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Witchcraft for kids: How to fill a child’s life with magic

If there’s a child in your life that you want to introduce magic to, here are some small and simple ideas:

• Enchanting their blanket and letting them know
• Making wishes on dandelions
• Using mythology as bed time stories
• Painting sigils on their ceilings with glow in the dark paint (they get to see the sigil and actually see that it’s charged and used as they sleep)
• Tea parties
• Pearl earrings for good luck, wisdom, and wealth
• Knot magic applied in hairstyles
• Celebrating the equinoxes and other celebrations
• Creating a fairy garden
• Putting a rosemary plant on their desk to help them remember what they studied
• Teach them phases of the moon and their importance
• Teach them florist things and geology
• Take them to the beach
• Let them decorate and keep an altar in their room
• Give them some basic spell books
• Put honey for sweetness and milk for strength in their baths or other herbs (just make sure it’s safe for their skin and to be ingested)
• Teach them basic palministry
• Go feather hunting
• Go foraging with them
• Burn incense or get a diffuser for their room
• Speak your chants, spells, and correspondences out loud
• Make them a jar spell for peaceful sleep
• Plant jasmine outside their window for health, happiness, and relaxation
• Bake bread with them
• Teach them to meditate and ground
• Make them rose and honey tea when they feel lonely and sad
• Have them keep a dream journal
• Teach them how to read playing cards
• Make them amulets for safety and love
• Draw sigils on the tags in their clothes
• Paint their nails a color to match what you want to bring into their life (ie blue for calm, red for love, white for peace, etc)
• Use glow in the dark star stickers and recreate some constellations inside
• Cleanse their room or teach them how to
• When they have bad dreams, place some amethyst and salt under their pillow
• Bring the color orange into their room to bring in energy and joy or blue to bring in calm and peace
• Place an iron nail in the floor under their door and above their windows to keep out fae
• Hand down your grimoires
• Plant an oak tree in your yard to provide a place to play and also to bring strength into your home and as a place to worship deities associated with the tree
• Teach them about curses and the like
• Get them an authentic dream catcher
• An opalite necklace for confidence
• Shark tooth necklace for strength
• Teach them to love and respect the Earth

There are so many more things you can do but this is just a basic list! Please share your favorite witchy things for children!!!

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✨FOR THE LABOR, DELIVERY AND POST-PARTUM✨

I read (and added these additions) to thisreally lovely post by @withcraftandwitches . I wanted to add few extra tips/ideas from a physician and witch who is currently working in a hospital to help deliver babies:

• Many hospitals/birthing centers allow you to use an essential oil diffuser that doesn’t have an open flame; some may even have oils available for you to use, but I wouldn’t count on it. You can use lavender or another scent that makes you feel calm and happy or fits the associations you want to maintain during labor
  
• You can also bring crystalsto be in the room with you or the baby - Ive even seen a mom leave behind a small cluster of rose quartz and amethyst with her infant in the NICU. Live plants are generally not an option in that environment, but a few stones are generally OK
  
• It’s also usually easy to bring some musicfor yourself while you rest or while you’re in earlier stages of labor.
  
• Many hospitals have chaplain services - while many of these are Christian I know even my Catholic hospital has chaplains who know about pagan traditions and would possibly be able to sit and pray with you even if it’s not to their personal religious beliefs if you find yourself in need of spiritual reassurance.
  
• Avoid supplements that you haven’t discussed with your physician or midwife managing the pregnancy. Some even common and normally harmless herbs can affect things, everything from milk production to blood clotting to baby’s development.
• Try not to be too focused on the perfect “birth plan” - things change rapidly and everyone wants to do the best for you and your baby - but these things may not be as “natural” or something you wanted initially.
  
• Additionally don’t feel as though you cannot be legitimate or “real” in your labor experience if you need interventions such as an epidural or C-section. Bringing life into the world is a difficult and sometimes dangerous thing, and there is no good reason to reject modern medicine - your gods and spiritual beings care most about you and your baby being healthy and it is OK if you need help with the process. Natural birth does not define motherhood/parenthood.

Amazon: Baby Registry

hey guys I know it’s been a LONG LONG time since I was a regular poster and i don’t know if I still have the love and loyalty of my beautiful witchy followers but I need help. I’m 22 weeks pregnant with a bundle of joy whos changed my life for the better. I have no money, very little help, and can’t get a job because I’m on probation and have to report an hour and a half away for random drug tests for which I have 3 hours heads up so I can’t schedule ANYTHING not even prenatal doctors appointments. I can’t get SNAP or WIC because of the government shutdown. I’ve attached a link to my baby registry in hopes of anyone being able to help me. every little bit helps. thank you <3