Passports for the kids at Epcot?

[bamamom]

I heard that you can get passports for the different countries at Epcot. Does anyone know about this and could give me info on it please.

Thanks

 

[indigoxtreme]

From Allears

BROADENING HORIZONS IN WORLD SHOWCASE

Kids may initially think World Showcase is going to be a big snooze for them, but you can encourage their active participation in learning about the various countries by getting them a World Showcase Passport. The passports are sold for $9.95 at most stores and carts throughout Epcot, and include a set of country stamps and a big "I'm a World Showcase Traveler" button. As you visit the WS pavilions, your child can have Cast Members at the KIDCOT stations (see description following) stamp the passport and write something in his/her native language.

Did you ever see those brightly colored KIDCOT signs and wonder what they were for? Well, each pavilion in World Showcase features a KIDCOT station specially for the youngsters in your group. At these stations, which usually operate only in the afternoons, there is a small table manned by Cast Members from the various countries. They will talk with children about their native land, engage them in a craft, stamp their World Showcase Passports if they have one, and sign a personal message in the language of the country.

http://allearsnet.com/tp/ep/issue099.htm
Here is the link

 

[goofy's friends]

They will also stamp a autograph book if you want. That's what we did--used the back of the blue autograph book. The kids still got to participate and we didn't have to shell out 10 more $$.

 

[susykt4]

I think the Passport would be great for older kids, but for younger ones I'd suggest just doing the FREE mask. DD almost 5 loved making the mask- they stamp the handle at each country and add a different charm. With the passport the CMs would write an entry and it took FOREVER. We went during a somewhat busy week and some of our longest lines were to just get our mask stamped because those passports took sooooo long to fill out. (We didn't have a passport, we just had to wait for everyone else...)

If your kid doesn't have genuine interest in the passport entries and/or is too impatient to wait for them to be filled out I'd skip it until they're older.

 

[Schmeck]

The stamps were created for use in the passport, they were not intended to go on the masks at all. Before the Kidcot stations were set up, you used to go to the CMs at the registers, and they would have a great time talking to the kids about the country they were from. The Kidcot stations remind me of daycare centers - the bossy, needy kids get everything, and the polite, quiet ones are waiting for a turn We avoid them like the plague!

 

[MaryKatesMom]

We love the Kidcot stations and have never had a problem.

We always do the masks. When my DD's were under 6yrs old I bought them the passports and they had no interest in them whatsoever. I ended up having them filled up myself.

The masks are wonderful, they love to color them. I now have a pile in the back of their closets I just can't throw out.