The Disney Parks are the perfect place to wear your favorite silly hat, as long as it has something to do with the world’s favorite mouse! [Tweet “It’s silly hat day at this week’s #WordlessWednesday!”] ©2017 Magical Mouse Schoolhouse, your Disney homeschool resource! Jodi WhisenhuntThink outside the textbook with this veteran homeschooling author & editor, and learn while you play! www.magicalmouseschoolhouse.com
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Wordless Wednesday: Celebrating Fall–Happy Thanksgiving!
Celebrating the fall holiday at this week’s Wordless Wednesday! I know the Christmas decorations are up now, but it’s still fall! Wishing you and your families a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! [Tweet “Celebrating fall & #Thanksgiving at #WordlessWednesday!”] ©2016 Magical Mouse Schoolhouse, your Disney homeschool resource! Jodi WhisenhuntThink outside the textbook with this veteran homeschooling author & editor, and learn while you play! www.magicalmouseschoolhouse.com
Wordless Wednesday: Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party
This week’s Disney Wordless Wednesday features our fun time at Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party! Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party takes place at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park select evenings November 7 – December 22, 2016, throughout the holiday season. Visit Disney Parks for more information. [Tweet “Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party #WW”] ©2016 Magical Mouse Schoolhouse, your Disney homeschool resource! Jodi WhisenhuntThink outside the textbook with this veteran…
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Tiggerific Tuesday Disney Trivia: Madame Leota Seance Scene
Madame Leota calls on the spirits at Magic Kingdom’s Haunted Mansion attraction. Did you know this week’s Tiggerific Tuesday Disney Trivia about the Madame Leota Seance Scene of Disney Parks’ Haunted Mansion attraction? The late Imagineer and Disney Legend, Leota Toombs Thomas, filmed the seance scene as as a test run to help designers create the crystal ball illusion. They had intended an actress to fill the part, but Leota…
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Disney VIPs and Luminaries: Leota Toombs Thomas
Continuing our look at Disney VIPs and Luminaries, we re-visit an interview about the late Disney Imagineer and Disney Legend, Leota Toombs Thomas. Leota Toombs Thomas, longtime Walter Elias Disney (WED—now Walt Disney Imagineering) employee, model builder, costumer, and Imagineer, is best known as the disembodied spirit of Madame Leota in Disneyland’s and Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion attractions. She worked many years alongside Walt, and in 2009 was posthumously…
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Disney VIPs and Luminaries: Walt Disney
Walt Disney was a luminary and quite simply, a modern mastermind. This month, we are taking a look at key figures who helped establish Walt Disney entertainment and develop it into the, well, magical industry it has become. Starting off, of course, with Mr. Walt Disney himself, we hope you enjoy this series and will be inspired, as we have been, to learn while you play! [Note: An earlier version…
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Wordless Wednesday: Disney Dreams Come True Parade
Do you remember the Disney Dreams Come True Parade? The focus of this week’s Wordless Wednesday is the Disney Dreams Come True Parade. This “3:00 parade,” as Guests unofficially call the afternoon processions, ran at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park from 2001-2014 under various names. From ’01 to ’05, it was known as Share a Dream Come True; from ’06 to ’08 as Disney Dreams Come True; and from…
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Friday Finds: Understanding Hurricanes & Getting Ready for Hurricane Matthew
The state of Florida is anxiously anticipating impact from Hurricane Matthew today and tomorrow, so we have moved our Friday Finds to Thursday this week! Hurricane Matthew is currently just off the southeastern coast of Florida and is expected to ride all the way up the eastern seaboard into North Carolina over the next few days. Here in Central Florida, I live far enough inland I won’t have to worry…
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