Surprise reveal for 12 year old

[DonnaRy28]

We are surprising our 12 year old daughter with a Disney trip for x-mas. It seems all the reveal ideas I'm finding are for younger, elementary school aged kids. My daughter's at the age where that stuff wouldn't be cool anymore. We're going to Disneyland and they don't do the magic bands for tickets, so that's not an option.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

 

[C.beara]

We are surprising our 12 year old daughter with a Disney trip for x-mas. It seems all the reveal ideas I'm finding are for younger, elementary school aged kids. My daughter's at the age where that stuff wouldn't be cool anymore. We're going to Disneyland and they don't do the magic bands for tickets, so that's not an option.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

You could wrap her up a Dsiney giftcard for some of her souvenirs? I remember at that age it was fun getting my own money to spend how I wanted.

 

[klangl6]

We did a scavenger hunt around the house. There were a total of 6 envelopes and each envelope led to the next. Once she had all of them, she had to arrange the letters to spell Disney. Kinda corny, but she enjoyed the scavenger hunt part.

This year, we are surprising her with a Disney/Universal trip and will be creating a "trunk" out of a box and will pack up some things she would need for the trip. At the bottom, it will have a ticket to the Hogwart's Express.

 

[hollisterluva92]

Honestly you could do the whole suitcase packed reveal or blindfold her in the car on the way to the airport!

 

[Tiggerish]

Do not be too concerned about her being to jaded for a simple surprise. I have done two trip reveals for that age.


I surprised my 12 yo niece with a Disney Cruise. Leading up to Christmas, Tigger dressed as a pirate sent her a letter every week about a pirate adventure he was on to find a perfect place to hide his treasure. The pirates traveled from the Caribbean across the Gulf of Mexico, up the Mississippi River through the locks, rivers and shipping channels into Lake Michigan and then up the Grand River to where she lived in Grand Rapids. On Christmas day she unwrapped a box the contained a post card that said the pirates has hidden their treasure in a garage at what was her address. When she looked in her garage there was a treasure chest with gold chocolate coins, plastic jewels and necklaces and the information on the cruise.

Similarly, when her sister was 12, I surprised her with a trip to Disney World. I have always given my nieces and nephew Easter baskets. In her basket I wrapped up a tube from a paper towel roll in orange and green tissue paper to look like a carrot. Inside the carrot was a storybook that I had made for her, "Tiny Bunny’s Easter Task"

Once upon a time there was a young bunny who was very, very tiny for her age. When she was one year old, it was time for her to be assigned her first Easter task. The Bunny Council deliberated long and hard to find a proper task for such a tiny bunny. Finally, it was decided that the tiny bunny would be assigned to be a second assistant deputy aide to the Easter Bunny himself. The Easter Bunny gave her the name of just one girl and told her to find a special Easter present for that girl.

So the tiny bunny hid in the bushes outside the girl’s bedroom window. She watched and she listened, always staying hidden from the girl. The tiny bunny learned that the girl liked to read books. The tiny bunny thought, I will find the most wonderful book for the girl’s special Easter present. The tiny bunny studied many, many different books until she found the most wonderful book.

But when the tiny bunny went to the book store, the book store was all sold out of the wonderful book that she needed for her girl. The tiny bunny thought and thought. Being a modern bunny, the tiny bunny decided to go shopping on the internet. Sure enough, the tiny bunny could get the girl’s wonderful book from an internet store.

The tiny bunny ordered the book and had it shipped. She was proud of how clever she was in finding the wonderful book from the internet store. Every day the tiny bunny checked on the book. Finally, the internet store said that the book had shipped. The tiny bunny started tracking the shipped book. The wonderful book moved extremely slowly. First the order went to a warehouse where it was put in a mailing envelope. The warehouse called a trucking company to come to get the mailing envelope with the wonderful book in it. After awhile the trucking company sent a truck which picked up the mailing envelope with the wonderful book inside from the warehouse.

The truck drove the mailing envelope with the wonderful book inside to a post office and dropped it off. At the post office, the mail person put the mailing envelope with the wonderful book inside onto big mail truck headed to the place where the tiny bunny lived. All of this, the tiny bunny tracked on the internet. She was pleased with how she had successfully completed her task.

The tiny bunny went to the Easter Bunny and reported on what she had done. She showed the Easter Bunny the package tracking on the internet. The tiny bunny thought maybe she would get an award for being so smart. However, the Easter Bunny looked at the packaging tracking and then pointed to the screen and said, “This package is going to be delivered on April 6th. Easter is April 5th.”

The tiny bunny was so sad; she had failed. The tiny bunny wanted to cry but not in front of the Easter Bunny. Her tiny little nose quivered and her tiny little voice shook as she held back her tears and asked the Easter Bunny if anything could be done to make sure that her girl got a present. The tiny bunny told t he Easter Bunny that she would give up her own present if only he could make sure that her girl got something wonderful.

The Easter Bunny was impressed with how brave the tiny bunny was being and impressed with how unselfish she was in offering to give up her own Easter present. He went into the back of his work shop. He was gone a very long time. Finally, the Easter Bunny came out of the back room holding a present wrapped up to look like a carrot. He was also holding an unusual hat. He told the tiny bunny she needed to wear the hat and go deliver the carrot to her girl.

When the girl received her present it was such a wonderful present that she told the tiny bunny that it was the best Easter present she had every gotten.

What was that gift? It was the same one I am giving you and your family now. The tiny bunny was wearing Mickey Mouse Ears when she delivered the gift, a trip to Disney World. We are all going to Walt Disney World this August.

Both surprises were very well received.