Show me your countdown calendars!!!!

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:)

OK, here's ours!!

What a great idea! My 3 year old would love this!

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!!!

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.

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!!!

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!

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!!!

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?

We pull pull off one of the porthole windows that have the number of days left on it.

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!

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. :)

Your welcome!

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!!

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!

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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!!!!!

That's too cute! I love it!

I need to get to thinking on some door decorations for thanksgiving on the freedom!

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!

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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!

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

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.

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