Enjoy your children's broad smiles as they "travel the world" discovering these activity-filled craft areas to draw, write, stamp and create. At over fourteen pavilions, their personal visions come to life in the form of vibrant masks, colored and cut to personal perfection.

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You can encourage your kids active participation in learning about the various countries by getting them a World Showcase Passport. The passports are sold for $9.95 at most stores and carts throughout Epcot, and include a set of country stamps and a big "I'm a World Showcase Traveler" button. As you visit the World Showcase pavilions, your child can have Cast Members at the KIDCOT stations stamp the passport and write something in his/her native language.

Did you ever see those brightly colored KIDCOT signs and wonder what they were for? Well, each pavilion in World Showcase (and a few in Future World) features a KIDCOT station specially for the youngsters in your group. At these stations, which usually operate only in the afternoons, there is a small table manned by Cast Members from the various countries. They will talk with children about their native land, engage them in a craft, stamp their World Showcase Passports if they have one, and sign a personal message in the language of the country.

Epcot is the only Disney theme park with the "Kidcot" program. All of the World Showcase countries and The Land, The Living Seas and Test Track in Future World have "Kidcot stations". The kids are provided with a blank mask and and at each station they can choose from free items to decorate it. Yes, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. This is "FREE"; a word rarely heard in Disney World.

An added bonus at the World Showcase Kidcot stations is the chance for the kids to get their mask, autograph book or Epcot Passport stamped. They'll learn how to say "Hello" in a different language. Kids love the idea of "collecting" the stamps and in the process will be taught some new skills.

The best fan website devoted to this is http://www.stitchkingdom.com/kidcot/

Kidcot Fun Stops in EPCOT World Showcase: Mexico Pavilion (near Animales Fantasticos) Norway Pavilion (The Puffin's Roost) China Pavilion (near exit to Reflections of China) Germany Pavilion (Volkunst) Italy Pavilion (outside near La Bottega Italiana) American Adventure Pavilion (outside near Heritage Manor Gifts) Japan Pavilion (in Bijutsu-kan Gallery) Morocco Pavilion (Marketplace in the Medina) France Pavilion (Souvenirs de France) United Kingdom Pavilion (The Toy Soldier) Canada Pavilion (exit from O Canada! attraction)