{"id":1705,"date":"2011-09-26T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2011-09-26T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:01:11","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-107\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday!\u00a0 Here’s a few ways to make some memories with your kiddos this week…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Make a squirt gun carnival game in the back yard.\u00a0 Martha Stewart<\/a> recommends setting up ping pong balls on golf tees as targets.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0 Have the kids write up a little message about your family and fold it up and tuck it behind the light switch or under the carpeting for someone to find years from now.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Totally doll up the dining room table for supper tonight.\u00a0 Gather leaves to scatter on the tablecloth, make an arrangement of cut twigs, flowers or grasses.\u00a0 Use pine cones, candles, acorns or treasures from around the house to make it a work of art.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Make up some batches of play dough with natural dyes.\u00a0 It’s great fun to experiment to make your own colors.\u00a0 Here’s<\/a> our recipe.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0 <\/span>Try circus tricks together.\u00a0 See if you can juggle, balance a ball on your nose or walk a “tightrope” on the floor.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Make your child a thank you card for being so wonderful.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Make an Angry Bird game with homemade pom poms, dixie cups and google eyes!\u00a0 Make and Takes<\/a> has the simple instructions.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>Make poetry stones.\u00a0 Gather up a bunch of small rocks and use a 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

9.\u00a0 Print out some sophisticated patterned coloring pages and color with your child (these ones from Patterns for Colouring<\/a> are even fun for the big ones!).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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10.\u00a0 Tell the kids that today is hundred kisses day.\u00a0 Pick a sound, and every time you hear that sound all day you have to drop what you’re doing and find your kids and give them 20 kisses loudly on their heads, bellies, knees or whatever you can grab.\u00a0 At the end of the day if you haven’t heard the sound enough times to equal 100 you have to finish all the hundred kisses.\u00a0 You can pick a word too– for instance any time anybody on TV says car then you give kisses.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

And with that, chickadees, I’m off to give some noisy kisses of my own!\u00a0 Have a magical week!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday!\u00a0 Here’s a few ways to make some memories with your kiddos this week… 1.\u00a0 Make a squirt gun carnival game in the back yard.\u00a0 Martha Stewart recommends setting up ping pong balls on golf tees as targets. 2.\u00a0 Have the kids write up a little message about your family and fold it up…<\/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\/1705"}],"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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}