creating pixie dust for other guests.... ideas?

[parkhopping]

I love this thread! What great ideas! I will definitely try to do some of these in the future Here's a few that I thought of, or things that have been done for me. Some of them will depend on your budget:

-If you're driving to the parks, pay for the next car behind you that doesn't have free parking.
-Bring Dum Dums (or other cheap lollipops) to give to crying children (parent permitting). Someone did this while I was babysitting at the park once - the little girl accidentally bumped her head and I was trying to calm her down. It was a kind gesture from a mom at the park and I really appreciated it
-Having some small treats/stickers/whatever to give to families you meet is nice. Once I was at Epcot by myself and started chatting with the family next to me while waiting for Illuminations. They were from Canada and gave me a piece of maple leaf candy. It was so nice!
-I will often jump in and offer advice/info/directions to guests who seem lost or confused. One night at Epcot, I was rearranging my bag outside the Land pavilion when I overheard a family looking at a map and trying to decide where to go next. They brought up Journey Into Imagination. I mentioned that it had closed at 7 pm, and they asked for suggestions on what to do. I was very happy to help!

Keep the suggestions coming, everyone! Threads like these restore my faith in humanity

 

[Disney_Princess83]

We always ask the parents before we give a child anything. We never give food but we have given glow sticks, pins, Disney books, stickers.

I may get knocked for this but honestly, if someone tried to offer my child something whether it be a balloon or candy, I would probably get a little weirded out. And if someone tried to give my screaming child a sticker while I'm trying to calm them down, I may even get a little perturbed. And there is no way I would accept a meal from someone. I'm not saying the thought isn't nice... it is. But I would stick to something like offering to take a picture. I also kind of think that you can't really "plan" a random act of kindness. It just kind of happens .

ETA: Sorry.. don't want to be a debbie downer, lol. Just giving my opinion.

 

[PaulaSB12]

If I see a family where mum or dad is taking pictures I offer to take a picture so the whole family can be in it.

 

[fla4fun]

I always carry a few extra individually packaged Wet Ones with me, and I've had several occasions where a guest has ended up in a messy situation and been glad of one or two to clean up. I have also offered to take photos. Since my trips are generally solo, I have also offered to share my table in CS restaurants when it's busy (I've met some interesting people that way).

 

[nooneshome]

In the old days when they didn't enforce the FPs like they do now it was tons of fun to hoard FPs during the day and hand them out at night. Also during Mardi Gras we would load up with beads and hand them out in the morning. Little kids loved this. Also when we had FD we would always buy snacks and occasionally buy meals for people. On our next trip we are going to try to give out jewels during the Ariel scene during Philharmagic. oh yeah, we used to give our glow thingies during Fantasmic.

 

[LaurenT]

I just like being funny and making other guests laugh.
We had a great trip that ended yesterday. Not a drop of rain - until we were leaving MK after the Electric Parade on Friday. It started raining just as I was finishing up switching the show photo pass pics to our regular one (do this at any park, so you don't have to sift through all the kids at Jedi Training, or Pirate Tutorial, etc when you get home...they'll go through quickly, pull your kids shots and move them onto your regular photo pass).
Anyway, we boarded the monorail with a crowd of tired people, I gave away my re-entry MK FP's that were given to us after a monorail delay that we never used, and I started talking about how it's raining now because Disney is sad to see me go. My sister made some sort of snide comment, to which I replied - you know Mickey loves me....he does, I've seen the way he looks at me. I'm glad everyone laughed - I'd hate for them to think I was really that conceded.....

 

[Timandalicia]

Hi all,

I'm going to WDW solo next month and I think one thing I really wanna do while I'm there is create some magic for other guests and families

On my first trip we got fast passes from a random guest who wasn't going to use them (on our first day in the parks) and that made our day!!! And then we did the same for some others throughout the week.

Now that I'm going solo, I think it's kinda silly to give a family 1 fast pass, what's the point of that? lol so I was wondering what you would appreciate as some extra magic? I was thinking of offering to take some photos for families... I saw a family's trip video and they sprinkled mickey confetti under the doors of their neighbours, I thought that was cute.


I was thinking of perhaps paying for a family's snacks or something in line behind me or ahead of me as an idea.

Anyways, what would you appreciate? and what kind of magic have you created or received from other guests???

Take their picture for them. That's the best thing I think someone could do. When people offer this, it's always taken up on, but people seem rare to ask. If I were solo, I'd constantly ask people of I could do this for them.

 

[CandleontheWater]

All of these are good suggestions, but I'd also look for simple ways you can help out other families. Things like holding doors for people with strollers, giving up your seat on bus/monorail for elderly/pregnant/people holding sleeping kids, giving directions to lost families, all can be very helpful.

I used to travel solo all the time before kids, and one thing that I always looked out for is helping parents at CS restaurants. I've helped people carry trays to their tables, gotten extra napkins and utensils so they didn't have to get up, shared my table with families, offered to go get highchairs and various other things. Eating with kids is hard, when I was there solo it was easy for me to lend a hand, and I figured I was building up good karma for when I traveled with my own little ones.

 

[Bonniec]

You could camp a spot at a parade and then give it away. We rarely do parades. My son loves them but we always skip them because everyone is always so rude. Once at HS we were walking by the parade (which was already going) and we stopped to view from the back. A kind man up front gave up his spot for my son. I tried to refuse because we had literally just walked up so we hadn't "earned" our spot. I also told him we lived here in Orlando and found out he was in his first trip from the UK so I told him it was alright. The man said nonsense and that it was all about the kids. I will forever be grateful for that. It seems like such a small thing but parades have always been a bad thing for us at Disney so we avoid them like the plague. it was a wonderful gesture that I think I will always remember.



I always offer to take someone's picture for them and we have given away fast passes before.

Also once, my son was given a ridiculous amount of Mickey stickers at DTD. A kind CM spent time with him and gave him like 150 or so. Living here, we get them all the time. So I let him have fun passing them out to other kids. I let him pick out kids and he would walk up and give them some stickers. It was fun and he had a blast giving away some pixie dust.

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[3girls4me05]

We also bring extra light up bracelets or sticks to the fireworks and give them out to the children around us. We quietly check with the parents first. I know that the last time the parent was so grateful and our children ended up dancing around together. It made it a bit more magical.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

You could camp a spot at a parade and then give it away.

I was going to suggest this, too!

I agree with everyone who says to look for little ways. Offer your seat on the bus to a mom with a child standing. Hold the door open for a bunch of people behind you. Stuff like that.

 

[msammon]

My son was having a mini meltdown last trip and a random stranger offered him a pin off their lanyard. Meltdown averted.

I just bought a bunch of pins for our upcoming trip. I plan to place them on my son's lanyard, and encourage him to go up to other kids, particularly ones that look like they need a little "boost" and offer them one. I think that this will both spread a bit of pixie dust, as well as teach my son an important lesson in sharing kindnesses.

 

[eeudj]

At checkout I handed a father and young son my Unoffical Disney guidebook and my discover hidden mickey's book. The father was thrilled as this was his first time to Disney World and he said he was already getting overwhelmed with check-in