{"id":1516,"date":"2011-05-16T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2011-05-16T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:20:10","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-93\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I hope you and your family had a fabulous weekend.\u00a0 We got together with friends who met us in a nearby town and swam at their motel pool, talked, played and hiked at two gorgeous sites.\u00a0 I kept up pretty well for an old pregnant lady, and the kids had a blast.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a few ways to make some magic with your kiddos this week…<\/span><\/h2>\n

1.\u00a0 Make poetry shells.<\/span>\u00a0 Gather up a bunch of <\/strong><\/span>pistachio shells, <\/strong><\/span>smooth rocks\u00a0 or other natural objects and use a magic marker to write words on them.\u00a0 Make sure to use adjectives, nouns and verbs.\u00a0 For example…. I, you, we, love, wet, dogs, jumped, lick, stars…. the more words you make the more variety you can get in your poem.\u00a0 Drop the rocks in a bucket, shake, and grab a handful to arrange into each line.\u00a0 Make sure to add some funny words!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0 Help the kids hide love-you notes for a loved one<\/span> (daddy, grandma, etc.).\u00a0 Fill them with messages to make the recipient laugh or feel good, such as limericks, 5 reasons you’re the best grandpa, and so on.\u00a0 Try to leave some where it will take a few days and some that will pop up in dull places, such as in the car or briefcase.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Take the whole family out for a starry drive.\u00a0<\/span> Park by a lake or just in an empty lot away from city lights.\u00a0 Lay a blanket down or pull out some lawn chairs and just sit as a family and watch the stars.\u00a0 See if you can see any shooting stars.\u00a0 Point out the constellations to your kids.\u00a0 Talk about what you thought when you looked at the stars when you were a child.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4. Make puzzles for breakfast.<\/span>\u00a0 Use cookie cutters to cut shapes out of toast, pancakes or french toast.\u00a0 Let kids match the shapes to the pieces with the holes and fit back in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Have the kids make up funny fortunes<\/span> and put them in homemade fortune cookies or leave them in unexpected places like cereal boxes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0 Go down memory lane.<\/span>\u00a0 Take the kids to the hospital where they were born, the school you went to, or the park where daddy proposed.\u00a0 Tell them the stories of those far-off times.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Start a wish tradition.\u00a0<\/span> My mom always saved the tip of her pie for the last bite and made a wish on it.\u00a0 You can also wish on stars, dandelion fluff, pennies in fountains, or just something you make up.\u00a0 See if your family can invent some neat new ones.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Dress the kids up with some whimsy<\/span> (with painted faces, wearing fairy wings, in ball gowns, etc.) and go someplace fun.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0 Dance in the rain.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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10. Celebrate an unexpected anniversary.<\/span>\u00a0 Search through baby books, letters or old e-mails and find something neat that happened on this date.\u00a0 Surprise your little one with a cake to celebrate the 4 year anniversary of her first word.\u00a0 Start writing notes on your calendars of all the milestones your family goes through, then keep them on a master calendar.\u00a0 How fun it would be in a few years to be able to look at this date in your family’s history and see that 6 years ago you moved into your house, 3 years ago the baby crawled for the first time, and last year this was the day your son cooked his first meal.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And with that, my dears, I’m off to make green smoothies and get really, really dirty in the garden.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Have a magical week!
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