What Do You Make For Your Vacation?

[jess1662]

Has anyone made their own stuff for a Pirate Welcome in their rooms (like the official ME Pirate Adventure). We've done our own Mickey's Big Welcome in the past, but are staying in the pirate rooms at Caribbean Beachand would love to do a pirate welcome.

 

[chaoscent]

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[mummygina]

Has anyone made their own stuff for a Pirate Welcome in their rooms (like the official ME Pirate Adventure). We've done our own Mickey's Big Welcome in the past, but are staying in the pirate rooms at Caribbean Beachand would love to do a pirate welcome.

I've not done a pirate welcome but I made a pirate bag of goodies for our flight home.

There was Chocolate coins for treasure, pirate stickers, Pencils with skulls on,

You can add an eye patch, a bandana, fake ear-ring and a sword. A skull and cross bones tshirts or a Disney PoC one. The publisher Dk have a Pirate book in their eyewitness series that is educational, that we have at home. Amazon has loads of fun pirate books. There is some great PoC Lego out at the moment too which keeps little people busy when you are back in your room. Pirate balloons to decorate your room. A bedroom door hanger (surrender your booty at the door, or no landlubbers permitted) print and laminate (makes a good souvinerr for home). I've seen basic skulls and cross bones bracelet kits that kids could make up in the room and then they have something to wear at the parks and take home. Skull and crossbones flag for the room wall. Skull and crossbones pillow case. Pirate snap cards or top trumps. (I wish I'd added more to my pirate bag now!)

I Made a pirate passport (more of an activity book). I decorated it with clip art and lovely DISigns from here.

Add a photo of your 'pirate', other passport information: age' name of ship, job on ship, favourite treasure.
Then i added colouring pages, crosswords and wordsearches etc with a pirate theme. I made a pocket for a treasure map and printed out a blank map for DS to decorate himself. I also made pirate pendants from DISigns printede onto paper, laminated and then corded (won't last ages, but they are fun)

Websites for pirate printables to make your own pirate activity book:
http://printables4kids.com/
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/pirates/printables.htm
http://printables.kaboose.com/pirate-printables.html
http://family.go.com/disney/pkg-disney-pirate-crafts-and-recipes/ (I wanted to make the voodoo doll from this site, but ran out of time- maybe next time!)
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/pirates.php (I Made a few activity books for our trip, ad I really liked the America homeschool stuff that uses lap books, as the activities were engaging to keep DS busy, but they were educational at the same time)

I printed the passport on a5 paper and then added a plastic sheet front and back and spiral binded it all.

 

[gymbomominNC]

In the above picture, does anyone know where I can find the "Sparkle Like a Princess" Design? I know this is an older design because I used it 3 yrs. ago, but I don't remember which DISigner it came from. TIA!

 

[Curious & Curiouser]

GREAT THREAD !!
in 53 days we will be leaving for our 1st "road trip" to the mouse !!
anyone have any "must makes" for people traveling by car???

 

[wichty2]

Ok i need HELP! we leave in 13 days :0 I have searched and searched and havent found much that isnt disney, we are going to universal, seawrold and wetnwild. So far i only have autograph books and pressed penny holders, So i need your creative ideas that i can accomplish in 13 days

 

[grumpy&princess]

Thought I'd post some pics of my finished projects for our upcoming trip with two of our grandkids. I'm giving each of them a gift bag after we check into our room. Additional photos, including the Tshirts I made, are here:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=44937634#post44937634

Autograph books, Epcot passports, magnets, and personalized photo that I've since put in a clear acrylic frame

Other items for the girl's bag. Bought mini M&M's in the tube, emptied the candy into a treat bag, and used the empty tube for pressed penny money. Lanyard and glow sticks are from the dollar store.

And the items for my grandson

I plan to post the dinner invitations on the frig each morning

I also plan to decorate the room a little, using a Mickey welcome banner and some Mickey heads (LOVE the Home Depot paint chips ). I had SO much fun making all this stuff!

How did you bind the passports and autograph books? and what are the passports for? and what kind of items did you put in the activity books? Your stuff looks amazing

 

[alayne]

Unfortunately They last just fine. I like making new shirts for my trips. I am still using shirts that I made 3 years ago for trips. It's hard telling DH, but look at how worn these shirts are, we need new ones when they don't look worn. LOL Seriously, they last just fine. they are the only transfers I use.
Penny

This is so true. The first year we did shirts and used Amy's Transfers was the year my DS hit his head on the Disney Boat right outside the Contemporary Hotel. He was bleeding pretty bad and it was going all over his Orange Toy Story Shirt that I had made. I thought the blood would never come out and the transfer would be a mess but he still wears that shirt to this day. He likes to make his MeMe feel guilty when he wears it because she was the reason he feel in the first place.

Loving all the ideas that have been posted. We are going again in May 13 and Nov. 13 and I have already started making my list again.

 

[chaoscent]

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[Rockislander]

Try this link for Natalie's DISigns. It worked for me just now.

http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r132/donatalie/

THANK YOU!!! I was sooo bummed when the initial link didn't work out, you just saved me hours of trying to reinvent the wheel!

 

[jess1662]

Thanks for all of the inspiration and help! I thought I'd post SOME of what I've made for the trip.

Welcome Letter from Jack Sparrow and Pirate Oath

Autograph bags

Treat notes from characters

Pirates League Invitation

Star Tours Passport (to keep track of all of our destinations)

Drivers Licenses for the Tomorrowland Speedway

 

[bear74]

I've not done a pirate welcome but I made a pirate bag of goodies for our flight home.

There was Chocolate coins for treasure, pirate stickers, Pencils with skulls on,

You can add an eye patch, a bandana, fake ear-ring and a sword. A skull and cross bones tshirts or a Disney PoC one. The publisher Dk have a Pirate book in their eyewitness series that is educational, that we have at home. Amazon has loads of fun pirate books. There is some great PoC Lego out at the moment too which keeps little people busy when you are back in your room. Pirate balloons to decorate your room. A bedroom door hanger (surrender your booty at the door, or no landlubbers permitted) print and laminate (makes a good souvinerr for home). I've seen basic skulls and cross bones bracelet kits that kids could make up in the room and then they have something to wear at the parks and take home. Skull and crossbones flag for the room wall. Skull and crossbones pillow case. Pirate snap cards or top trumps. (I wish I'd added more to my pirate bag now!)

I Made a pirate passport (more of an activity book). I decorated it with clip art and lovely DISigns from here.

Add a photo of your 'pirate', other passport information: age' name of ship, job on ship, favourite treasure.
Then i added colouring pages, crosswords and wordsearches etc with a pirate theme. I made a pocket for a treasure map and printed out a blank map for DS to decorate himself. I also made pirate pendants from DISigns printede onto paper, laminated and then corded (won't last ages, but they are fun)

Websites for pirate printables to make your own pirate activity book:
http://printables4kids.com/
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/pirates/printables.htm
http://printables.kaboose.com/pirate-printables.html
http://family.go.com/disney/pkg-disney-pirate-crafts-and-recipes/ (I wanted to make the voodoo doll from this site, but ran out of time- maybe next time!)
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/pirates.php (I Made a few activity books for our trip, ad I really liked the America homeschool stuff that uses lap books, as the activities were engaging to keep DS busy, but they were educational at the same time)

I printed the passport on a5 paper and then added a plastic sheet front and back and spiral binded it all.

love your ideas

 

[bear74]

Thanks for all of the inspiration and help! I thought I'd post SOME of what I've made for the trip.

Welcome Letter from Jack Sparrow and Pirate Oath

Autograph bags

Treat notes from characters

Pirates League Invitation

Star Tours Passport (to keep track of all of our destinations)

Drivers Licenses for the Tomorrowland Speedway

did you make the Star Tours passport?

 

[K9pal]

Jess1662 - VERY nice job!! Everything looks great!

 

[jdcthree]

Jess1662 - VERY nice job!! Everything looks great!

This!

 

[jess1662]

did you make the Star Tours passport?

Yes, I made that one. It's kind of based on the one they had on the Star Tours website a couple of years ago, but they took it down. Last time we went, my kiddos loved the ride and obsessively tried to hit all of the destinations, but we were never quite sure we got them all

 

[littlesparkler]

Jess - Where did you find the skull/sword? I love the blanket and pillow!

 

[MooksterL1]

Everything looks really great! The Star Tours passport is fantastic!!

 

[rosemom1313]

This thread gave me a lot of inspiration and I wanted to share my finished projects. We went in Jan 2012, had a great trip and the shirts and other projects made it special!

My daughter and I worked on these projects together. I printed and ironed; she glittered and trimmed the shirts for my granddaughters. This was my first time trying something like this and it wasn’t hard at all. It did take a lot of work and time but it was so very worth it! We got a lot of compliments on the shirts and autograph books from cast members and characters. And best of all my granddaughters loved them!

Love it!!! Where did you get the "We're going to Disney" Disign? And what was used to put the glitter on? Thanks!

 

[krd315]

Love it!!! Where did you get the "We're going to Disney" Disign? And what was used to put the glitter on? Thanks!

Thank you! The "we're going to Disney" is a disign by Milliepie. See post 237 on page 16 of this thread for the link to the disign and how my daughter did the glitter on our shirts.