Days of Disney

Since August, my family has been enjoying a weekly “Day of Disney”.  It’s an annual tradition around these parts in which we feature a Disney film during dinner followed by a different Disney activity.  The activities vary greatly, but in the past some examples have been: Disney parks bingo, Disney trivia, Disney art, a Disney pin draft (a la NFL style).

This year, I’ve decided to take our annual family tradition a step further; I’m going to be featuring a “days of Disney” series here at the Spot.  Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be publishing a handful of informative posts, meant to offer some tips and tricks for Disney vacationers to be.  If you don’t happen to be planning a Disney trip, you might just mentally bookmark these for the future if ever there comes a day when you do need a bit ‘o’ help in the pixie dust department.  And if you are planning a Disney trip (you know who you are), then hopefully this series will lend you some insight.

To get things kicked off, I thought I’d share with you this year’s bounty.  That is, the Disney gear we’ve done up for our upcoming family vacation.

In case you haven’t heard, when my family does Disney, we do it right.  We go all out with t-shirts and personalized guidebooks.  In the past we’ve done a different shirt for nearly each day, but we scaled it back a bit for this year, opting to make only two shirts.  Shirts we’ve done in the past can be viewed HERE.

This year, we made one shirt for our big group trip to the Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue and one shirt that we’ll wear to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party.

The Hoop Dee Doo shirts pay homage to one of the songs they perform during the show.  During it, the performers each find a family in the audience and ask where they’re from.  They then improv a bit, poking good-natured fun at the guest’s home state.  Our party includes guests from five different states (SO excited to see Allison and  Heather!) so we thought it’d be fun to call attention to that.

We opted to go with no-brainer Halloween “costumes” this year.  As one of our Disney day activities, we printed blank Vinylmation figures and had each family member design his or her own costume.  We then scanned and printed everyone’s artwork into the computer and voila!  Our costumes were born.

Same goes for our guidebooks.  Each year, we design our own covers.  Jeff then works his technical magic shrinking those down to size.  Once everything is properly printed on 4×6 index cards, we take them to an office supply store and have them spiral bound.  It only costs about $3 per book.  These guides make for EXCELLENT resources during our trip.

So there you have it: this year’s bounty.

Stay tuned for more Disney features soon!