I wanted to include The Ghost's Dinner by Jacques Duquennoy in my Halloween Family Story Time program but my current library does not own it. So I ended up doing what I did in July (see my post for 7/6/11) - writing my own story. This one is much shorter and can be found as a Google document here.
There are several versions of stories that feature the concept of ghosts turning the color of what they eat that can be found by searching the web. One is called "Three Naughty Ghosts." My web search also turned up a reference to a book, The Chocolate Chip Ghost by Meighan Peifer. I'm not familiar with this title but I'm guessing it would be a good one to use. I also found flannel board versions by searching that title.
Since my library uses a magnet board I made my own figures. I'm using the same little ghosts that I used for "One Little Ghost" (see my post for 10/7/11) plus a mama ghost. I based the food items on clip art. Once the pieces are laminated I will make a magnet sandwich by stapling a colorful ghost and white ghost back to back. I made extra wide black borders so I would have room to trim the pieces to match.
This week's Flannel Friday Round-up can be found at the "rovingfiddlehead kidlit" blog.
There are several versions of stories that feature the concept of ghosts turning the color of what they eat that can be found by searching the web. One is called "Three Naughty Ghosts." My web search also turned up a reference to a book, The Chocolate Chip Ghost by Meighan Peifer. I'm not familiar with this title but I'm guessing it would be a good one to use. I also found flannel board versions by searching that title.
Since my library uses a magnet board I made my own figures. I'm using the same little ghosts that I used for "One Little Ghost" (see my post for 10/7/11) plus a mama ghost. I based the food items on clip art. Once the pieces are laminated I will make a magnet sandwich by stapling a colorful ghost and white ghost back to back. I made extra wide black borders so I would have room to trim the pieces to match.
The Snacks
The Problem
Mama with the Solution
Ready to Go Halloween Haunting
I am also going to do a version of the critter hiding behind something guessing game (such as "Little Mouse" and those in my blog post for 8/4/11). I found the idea for a bat hiding behind a witch's hat on Kelly's "Field Acquisitions" blog.
I based the figures on clip art, copied the hats and colored everything with markers. I made the hat bands black because I plan to hide the little bat behind them. The figures are not cut out yet because they need to be laminated first.
This week's Flannel Friday Round-up can be found at the "rovingfiddlehead kidlit" blog.
I love your ghost story! (And that the brown ghost even has chocolate chips.)
ReplyDeleteI really love little bat hiding in witch hat where did you get it I couldn't find it
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that it was from a book of patterns for preschool teachers possibly by Jean Warren. It is probably out of print since it was old when I used it. Naturally I don’t remember which book it came from. I wish I could be more helpful but I have been retired for 4 years so I no longer have access to that material.
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