I am so excited about this Christmas because the hubs and I are giving the kids a Disney cruise for their "big" present. Well, we are not setting sail for a few months, so I wanted to come up with a way to keep their excitement up for the trip. By the way, we are sailing to Mexico and we have dear friends coming along with us! We are so blessed!!!
Anyway, I decided the little bits needed a countdown calendar to look at each day, and I wanted to incorporate some fun facts or questions about the trip. I scoured the web and mostly pinterest to find some great ideas for a Disney theme countdown. By the way, my friend that is coming on the trip is making a countdown too, so hopefully she will share about hers on her blog...I can't wait to see what she came up with.
There are tons of great ideas out there! I love the cookie sheet calendars that have coordinating magnets with them, but this would not work for me because we have quite a few days left and there just was not enough room on a cookie sheet. However, I do want to make one of these for Christmas next year! I also did not want a huge poster hanging in our house for months.
As it happens, I saw where someone else had used a clipboard and Mickey Mouse heads for a countdown, thus the idea was born. I would make a cruise theme clipboard with pull off "portholes" for each day and make sure to have special trivia questions printed on the back of each porthole. For those of you that want to make your own clipboard countdown and save some time, grab a bunch of the Disney paint chip cards from Lowe's and write numbers on them...plus it is free!
After a few sheets of special scrapbook paper, a clip board from Michael's, hours on the computer creating Minnie and Mickey portholes, some ribbon, and mod podge, I had a cute clipboard countdown. Now I just have to wrap it up and place it under the Christmas tree. I hope the kids have a great time counting down and answering all the questions about Mexico and Disney. Just Saying and Praying!
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