{"id":798,"date":"2010-05-17T03:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2010-05-17T03:20:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T03:20:52","slug":"10-ways-to-make-today-magical-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/10-ways-to-make-today-magical-51\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello from Nebraska!\u00a0 We’re down visiting magical mama Tiffany and her gang again.\u00a0 I’m so sorry to be so scarce lately but here’s a few ways to make a bit of magic for the new week…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Get a box of chalk pastels (cheap ones are $2 or $3 at arts and crafts stores) and draw on the sidewalk with the kids with those.\u00a0 The colors are so much more vibrant and fun than with regular sidewalk chalk!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Go visit a rock shop!\u00a0 These fabulous places are educational and so full of treaures, often for next to nothing.\u00a0 Look at agates, geodes, petrified wood, quartz, etc. and find out what’s in your area to find on your own too.
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3.\u00a0 Take the afternoon to stroll a historic downtown district, either of your own city or a city you haven’t explored.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Go to the Farmers’ Market.\u00a0 There’s a lot more than fresh produce at most of them these days!\u00a0 The Lincoln one that we explored had everything from a children’s musician to Korean egg rolls to handmade toys to garden plants.\u00a0 You support local families, get out in the sunshine and find wonderful treats!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Get out the fondue pot or borrow one from a friend, and make fondue with the kids.\u00a0 Dip bread cubes, strawberries, cubes of pound cake, etc. in delicious sauces.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Get an assortment of flavored (real) chocolate and do a taste test!\u00a0 Rate each one secretly and see which one is the winner!\u00a0 (Note: the chili lime chocolate that we tested was amazingly unpopular and HOT!\u00a0 It did get points for originality from me though!)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Get clippings from plants from lots of loved ones, root them in water and start new plants in sweet little hand-painted pots.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Go to a state or national park so the kids can take part in their ranger program and earn badges and such. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Stay up way past bedtime playing games and being silly.<\/span>
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10.\u00a0 Sing in the rain.\u00a0 And dance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Have a magical week!\u00a0 Don’t forget to take care of you!<\/em><\/span>
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Hello from Nebraska!\u00a0 We’re down visiting magical mama Tiffany and her gang again.\u00a0 I’m so sorry to be so scarce lately but here’s a few ways to make a bit of magic for the new week… 1.\u00a0 Get a box of chalk pastels (cheap ones are $2 or $3 at arts and crafts stores) and…<\/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\/798"}],"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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}