{"id":1312,"date":"2010-12-20T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2010-12-20T07:22:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:22:51","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-76\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday! <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you to Sara and Yvonne, who sent us ornaments for our tree — one homemade link from a family paper chain and one twisted glass.\u00a0 We were all thrilled to get them and absolutely treasure them.\u00a0 They will do a wonderful job of making up for those we lost and they have really made us smile.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42
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Time for another list of ways to sneak a bit of magic into the days this week…<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Make some 10 Scents of Christmas<\/em> sensory cards<\/a> and some match-up cards<\/a> to go with them.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0 Have some fun with a turkey baster. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>This is proof that children can use just about anything to make the day magical if you get involved. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em>Jack discovered that the turkey baster we keep as a bath toy makes an excellent rocket launcher for a makeup brush today.\u00a0 He happily shot it as high as he could, at targets and in various ways while I cheered him on.\u00a0 Get two and have contests.\u00a0 Sit on the floor and launch things and laugh. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Eat dinner with everybody talking with funny accents.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 No snow where you live?\u00a0 Sprinkle the carpet with baking soda and show the kids how to make snow angels.\u00a0 Afterwards, vacuum it up!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Make some ice lanterns<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0 Get out the dominoes and make domino runs.\u00a0 The longer and more complicated the better!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7. Make a paper chain of happy memories and accomplishments from the past year.
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8.\u00a0 Make a snowball target!\u00a0 I love this idea from Nurture Store<\/a>: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>Draw a chalk target on an outside wall, line up some snowballs and shoot to score. Award different points for hitting different areas and keep tally with a score chart. Lots of adding up practice.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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9. Leave your children notes under their pillows listing 20, 30 or 50 things you love about them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10. Go around neighborhoods and look at the holiday lights.\u00a0 Want to make it extra special?\u00a0 Freeze one ice wreath for each member of the family (put water in a bundt cake pan and add berries, sprigs of pine and\/or food coloring and colored ice cubes and freeze, run under warm water to unmold).\u00a0 Pop them into a freezer with notes tied around them thanking folks for making the world more magical.\u00a0 Let each family member leave a wreath on the lawn of their favorite decorated house.
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And with that, chickadees, I’m off again.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for being magical.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42
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Happy Monday! Thank you to Sara and Yvonne, who sent us ornaments for our tree — one homemade link from a family paper chain and one twisted glass.\u00a0 We were all thrilled to get them and absolutely treasure them.\u00a0 They will do a wonderful job of making up for those we lost and they have…<\/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\/1312"}],"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=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}