Challenge Kit

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CHALLENGE KIT

This kit was created to assist you in completing the Chills & Thrills program. Included are facts, stories, crafts, games, recipes and information.

Table of Contents Detailed Outline of Kit...... 4 Patch Requirements...... 5 Teachings...... 6-15 Craft Pages...... 16-28 Recipes...... 29-33 Games and Activities...... 34-41 Songs ...... 42-44 Puzzles ...... 45-55 Bibliography...... 57 Credits...... 58 Feedback Form...... 59

Chills & Thrills— 3 ©2015 www.e-patchesandcrests.com Toll Free 1-877-335-8904 Detailed Outline • Graveyard 5: PATCH REQUIREMENTS is the section of the booklet that details what needs to be • Ghost Tag accomplished in order to earn the patch. • Ground the Witches • Spider, or Fly, in the Web 6–17: TEACHING PAGES contain information • Capture the Witch’s Wand that can be used to teach the subject being • Boo, the Ghost discussed. Subtopics include: • Monster Hunt • What is Halloween? • Famous Monsters of Halloween • Phobias 41–47: SONG PAGES lists whimsical songs that can be incorporated into any event. Includes: 18–23: CRAFT PAGES detail ideas for crafts • Colcannon that pertain to the subject matter. Includes: • Soul Cake • Floating Ghosts • Three Little Witches • Monster Mask • If You’re a Monster and You Know it • Tea Light Lanterns • Bat House and More! 41–47: PUZZLE PAGES contain cerebral challenges to reinforce the learning 24–30: RECIPE IDEAS gives suggestions objectives of the Challenge Kit. Includes: about what kind of food would go well with • Word Search the theme. Some recipes included are: • Crossword • Mummy Dogs • Memory Game • Jack-O’-Lantern Cupcakes • Unscramble the Letters • Caramel Apples • Maze • Zombie Punch • Pumpkin Puzzle • Jello-O Creatures • Worms in Dirt 48-49: BIBLIOGRAPHY provide 31–40: GAMES AND ACTIVITIES 50: CREDITS entertainment and recreational ideas for both individuals and groups. Includes: 51: FEEDBACK FORM

Chills & Thrills— 4 ©2015 www.e-patchesandcrests.com Toll Free 1-877-335-8904 Patch Requirements TO EARN THE PATCH • 5-6 yrs need to complete 2 requirements from the list. • 7-8 yrs need to complete 3 requirements from the list. • 9-11 yrs need to complete 4 requirements from the list. • 12-17 yrs need to complete 6 requirements from the list.

CHILLS & THRILLS PATCH 1. Learn one of the two origins of Halloween and list five reasons you believe Halloween is either Celtic Samhain, or Christian. 2. Discover the history of famous Halloween monsters! Choose five monsters out of this booklet and learn about how they became associated with Halloween. 3. Create a quiz for a friend where he/she has to match a phobia name with the correct meaning.

4. Complete three crafts of your choice, making sure the craft difficulty level is appropriate for your age group. 5. With your group, make Tea Light Lanterns, play two games, and learn a new song. 6. Go Ghosting! Create two ghost crafts, play both ghost games, and find a ghost recipe to make. 7. Take your love for monsters to the next level and create a new craft, recipe, game, or song about it. 8. Go camping with your group, family, or friends and complete the following: • Play Boo, the Ghost • Go on a Monster Hunt • Sing two Halloween songs • Eat some Worms in Dirt for dessert 9. Take the time to teach and complete one craft and one game to someone who is younger than you. 10. Prepare three out of the six recipes and serve them to a friend, family member, and a person in your community. 11. Participate in three of the games or participate in one and teach one game to someone who doesn’t know how to play it. 12. Show off your Halloween skills by completing four out of the six Chills & Thrills puzzles.

Chills & Thrills— 5 ©2015 www.e-patchesandcrests.com Toll Free 1-877-335-8904 CELTIC SAMHAIN OR FESTIVAL OF SAMHAIN The Festival of Samhain is old Irish for “Summer’s End.” The festival marked the end of the harvest season and was the time when people took stock of their foods in preparation for the long winter to come. It was also the time when souls of the dead came back home. The Celtics believed that the door to the otherworld opened during Samhain and the souls of the dead, as well as other mystical beings such as fairies, could cross over into our world. The souls of dead kinsmen were invited to join in the festivities and people even set places for them at tables in hopes of appeasing the spirits with gifts of food. However, Samhain also allowed harmful spirits to enter our world so people disguised themselves in costumes on this night so as not to be recognized. In 18th century Ireland, boys would go to each house asking for fuel for the Samhain bonfire and in the 19th century people went door-to-door collecting food for the Samhain feast. Sometimes the collectors would wear costumes, such as southern Ireland’s white mare. The tradition was that a man dressed as a white mare would lead children door-to- door begging food for the feast. Those that gave food could expect good fortune from the “Muck Olla,” a being who some say was a druid and others claim that she was a goddess. Another common practice in parts of Ireland and Scottland was the carving of turnips into jack- o’-lanterns. The term jack-o’-lantern originated from ignis fatuss or will-o’-the-wisp, known as receding lights over a bog, but others say that the jack-o’-lantern got its name from a different source.

TALE OF STINGY JACK There are many old Irish folk tales of Stingy Jack, a smart, but lazy farmer who traps the Devil with a cross. One story tells how Jack was being chased by some angry villagers who he had stolen from when he bumped into the Devil. The Devil told Jack that it was time for him to die, but Jack managed to stall for time. He tempted the Devil with a chance to do evil by saying that if the Devil turned into a coin he would give it to the villagers to pay for what he had stolen. The Devil/coin would then latter disappear, making the villagers fight amongst themselves over who had stolen the coin. The Devil fell for the trick, turning into a coin and jumping into Jack’s wallet where the shrewd farmer had hidden a cross. The cross drained the Devil of his power and so he was trapped. Jack refused to free the Devil until he agreed to not take his soul for a year. The Devil reluctantly agreed.

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• Juice box • Hole punch • White electrical tape • Googly eyes • Scissors

Take a regular juice box Next cut a strip of Cut another strip of tape and remove the straw, but electrical tape and punch and completely cover the make sure the straw stays a hole in it. This piece top of the box. 1in the plastic. 2will be for the top of the box. 3 Place the hole overtop of the juice hole and flatten the tape smooth. Wrap the rest of the Take the googly eyes and Cut a piece of tape, box in one long strip of stick them on. about 8 cm (3 inches) tape, making sure the and position it slightly 4tape rests smooth, but wrap 5 6on top of the eyes at an angle diagonally as well as straight to give your mummy some across to give the box the character. mummy look.

Finally, cut another strip of tape and attach your straw to the side of the 7box to finish your mummy.

Chills & Thrills— 22 ©2015 www.e-patchesandcrests.com Toll Free 1-877-335-8904 Worms In Dirt Ingredients: (yields 8 cups) • 2 cups cold milk • 8 oz. whipped topping (like Cool Whip) • 1 (15 oz.) package chocolate sandwich • 24 gummy worms cookies (like Oreos) • 8 plastic cups • 1 (3.9 oz.) package chocolate instant pudding

Place the chocolate In a large bowl, mix Let the pudding sit for 5 sandwich cookies in a together the dry pudding minutes to thicken. large zip-top plastic bag mix and the cold milk. 1and crush them into small 2Whisk the mixture together 3 pieces with a rolling pin. (No until all the dry pudding need to worry about removing dissolves and it’s free of lumps. the cream filling in the Oreos. At first the “dirt” will clump, but as you keep on crushing them the cream will mix with the cookies.) Continue to crush the cookies in the bag until they are in fine crumbs (a few large pieces are okay).

Add the whipped Gently stir until the Split the pudding topping and whipped topping mixture evenly between approximately half of disappears. the 8 plastic cups, add 4the cookie crumbs. 5 6a gummy worm--or two, or three--to each, and pour the rest of the cookie crumbs on top. Your Worms in Dirt are done!

• Halloween props (optional) • Ghost storybook (optional)

Instructions: It’s time to test out your oral skills through one of the oldest traditions of mankind: storytelling. Huddle around a campfire or under the stars and tell your best tale of ghosts, ghouls, or goblins. Share your family’s stories of close encounters with monsters, make up your own knee slapping tale of Freddy, your pal the zombie klutz, or take turns reading terrifying ghost stories from a book. The only rule for this activity is to have fun and enjoy your night.

If you need some ideas for good ghost story books try these spooky reads:

For Kids Animal Phantoms by Barbara Smith Horribly Haunted Houses by Barbara Smith Ghost Riders by Barbara Smith The Kids Campfire Book by Ann Love and Jane Drake

For Older Kids The Little Book of True Ghost Stories by Echo Bodine Fireside Ghost Stories by A. S. Mott Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Canadian Ghost Stories II by Dale Jarvis, Edrick Thay, and Susan Smitten Ghost Town Stories of Alberta by Johnnie Bachusky The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories by John Robert Colombo Ghost Stories of America by Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay

The song “Colcannon”, also called “The Skillet Pot”, is a traditional Irish song that has been record- ed by many artists, including Mary Black. Colcannon is an Irish dish mainly consisting of mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage. It begins: “Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream? With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream. Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?” The chorus: “Yes you did, so you did, so did he and so did I. And the more I think about it sure the nearer I’m to cry. Oh, wasn’t it the happy days when troubles we had not, And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot.”

Soul Cake

This song is another traditional Irish song sung during “souling,” a time when children would go door-to-door begging for soul cakes. Soul cakes are small round cakes. Each cake eaten would rep- resent a soul being freed from purgatory. It goes: A soul! a soul! a soul-cake! Please good Missis, a soul-cake! An apple, a pear, a plum, or a cherry, Any good thing to make us all merry. One for Peter, two for Paul Three for Him who made us all.

Chills & Thrills— 43 ©2015 www.e-patchesandcrests.com Toll Free 1-877-335-8904 Word Search Materials: Instructions: Find these cool Halloween words hidden in the “pumpkin letter box” • Printout of the word search located on page 48. • A pencil or other writing device

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1. BAT 9. GHOST SEARCH TERMS16. MASK 24. SPIDER 2. BLACK CAT1. BAT 10. 8.GOBLIN FRANKENSTEIN 15.17. MAGIC MONSTER22. PUMPKIN 25.29. WITCH SPOOKY 2. BLACK CAT 9. GHOST 16. MASK 23. SKELETON 30. ZOMBIE 3. BROOM 3. BROOM 11. 10.GRAVEYARD GOBLIN 17.18. MONSTER MOON 24. SPIDER 26. TRICK OR TREAT 4. CANDY 11. GRAVEYARD 18. MOON 25. SPOOKY 4. CANDY 5. COSTUME 12. 12.HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN 19.19. MUMMY MUMMY26. TRICK OR TREAT27. VAMPIRE 6. DRACULA 13. HAUNTED HOUSE 20. OCTOBER 27. VAMPIRE 5. COSTUME 7. FALL 13. 14.HAUNTED LEAF 21.20. OWL OCTOBER28. WEREWOLF 28. WEREWOLF HOUSE 6. DRACULA 21. OWL 29. WITCH 14. LEAF 7. FALL 22. PUMPKIN 30. ZOMBIE 15. MAGIC 8. FRANKENSTEIN 23. SKELETON Chills & Thrills— 46 ©2015 www.e-patchesandcrests.com Toll Free 1-877-335-8904