My child has to make a poster project for school and she chose Disney World

[Vickie46]

Hey... My child is having to do a poster project on her favorite place.. she chose Disney World.... the only thing is she can only use one photo! So.. that makes it so hard... I think she is going to choose the Castle.. but what else can she do to be creative to make this poster neat? I thought about getting those mickey ear punches to cut out and place around the poster with our facts... any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[nancys]

Maybe use some of the Mickey paint chips (Lowes?) to write your facts on. Use a fine point, black Sharpie to print on them. You could have a wide range of colors from which to choose -- I think they would be cute and neat.

 

[Mkrop]

Do you have any maps, leftover FPs, or napkins, anything that says WDW? Can you google logos like where you stayed and put the words on there? Like if you stayed at the Boardwalk...

Can she draw the Hat, the Tree of Life and the Geosphere?

The Mickey Heads are a good idea.

 

[Vickie46]

great ideas! Keep them coming! I am going to go try and get some paint chips! Thanks.. and I wish I did have some maps! That would have been great! Thanks again ladies.. any other ideaS?

 

[NHdisneylover]

Well, first off as a former teacher, I can't help but want to caution you against helping a little too much. Asking for ideas here and saying "our facts" instead of "her facts" made me raise my eyebrows just a little. Hopefully you really are staying mostly hands off though.

DS made a travel poster for WDW for a school project once. He made it on black posterboard cut into a Mickey Head shape. He loves Tarzan and this is back when Tarzan Rocks was playing and was his favourite show so he put in the middle "4 Parks, 1 World, YOUR family" and surrounded it with drawings he had done of the various parks, hotels, etc. It was fairly messy as he still has fine motor issues and he was only 5 or 6 at the time but it was a cute idea and got his love of the area across. Maybe some of that will inspire your DD to come up with her own imaginative way of doing things

 

[MushyMushy]

My daughter just had to make a travel brochure and chose NOT to do Disney. I said, with all the brochures and maps we have at home, and all the knowledge already in your head, why would you do anything else? AND, her teacher is as big a Disney nut as we are.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Does it have to be a rectangular poster? Could you cut the poster into a castle or Mickey head shape?

 

[golfgal]

Does it have to be a rectangular poster? Could you cut the poster into a castle or Mickey head shape?

I was thinking the same thing. That would be cute.

Can she print maps from the Disney site and use those or are those considered a "photo"? Do you have old ticket stubs, fast passes, etc.?

 

[Vickie46]

Thanks again for the ideas... she does the poster herself and came home with all her research from class today... they use the computer... I can't help but want to help her come up with a cute idea since its Disney.. I did find out she can use 4 pictures and one internet photo. I told her about the paint chips.. we have used them in the past to decorate our door at the resort.... she also is thinking of using mickey head cut outs....

 

[quentina]

great ideas! Keep them coming! I am going to go try and get some paint chips! Thanks.. and I wish I did have some maps! That would have been great! Thanks again ladies.. any other ideaS?

I have the personalized maps that I can send you...I think I know where they are anyway! We never use them, if you want them, IM me the address.

 

[Vickie46]

My child found out today that they have to draw part of the poster.. or atleast something.. what you think? She has chosen 4 pics.. one for each park.. now she has to figure out what to draw... any ideas..

 

[mackeysmom]

My child found out today that they have to draw part of the poster.. or atleast something.. what you think? She has chosen 4 pics.. one for each park.. now she has to figure out what to draw... any ideas..

What about drawing the Monorail to link the four park pictures

 

[Vickie46]

not sure she could draw the monorail although that would be very neat. any other ideaS?

 

[SandrA9810]

could she draw this??

 

[SandrA9810]

As far as facts go, I'd look to Walt's talks on how he wanted to create Disney World. His ideas, how he went about it, and what is there today.

You could show a picture of the Window on Main St of all the names he used to purchase the land.
You could show a picture of the Castle during it's building stage.
Another picture of the Original EPCOT idea, and what it was supposed to be.
Final picture, what it looks like today. The facts being how many parks, resorts, DTD, the golf courses, and how large the property is.

 

[Magic Mom]

As far as facts go, I'd look to Walt's talks on how he wanted to create Disney World. His ideas, how he went about it, and what is there today.

You could show a picture of the Window on Main St of all the names he used to purchase the land.
You could show a picture of the Castle during it's building stage.
Another picture of the Original EPCOT idea, and what it was supposed to be.
Final picture, what it looks like today. The facts being how many parks, resorts, DTD, the golf courses, and how large the property is.

The bolded part yes, the rest, no. This is a child's poster about her favorite place, not a dissertation about the the comparison between Walt's vision and the current status of the parks.

 

[SandrA9810]

Well I don't know how old she is, so it would determine how much back ground info. Personally I love the history of the parks more than what they are today. So even though I love to stroll into the parks now, I love to learn how certain things came to be.

Ohhh another idea. If she wants to, do some of the popular rides. Many of them have stories that go along with them. Some are from the books/stories that they're based off of, some are spooky, and others have a variation depending on who you talk to.

The Haunted Mansion has a great story to it. Who the characters are, why the "mansion" was the only building left on property, and other fun stuff.
The Pirates of the Caribbean is supposed to be haunted by one of it's creators. And unless the first person in the morning says Hello to the ghost, it supposedly breaks down a lot that day.
I think Jungle Cruise has a few too.
And there's a few on Tom Sawyer's Island that comes from the book. Like superstition bridge. The only way to break it, is to walk backwards back across the bridge. There's a couple stories about the mines.

 

[SandrA9810]

And it doesn't have to be complicated.

You could show a picture of the Window on Main St of all the names he used to purchase the land.
Ex: Walt Disney wanted to keep the new Magic Kingdom a secret, so he used these funny names to buy the land.
You could show a picture of the Castle during it's building stage.
Ex: After every one found out that Cinderella would have her own home in Central Florida, every one was excited. Here they are making a castle made just for her.
Another picture of the Original EPCOT idea, and what it was supposed to be.
Ex: Walt wanted to create a brand new city, and even built a model, but no one knew how to build it after he died. So the Imagineers created a new park that would still bring people all over the world together.
Final picture, what it looks like today. The facts being how many parks, resorts, DTD, the golf courses, and how large the property is.
Ex: Use a map of the property.

 

[Mkrop]

My child found out today that they have to draw part of the poster.. or atleast something.. what you think? She has chosen 4 pics.. one for each park.. now she has to figure out what to draw... any ideas..

When DS13 was in 4th grade he had to draw somewhere Walt had been for a biography project. He chose Sleeping Beauyt's Castle in DL. He cant draw, so I got him some tracing paper and he traced the Castle from a picture I blew up from the Internet. He colored the tracing paper and we glued it on the cardboard.

And even with his limited drawing skills, he was able to draw the geosphere at Epcot to demostrate that Walt was innovative.

 

[barkley]

my 2 kids have found that when doing a poster project, if they can find a font that is somehow related to the theme and they use it when typing up either headlines or subject text, it can make the poster look pretty cool. as an example-when dd did one on plants we found one where the letters looked like seedlings (complete with some small leaves sprouting out) it realy made the poster pop.

i just did a quick google search, and there are some free downloadable disney related fonts on a site called "font seek", they also have some links to other disney fonts on the web.


for the drawing, can you take her to a home supply store or other place that sells garden pavers. she could take a peice of paper and do a rubbing of the paver (get permission from the store but it should'nt be a problem it will only take a few minutes and won't damage the paver, then she could draw a disney related thing on the rubbing and maybe write in her name and the other identifiying information the teacher requires on the poster (grade, date...). she could cut this out so it looks like the engraved bricks people buy at the parks.