{"id":1019,"date":"2010-08-09T05:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2010-08-09T05:28:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:28:36","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-59\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday!\u00a0 I hope you and your kiddos are enjoying these last days of summer. <\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s certainly hot in our neck of the woods lately!\u00a0 It’s hard to believe school will be starting up again soon for so many kids when it’s still near the triple-digits in temperature!\u00a0 It’s a great time for sprinklers and lemonade stands.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a few ways to make some memories this week…<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 Make some story dice.\u00a0 This site<\/a> shows a fabulous way to make some story props for parents and kids to use to create some fun stories together.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Take advantage of the last days before school to let the kids dye their hair fun colors with temporary hair dye.\u00a0 Some dyes are not as temporary as they claim so you might want to test it first!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 Make a seashell memory game.\u00a0 Gather (or buy) some sea shells and write letters, numbers or symbols on the undersides with a marker.\u00a0 Turn them all right side up and take turns trying to find matches.\u00a0 When you’re done, display them in a pretty baske!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Get together with friends and take wacky photos around town.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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5. Tape bundles of crayons together to make rainbow writers.<\/span>
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6.\u00a0 Make fizzy cupcakes.\u00a0 Bake and frost cupcakes and then sprinkle them with Pop Rocks.\u00a0 We usually avoid junky stuff like that but every once in a while it’s pretty fun to have really crazy treats.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span>
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7.\u00a0 Download the Chronicles of Narnia audiobooks<\/a> absolutely free to listen to together.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0 Go dance with the fireflies outside after dark.\u00a0 No fireflies where you live?\u00a0 Put glow bracelets on the kids and have them be the fireflies and have them dance and run in the back yard.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Start playing different types of music one night a week at supper.\u00a0 Try jazz, folk, Native American flute, blues, you name it.\u00a0 Your local library will have tons of choices or you can just dial it up via the internet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10. Waste a box of birthday candles on repeated wishes.\u00a0 You join in too!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And with that, chickadees, I’m off to watch “The Closer” on tape with my sweetie and get a shoulder rub. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Have a magical week!
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Happy Monday!\u00a0 I hope you and your kiddos are enjoying these last days of summer. It’s certainly hot in our neck of the woods lately!\u00a0 It’s hard to believe school will be starting up again soon for so many kids when it’s still near the triple-digits in temperature!\u00a0 It’s a great time for sprinklers and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}