Christmas Gifts For Your Disney Toddler!

Looking for a Christmas gift for your toddler, or your friend’s toddler? For a recent friend’s toddler birthday party, I purchased this pretty Mickey Mouse -themed sipper cup: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09K4QVVXY/ .

I loved this cup! Makes a great gift for a toddler! Credit: Amazon

My order came packaged in a clear plastic bag, so if you want to make it easy to carry, I’d suggest a decorative gift bag such as this one: Gift Bag with Tissue Paper. The cups were small, easy to hold and grip, and well liked by everyone at the party. It’s less than $20, so if you need to pad out your gift, I recommend this set of Mickey plates – again, great to use and small enough for kids. The bright colors means that kids love them!

If you need other Mickey and other Disney themed characters, shopDisney is also a great place to find items. In particular, I love buying fleece blankets as gifts. I think when a child is 5 and under, you can never have enough blankets – they’re useful for everything: making forts, catching messes, insulating a room, hanging them up like a poster, or for use as a blanket – they’re great gifts that last forever and always remind your recipient that you bought this blanket. I recently ordered this holiday fleece throw from shopDisney, but you can find others by going to shopDisney.com and searching for fleece blanket.

In general, I find that any product branded with a Disney character is a decent product – it’s my easy way of figuring quality: if a Disney character is on the box, then most likely someone at Disney is doing quality control to make sure no bad products get a Disney character stamped on them. When in doubt gift-wise, I search Amazon for Mickey Mouse, Elsa, Anna, and buy the first product themed with a Disney character – it always turns out well for me!

Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party – A 2022 Recap

I was coming home from work this afternoon, and while sitting in my Uber looking out the window, I saw so many children walking around trick-or-treating. That’s a VERY welcome sight after the last two years of pandemics. Seeing all the neighborhood’s children and their parents walking around, greeting each other, it feels as if a sense of community and normalcy is returning.

And that’s more or less why I love going to Magic Kingdom’s Halloween parties. Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party (often abbreviated MNSSHP) is a microcosm of American communities all over the nation, children collecting their well-earned candy and neighbors able to reconnect with each other after being shut in their homes for far too long. This year I was lucky enough to visit MNSSHP on several nights, and I loved seeing everybody dressed up. Both adults and children were obviously having so much fun!

I want to highlight some notable media items I saw that really didn’t get the attention they deserve. This Reddit post is a nice shot of how much candy you get during MNSSHP evenings at Magic Kingdom:

Credit: Post on Reddit’s r/WaltDisneyWorld on October 2, 2022

This is a nice overview of the candy from MNSSHP, it’s good quality candy. Too often people end up handing out old or crumpled candy, I’m very happy to say that Disney springs for good, name brand candy that looks to be in good shape. I personally sampled a great deal of MNSSHP candy and they were delicious.


A lot of people don’t know that Wilderness campgrounds have their own small Halloween bash – people decorate their RVs in the Halloween spirit. A great example is this video from Resort TV 1 – forward to 2 hours 44 minutes in to see a selection of great examples. I love the Boba Fett design!

Credit: YouTube

And finally, no highlight of MNSSHP is complete without mentioning the fireworks. Love the castle all lit up in spooky colors:

Credit: YouTube

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