Surprising Kids

[Lauren4382]

We leave in less than 5 days for Disney World...our kids (9, 7, 2) have no idea...we are planning to tell them when we wake them up to go to the airport...once they get to the airport, they are going to see that their cousins are going too...any ideas on how to tell them??

 

[ChasingLeslie]

Put "we're going to Disney!" signs up and play Disney music loudly outside their bedroom doors...?

 

[tcufrog]

We went during the school year so instead of telling them we had them get dressed for school and put their backpacks in the car. It was winter so we hid the suitcases under some winter coats. We told them that my dh and I had a meeting after drop off which was why we were leaving early and dropping them off early. We then proceeded to drive to the airport in the opposite direction of school. When they finally started asking why we weren't driving towards school, I bent down and quickly put on some Mickey Mouse ears, turned around and shouted "We're going to Disney World!" My dh videotaped it. Our younger son was excited but our older son was mad because we tricked him. He eventually came around.