On our first Disney trip I decided to give the kids "Tinkerbell Gifts" each morning. I wanted to get the kids souvenirs, but I didn't want to have to spend time shopping while in the parks, and I didn't want to deal with the "Mom, can I have this?" "Mom, will you buy me this?". So, I bought most of their souvenirs ahead of time. (We did buy a couple things while at Disney). I shopped online, at the Disney store, and on ebay. I also tried to have each day's gifts correspond with something we were doing that day. I made cards from the characters that we were going to meet that day and the kids actually believed that those characters came into our rooms during the night and left the notes and gifts! They thought it was really magical!
When we arrived on our first day, I sneaked into the resort room before anyone else and left the bags along with Mickey Ear Hats and autograph books. They had a note welcoming them to Disney World and telling them to wear their Ear Hats and bring their autograph books to dinner at Chef Mickey's that night. Each day the gifts were something they could use that day or were a stuffed animal of one of the day's characters.
This trip I didn't want to deal with all the notes and quite as many souvenirs. Plus we now had a 4th child so that added to the expense of buying lots of gifts. So I decided that things like their autograph books, travel journals, epcot passports, and pin lanyards would be "Tinkerbell Gifts". I threw in a few stuffed animals that I got from the Disney store and I was set for the week. I only made a note for the arrival day, and the rest of the week there was no note to accompany the gift. I made bags for their gifts of course. The white bags and stickers were purchased at Michael's. The cute name labels were made by a talented Disigner on the DIS boards, which I printed off on label paper. I saved the bags and will hopefully be able to use them again for our next trip.
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