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Disney Lesson Plans, Activities, and More

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Undoubtedly, Disney lesson plans make learning even the most boring subjects fun! Indeed, almost everyone I know loves Disney! Moreover, if your students and/or your own children are like mine, they love anything and everything Disney. In reality, it’s not just kids, but adults too! In turn, love equals making learning fun, which then makes teachers and parents happy. However, when looking for resources, I found that they are all over the place.

Since I don’t want to have to search every time I want a Disney resource, I decided to gather the best ones and list them here by type. In any event, I hope you find them as helpful and fun as I do! Indeed, you’re never too young (or too old!) to love Mickey and other wonderful characters! So why not make learning fun by incorporating them into your lessons and activities?

First, definitely check out Disney Educational Productions for award-winning classroom media that enhances learning and unlocks student creativity. These are fabulous educational resources for students from elementary through high school! Subsequently, here is an extensive list of links that you can explore to bring Disney into your lessons. Above all, I hope you enjoy them!

Printables for Disney Lesson Plans

For starters, a great Disney resource is printable pages, as they are wonderful for rainy days at home, for fast finishers in the classroom, and for various lessons. Thus, here are some of my favorites:First, here is a HUGE collection of coloring pages, activities and more!

Puzzles & Games for Disney Lesson Plans

Given that kids love games and puzzles, these resources are sure to be a hit!

Crafts and Activities for Disney Lesson Plans

What’s more, kids love crafts, so here are some great ways to incorporate them into your Disney lessons.

Tons of Great Crafts (Paper Dolls, Bookmarks, Paper Crafts and More)!
Everything Tangled
Fairies Activities and More
Create Your Own Storybook
6 Ways to Bring Your Love of Disney Into the Classroom
Walt Disney was born in 1901 – Activity from readwritethink

Disney Lesson Plans

As I have said, Disney Lesson Plans make learning fun! Therefore, definitely incorporate these into your classroom to engage your students!

To start, check out these 265 Lesson Plans Reviewed By Teachers
A Christmas Carol Unit Study
Classroom Activity to Commemorate Walt Disney’s Birthday from Read Write Think
Preschool Lesson Plan: Songs, Fingerplays and Group Time Fun
Additionally, here is a great Lesson for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grades
- Objectives
- First, students will be able to describe Walt’s accomplishments.
- Next, students will be able to list some of the main events in his life.
- Finally, students will have the ability to describe the events surrounding the creation of the character of Mickey Mouse.
Preschool Lesson Plan for Walt Disney’s Birthday
Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Changes to the Hercules Myth – Grades 5-8
Disney Lesson Plans: 10 Ways to Make Your Trip to Disney World an Educational Experience
Lesson Plans from My Disney Class
Disney Theme Unit, Lessons, Activities, Trivia – Mrs. Jackson’s Class
Educator’s Guides from Disneynature – Without a doubt, your kids will love these Disneynature educational materials. Specifically, the site includes curriculum resources, lesson plans, and fun activities. In addition to continuing the movie viewing experience, the resources try to inspire kids to protect the planet through connections to nature.
Moana Lesson Plans from NEA

Teaching Spanish with Disney

¡Bienvenidos to the most fun your students will have practicing Spanish all year! Disney is a goldmine for language teachers — and not just because the movies are engaging. Two of the biggest Disney films of the last decade (Coco and Encanto) are set entirely in Latin America, with Spanish sprinkled throughout the dialogue, songs, and culture. That’s not just a fun connection — it’s a genuine teaching opportunity.

Here’s how to use Disney to teach Spanish in your classroom, whether you’re doing a quick vocabulary warm-up or building a full cultural unit.

Disney Books

	Disney's Magic Spanish: Spanish Picture Dictionary	VIEW ON AMAZON
	Disney The Little Mermaid: Movie Storybook / Libro basado en la película (English-Spanish) (Disney Bilingual)	VIEW ON AMAZON
	La Familia lo es Todo (Family is Everything Spanish Edition) (Disney Encanto)	VIEW ON AMAZON
	Disney Frozen: Movie Storybook / Libro basado en la película (English-Spanish) (Disney Bilingual)	VIEW ON AMAZON
	How Is Mickey Feeling? / ¿Cómo se siente Mickey? (English-Spanish) (Disney Mickey Mouse) (Disney Bilingual)	VIEW ON AMAZON

Disney Movies in Spanish

English Title	Spanish Title
Coco	Coco
Encanto	Encanto
The Lion King	El Rey León
Beauty and the Beast	La Bella y la Bestia
Cinderella	La Cenicienta
Snow White	Blancanieves
Frozen	Frozen: Una Aventura Congelada
The Little Mermaid	La Sirenita
Tangled	Enredados
Brave	Valiente
Moana	Moana: Un Mar de Aventuras
The Three Caballeros	Los Tres Caballeros

All major Disney and Pixar films are available dubbed in Spanish — and for Spanish learners, hearing a story they already know in a new language is one of the most effective (and painless) listening activities you can do. Here are the Spanish titles to search for:

Fun fact: Los Tres Caballeros (1944) is the OG Disney-Latin America crossover — Donald Duck tours Mexico and South America with José Carioca and Panchito Pistoles. It’s a delightful time capsule and a surprisingly engaging watch for older students learning about Latin American culture.

Spanish Vocabulary from Coco & Encanto

These two films are purpose-built for your Spanish classroom. The cultural vocabulary alone makes them worth showing, and the family and emotion words that run through both films are among the most useful vocabulary sets you can teach.

From Coco — Día de los Muertos vocabulary:

English	Spanish
The family	La familia
The memory/remembrance	El recuerdo
The offering (altar)	La ofrenda
The tradition	La tradición
The skeleton	El esqueleto
The musician	El músico
The spirit	El espíritu
The guitar	La guitarra
The marigold flower	La flor de cempasúchil
The song	La canción

Coco is also ideal for teaching the concept of diminutives in Spanish — words with -ito/-ita endings that express smallness or affection. Miguel calls his great-great-grandmother mamá Coco with the kind of warmth that explains the diminutive better than any grammar lesson ever could.

From Encanto — Family vocabulary through the Madrigal family:

English	Spanish
The grandmother	La abuela
The mother	La mamá
The aunt	La tía
The cousin (f)	La prima
The sister	La hermana
The little house	La casita (diminutive of casa!)
The gift / special talent	El don
The miracle	El milagro
The family	La familia

Teaching family vocabulary with the Madrigal family tree is genuinely one of the most engaging ways to do it — students already know and care about every character, so la abuela Luisa and la prima Dolores stick in their memory far better than a textbook chart.

5 Disney Spanish Classroom Activities

1. Coco Vocabulary Unit

Build a vocabulary unit around Coco and Día de los Muertos. Before watching, pre-teach 10 key words from the table above. After watching a clip, have students match images from the film to the Spanish vocabulary. Follow up with a [vocabulary task card activity] where students sort the words into categories: personas, objetos, tradiciones. This works beautifully as a 3-day mini-unit.

2. Disney en Español Listening Activity

Choose any 3–5 minute scene from a Disney film dubbed in Spanish — the opening of El Rey León works perfectly — and play it twice. First watch: students just listen and write down every word they recognize. Second watch: students try to fill in the gaps. The results always surprise them (in the best way).

3. The Encanto Family Tree

Give students a blank family tree template and have them fill it in with the Madrigal family members in Spanish, using the correct vocabulary (abuela, mamá, tía, prima, hermana). Then have them create their own family tree using the same vocabulary. This single activity covers the family vocabulary unit — and students are way more invested because they start with Luisa and Mirabel.

4. "Dos Oruguitas" Song Analysis

The original song from Encanto, written entirely in Spanish by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is an absolute treasure for the Spanish classroom. “Dos oruguitas enamoradas…” — Two little caterpillars in love. Print the lyrics, work through them as a class, and watch your students realize they understand more than they thought. The vocabulary is accessible, the imagery is beautiful, and the emotion carries the meaning even before the translation arrives. Bonus: teaching -ito/-ita diminutives is built right into the title.

5. Disney Character Description Writing Prompt

A classic made more fun: Describe tu personaje favorito de Disney en español. Beginners can use three adjectives and es (Miguel es talentoso, curioso y valiente). Intermediate students can add a sentence about what the character does. Advanced students can write a paragraph comparing two characters using comparatives (Miguel es más valiente que… / Mirabel es tan inteligente como…). Works at every level — and you’ll never run out of characters.

For more Día de los Muertos teaching ideas that pair beautifully with Coco, check out this Día de los Muertos post. And if you’re looking for ready-to-print vocabulary activities, the Spanish Resources Page has you covered!

Conclusion

¿Lista para llevar la magia de Disney a tu clase de español? Tell us in the comments which film your students love most — we’d bet it’s Coco in a landslide!

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