Milk Jug Halloween Lanterns

Hoodwinked is about a little witch who needs a pet.  She wants somebody to hunt ghosts in the attic with her, join her in watching creature features, and listen to her deepest, darkest secrets (she's afraid of the dark!)  As a witch, she loves all things creepy and so her pet must be creepy too.  She goes through a series of pets (a slimy toad, a pair of bats) but none are just right.  When she finds a kitten at her back door, she knows it is just not creepy enough to be her new pet.  However, despite the kitten's adorable looks, she discovers that it's the perfect fit for her.

We decided to do some ghost hunting of our own in the attic.  (Well, our upstairs.)  We started by drawing some ghost faces on some milk jugs. Drew had a blast!  He normally has a ten minute attention span for crafts, but he must have sensed my elevated blood pressure from his having possession of the black permanent marker and decided that this was the craft for him!  He was actually digging through the recycling looking for more milk jugs.

I cut a hole in the back of each jug and we put in a battery operated tea light.  Then I hid the ghosts upstairs.  Of course, they were easy to find because they were lit up and we also kept some lights on.  It was just scary enough to be fun for my preschooler.  We wanted to include our own pet in the ghost hunting, since the little witch in the book had hers, but our dog is twelve years old and tired and not much interested in our shenanigans so we let him be.

No ghost hunting for Schultz