Parents spend a lot of time planning their family’s Disney World trips and hopefully eventually arrive at a plan for their vacation. If your kids are like mine, they want to know what to expect during their trip.
I’ve designed two templates to help you do that in a fun way.
Here’s how you use them.
There are two different options available:
GIMP format
GIMP is free software that does almost everything that Photoshop does but without the $700 price tag. You can download it from GIMP.org.
Like Photoshop, GIMP works in layers so every element of the image can be edited or deleted plus you can add new layers to customize the graphic for your trip.
Here’s how this template looks:
Fonts used in this file:
- Walt Disney Script v4.1
- Rockwell Bold
- Edwardian Script ITC Semi-Expanded
Microsoft Word format
I also created a Microsoft Word itinerary that should be easy to use.
Here’s how this template looks:
Some tips:
- When pasting your own image into this file, right-click it, choose Format Picture, go to the Layout tab and pick “In front of text” as your option. This will allow you to move images around as needed.
- There are many shapes used and each can be changed to a new shape, filled with a new color and have the border customized.
- If you print this file and want the background color to show up, you’ll need to go into the printer options and check the box that says “print background colors and images.”
- Fonts used in this file: Gill Sans Ultra Bold, Gill Sans MT, Walt Disney Script v4.1, Calibri and Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold.
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Questions or comments on how the templates works? Talk about it in the comments.
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Really wish I had seen this post prior to our trip–I love both of these itineraries and would likely have used the Word formatted one, so organized. I did one, but it wasn’t as colorful as yours. Great work–thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for sharing these templates! We are going
on a trip soon with my FIL and my parents. This was a great way to
give them (and our kids) an idea of what we were going to do each
day without overwhelming them. Plus it will be a fun addition to
our scrapbook. Thank you as well for including the hints on
formatting and how to print.
You’re welcome! Glad you like them.
Love your layouts! For some reason,it won’t work on my
laptop. Is there a way to make one from scratch (for Microsoft
Word)? Thanks! Awesome site,by the way!
Can you try saving the files first and then opening them on your laptop? Right-click, save then find it and open.
Shannon,
I just want to tell you how much I LOVE this website. My husband and I have planned a vacation to Disney this summer in July (21st-27th) (I know, I know, but it’s the only week we can do it!!) This will be my second time even though I was 5 when I went and my husband’s first! We are also surprising our 5 year old son on his birthday with the trip! I have been googling my brains out because I am by far the biggest planner and with our short decision to make this the big year for our son it has been hard for me to make sure I have all of the right tools!! These templates are amazing and JUST what I need!
My husband is in the military and we will be staying at Shades of Green resort, quick question are they affiliated with Disney as far as can you purchase items and have then sent back and such? When you mention **staying at one of the resorts, is ours included in that? Also are there any tips for military members on how to save a couple bucks other than the resort and ticket prices? Thanks so much!!!
Thanks, Cori! Glad you like the site.
I don’t know much about military stuff at Disney but there’s a website focused on that which you will probably like: http://www.militarydisneytips.com/
Hope that helps!
Thank you for sharing this template. It definitevely make things easy when I have plan like this. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to be in Disney this month.
I’m having issues opening the GIMP file. I just get a bunch of text that opens in a new tab. Could you e-mail me the file directly? Or have any other suggestions on how I could open it?
Right-click the file to save it on your computer and then open it from wherever you saved it.
I’ve got my itinerary all filled in for our trip except the pictures of our crew. How do I do that??
Hi! I love these templates! I’m trying to do the one in gimp, but it won’t let me edit it. I can pull it up just fine, I just can’t change anything on it. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I have to say, I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get a response.
I don’t know the answer to your question. The only thing I know to do is Google for the answer which led me to this page. http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-getting-unstuck.html
Hopefuly 1 of those options at that page will resolve your issue.
I downloaded GIMP and then tried to open the template and it would not allow me to open it. It says “cannot open image format”. Any suggestions? I would love to use these! They are fantastic and I am not computer savvy so it’s very appreciated!