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  • April 12, 2017 at 9:24 am #22104
    connie96
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    Do you do “Countdown Calendars” in anticipation of your Disney trips? What are some of your favorite ideas?

    I’ve done a couple rather complicated (but FUN!) ones in the past so, I’m especially interested in simple ideas that are a little more fun than X-ing days on the kitchen calendar with a sharpie.

    April 12, 2017 at 9:27 am #22107
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    Oh heck yes. I have a countdown app on my phone to all upcoming events (I mention a lot of them here too since some of them are fairly important to me), I cross out dates on my calendar and I post them here too.

    April 12, 2017 at 9:51 am #22126
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    I do have a countdown app on my phone. I’m thinking more in terms of something I might make for my daughter (almost 10) and nieces (15 and 17). I did put the countdown app on all three of their phones, too, so maybe I am being a little over-ambitious.

    I made a pretty elaborate countdown last time we and my sister’s family traveled to WDW together (2013). It was a first visit for my sister and her girls so, I included a bit of WDW info/trivia and a trading pin for each countdown day. They have asked me if I would be making them a countdown again. I said “no” because it was a lot of work and, the one I made for my daughter in 2015 was largely forgotten about in our house.

    But, if I came up with something fairly simple, I think the girls would enjoy it.

    April 12, 2017 at 9:54 am #22128
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    go to pinterest and search for Disney Countdown. holy cow!!!

    i am totally thinking of throwing this together while the kids are at school!

    April 12, 2017 at 9:58 am #22133
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    jamiedawn27 wrote:

    go to pinterest and search for Disney Countdown. holy cow!!!

    i am totally thinking of throwing this together while the kids are at school!
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AZ6rhtelY6bnQsEyzOdkm8Mh_PrpPxCpgLcIYwwD_9j-26TNOiulQ3A/

    Duh! I always forget about Pinterest. Thanks for the reminder.

    April 12, 2017 at 9:59 am #22137
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    jamiedawn27 wrote:

    go to pinterest and search for Disney Countdown. holy cow!!!

    i am totally thinking of throwing this together while the kids are at school!
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AZ6rhtelY6bnQsEyzOdkm8Mh_PrpPxCpgLcIYwwD_9j-26TNOiulQ3A/

    That’s awesome! And not expensive and fun. :smirk:

    April 12, 2017 at 10:41 am #22152
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    I’ve done this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AZ6rhtelY6bnQsEyzOdkm8Mh_PrpPxCpgLcIYwwD_9j-26TNOiulQ3A/ but it didn’t look as amazing as that!

    I also have a countdown app on my phone, but more recently I bought one of these: https://www.etsy.com/listing/231816554/disney-inspired-countdown-board?ref=shop_home_active_27 and that’s what I use :ears:

    April 18, 2017 at 11:20 am #22834
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    Trolling the forums today and I realized that I meant to post pictures of my previous countdowns here and never did.

    These are from my daughter’s first WDW trip when she was 4. Each “day” was an envelope with 3 or 4 puzzle pieces in it.

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    April 18, 2017 at 11:32 am #22835
    starbee
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    Wow! That’s incredible! :clap:

    April 18, 2017 at 11:35 am #22836
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    I love this @connie96! How creative and fun! Two :up: :up: for that!

    April 18, 2017 at 11:39 am #22837
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    Aww, thanks. My thought process was that there oughta be a “payoff” each day. Just “X”ing days or pulling off a number seemed too boring to me.

    But, I’m kinda over it at the moment because these suckers take more work than is sensible. And, for our most recent trip, 2 years ago, my daughter and I both would just forget about the thing for days at a time. I think we may have out-grown countdowns as “fun” as this one. ;)

    April 18, 2017 at 11:49 am #22840
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    @connie96 you are a rock star. all i did was the paper rings in red-white-black-yellow this time. although i’ve never done a countdown before and the kids rather like it. i enjoy the kids not saying “Alexa, how many days until June 1st” every morning. :)

    April 18, 2017 at 11:58 am #22841
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    The paper rings are really cute!

    I wasn’t really planning on doing one at all this time around but, my nieces were bummed when I told them that. We’re still 100+ days out so, I have some time to think.

    April 18, 2017 at 11:58 am #22842
    bexruns
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    That’s pretty awesome!

    Aside from just the countdown app on my phone, I never did anything huge with my kids. I really just surprised them and we’d just magically arrive at Disneyland.

    April 18, 2017 at 12:02 pm #22845
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    @imarebelpilot, I’d love to “magically arrive” but, I also love the anticipation stage of the trip. If there were going to be a surprise Disney trip in our family, someone would have to surprise ME. Having me in on it would almost certainly lead to surprise spoilage.

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