Chart for Kids Countdown to Disney

[sanjacprof]

I'm looking for ideas. I have a 4 year old who can't understand that we won't be going to Disney until March 12th. So I was going to make a chart so that she could physically see the countdown.

So...ideas please.

 

[missymagic]

I used to make a count town chart counting down the days till me left usually the last 30 days. Took a posterboard pasted disney pics that i printed out all over it and them got Disney stickers and they put one on everyday counting down.

One year I made a huge paper chain link and strung it across the room and everyday they got o take a link off the chain. I labeled them with the date so I knew where we were.

Some ideas that I hope help.

Melissa

 

[angeleigh]

I'm looking for ideas. I have a 4 year old who can't understand that we won't be going to Disney until March 12th. So I was going to make a chart so that she could physically see the countdown.

So...ideas please.

We have done a paper ring chain to count down to Disney. We did it the first time 2 years ago when ds thought "tomorrow" we are going to Disney everyday. Now the kids make paper chains to count down to everything.

 

[GreyGooseCosmo]

I'm bustin' out my Cricut and making one of these: http://disboards.com/showthread.php?p=29343189#post29343189

 

[nosbig]

We just gave the Disney trip to our kids for Christmas - I went really simple. got a disney notepad from the dollar store and pre-wrote how many days left. They each tear a page every day - 25 to go!

Easy and cheap.

 

[jlormeau]

Love the chain or notepad idea. This would certainly help little ones who have no real concept of time.

 

[angeleigh]

My dd 10 came up with her own idea. The kids got advent calendars before Christmas and she wanted to save the plastic piece that the candy came in. It can be used as a mold for melted chocolate. She said she wants to use it when we get to the last month before Disney. It is pretty flimsy so I am not sure she will be able to use it more than once but I thought it was a great "budget" idea.

 

[THE-ELLA'SMOM]

Go to Home Depot and "borrow" a bunch of the Mickey head paint color samples. We write the numbers on them and staple them together to make a chain and pull one off every night.

 

[huskies90]

Go to Home Depot and "borrow" a bunch of the Mickey head paint color samples. We write the numbers on them and staple them together to make a chain and pull one off every night.

Last time we did the HD Mickey heads. Numbered them and put a trivia question or fun fact under each one. Under the question was a picture of the WDW attraction or character that gave them the answer. My girls took turns pulling off the mickey head and reading the question every day.

 

[huskies90]

This year I did the following for our upcoming trip. I gave it to my girls as a Xmas gift. Every time we go to Disney and every Xmas, I always buy a bunch of Disney pins on eBay so my daughters can use them for trading. This year I tried to incorporate the pins into the countdown calendar. The way it works, is that the girls will take turns removing a pin each day right up to our departure day. They can keep the pin if they like or add it their trading lanyard.

For the calendar itself, it is pretty simple. I used Powerpoint with the fireworks background template, the Waltograph font that you can find for free online, and various clip art that I also downloaded for free in various spots. Then I just poked the pins thru the back and attached the mickey backing on the front. On the back I covered each pin with a mickey head cut out so that you can't see any of the pins for the upcoming days when you are removing the current day's pin.

Here is the powerpoint file. You can customized it with your own colors and clip art:

countdown1.ppt


And here is where I downloaded the font:

http://www.dafont.com/walt-disney.font

Enjoy!!

 

[ColoradoLime]

I have a very cool Disney Countdown Chain in a PDF I got from another poster - PM me if you'd like me to email it your way.

I also saw on the Creative DISigns forum someone can create Disney calendars you can just mark off.