diamondcharl Posted July 14, 2014 #1 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Today officially marks one month until our cruise. I would like to make a countdown calendar for the kids and was wondering if anyone would like to share pics! Thanks:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted July 14, 2014 Author #2 Share Posted July 14, 2014 OK, here's ours!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustSailNOW Posted July 15, 2014 #3 Share Posted July 15, 2014 What a great idea! My 3 year old would love this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted July 15, 2014 Author #4 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Thanks! We love making countdown calendars! We started doing it our first Disney trip. Its fun for the kids and incorporates a little math as well!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeekyGirlCruiser Posted July 16, 2014 #5 Share Posted July 16, 2014 We take a fact sheet of the ship or pictures of places we will visit and tape it to the pantry door - I have cut out letters spelling out "Days Until ________" at the top of the door (with the ships name) then I stick numbers all over the door so it's a seek and find to get each number and they get to count down to the cruise as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted July 16, 2014 Author #6 Share Posted July 16, 2014 We take a fact sheet of the ship or pictures of places we will visit and tape it to the pantry door - I have cut out letters spelling out "Days Until ________" at the top of the door (with the ships name) then I stick numbers all over the door so it's a seek and find to get each number and they get to count down to the cruise as well. LOVE this idea!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeekyGirlCruiser Posted July 17, 2014 #7 Share Posted July 17, 2014 To expand a little - you can use printed pages of the deck plans or unique things that are on your ship - helps the kids learn where everything is (our daughter knew the layout of the Allure better than my husband) and they get excited to keep finding new things as they look at the ship and what it has to offer. Our Allure one is still on the door because they love remembering the trip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted July 17, 2014 Author #8 Share Posted July 17, 2014 To expand a little - you can use printed pages of the deck plans or unique things that are on your ship - helps the kids learn where everything is (our daughter knew the layout of the Allure better than my husband) and they get excited to keep finding new things as they look at the ship and what it has to offer. Our Allure one is still on the door because they love remembering the trip! Awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mitsugirly Posted July 29, 2014 #9 Share Posted July 29, 2014 We always do the round colored paper rings (kinda like the things you make at Christmas) and tape it to the refrigerator. My daughter tears one ring off every day. She helps cut them out, I staple them together looping them and she writes the countdown numbers on them. I do like the little ship calendar thing that someone else posted. Maybe I'll try something new next time. Do you remove something off of it every day while counting down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted July 29, 2014 Author #10 Share Posted July 29, 2014 We pull pull off one of the porthole windows that have the number of days left on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustSailNOW Posted July 29, 2014 #11 Share Posted July 29, 2014 We still have a little under 3 months until our cruise. Going to look for ideas so that we are ready when September rolls around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mitsugirly Posted July 29, 2014 #12 Share Posted July 29, 2014 We pull pull off one of the porthole windows that have the number of days left on it. That's awesome. Thanks for the idea. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted July 29, 2014 Author #13 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Your welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEckhardt Posted August 2, 2014 #14 Share Posted August 2, 2014 That's a great idea! I'm cruising with a 6 year old in a little over a month. We should make something like this!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AEckhardt Posted August 5, 2014 #15 Share Posted August 5, 2014 This is what we came up with! Not quite as fancy as the OPs! Lol. Were we are sailing on the Gem next, we attempted to decorate it as such. Mind you, he just turned 6! I drew a rough little box were the bridge is and told him that's where the captain is, so he wanted to draw him in. Then he said we should be on there, too. Together we drew little stick figure people for us. The boys were in blue, and I wanted the girls to be a different color. Not thinking, I grabbed green for my daughter. So she's seasick in the drawing, lol. I switched mine to pink. :) The links on the paper chain "anchor" represent the days left. 32 as of today. Each day we can rip one off. As soon as he woke up, he asked to do it! It's basic, but it gives a good visual as far as time left till sailing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamondcharl Posted August 5, 2014 Author #16 Share Posted August 5, 2014 [ATTACH]321209[/ATTACH] This is what we came up with! Not quite as fancy as the OPs! Lol. Were we are sailing on the Gem next, we attempted to decorate it as such. Mind you, he just turned 6! I drew a rough little box were the bridge is and told him that's where the captain is, so he wanted to draw him in. Then he said we should be on there, too. Together we drew little stick figure people for us. The boys were in blue, and I wanted the girls to be a different color. Not thinking, I grabbed green for my daughter. So she's seasick in the drawing, lol. I switched mine to pink. :) The links on the paper chain "anchor" represent the days left. 32 as of today. Each day we can rip one off. As soon as he woke up, he asked to do it! It's basic, but it gives a good visual as far as time left till sailing! Sooo cute! Very concrete and age appropriate!! Enjoy the Gem,she is beautiful!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeekyGirlCruiser Posted August 7, 2014 #17 Share Posted August 7, 2014 That's too cute! I love it! I need to get to thinking on some door decorations for thanksgiving on the freedom! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MustSailNOW Posted September 17, 2014 #18 Share Posted September 17, 2014 We finally got around to making our countdown! I have a 2 year old and a 4 year old. We had a lot of fun making it! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonade-sails Posted September 17, 2014 #19 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Love these pictures! We're giving a cruise to our kids this year for Christmas and will leave 10 days later. I plan to make a countdown too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAHMto5 Posted September 19, 2014 #20 Share Posted September 19, 2014 We always do the round colored paper rings (kinda like the things you make at Christmas) and tape it to the refrigerator. My daughter tears one ring off every day. She helps cut them out, I staple them together looping them and she writes the countdown numbers on them. This is exactly what my kids have done over the years as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantw8togo Posted September 28, 2014 #21 Share Posted September 28, 2014 We used to make the count down paper chains using pictures from the cruise catalogues from the travel agents. When they took a chain link off, we would talk about the picture, deck plans, etc. and it would help build the excitement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mitsugirly Posted October 19, 2014 #22 Share Posted October 19, 2014 We always make the construction paper chains and thanks to this thread, we decided to spruce it up a little and do something different. Thanks to the OP for starting this thread. Here's what we came up with...remove a ship each day until we get to the big ship. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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