10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Jun 27th, 2008 by Alicia
When I am less busy and less of a deadbeat, I put out a newsletter to go along with my web site, A Magical Childhood. One of the traditions I’ve developed is to end it with 10 ways to make the day magical.
I’m swiping a list from an old newsletter and am going to try to do at least a couple.
10 Ways to Make Today Magical….
1. Go tree climbing together.
2. Have your child write up a letter about who she is, put it in a jar and bury it in the back yard.
3. Conduct an experiment together. Develop a hypothesis and a way to test it, and then carry it out and record the results. Possible experiments are setting up a taste test of different brands of snacks, comparing reaction times for adults and kids (use a stopwatch and a ruler– have the person hold her finger and thumb open and then drop the ruler between them and say go, record how many inches pass before she can grab it) or making up concoctions to add to garden plants to see if any grow bigger.
4. Have a bubble race! Each person makes one bubble and tries to blow it across the room or yard. If your bubble pops, start over. Everybody who reaches the finish line wins!
5. Have the kids decorate the bottoms of each other’s feet with washable markers (or do it with your little ones). This can be delightfully tickly. When they’re all done, take a picture if you like and then assign them the task of running around in puddles till they’re clean. To extend the fun, mist a large piece of white paper with water and let them stomp on it and leave foot stamps of their designs.
6. Go to an “Art in the Park” exhibit together.
7. Each of you make a list of 15 things you want to do before your life is over. Take steps (no matter how small) towards making one come true for each of you. Does your daughter want to sky dive? Check out a book and find out the basics she’ll need to know. Do you want to go to Europe someday? Look up tour rates online to see how much you’d need to save up. Resolve to do something towards one of the goals once a month together.
8. Go on a sprinkler walk. Take the kids and head to a neighborhood where lots of sprinklers spray onto the sidewalks. Try to get as wet as possible.
9. Invent your own soda pop together. Mix carbonated water with different fruit juice concentrates until you get the perfect taste.
10. Go swimming under the stars. Kiddie pools count!
