{"id":941,"date":"2010-07-05T23:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T23:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2010-07-05T23:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T23:28:51","slug":"ten-ways-to-make-today-magical-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/ten-ways-to-make-today-magical-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Ways to Make Today Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Ways to Make Today Magical…<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Let the kids arrange some 2×4 boards on the lawn in a funky pattern or their initials.\u00a0 Wait a week and let the sun “brand” your lawn.\u00a0 The covered area will be brown in the shape the kids made.\u00a0 Don’t worry, it’s temporary.\u00a0 The grass will green up again soon after.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Make a celebration cake “just because.”\u00a0 Add candles and too much brightly colored icing (use fruit juice concentrate and\/or beet juice to color it if you want to avoid the artificial stuff).\u00a0 Blow the candles out again and again until everybody’s had their fill, and then gobble it up.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Give your kids facials.\u00a0 Include a slow, circular face massage with cleansing lotion followed by a warm washcloth soak.\u00a0 Follow that with a masque (there are great recipes online) while you sit and talk.\u00a0 Finish with a light moisturizer in a delicious scent.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Make up a family dance line routine.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Let the kids dress up in old fashioned clothes (we have a stash from thrift stores and ebay that we also use for volunteer gigs) and go somewhere historic together like a county museum or pioneer village.\u00a0 They can pretend to be living in the old days and they’ll put a smile on every face they pass.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0 Visit thrift shops or garage sales for an old piece of furniture and repaint it together.\u00a0 Make it as whimsical, funky or dramatic as they like.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7. Dedicate a song to your child on the radio.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Put some paint in squirt bottles (or make your own temporary squirt paint<\/a>) and let the kids loose with it outside.\u00a0 Let them decorate paper, rocks, their hands, whatever.\u00a0 It’ll all hose off afterwards!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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9. Take apart a cheap wall clock and let the kids decorate the face before putting it back up.\u00a0 For little ones, do painted hand prints.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

10. Invent a recipe together.\u00a0 Make up a standard cookie, cake or pancake recipe and then brainstorm on things to add.\u00a0 Write it all down in a family cookbook as you go (with measurements) & afterwards write suggestions on improvements for next time.\u00a0 One of the most fun parts is you get to come up with your own name for your recipe– that and getting to eat it all up.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Have a wonderful week!\u00a0 Don’t forget to take care of you!<\/span>
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10 Ways to Make Today Magical… 1.\u00a0 Let the kids arrange some 2×4 boards on the lawn in a funky pattern or their initials.\u00a0 Wait a week and let the sun “brand” your lawn.\u00a0 The covered area will be brown in the shape the kids made.\u00a0 Don’t worry, it’s temporary.\u00a0 The grass will green 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\/941"}],"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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}