9 Deployment Wall Ideas to Count Down Those Long Days
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My husband is leaving soon for a 9-month rotation in Europe. And even though it’s not a combat deployment, I’m looking for all the deployment wall ideas to help me and the girls count down the days until he is home again.
I made our first deployment wall when he was on a 15-month hardship tour in Central America. The girls were much younger then, but they loved the countdown and want to do it again this time.
We haven’t decided exactly what we’re doing for our wall this time, but here are some deployment wall ideas that we’ve found so far!
Deployment Wall Ideas
A Kiss a Day
One of the more popular deployment countdown ideas on the internet is a ‘kiss a day while daddy’s away’.
For this countdown, you fill a jar with Hershey’s kisses, one for every day of deployment. Then you get to eat one kiss every day until daddy’s home again.
This is one of the popular deployment wall ideas that I’m going to do. In fact, I’ve already ordered our (Love this deployment wall with a huge world map!)
For this deployment wall idea, you make a long chain, with one link for every day that daddy is gone. Every night you tear a link off the chain. As the weeks pass, you watch the chain get shorter and shorter.
We did a paper chain countdown on the first deployment wall we ever made and I liked having that visual.
(Holy cow what a countdown! The longest paper chain I’ve ever seen!)