Walk the Plank game for a Jake and the Neverland Pirate’s Birthday Party.
Tie Dye Mickey Mouse Shirt tutorial.
Wordless Wednesday: Disney Pinterest
Magical Blogorail Green: Keeping the Magic Alive at Home
Welcome to those of you joining me from Disney Living and those of you just hopping aboard. I am the 4th stop on our Magical Blogorail.
This month we are sharing ways we keep Disney Magic Alive at Home. This is such a fun topic! There are so many ways we keep the magic alive between our Disney vacations. We aren’t able to go to Walt Disney World as often as my middle son and I would like to, so we have to find creative ways
to keep the magic going between trips. Here are five ways we are able to do that:
1. Watch Disney Movies or Disney Junior. We do this on a very (probably too much) regular basis. Each time a commercial comes on Disney Junior that shows any character or part of a park my son says, “Hey! We saw him/ did that at Disney World!”
2. Look at past vacation photos. I’m not a scrapbooker, but I do have our past three trips photos in a Disney themed photo album. We often look at these pictures and my son tells me about the pictures: who is in it, what we were doing and what he likes about it. This not only keeps the magic alive, but it helps him with story telling and recalling past information.
3. Disney parties! We don’t do this as much as I’d like, but we have celebrated several characters in the past- most being part of a virtual party with my Blogorail friends! We’ve had a Rapunzel party with Tiana, Mickey party, Minnie party and C-man’s 3rd birthday was Jake and the Neverland Pirates! We are already talking about the 4th birthday… will it be Woody or Buzz?!
4. Talk about future trips. C-man is already talking about when we take Big E to Walt Disney World for the first time. While it will probably be well over a year away, we’re already talking about it. C-man talks about the characters he wants Big E to meet and the rides they will ride together. I, on the other hand, are talking to daddy about how many Chase Visa points we’ll have by that time and which resort we’ll stay in! I am also already talking about which restaurants and snacks I want to try for the first time.
5. Add to the bucket list. This is the best way I keep the magic alive. I read magazines, books, blogs and web sites to see what is new that I haven’t tried yet! My list continues to grow with resorts to stay in, restaurants to try, new attractions to experience and characters to meet. There are parties to attend, races to run, shops to shop in and off the beaten paths to walk down. There are sports to play, waves to surf, courses to put and boats to ride. The list of things to do at Walt Disney World seems to be endless which means my bucket list will continue to grow and my need for Disney will never end!
Thank you for joining me today. Your next stop on the Magical Blogorail Loop is Walt Disney World: Not Just for Kids.
Here is the map of our Magical Blogorail should you happen to have to make a stop along the way and want to reboard:
1st Stop ~ Your Highway in the Sky
2nd Stop ~ The Disney Point
3rd Stop ~ Disney Living
4th Stop ~ A Disney Mom’s Thoughts
Final Stop ~ Walt Disney World: Not Just for Kids
Tuesday’s Tip: Birthday Calls For Your Kids
Did you know on your child’s birthday your child can receive a special phone call from Mickey, Minnie or Jake? Since C-man was having a “Jake and the Neverland Pirates” Birthday party this year, I signed up online for him to receive a birthday wish from Jake! You can choose the character, the date, the time of day and the phone number where you want the phone call to happen. I chose 9:00am since I knew we would be up and we wouldn’t be too close to crunch time for the party! I set a reminder alarm on my phone at 8:55, so I would be ready for it. As soon as the phone rings there is a message saying you signed up for a phone call and you have to press a specific number/ symbol (sorry, I can’t remember which!) to retrieve the message. Once you press that number the character starts talking, so have your little one near by to pass off the phone!
C-man was shocked to have a personal phone call from Jake on the day of his Jake party! It was a rather long message and C-man got bored with it, but he still liked it!
I would suggest any parent with kids who are fans of Mickey, Minnie or Jake to sign up for this service. It’s free and it can help make your child’s day complete!
Jake and the Neverland Pirates Birthday Party
It’s been a week and a half and we still have pirate “stuff” scattered around the house! We successfully hosted a Jake and the Neverland Pirate’s birthday party for my 3 year old, Cman, on January 21. With a lot of planning and doing, it was pulled off without a hitch. If I could change anything, I would have added 1 more game and hired a professional photographer to take pictures! I was too busy being mom to also take pictures. Sometimes I wish I could clone myself. The one game I would add is a Gold Doubloon hunt. I wish I had hidden 50 or so Doubloons around the house (kitchen, den and dining room) for the kids to hunt. They could all add them to the team treasure chest and divide at the end.
Without further ado, here is our party through photos!
The Birthday Boy! Yes, he’s saying “ARGH!”
Invitations and envelopes addressed to all the “captains!” Invitations by Pixels4Parties on Etsy.
As the kids arrived, they all got a temporary Pirate tatoo. Most chose their hand, but we had 1 on a foot and 1 on a cheek!
Once most had arrived, we had a Cannonball fight with black balloons! We continued to have Cannonball fights for days after the party!
Each kid had multiple chances to “walk the plank” and not fall off into the “water” which was a blue plastic table cloth!
The older kids played “Pin the Patch on the Pirate.” They didn’t want to wear the bandanna to cover their eyes, so I just covered them with my hand! 🙂
I think everyone enjoyed the cupcakes, cake and goodies!
The Pirate #3 birthday shirt was from The Sassy Squirrel on Etsy.
After the sugar break, we all went into the garage (it was too wet and cold outside) to dig for treasures! We had 75 Gold Doubloons and a ton of Mardi Gras beads buried in a bucket of sand.
When you’re working with a bunch of 2, 3 and 4 year olds, it’s next to impossible to get a group picture, but we did OK!
Thanks to all our friends for coming to the party and helping celebrate 3 wonderful years of Cman!!
Snacks and decorations… Pirate Cannonballs (whoppers), Pirate Catch o’ the day (goldfish), Pirate Planks (pretzel rods), Pirate rope (twizzlers) and Pirate treasures (rolos and Hershy’s treasures).
Cupcake Ships and the Cake- made my my mom, KK! The cupcake wrappers were downloaded from Cottage Industrialist!
The Thank You Toppers were downloaded from “Tattered and Inked.” Pirate Mickey is standing guard over the goodies: eye patches, beads, doubloons, tattoos and scarves!
Most of the ideas were from my Pirate Party Ideas Board on Pinterest!
