{"id":1125,"date":"2010-10-04T05:09:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2010-10-04T05:09:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:09:50","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-66\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Happy Monday!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few ways to make some magic this week&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300;\"><strong>1.\u00a0 Play a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5orangepotatoes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/thicket-outdoor-game-and-skunk-plush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thicket<\/a>.\u00a0 This spin on hide and seek sounds like so much fun!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#008080;\">2.\u00a0 Do altered books together.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4087\/5049482169_4fb3385024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><strong>3.\u00a0 Make <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/03\/hardware_store_chessmen.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hardware store chessmen<\/a>.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t they fabulous????<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3539\/3340377026_d6d71938be.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><strong>4.\u00a0 Play hooky (you and the kids) and go do fabulously fun things together.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>5.\u00a0 Make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notimeforflashcards.com\/2010\/07\/milk-carton-fire-station.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">milk carton fire station<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notimeforflashcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/milk-carton-firestation-craft-022-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><strong>6.\u00a0 Gather some wildflowers (even tiny clovers), bundle and tie them with their own stems and leave them in public places.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/5049485985_a6c07df307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>7.\u00a0 Play dice games together at the kitchen table.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#666699;\"><strong>8.\u00a0 Find a big pile of gravel and look for treasures &#8212; petrified wood, fossils, necklace rocks (rocks with holes in them for hanging), agates&#8230; you&#8217;d be surprised what you can find!\u00a0 Bring tiny bags to take home your treasures.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/wpN2yJcRcH7kgrA4grxqtedCE_E7qNfBjZnMt_hV0I8?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_NBy0oHopC1I\/TKNoB_qGhiI\/AAAAAAAACN8\/sNOH8wDGtoI\/s400\/IMG_9033.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>8.\u00a0 Make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourbestbites.com\/2010\/09\/kids-in-kitchen-glow-in-dark-food-magic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">glow in the dark food and drinks<\/a>!\u00a0 All it takes is tonic water and a black light!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gLGOsirSkHc\/TIhliaq4reI\/AAAAAAAANTA\/QZqs7usryeY\/s400\/glowing+tonic+glasses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#db2392;\">9.\u00a0 Make a scarecrow for the front yard.\u00a0 Make it more interesting by giving it extra arms, making it funny, etc.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><strong>10. And of course I had to recommend this one&#8230; dress up in fancy dresses (or capes or Superman costumes or whatever else!) and make a little <a href=\"magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/01\/a-little-museum-magic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">museum magic<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_NBy0oHopC1I\/TKNnn4RnE2I\/AAAAAAAACKY\/LoEfC2TSaL8\/s400\/IMG_8977.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And with that, my dears, I&#8217;m off to scowl at the laundry pile some more.<\/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 make some magic this week&#8230;. 1.\u00a0 Play a game of thicket.\u00a0 This spin on hide and seek sounds like so much fun! 2.\u00a0 Do altered books together. 3.\u00a0 Make hardware store chessmen.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t they fabulous???? 4.\u00a0 Play hooky (you and the kids) and go do fabulously fun things&#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":[253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}