Stories to keep you sane
We hope that no matter how you decide to celebrate Halloween that you have great fun with it. It is sad that it will not be business as usual, but the hope is that you will be able to take at least a little bit of inspiration from this blog. Enjoy yourselves, maybe with some nice food and drink. Watch a spooky movie and play some spooky games.
Maybe next year it will be back to normal or haunted normal 🙂
Hi, so we hope you have enjoyed spooky month. It’s the big day tomorrow, and to celebrate I have kept three poems written by Mr Robert Price for reading in the actual story shed. They will be up on youtube sometime during the day so look out for them 🙂
(Yes that is Vincent Price and not Robert in the image, but you get two Prices for one this way) 🙂
So this is going to be more for the “geeks” and “nerds” who like to make things. I thought I would put it here so that you could see what is possible with a bit of kit and some imagination. Will need concentration and possibly an adult to help in the making of these. Family projects?
If you want a game to play this Halloween, then you can’t go too far wrong with a Halloween ring toss. Like any of this stuff you can do it easily or put in a bit more work to get a better result. Here are a few ideas for this ringing success at your party. Here is the basic set up and then you have to decorate it:
With a little bit of effort you can make yourself sparkle for this Halloween. Here are some ideas for making a fair few bits of jewellery. You might find the perfect family project to work on together. Glistening and glinting for your spooky party, and maybe making them so you can wear them next year again. Here is a useful resource from the cobwebby corners of the interweb itself:(may take some work and resources)
Normally I guess we think about decorating our windows with snow for Xmas. Well why not this year get the black paper and scissors out and do it for Halloween. It means that people can enjoy the spooky season from afar. Social distanced spooking…wooohhhhhhh woohhhhh. I think that there are relatively simple ways of doing it, so why not give it a shot eh? 🙂
Just saw this on the news and thought that it was well worth sharing. It would seem that it has been advised for there to be no trick or treating. No door knocking and no handing out of sweeties. Lossie Woods have put together a trail in their woods so that there can be some social distancing:
Looks like a good plan to me.
So as you know this has been Spooky month on the blog. If you are wondering why we do Halloween I found a video that will explain some of the traditions, and what they are all about. I know we practice a lot of American things now and it would be interesting to know more about British things as well:
So as we head towards the night itself of Halloween, I am thinking about going back into the story shed itself to do some recording. Are there any Halloween stories that you would like to hear read. Please let us know which you would like, of course keeping in mind it shouldn’t be too scary (we have some limits) 🙂 Send suggestions to thestoryshedblog@gmail.com
Here is a craft activity that I found online that is just right for this season. I have already put up other containers, but this one is certainly well worth a look. I think it should be easy to do for most folks. Big enough for those halloween treats, but small enough to carry easily:
The Story Shed