Getting the kids fired up

[Jedi Osborn]

It looks like we'll be going to WDW on November 30th for a week of Christmas/Disney magic!! My wife and I are VERY excited! We're looking for ways to get our little ones to be just as fired up. They are ages 4 and 2. My oldest has been there before, and does remember some parts of it, so we've been telling her stories to get her excited.
My youngest has been there but doesn't remember any of it.

I show them the scrapbooks I made for the last 2 trips. (yes, there is at least 1 guy out there that does scrapbooks. But I have to go out and kill a wild animal after I'm done to confirm my masculinity..) We show them some trip videos. But nothing is really sinking in.

Its not that we want off the wall little ones, but we want to help them get excited and look forward to the trip. We do paper chains before Christmas and remove a link each day, so that's an option, but I was looking for something different.

Any ideas?

 

[Jedi Osborn]

Now THAT'S an awesome idea!!
Its just the sort of thing I was looking for. I could make something up from a character or two for a couple weeks ahead of time....then the day before they could get something from Mickey....OR....they're young enough where we could pretend to find a letter at check in or in the hotel room from Mickey.....
That's great! Thanks a lot.

Oh, and it looks like we'll be vacationing around the same time. We're arriving on the 30th of November and leaving on December 6th. Cool!!

 

[Christi22222]

Slightly different twist on a great idea...

These ideas you guys have are terrific. This is slightly off topic, but I thought it might help with the "old enough to read the postmark" problem above. One thing we do with my son (7) to make the magic last AFTER the trip, is to mail him a postcard from Mickey while we are on the trip. It has the Disney postmark, and he is thrilled to come home and get a "thank you" note from the mouse himself. It helps to make the transition back into "real life" a bit easier!

 

[JimboJones123]

"DISNEYLAND FUN"

It just came out on DVD! Will melt the hearts of young and old.

 

[MickeyTigg]

Never Been a Problem

It looks like we'll be going to WDW on November 30th for a week of Christmas/Disney magic!! My wife and I are VERY excited! We're looking for ways to get our little ones to be just as fired up. They are ages 4 and 2. My oldest has been there before, and does remember some parts of it, so we've been telling her stories to get her excited.

This has never, ever been a problem with us. Once we tell them we're going...they're fired up.

Usually we have to decide when to tell them so that they don't get too fired up and we don't get the "when are we going" questions for 6 months.

 

[Jedi Osborn]

I'm kind of looking forward to the days when we can just tell them and get them excited, but at ages 4 and 2, they don't quite grasp the concept of what it takes to get there and what a special thing it is. If we go this year, we probably won't go for anothe 2 years.....so they'll be 6 and 4. It might be a little easier to get them going then.