Taken from the
website: A Hundred Amazing Activities to Put a Spook in Your Hallowe’en!
What you will
need: the cardboard tube from inside a toilet roll (microwave it for 30 seconds
for hygiene’s sake); a disposable glow stick, the kind you snap and shake to
activate; scissors; tape; somewhere to hide your fiendish creation!
How to make
it: cut two spooky eye holes in the side of the cardboard tube. Activate a glow
stick and put it inside. Seal both ends with tape. Now place it somewhere it is
sure to be seen in the dark, such as beneath a bush or, if you don’t have an
outside space, under a bed.
Take your
Hallowe’en party guests on a tour of your haunted house, telling them to beware
of the bloodthirsty creatures lurking in dark corners!
*
Mary shut the
back gate behind her and walked up the garden path towards the house, enjoying
the damp chill of the October night. Around her the silhouettes of trees and
bushes were dimly visible in the streetlight from the alleyway, and scattered
amongst them were dozens of slitted, glowing eyes. They gleamed at her from
behind the swing set, underneath the decking, and even halfway up the hedge. She
chuckled. Jon and the boys really had done an excellent job.
She unlocked
the back door and stepped into the kitchen, then stopped, puzzled.
‘Jon?’ she
called. ‘Why are all the lights off in here?’
She flicked
the lights on, dumped her bag on the breakfast bar and crossed to the sink to
fill the kettle.
‘You guys are
amazing!’ she called. ‘It looks fantastic! Really spooky out there!’
It had been a
late shift at the hospital so she’d left them to get on with it. As a
stay-at-home dad, Jon was always good with the boys when it came to craft
activities, but this year he had excelled himself. It was odd, though –
normally Ed and Tim were throwing themselves at her knees by now. Mary left the
kettle to boil and went through into the living room, expecting to find them
glued to Paw Patrol, father included.
The lights
were off in here too.
Maybe they
were upstairs. Still, the standing lamp behind the settee should be on.
‘John?’ she
called. ‘Timmy? Ed?’
A small
whimpering noise came from the direction of the dining table.
As her eyes
adjusted she saw the table covered in loo rolls, packets of glow sticks,
scissors and tape. Crouched underneath, safe behind a cage of chair legs, were
her husband and sons, their eyes wide with terror. It looked like Jon had a
hand clamped over each of their mouths.
Mary laughed.
‘Oh sure, right, nice one. You almost scared me, you lot.’
Jon shook his
head violently. ‘Shh!’ he hissed. ‘Keep your voice down! And turn the bloody
lights off!’ It was hard to tell, but it looked to her like little Ed was
actually crying.
‘This isn’t
funny any more,’ she told her husband. ‘You’ve had your fun, made your spooky things,
now get out from under the table and stop sodding around.’
‘You don’t
understand,’ he whispered hoarsely. ‘We haven’t made them yet.’
Mary ran back
into the kitchen and looked through the window again, but the bright glowing
eyes – the ones that she had walked straight past only a few moments ago – were
gone. The only thing she could see was the reflection of her own fear-stricken
face staring back at her, swimming in the dark. Then she heard the cat flap rattle and bang, and They
swarmed into the house.
***
PS: You can actually make these. Here's the link. It seems only fair since I nicked their picture.
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