MNSSHP trip surprise ideas needed

[kjs1976]

Just booked a 4 day trip over Halloween to go to MNSSHP for the first time. We plan to visit some resorts on Halloween and do the party on 11/1 to maximize our dress up and festivity fun while there!

We want to surprise DD 7.5 for this trip. We were just there for an extended hit-all-the parks trip in May and have never been back so quickly. Of course, she's started asking when we can go again. If we're lucky, we go about every year to year and a half, depending on deals. So this will be a big surprise!!

Anyway, we surprised her when she was 4 and did the whole wake up, guess where we're going thing and two years ago we did a scavenger hunt of clues she had to figure out. My idea is to have some sort of invitation made and send it to her from Mickey inviting her to his party. Does anyone know of any good etsy sites or Disboard members who make the fun computer generated things for trips you could recommend? Or maybe someone has an even more creative way to surprise her so please share!!! Thank you!

 

[Disneymom1126]

I am surprising my 7.5 year old DD for an October trip as well! We have two days of parent teacher conferences at the end of a week in October so I'm getting her teacher in on on the surprise. We are leaving in the early evening on the day when the parent teacher conference will be scheduled, so at the end of the conference I'm going to ask the teacher if there is any work that we should have for the weekend since she will miss a day of school on Monday...of course DD will wonder why we are missing a day of school and that's when I'm going to drop the surprise.

I've also surprised her two times in the past. The first time I surprised her with a note from Santa that had an invitation from Mickey to attend his Christmas party. The other time, I set up a scavenger hunt with clues that were all Disney themed (example: "when you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are...anything your hear desires will come to you. Do dreams come true? We might know when you find this clue. To wish on a star, look in the car, you'll be really glad if you do!) When she got to the last clue it was a box with things she'd need for Disney and a note that said we were leaving in 20 days (we did a countdown). Both times went over really well, though if I did a countdown again I think I would do it for less time because she was just too excited for those 20 days and it got a little tiresome (kind of like the "are we there yet" in the car).