Make your own magic: Decorate your home ‘cruise door’ Disney style

This of this period of social distancing as a sort of anti-cruise — 60 days (give or take) of being sequestered in a small space with your family, without the Broadway-quality shows, meals-on-demand and exciting ports of call.

But you do have a cabin door you can decorate! (Your front door and bedroom doors.)

Regulars know one of the fun things about going on a Disney cruise is decorating your stateroom door.

Today, have everyone in your family decorate their door with name tags, favorite characters, paper pennants (Disney has patterns for Tangled, Winnie the Pooh and Monsters University, among others) , and other decorations to evoke your favorite characters or a favorite cruise destination.

If that’s not ambitious enough, you could each make a home version of a “fish extender.” The fish extender is a sort of mailbox cruisers make to hang from beside the cabin door. The hook — it might be a fish or a seahorse, depending on the ship — is there so the cruise line can leave schedules and whatnot for guests, but cruisers have created their own use for it. They create “extenders” with pockets so they can exchange gifts.

While it’s a bit of a challenge to buy gifts right now, you can exchange anything your heart desires — notes, jokes, crayons, crafts you make for each other. Start a new quarantine tradition and exchange something uplifting once a week, or however often you’re inspired to share.

Maybe this will be a tradition you can maintain even after this is over.