{"id":267,"date":"2009-10-25T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/25\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-27\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:29:00","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-27\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\">1.&nbsp; Dress the dog up for Halloween and take him on a walk.&nbsp; Count the smiles you get from passers by.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">2.&nbsp; Carve jack-o-lanterns together.&nbsp; If you like, put a different spin on it by carving aliens or monsters like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhg.com\/holidays\/halloween\/pumpkin-carving\/cool-halloween-pumpkins\/?page=5\">these<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.meredith.com\/bhg\/images\/2008\/06\/ss_101134463.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,102,0);\">3.&nbsp; Gather some nice leaves outside and bring them in.&nbsp; Have the kids write messages (inspirational quotes, jokes or just silliness) on the undersides in permanent marker and then return them to the wild.&nbsp; Imagine together what people will think when they find a leaf underfoot that&#8217;s speaking to them!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">4.&nbsp; Gather some old buttons, beads, ribbon and doodads and make homemade necklaces together.&nbsp; Get creative about what you can string &#8212; rocks with holes, bits of broken toys, you name it!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\">5.&nbsp; Smash acorns!&nbsp; Magical Mama Shari says her kids had a blast collecting acorns and smashing them with a hammer.&nbsp; I know my kiddos would love that too.&nbsp; For goodness sakes, make them wear protective eyewear though.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">6.&nbsp; Get some oranges and cloves and make fabulous pomanders like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftjr.com\/easy-fall-crafts-pomanders\/\">this guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3433\/3950911533_2ce35ce5cc_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,51);\">7.&nbsp; Play the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/crafts\/Banana.shtml\">sliced banana trick<\/a> on your kids.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">8.&nbsp; Have a laughing contest.&nbsp; Participants can do anything they can think of to make the others laugh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,255);\">9.&nbsp; Take a cue from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kidschalkartproject\/page7\/\">these folks<\/a> and work on a really big scale chalk project.&nbsp; Also take a cue and use real chalk pastels instead of cheap sidewalk chalk.&nbsp; Think of the vibrant colors!<br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(153,51,255);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3098\/2580890310_f14e0a3ef9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">10. Head outside and leave some <a href=\"http:\/\/eclecticchica.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/spreading-little-love-at-park.html\">natural art<\/a> for folks to discover.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2563\/4024236218_a2074f4c66.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\">And with that, I&#8217;m off to spend some quality time with a six year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Have a magical week!<br \/>~Alicia<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp; Dress the dog up for Halloween and take him on a walk.&nbsp; Count the smiles you get from passers by. 2.&nbsp; Carve jack-o-lanterns together.&nbsp; If you like, put a different spin on it by carving aliens or monsters like these. 3.&nbsp; Gather some nice leaves outside and bring them in.&nbsp; Have the kids write&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}