Disneyland Countdown

 

We're going to Disneyland, and I'm so excited about it! We've a while yet to go, but my sister and I really wanted to do SOMETHING for it. A countdown was the perfect thing! We loved this pin. The original pin was an uploaded picture, so we set to work recreating it. Here's our version:

Remind you of anyone? It's Mickey! Since my little guy LOVES Mickey, this was perfect!

We made one "Mickey" for each day that we have left. 

That's a lot of Mickey's!

How we made them:

• Each Mickey is made up of 3 paper rings and there is a white one connecting each Mickey. 
• Each ring was one inch wide and 9 inches long (the width of a piece of construction paper). We used staples to connect the ends of the rings.
• Mickey's head: 

• Made using one ring of black construction paper and two circles punched with a 1 1/4 inch circle punch. 
• We wrote the date on one "ear" and how many days until Disney on the other "ear". I have a white pen; you could also use something like a white crayon or colored pencil.
• Fold a little flap at the bottom of the ears and staple them to the black ring.
• Mickey's body:
• We used a regular hold punch to punch little white circles and glued two to each red ring for the buttons on Mickey's pants.
• It's best to glue the white circles on before you create the ring.
• Put the glue on the circles (not on the red paper). It may show on the red paper once it dries, so this will help avoid extra glue showing.
• Mickey's shoes
• Just a plain yellow ring here. Nothing to add to it

• Our process:

• We cut and punched all our pieces ahead of time (i.e. all the strips of paper, all the black circles, all the white circles).
• Glued the white circles to each red strip of paper.
• Attached the black, red, and yellow pieces together until we had enough.
• Connected all the pieces
• Wrote a date and countdown number on two ears and attached them to a black ring.
• Attached the black ring to a yellow ring (the bottom of a Mickey) with one of our white strips.

Then you'll have a lot of these!

And since I couldn't leave them on my fence...

...I moved them inside, but separated the chain. I wanted each Mickey to be hanging the right way (if they're all attached, you'll get upside-down Mickeys).

One Disney project down. How many more will there be? Who knows? I've got all kinds of ideas swimming around in my head. I'm so, so excited!

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