Kids Activities on a Cruise

So once on the ship, what were we going to do with the kids? We started by trying the kids' club.

It was essentially just people watching groups of kids playing. While they had scheduled activities, most seemed to be more adult done or wouldn't take nearly as long as they had scheduled. Our shy introverted child actually enjoyed going in and playing without anyone bothering him. Our outgoing child would have preferred more interaction and it wasn't her favorite part of the trip.
 

 They have photo booths set up all over the ship every night. When there wasn't a line, the photographer let our kids play with the props. We didn't buy the photo, but the kids had fun.

Only one child was willing to pose with the giant talking cruise ship guy. I don't remember his name.

Honestly between eating, which we did a LOT, and getting ready for things - getting dressed for dinner, getting ready for kids club, etc. There wasn't a ton of time left. I do wish the kids club would have started earlier. Our kids wake up at 7, so by the time the kids club opened at 10am our day felt like it was half over. Each day we took the kids to the running track. They needed to use some energy and we were reasonably out of the way. Our kids weren't tall enough to ride on the slide. They were both fully potty trained, but the pools were often too crowded or too loud. The music on the top deck was at a painful level. It hurt our ears and our noise sensitive child FREAKED out when we even got close to it. We had to avoid that deck (and thus most pools) for the majority of every day.

Overall while I love cruising, Carnival didn't sell me on their offerings for kids, especially kids this age.