little girls love. We have it playing in the dvd player in the car every August to prepare her for her Sleeping Beauty photoshoot!

The 3 good fairy’s bless Princess Aurora with beauty, grace, and song. She is such a joy for the fairy’s when she lives with them, they get upset when she turns 16 and has to leave. They want to do what is best for the princess even if it is hard for them, and they are teaching her how important it is to live with dignity and make good moral choices.

My Perfect Storm is also beautiful and loves singing and listening to songs. She is still learning what it means to live a moral life, even when the world is telling her the opposite. I pray that one day she to will live with dignity and be proud of her life choices.

We visited a local rose garden for this photoshoot. She loved seeing all of the different colors of flowers and wanted a picture by each color. She wore the same Sleeping Beauty dress that she wore for the past few years (I bought it big so I wouldn’t have to keep getting her a new one each year). Her white dress shoes had a bow and a little strap. I curled her hair before we left the house while she ate her lunch. Lastly we put in the gold and pink earrings that I had bought a few years ago for these photoshoots. I bought gold glitter cardstock and made her crown and necklace. This gold glitter cardstock was perfect for cutting and there was no mess. I printed out this free princess crown template and cut it out and traced it on the back of the gold paper. Then she just held the single red rose too. I was able to get her to lay on a pillow this year and to close her eyes of couple times.

Psalm 4:8 In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.


Storm has dressed as Sleeping Beauty on August 17 every year of her short life!

You might enjoy Storm’s other Sleeping Beauty photoshoots:


Or some of her other Princess Photoshoots:

3 Year Old Sleeping Beauty Preschool Photos

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is one of Storm’s favorites. Basically any movie with animal friends is admired in our house.

Sleeping Beauty is graceful, elegant, and romantic girl who loves her three “aunts” and her animal friends. She dreams of meeting her prince charming even though she believes that she is just a peasant girl.

I plan to teach Storm that with God all things are possible. We try to model grace and elegance for her as well; we will forever be working on this since she very much is “My Perfect Storm”.

This year we took her Sleeping Beauty pictures in the front yard instead of going to our local Rose Garden like in the past. We bought her this new Sleeping Beauty dress last year and happily it fits again this year. It came with a crown and necklace too.  She wore her sparkly white flats with a bow. I curled her hair and it turned out beautiful. Lastly we put in the gold and pink earrings that I had bought a few years ago for these photoshoots. Then she just held the single red rose too. I was able to get her to lay on a pillow this year and to close her eyes of couple times.

Matthew 16:26 “With God all things are possible.”


You might enjoy Storm’s other Sleeping Beauty photoshoots:


Or some of her other Princess Photoshoots:

24 Month Old Sleeping Beauty Toddler Photos

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is fun because of the 3 good fairies. They make the movie fun, and Storm likes to rewatch their songs.

Princess Aurora is full of the grace and beauty that the fairies blessed her with. She also loves her aunts and desires to have a romantic love as well. She unknowingly meets the prince and falls in love with him. In the end it is his kiss that breaks the spell of her deep sleep.

Storm doesn’t red, let alone sleep. She is awake for hours in the middle of each night, and can go go go all day long. She is definitely learning what love is and tries to give us toddler kisses often.

We went to our local Rose Garden to take her pictures again this year. She wanted to touch all of the roses, but we were at a public rose garden so I tried to keep her from grabbing them. One of the gardeners cut a rose just for her to match her dress and brought it over to give to her.

We bought her this new Sleeping Beauty dress on Amazon, and we love it. It came with a crown and necklace too.  I curled her hair before we left the house, and it was gorgeous. Lastly we put in the gold and pink earrings that I had bought a few years ago for these photoshoots. Then she just held the single red rose too.

Psalm 4:8 “In peace I will both lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety”. 


Below she is Sleeping Beauty 1 year apart in each photo…


You might enjoy Storm’s other Sleeping Beauty photoshoots:


Or some of her other Princess Photoshoots:

12 Month Old Sleeping Beauty Toddler Photos

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty  is a bit scary with the evil mistress, but the fairies make it fun. Sleeping Beauty’s dream is to be free to explore life, and she keeps believing that dreams do come true. Of course every Disney princess has an sidekick; and Flora, Fauna and Merryweather is such protective caretakers.

Sleeping Beauty is so loving, beautiful and graceful.

I often sing an encouraging song to her, I sing to her is to the tune of “Mary had a Little Lamb”…

“Storm is a pretty girl
Pretty girl, pretty girl
Storm is a pretty girl
She’s my pretty, pretty girl”

We went to our local Rose Garden to take her pictures. I brought this newborn photo bed prop for her to sit on, and wrapped some pink flowers and vines around it. Then she just held the single red rose too.

She wore her toddler Sleeping Beauty dress and her gold headband crown . She wore her white dress shoes with the bow. Lastly we put in the gold and pink earrings that I had bought a few years ago for these photoshoots.

Hebrews 13:1 “Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.”


You might enjoy Storm’s other Sleeping Beauty photoshoots:


Or some of her other Princess Photoshoots:

Newborn Sleeping Beauty Photos

My Sleeping Beauty is now 4 days old, and seems to sleep all the time. She is so beautiful with all of her brown hair and long arms and legs! I wanted to take some Disney’s  Sleeping Beauty photos of her while she was still a brand new babe, so now we can remember these first days that seem to pass so quickly! I am also looking forward to taking future Sleeping Beauty photos with her.

She wore a pink newborn lacy bodysuit and her gold headband crown . 

I hung a white sheet for the background and added a gold castle. I brought a newborn photo bed prop for her to lay on, and wrapped with a pink blanket around it. Then she just held the single red rose.

I used my EOS 2000D Canon Rebel Camera to take her princess photos. I also use my softbox photography lighting and backdrop rod to help.

Baby Princess Sleeping Beauty

Luke 8:24 “The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.”


You might enjoy some of her other Newborn Photoshoots: