This week, the forest transformed into a hairy scary castle where the wind goes whoosh, and the doors go bang! Where the stairs go creak, and the ghosts go boo! Our plane tree stood over the forest, observing everything with its humongous watchful eyes. The giant spiders came out to play overnight, weaving large spider webs throughout the forest. The worms also came out of their underground houses and congregated on our art table, wiggling and squiggling and enjoying the spooky day.
We had spotty dinosaurs, beautifully dressed princes and princesses, twirling ballerinas, and burly superheroes enter the gates of our hairy scary castle. They were all excited chattering and sharing stories of their trick or treating adventures from the evening before, of hunting treasured sweets and treats.
We carved the last of our pumpkins into a silly grinning jack o’lantern and arranged it with the other jack o’lanterns to perch near the gate to welcome parents and children as they enter our spooky and creepy forest.
Later, our friend the giant spider came to play. We had fun climbing up its colourful legs and soft fuzzy back. The witches also came and invited us to their tea party where we made potions and concoctions. The head witch, cloaked in purple and wearing her very pointy spiderwebbed hat, invited us to make witches’ balls made of oozing mud, brittle leaves and bits of magic found hidden within the forest which has the power to turn things into whatever we wanted.
The vampire bats came out to play with us too. We flew across the forest looking for tasty morsels of insects and fruits, but most especially, the smelly racoon who has the tastiest snacks. When the sun came out, we saw the bats back into their caves to sleep and have a rest for the next food finding adventure.
One stormy day, the rain and wind came and turned our scary castle into a soggy and watery bog where we had so much fun splashing and sliding in gigantic squishy mud puddles. In some parts of the forest, it was so wet we needed to row across it in our boat to get to dry land. Some of the boats got stuck so we had to push and pull together to get them out.
What a fun and frightful week we had in our scary hairy castle! We will be back next time with more stories of our adventures in the forest.
Little Forest Folk
Twickenham