Black-sock bats, pipe-cleaner tarantulas and an interactive haunted house are just a few of the crafts kids can do using this fun guide. Made mostly with materials you would have at home, Halloween Crafts will be your go-to guide for some spooky fun this Halloween.
Enjoy three short stories in this Hubble Bubble collection of spooky stories for first and second grade readers. The first in a series about Pandora and her grandmother who is a witch and is a lot of fun but she gets in a lot of trouble too! Join them for some magical mayhem including a birthday party where the teddy bears come to life and a bus that turns into a circus train!
With simple rhymes and vibrant photos, this spooky edition of I Spy will engage even the most reluctant beginning reader. There are also some fun word challenges in the back, such as, “I spy two words that start with the letter M; or I spy two words that rhyme,” etc. After you work your way through the rhymes and visual challenges, try creating your own visual challenge for friends and family.
Get ready for some Punch from the Black Lagoon, Vampire Bites and Screams After Dark Snack Mix in this monster-themed cookbook. Grouped by monsters, the simple, spooky recipes let the whole family join in the fun step-by-step. Mix up a batch of Old Dusty Bones with your little monsters for a howling good time.
This is a wonderful, suspenseful story following a boy making his way home on Halloween night as his imagination runs wild. Readers will have fun searching out the hidden images in the pen and ink drawings, and enjoy a relieved laugh at the end as the young boy’s fears are erased by the light of the moon.
Scary, Scary Halloween
by Eve Bunting, Illustrations by Jan Brett
J PIC Brett (Halloween Collection)
Cover eye and cover ear, Nightmares walk the streets of fear, on dreaded Halloween – reads the text on a black page with rich surrounding illustrations. Glowing eyes in a dark background lead readers to think creatures are lurking, watching each trick or treater approach, but all ends well with a mama cat and her kittens venturing out as Halloween night comes to an end. Great suspense and rich illustrations make this a great first spooky story.
Do you think aliens are awesome? Ghosts are glorious? Werewolves are a howling good time? Then this is the book for you! With 176 pages of the most frightening fun you’ll ever have, you’ll uncover the history of horror, the background on bogus and the silly side of scary! You’ll enjoy real reported cases like Creepy Case File #6: The Blob from Above, based on real accounts of star jelly. Read the reports and decide the truth for yourself. It might just have you saying, “That’s creepy!”
Beware the night and what it brings… for out there lurk such scary things! This is the final warning of Z is for Zombie, and don’t be deceived by the picture book format, the intense paintings and rhymes in this one are not for the faint of heart! Short spooky verses introduce an alphabet of aliens, ogres, night stalkers and more, plus the dreaded Bogeyman. If you have some second graders who love to contemplate monsters, this may spark their imaginations for a howling good time.