How to give experiences?

[wheresmyhairytoe]

I've got DD (10) tickets to a West end show for Christmas.
They're E tickets though as are the train tickets down to London.

I'm trying to think of an exciting way of her getting the gift, thinking a card on with the train details, then another with hotel, then one with theatre details.
Anyone any good ideas? I want her to open something.

Could you buy little token presents relating to each thing? She's presumably a bit too old for a toy train but maybe a train-shaped sweet twin, or stuff related to the show (either merchandise or things that fit the theme of the show - e.g. my friend got her mum the Book of Mormon (as in, the actual book) to go with tickets for the show. Assuming you're not taking your daughter to see that though. )

Ha ha, no it's Matilda.

Good idea, thank you. I think the train journey is going to be just as exciting for her 😊

A scratch card like this:
joannehawker.co.uk/collections/christmas-cards

I've never seen the show but presuming it follows the book pretty closely, how about something like a chocolate cake mix (maybe those ones that come in a jar?), a chalkboard and coloured chalks (maybe one that could be hung up in her room), some books... You could even use them as 'clues' to guess which show it is.

A copy of the book with the tickets inside would be nice or perhaps a Roald Dahl calendar with the tickets tucked into the month you are going.

A toy train with the card sellotaped on?

When I’ve done something like this before I made 3 crackers and each one had a paper in it that shared one element of the present

Maybe buy the matilda dvd and then take the disc out and put the printed e tickets inside instead. That way you get the kinda disappointes but grateful reaction first and then over the top happiness when she looks inside.