My husband and I had two cruises before and planned one for our family. Our children are 6 and 9 and I went to this website to get some ideas and suggestions to be prepared so that we all had a stress-free vacation. So, here are my suggestions of kid-friendly shore excursions and activities for future cruisers.
From start to finish, this cruise was very kid friendly and easy. Embarkation is easy, much easier than our cruise 10 year ago, and I recommend getting there at 10:00 a.m., even though they recommend 1:30 p.m. Bring some activities and snacks for the kids while waiting to get on board, but they will be so excited, that you might not need the activities.
Kid-friendly: Dreamworks Experience with 2 Parades (they are the same, but in case you missed it earlier in the week), photo opps with characters which we did as early in the week to get that out of the way, and movies on the tvs in staterooms and in theaters/big screen throughout the week.
We will never be in an inside stateroom again. Balconies are the way to cruise! Very quiet, great view, but hallways always seemed to be packed with cabin stewards cleaning equipment/dirty laundry, etc. Annoying.