{"id":1085,"date":"2010-09-13T05:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2010-09-13T05:33:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T05:33:55","slug":"ten-ways-to-make-today-magical-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/ten-ways-to-make-today-magical-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Happy Monday!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few ways to have a bit of fun with your sweeties this week&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>1.\u00a0 Take some stale bread and feed the ducks, seagulls, pigeons or whatever feathered creatures you have in your neighborhood.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4088\/4981799292_9160ec0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>2.\u00a0 Tour someplace interesting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4089\/4981188997_d137daec57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008080;\"><strong>3.\u00a0 Make <a href=\"http:\/\/houseofbabypiranha.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/we-play-monster-feet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monster feet<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/p1710191.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/> <\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><strong>4.\u00a0 Head to a beach, river bank or even a parking lot and hunt for agates, fossils, shells or other goodies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4146\/4981184291_08a392d5d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#666699;\"><strong>5.\u00a0 Find beauty someplace simple, like this dad did with his two daughters when they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerismith.com\/blog\/everything-is-beautiful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographed sidewalk cracks<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerismith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/46642_141896925848163_130537443650778_178870_8250166_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"720\" \/><\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><strong>6.\u00a0 Find a lake, stream or puddle and a pile of rocks and let your little one throw rocks to his heart&#8217;s content.\u00a0 Sure, it sounds pretty simple to us grown ups, but this is magical stuff indeed to your average small child.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/4981183785_99000e7e7b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\">7.\u00a0 Play a game outside someplace fun &#8212; in a tree, on a big rock, in a tent, on a blanket in the park, in the back yard after dark or some such.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/4981803238_871ae18449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/> <\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>8.\u00a0 Combine science and art by making <a href=\"http:\/\/quirkymomma.com\/2010\/science-preschoolers-sunscreen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sunscreen paintings<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/quirkymomma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/sunscreentest2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300;\"><strong>9.\u00a0 Go to a gourmet restaurant off-hours and split a decadent appetizer or dessert.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4110\/4981686684_98bf3e3d30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"468\" \/> <\/span><\/strong> <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000080;\">10.\u00a0 Head outside to someplace beautiful together. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4088\/4981804320_7454f98895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And now, I&#8217;m off to find an iron for an art project.\u00a0 Yes, that&#8217;s about the only action my iron sees!<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Have a magical week! <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few ways to have a bit of fun with your sweeties this week&#8230;. 1.\u00a0 Take some stale bread and feed the ducks, seagulls, pigeons or whatever feathered creatures you have in your neighborhood. 2.\u00a0 Tour someplace interesting. 3.\u00a0 Make monster feet. 4.\u00a0 Head to a beach, river bank or even a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[171,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"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=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}