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25 Sep 19, 02:00 PM |
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I love reading all reveal stories but this one is particularly good. What a great idea.
We did a reveal for our 2018 holiday with a treasure hunt in the house - it was just after they'd finished doing an easter egg hunt so I pretended I'd been tidying up and found another clue, which of course then led to more clues. The treasure hunt led to a jigsaw we'd had made with Disney and Harry Potter related images on the front and it said across the middle "Guess where we're going...". The reaction when they worked it out was underwhelming. The youngest, 5, didn't really understand but cheered anyway and eldest DS (9) accused us of being liars as we'd told them we weren't going on holiday that year as we had no money. We explained we wanted to surprise them and he was distinctly unimpressed that we'd lied! We're going again in 2020 and I'm toying with finding a geocache relatively near us, going there the night before and tampering with it (naughty I know) and leaving our prize there somehow. Then the next day suggesting to the kids that we go geocaching (hoping the entire time that no-one else has chosen to do that particular geocache in the intervening 12-15 hours obviously!). I'm not sure about this idea though. If my kids were Saturday Night Takeaway fans I'd totally be stealing dBoardy's idea |
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25 Sep 19, 02:48 PM |
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slightly serious Dibber
Join Date: Oct 15
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I had a similar experience with my 3! We did a treasure hunt reveal for their first trip in 2017 - I made poems and pictures for each clue and they were hidden around our house then out in the car and eventually it took them along to their grandparents house (they were coming too) the 'treasure' was a little big book of magic each, maps of all the theme parks we were going to, Disney t shirts, some dollars etc and to say their reaction was underwhelming is a massive understatement! We had honestly expected a big reaction from them all as they'd wanted to go to Florida for years and used to look at the pictures of me and their dad there (from a trip before we we married and had the kids) all the time - they did get really excited a couple of hours later when the news had finally sunk in and they realised it was really happening but definitely wasn't what we were expecting
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25 Sep 19, 07:11 PM |
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Love these threads. We are planning to do our reveal at Xmas and looking for some ideas.
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25 Sep 19, 08:05 PM |
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Join Date: May 17
Location: Bedfordshire
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For our trip on 2017 we wrapped up a Disney box with toys, Disney pjs, Disney t shirts etc. at the bottom was a disc that said play me and we had a recording from Mickey Mouse (fiver.co.uk) telling him he was going and what he’d be doing. Although he was excited I think he was overwhelmed with all the Christmas stuff too and it took a while to sink in.
This time (12 days ago! ) we decorated the kitchen with Disney here we come bunting, balloons and luggage tags etc. called him in for tea as normal and shouted surprise. He looked around for a moment and said in a really small voice “are we going back to Disney” I said “we are and open that box to tell you when” he opened up a giant Millie’s cookie which was iced with our countdown, read it a few times and cried. Ran in to a hug saying happy tears, it’s all happy tears which is now the name of our trip report. The second one was definitely my favourite. He’s 8 now and was 6 for the first one.
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23 Feb 20, 06:49 PM |
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We've just done the big reveal this afternoon. We had a meal booked at Hickorys Smokehouse this afternoon so I created a wordsearch online with all our Florida family favourite things to do and edited it to look like it was part of the kids pack from the restaurant.
The kids then did the wordsearch at the meal and I hid the Magic Bands from our last trip in the mini popcorn bags so when they completed the wordsearch I gave them the popcorn bags as the surpise prize with the Magic Bands in. The smiles on their faces as it sunk in were amazing 😃😃😃 Edited at 06:53 PM. |
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23 Feb 20, 06:54 PM |
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23 Feb 20, 07:58 PM |
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Aww.. the smiles on their faces. How lovely.
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23 Feb 20, 08:00 PM |
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What a lovely reveal!
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23 Feb 20, 09:03 PM |
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We said to our 12 year old son. “We’re thinking of going to Florida next year what do you think.”
“Sounds good he said.” So we booked it. Once booked we told him “Cool” he replied.
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23 Feb 20, 09:19 PM |
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