How to Surprise a 9 Year Old

[ADisneyPrincess]

I'm taking my niece to DL in December and starting to think about how I'll let her know. I'll probably tell her around Thanksgiving so she doesn't have too long to wait before we go. She has an idea she's going as I told her I would take her before she turned 10, but she doesn't know when.

I bought some postcards last time I was at DL and thought about sending her one a day for five days, each time with a portion of a message about going.

I also thought about hiding them or leaving them along a trail of some kind (ribbon) through the house for her to find.

Does anyone have any ideas on things they have done or would do?

Thanks!

KrisAnne

 

[PrincessAurora]

When I was 8 my Dad just piled the family in the car and drove. We lived about 380 miles north of LA then. I think we stayed in a motel that night and then drove the Disneyland in the morning. My dad made me put a map over my face. When I took it off, we were in the parking lot of Disneyland. Of course the parking lot is now DCA. O for the days of being stuck parking in Winne the Pooh.

 

[iceskatejen]

My BIL's sister and took my neice (then 6) and nephew (then almost 3) once for a few hours as a suprise. The kids asked if we were going to Legoland and my BIL's sis said yes. We told them to keep their eyes closed through a lot of the trip. Even after we parked and there were Disney characters on the signs in the parking structure, they still thought they were at Legoland (my neice said it was just a different parking area than she'd been in before). It wasn't until we were on the tram and they kept saying Disneyland that she started to wonder. Finally on the way to the restroom outside the park she aked me if we were at Disneyland and I asked, "What do you think?" I pointed out the trashcans that said "Disneyland" on them and she finally realized that that's where we were.

 

[tink71973]

okay now I love a good joke so for give me if this is mean. A few years ago my DD's had a thing for this singer so for christmas I got tickets for his concert. I taped the tickets to the top of a gift box and the filled the box with tissue. With every one watching the opened their "big present". The look on their face was so funny as they tore thru the tissue a few time sure they where missing something. The older of the 2 saw how much I was enjoying this and knew I was up to something, she turned around found the top to the she had thrown as she started(good thing kids are some what predictable).she found the ticket started jumping around she was so excited.

 

[ADisneyPrincess]

Originally posted by tink71973
I taped the tickets to the top of a gift box and the filled the box with tissue. With every one watching the opened their "big present". The look on their face was so funny as they tore thru the tissue a few time sure they where missing something.

I rather like this!

 

[kimkatmom]

When my oldest daughter was little, she would get sick when we would tell her we were going somewhere like Disneyland, so we never could tell her.

One morning we took her from her bed (she was about four) and told her we were going to the beach. When she asked how she would know when we were close, we told her she would see beach trees [palm trees]. We also convinced her that she would get there sooner if she slept -- and she did.

We were checked into he Disneyland hotel before she realized that she was at Disneyland.

We actually pulled it off again when she was older and had a little sister.

My girls are now 27 and 22 and they always know when they are getting close to Disneyland -- they watch for the beach trees -- even with their husbands.

14 more days until WDW!!!