Happy Monday! Let’s plan a little fun for the week, shall we?
Here are ten ways to make a little magic with your kiddos this week.
- Get in the car (or your bikes!) and head to somewhere you’ve never been. It could be a park you’ve never visited, a little cafe to get a slice of pie together, or a museum you always meant to tour. Anything!
- Give each other pedicures. (Full disclosure: I currently have ladybug toenails.)
- Plant the pits and seeds of the fruits you eat this month. Next time you have cherries, apples, peaches, avocados, lemons or other fruits with seeds, plant the seeds in little containers (recycled yogurt containers work fine) and see if you can get anything to grow. My daughter Rhia (Annalee to you old time readers from way back) currently has three little apple trees in pots on her kitchen counter that are nearing a foot tall, planted from seeds last winter. With some fruits like apples the new tree won’t be anything like its parent fruit, but it’s such fun to see if you can sprout something and watch it grow from a tiny little pit or seed!
- Make a terrarium in a jar. This is so much fun and so easy. My daughter Fiona did it a few years ago and it was so cute that her big sister Rhia made one of her own a few months later. Here are the directions from the August 2019 issue of Wild Kids Magazine.
- Text your kids about how awesome they are. Make it a habit. If they’re too little to text to, leave them little notes in their drawers and places they’ll be surprised by them.
- Do some driveway math or other fun colored chalk games. If you don’t have a driveway, use the nearest sidewalk!
- Have a squirt gun or squirt bottle battle in the back yard. You join in! Childhood (and parenthood) is so much more fun when the grown ups join in the silliness. ❤️
- Bury a time capsule somewhere. Get something like a plastic drink bottle and make up little notes about your life right now. The kids can write down their current favorite things and perhaps add a drawing or photo. Bury it somewhere where it will be safe and mark it somehow. Make a note to dig it up at some point in the future.
- Make up a silly playlist together. Use Spotify or something similar to make up a playlist of songs that cheer you all up, make you laugh, use your names in their titles, or something else unique to your family.
- Get all dressed up to go somewhere normal (or even to stay home). Our kids have worn ball gowns to go to the science museum, Halloween costumes for evening walks, and prom dresses to do art at the dining room table. It makes any day more magical!
And with that, chickadees, I’m off to do utterly magical things like deal with musty laundry that we all forgot. 😜
Have a magical week! Don’t forget to take care of you!