Countdown to Disney World

The countdown is on....we've been having fun lately talking all about Disney World with Isaiah.  We have been pretty obnoxiously excited for this one!  Isaiah and I put together a simple paper chain countdown and we've had fun ripping a link off each day...

and then pointing, counting, and naming the numbers that are left...

Along with the paper chain, I put together a calendar countdown containing an activity to do each day.  They range from simply "watching a Disney movie" or "eat Mickey pancakes!" to "play Toy Story Legos with daddy" or create something Disney inspired....

Thanks to Pinterest, we've made a Kion megaphone (Kion is from a new show on Disney Jr called Lion Guard)...that was more impressive to Isaiah when we were creating it than when it was complete.

We created a Mickey sun catcher that I thought up...back in my days running a before and after school program, we'd have the kids color coffee filters with washable markers and then spray them with a water bottle so the ink would smear, let it dry, and create something fun (usually a butterfly)...

This time I enlisted my Cricut and made two 9.5" Mickey heads (using the Mickey Font cartridge, Mickey Tag, the uppercase O- just without the middle). Once the filter was dry, we glued it between the Mickey heads, hole punched the top and hung it in the window.

We made binoculars based on another Lion Guard character, Ono, who is actually voiced by an actor who also has Osteogenesis Imperfecta (fun fact for you). (link to that idea is above with the Kion megaphone.)

And we've created a clown fish using painters tape, yardstick, and a dot art marker.

We've had so much fun! The chain is getting smaller and we are getting more excited for our trip.  We've started packing and putting things aside and are looking forward to traveling without oxygen since Isaiah is strong enough to travel without it! We can't wait to share pictures and videos from our trip (I am promising myself that I will take tons of videos this time!)...ahhh is it time yet???? :)