OUR DISNEY COUNTDOWN

 I wanted to get the ones everyone was talking about from Home Depot that had Mickey's head shape already on them. But as you may have read, they don't have them anymore. So I got paint chips from our local paint center. ALL of them have them. I got several colors and tried to arrainge them from light colors to darker colors. But I wanted the colors to be true enough that it wouldn't confused the little ones. Blue-green and Green-blue's are very strange for preschoolers to understand. 

I searched the house over, and over looking for anything round that could be the head ... then searched more for the right size ears. I finally found that my DH had all kinds of protractors, compass, stencils, you name it - all this stuff was in the office ... LOL ... who knew? (please keep in mind, we just got married a year ago, and I didn't live with him beforehand, so I don't know what he has - or where)

Any Who ! I found the shapes I needed and 




Cut out Mickey heads shapes.










Using double sided tape (you could use glue) I centered a Mickey cutout on a white paint card. I thought about putting them each on a different color paint chip, but that just looked too busy for me, I like things simple.
I only made 12 because I think that my grandsons might get tired of this game if it takes too long. So 12 days should be long enough. The oldest has already figured out that we are going to Disney World, so he has started asking his mommy 'how much longer' ... LOL ... So she has started handing him her phone with a calendar and showing him just how much longer it will be. Lucky for her he is only asking about every 5 -7 days. But I think NANA is going to make it more fun! 














On the last 2 I tried to make them a little bit more special. 
(as you can see in the picture) I also added Disney stickers to some of them ... 

I wish I had a machine that could cut out the numbers perfectly ... but no time for that now. Magic Marker is it. 




Just a little more than 7 weeks to go. And I'm so excited!