{"id":59,"date":"2009-04-13T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/13\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-7\/"},"modified":"2009-04-13T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:12:00","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-7\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\"><b><font face=\"Lucida Handwriting\"><font color=\"#cc33cc\"><font size=\"+2\">10 Ways to Make Today Magical&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b><strong><font face=\"Lucida Handwriting\"><font color=\"#cc33cc\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\">1.&nbsp; Go to a local art museum with your kids and find some art techniques to try out at home.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been inspired by block printing, mixing bits of yarn in with paint and lots of types of photography.&nbsp; See what neat ideas you can find!<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/strong><b><font face=\"Lucida Handwriting\"><font color=\"#cc33cc\"><font size=\"+2\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b><\/font><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><b><font face=\"Lucida Handwriting\"><font color=\"#cc33cc\"><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(51,204,0);\">2.&nbsp; Find a community theater or music presentation to attend together.&nbsp; These are often free or very low cost for the public.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,0);\">3.&nbsp; Serve dinner in parfait glasses or something else fancy and odd.&nbsp; <br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\">4.&nbsp; Alter an old painting together.&nbsp; Get a cheap print from a thrift store (or the attic!) and remove the original.&nbsp; Give the kids art supplies (paint, markers, stickers, scrapbooking supplies, old magazines, glue&#8230;) and have them change it to fit a new theme such as &quot;our family&quot; or &quot;dreams.&quot;&nbsp; Reframe and proudly display!<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,255);\">5.&nbsp; Give the kids a plate of whipped cream or pudding to use as scratch paper when they do their homework.&nbsp; Smooth it flat and have them do their math or practice spelling on it, then smooth it flat again to &quot;erase.&quot;&nbsp; <br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\">6.&nbsp; Tour a historic mansion or other landmark you&#8217;ve always wondered about.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(255,102,0);\">7.&nbsp; Try to speak only pig latin during dinner.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\">8.&nbsp; Give the kids markers and have them graffiti up the breakfast cereal boxes.&nbsp; Tell them to make the names sillier, embellish the people and otherwise jazz up the packaging.&nbsp; <br \/><\/span><br \/>9.&nbsp; Write a really corny joke on the bathroom mirror in lipstick to send the family off into the world with a smile.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\">10.&nbsp; Sit down and do art with your child, just the two of you.<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Ways to Make Today Magical&#8230; 1.&nbsp; Go to a local art museum with your kids and find some art techniques to try out at home.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been inspired by block printing, mixing bits of yarn in with paint and lots of types of photography.&nbsp; See what neat ideas you can find!2.&nbsp; Find a community&#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\/59"}],"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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}