One of the things I wished I knew before my first Disney Cruise was about the fun that was going on aboard exchanging pixie dust with fellow travelers. Hanging by the doors of staterooms are “Fish Extenders” which serve as a kind of mailbox to deliver gifts and notes. In preparation for our Disney Dream Cruise, I came up with an idea on How To Make The Easiest Fish Extender Ever For a Disney Cruise!
Disney invited us to participate at the Disney Social Media Moms Conference. That is the inspiration for our DIY. All opinions shared are 100% my own.
About Fish Extenders
The pocketed banner-like items are a fun way to swap magic with other cruisers. It is especially fun for the kids! They hang from the silverfish or starfish outside stateroom. Hence the name. If you want to participate, you sign up at DIS Boards forum page for Disney Cruise Meets. You can also search on Facebook for the date of your sailing. When you sign up you will share your stateroom number and who is traveling with you. This helps with the preparations of what types of gifts to get ready for your exchange. 
How To Make The Easiest Fish Extender Ever For a Disney Cruise
For this Fish Extender, you have a no-sew option. If you want to sew, you can easily do it.
Materials:
- Sturdy plastic Disney motif bags with two handles -one per family member
- glue gun
- silicone
Procedure:
- Fold the bottom of the bag in half.
- Using glue gun cover one side of one handle of the bag with silicone
- Quickly glue it to the bottom half of another bag
- Let dry
- Repeat the same process for the rest of your bags
Cool mom tip: I got my bags at the dollar section of a known retailer. You can also get these types of bags at the Disney store.
Fish Extender Gift Ideas
Now that you are know How To Make The Easiest Fish Extender Ever For a Disney Cruise, you need to prepare your gifts. Think about practicality, and make sure your gifts are easy to carry back home. Some suggestions are travel items like luggage tags, small Disney toys, small Disney games, hand sanitizer, and lip balm. You get the idea. 
The most difficult part about How To Make The Easiest Fish Extender Ever For a Disney Cruise is deciding which characters to choose for your fish extender! Tell me, which characters would be perfect for your family?
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This is such a great and inexpensive idea. I’ll keep this in mind for sure. We hope to go on a cruise one day.
I’ve never heard of such before. Then again, we’ve never done a Disney Cruise before. That looks totally cute, and I love the whole idea of why you would want one.
Wow! I never heard of these before. If I had to choose, Frozen team is an absolute must for me :). Your outcome looks beautiful!
You are so creative. Thanks for an inexpensive idea. I really need to try this out with my sister! Thanks for sharing such a great idea!
Oh how cool is this! I had no idea things like this happened on a Disney cruise! Such a fun way to swap gifts with strangers! LOVE IT!
This is so fun! Yours is so cute and I love all of those movies, Moana is a total rockstar! Mine would probably be Nemo, Mulan, and Moana
This is such a cute idea! I have been wanting to do a Disney Cruise, but my youngest is a little too young at the moment. When he is a bit older, we will totally be going!
Great Idea, love your work. A Disney cruise is literally the dream!!
Thank you for sharing this! We did our first cruise last summer and now we are looking forward to booking a Disney cruise. I would have never known to do this had you not shared!
We went on a Disney Cruise this time last year and learned about this from a crew member. I wish I knew about it before. Can’t wait for our next Disney Cruise.
I like any of the characters. This is a fun tip about a Disney Cruise. I’d love to take one before my youngest gets too old. The other three kiddos have already grown up!
What a cute little project. I would love to be able to take a cruise, maybe someday! Working on saving up for one now!!
I had never heard of a fish extender before this blog post. Sounds like a super simple and easy idea to make
I never heard of a fish extender. A lot of my friends went on the Disney SMM Cruise and I see you all are having a ball!