Disney Music

 

My kids are obsessed with music.  They love to dance and they love to sing.    The girls each have MP3 players and I took them and loaded them up with their favorite music.  I am really excited about this last little thing that I prepared for the trip.  I made them CD’s and songbooks with all of the lyrics to all of the classic Disney songs that they will hear around the parks and on rides.  They know almost all of these songs already as we have several Disney CD’s but  I put these on one CD so that they can either listen to it on the DVD/CD player or we can all listen to it as a family.  They are going to be really excited about having the lyrics in front of them so that they can sing along.  I also made ones for my nephews (who are joining us but sssshhhhhh, that’s a surprise too).

Here is the playlist:

A Whole New World
From "Aladdin"
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
From "Song of the South"
Heigh-Ho
From "Snow White and the seven dwarfs"
Be Our Guest
From "Beauty and the Beast"
Beauty and the Beast
From "Beauty and the Beast"
Bibidi-bobidi-boo
From "Cinderella"
The Bare Necessities
From "The Jungle Book"
I just can't wait to be King
From "The Lion King"
Hakuna Matata
From "The Lion King"
Under The Sea
From "The Little Mermaid"
Part of your world
From "The Little Mermaid"
Kiss the Girl
From "The Little Mermaid"
Poor Unfortunate Souls
From "The Little Mermaid"
Woody's Roundup
From "Toy Story 2"
You've Got a Friend in Me
From "Toy Story"
A Spoonful of Sugar
From "Mary Poppins"
Supercalifragilisticexpialdocious
From "Mary Poppins"
Let's Go Fly a Kite
From "Mary Poppins"
You Can Fly!
From "Peter Pan"
Following the Leader
From "Peter Pan"
I've got no Strings
From "Pinocchio"
When You Wish Upon a Star
From "Pinocchio"
Winnie the Pooh
It's a Pirates Life for Me (from Pirates of the Caribbean ride)
It's a Small World

Everybody's Got A laughing Place (from Splash Mountain ride)

Tiki Room

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Song

 

 

Wish us luck, we leave at 3AM tomorrow morning!!!

Preparing for a LONG car trip

 

Have I mentioned that we are driving to Disney?  It is 22 hours each way.  Now that we are in the final countdown I am starting to have nightmares about the drive.  My kids have never been in the car for long than 10 hours and even that was rough.  In an effort to make the trip as pleasant as possible I have spent a lot of time coming up with activities for the kids.

 

I made binders for the girls.  Inside there is a travel activity book with puzzles, word games, coloring pages, the license plate game and more.  There is also a travel journal with journal prompts for each day of the trip.

 

 

 

 

These binders will be in a tote bag that I have packed for each kid.  In addition to the binders, the tote bags are packed with fun little trinkets.    Some of the things in the bags, costume jewelry, plastic army men, word search books, coloring books, washable markers, pipe cleaners, color by number pictures, little flashlights, clipboards, dry erase boards (my kids LOVE these), stickers and little craft kits.  I am also putting their DS’s in there (leapster for the little guy).  We also have a DVD player for the car and a few new movies.

I have one other little ‘gift’ for the kids for the car ride that I made.  Stayed tuned until tomorrow to see what it is.

Vacation Planner

I admit it, I LOVE Disney.  I also love vacation planning.  I have been working on this trip for months already.  Yep, I have issues.  lol  At least I know that I am in good company here.

 

Here is the Disney vacation planner that I made.  I have been making lists, printing out planning guides, reading and making touring plans etc and placing them all in here.

More Disney Stuff

Today I completed bags for the kids.  I bought all of the supplies to make my own cinch backpacks but time has gotten away from me.  Instead I put the kids names on store bought bags.  The kids haven’t seen these yet, I plan to fill them with sunglasses, mist bottles and other stuff and surprise them with them on our first day to the parks.

 

Disney Dance Shirts

 

I incorporated the Dance School logo into a Mickey mouse head for a really neat logo.  Today I ironed them onto shirts for Lauren and her dance teacher.

 

Glitter Shirts

Here is one of the shirts that I have been working on.  This was still in process but I don’t want to show the final results until the girls are wearing them.

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I can post a tutorial on how to make the glitter stencil shirts if anyone is interested.

Disney Hair Bows

Ok, we weren’t quite done with hair bows.   I have plans to make matching shirts for the girls to wear on our Disney trip.  Today I made them all matching hair bows.

Got Hair Bows?

I mentioned that Kathryn and I have been making a ton of hair bows and clips, we are still at it.  I went through their summer clothes and made some that will match the clothes we are bringing to FL.

 

 

Tinkerbell inspired flower complete with glitter (didn’t photograph great but it’s there)

Here are the flowers that we put together before attaching them to clips and barrettes.

 

    

 

These have been a lot of fun but we are done with hair bows now.  These should last us a good long time (even if my girls are always losing them)

More Disney prep

The girls and I are busy crafting for our Disney trip at the end of the month.  We saw these beads at the craft store and Lauren thinks that they look like Mickey heads – what do you think?  We made bracelets for the 3 of us.

Kathryn and I have been busy making new barrettes for her hair.    We went through my scrapbooking supplies and found some pretty flowers.  A few minutes with the hot glue gun and we had dozens of new barrettes and clips.    Here are just a few of the ones we made:

 

The Countdown Is On

We are in big countdown mode here for our big trip.  Lauren is dancing at Disney in 8 weeks.  Since Zack asks me every single day if it is time to leave for Disney I though that it would be good to give him a visual.  The girls and I made a countdown chain.  As excited as they are, I might be even more excited for this trip!