How Do You Surprise Your DD or DS

[cdpa4d]

We are leaving Oct. 22nd for a week at the World. We have not told our DD5 we are going. We want to wait until the morning of our trip to tell her. Does anyone have any good ideas of how to spring the surprise on our DD5? I've been trying to think of some ways to do it, but I seem to have left my imagination at the doorstep!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Manon]

We are giving our 3 kids a Christmas surprise, a trip to WDW!!

I have a friend that is at Disney right now, and she is gonna bring back some Disney Dollars for me. We are going to put that money in an envelop, and the envelop in a box. And when they will open it we will ask them where do they think we can spend that money???

And the answer will be: Disney!!!

Also we have an apple sauce left from our june trip, and we told the kids that we would keep it until we go back, so we will open the apple sauce on X-Mas morning!!!

Maybe you could have an invitation card from Mickey telling your DD that she is invited to a Disney party at WDW???

Good Luck!

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

We are giving our 3 kids a Christmas surprise, a trip to WDW!!

I have a friend that is at Disney right now, and she is gonna bring back some Disney Dollars for me. We are going to put that money in an envelop, and the envelop in a box. And when they will open it we will ask them where do they think we can spend that money???

And the answer will be: Disney!!!

Also we have an apple sauce left from our june trip, and we told the kids that we would keep it until we go back, so we will open the apple sauce on X-Mas morning!!!

Maybe you could have an invitation card from Mickey telling your DD that she is invited to a Disney party at WDW???

Good Luck!

I like that idea. We're leaving Wed but I think I'm going to make something like that online (invitation from Mickey for Halloween party) and give that to the kids right before we leave or something. I think that will really work for us because just last night my oldest was saying she wished she could wear her Stitch costume AT WDW on the Stitch "ride". Then to get an invite from mickey to come to his Halloween party?
hehe

 

[Frantasmic]

We are surprising our two kids with a trip during Thanksgiving, part of which is their Christmas present. We bought some family t-shirts custom-made at disneydirect.com and plan to give them to the kids during their school lunch, wrapped in Christmas paper, on the day we are leaving.

Might not be the easiest on her classmates (one child we will pick up at lunch since he is there only half a day).

 

[cindermomma]

We are leaving this Sunday , and this Saturday, we will give DS(5) a letter typed from Mickey Mouse inviting him to dinner Sunday night (we'll be at Chef Mickey's) and also inviting him to bring his costume to trick or treat at the castle! We have to leave our house at 3:30 AM Sunday morning to drive to the airport to catch our 6am flight, so we thought we'd tell him the day before, maybe helping us get him up that morning and get into the van! Have a great trip!

 

[Manon]

Do you sometimes stop to think at how fare we are welling to go to make our kids happy!!!!

I read all your nice stories (and other on other treads), and I cannot beleive how many of you are making and planning those trips so the children will be surprise and happy!!

Thank god theirs some people like all of you on this earth, makes it a little bit easier to live!!!

God bless you all!

 

[eelderm1]

My best friend and I suprised our boys one time with a Disney Trip. We packed all our things while they were at school. We picked them up early from school and went to my house where I had set up a scavenger hunt with several clues that kept sending them to new clues. The last clue brought them to the backyard where they opened a box and out came three red ballons that said on them You are going to Disny world! They asked when? We said now , go get in the car! They went crazy , they were so excited. You could do a scavenger hunt for your little one , just make it age appropraite. he has never forgot that and 2 years later still asks me to suprise him with our next trip.

 

[cdpa4d]

Thanks for all your ideas. These are great.

 

[barkley]

we did this one year-when we picked up the kids from school the day before we told them "now say goodby to your teacher, tell her you will see her when you get back from disneyworld next week". the kids started to parrott what we said, got midway through and then just exploded! the teachers were in on it and loved the reaction on the kid's faces.

 

[miss missy]

I never could do that! I like to enjoy every minute of talking it up with my DD! As soon as I was booked and sure, I took her to the Disney store, picked out a stuffie and said, you want this one? she was like OH YES and I said ok, and let it be for the memory that this is when I told you WE ARE GOING TO WDW!!!!!!!She always remembered that! It's all about memores here and part of that is the fun of talking up the trip all the time leading to it too.

Thats just my way of course

 

[Nancyg56]

Love these ideas! We want to surprise our DGD who will be 4, so I have been reading all of these threads for ideas. My Sis in law will be coming with us, and she is still talking about her trip with friends and their 2 DD's. The girls were surprised the morning of the trip, and called "Auntie" to share the good news nad invite here along for the trip. They never noticed that they were piling into HER car, already packed, to pick her up. Their excitement was worth all of the effort to keep the secret.

 

[huskies90]

I never could do that! I like to enjoy every minute of talking it up with my DD! As soon as I was booked and sure, I took her to the Disney store, picked out a stuffie and said, you want this one? she was like OH YES and I said ok, and let it be for the memory that this is when I told you WE ARE GOING TO WDW!!!!!!!She always remembered that! It's all about memores here and part of that is the fun of talking up the trip all the time leading to it too.

Thats just my way of course

Miss Missy I am with you. As I posted on another thread, the excitement of the trip is really half the fun for my girls. Not to mention they do extra chores and behave so much better to earn disney dollars to spend at WDW. I am sure the surpise is awesome but the kids just miss out on so much more of the fun...Plus we do little surprises along the way. Like I just surprised them each with Pal Mickeys. They can't wait to use them in the parks and they play with him every day. I am also going to get a few pin sets to suprise them to get them excited for pin trading. I just get so much more mileage from the trip this way...

 

[Manon]

You know on our last trip in june the chlidren knew about it, we plan all the trip with them, but this up coming trip in january we are not telling them, because I want them to concentrate on school until we leave. They finish school on Dec 23, and we are going to tell them on X-Mas morning.

The secret is killing me, but I think it is worth it!

 

[JDietz40]

We surprised DS then 11 a couple years ago and all was well except DW didn't pack a couple of his favorite shirts and shorts. Since he gets his sense of humor from me he still jabs her about it and has to do his own packing. (Looking back maybe she planned it so she has to do less packing)



John

 

[AnnaS]

I surprised my three kids once years ago - the year Animal Kingdom opened (98?). I told them we were going to PA for a few days (driving of course). When they woke up the morning we were leaving, I had put Animal Kingdom Luggage tags and they questioned it and did not believe us when we told them we were going to WDW. They finally believed us when we got off the turnpike by Newark Airport. It was soooo hard keeping it from them for so long.

 

[can'twait]

Surprising the kids is a really cool idea but there's NO WAY I could keep it to myself! This will be their first trip and I was afraid they would not be excited if we surprised them because they really don't know yet how great a place it is. I have been trying to psych them up for it for months! Maybe next time we will try to do it, when they will know what it means to say we are going to WDW.

 

[Honeybehr1]

We are suprising our kids October 16-21st. Noone in our family knows. DS is turning 8 the day before so for his last present we are going to give a joint gift for him and his brother. Inside is going to be
*t-shirts that say its my 8th birthday and i'm are taking on the world. DS2'swill say its my brothers bday and we're taking on the world.
*golden ears for everyone.
*a mickey balloon and attached to that is an invitation to Mickey's halloween party for the next night.

Hopefully it will go ok and noone in our families will be mad that we didnt tell them. DS has a fear of flying, so we didnt want anyone to know to tell him and freak him out.