{"id":1497,"date":"2011-05-02T23:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2011-05-02T23:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:11:46","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-91\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday!\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m a little late on this week’s list, since we’re right smack in the middle of birthday season.\u00a0 Jack turned 8 on Saturday, Victoria turned 13 yesterday, and Alex turns 4 tomorrow.\u00a0 The birthdays are going well though, and I’m beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a few ways to make some magic with your kiddos this week…<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 Make up a couple dozen fortunes and stash them in cereal boxes, snacks, the cookie jar, etc.\u00a0 Make some especially silly (Beware of odd rabbits today.\u00a0 You will have a monkey on your head….) and some sappy (Your mama loves you more than peanut butter cups.\u00a0 I’m proud of you…).\u00a0 Slip some in drawers and leave some for your sweetie, too.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Use face paints to transform your kids into fairies and other mystical creatures.\u00a0 Here’s<\/a> some sweet inspiration or you can just wing like we do.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 Get inspired by the Land Art for Kids<\/a> pool at Flickr and head out to make your own with your kiddos.\u00a0 Be sure to take pictures!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0 Dig around for old costume jewelry that you can take apart and hang it from the lights and in the windows.\u00a0 If you have any glass prisms, hang them to catch the light and scatter rainbows in the morning.\u00a0 Drape old pearls and beads in surprising places. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Make a back yard obstacle course.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Pack a simple picnic and go someplace peaceful or whimsical to enjoy it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7. Go art jumping<\/span><\/a>!\u00a0 Be sure to send the pictures in to the blog too!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0 Make a new outgoing message for your answering machine or voice mail together.\u00a0 Make it especially sweet, sappy or silly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Try to hold your dinner conversation in pig latin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10. Make a fun portable hammock with a sheet and two grown ups<\/strong><\/span>
\nholding the corners.\u00a0 Swing your favorite little person in the middle of it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And with that, my dears, I’m off to pretend I know what’s for dinner and set about making it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Have a magical week!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


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Happy Monday!\u00a0 I’m a little late on this week’s list, since we’re right smack in the middle of birthday season.\u00a0 Jack turned 8 on Saturday, Victoria turned 13 yesterday, and Alex turns 4 tomorrow.\u00a0 The birthdays are going well though, and I’m beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel! Here’s a…<\/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\/1497"}],"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=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}