Ghoulish preview

Every year the Shelburne Museum does their "Haunted Happenings" event to end the museum season. This means that Sam needed his costume pronto but luckily he wanted to be a ghost this year rather than the green shark of last year or the purple dragon from the year before.

Operating Make-A-Ghost should have been a nice straightforward operation involving one sheet and two eye holes but preschool requirements of no scary costumes, no masks, no weapons, etc. complicated it a bit since I figured full sheeting would qualify as a mask. But I was undaunted; Sam needed a good ghastly ghoulishly ghostly costume. Ancient fitted sheet to the rescue! The corner made a nice hood. I measured Sam shoulder to floor and his arm length with his arm spread and cut an oval to size, put a head hole in the middle. Hood and neck are fastened with safety pins for a very high tech costume. Some white face paint he managed to get on everything before it dried completes the look.

Close up, his face is sort of frightening...will he be able to get away with it all day at daycare or will he have to go sans face paint?

The buildings are old houses and business moved to the museum grounds over the years and are used to either show how people lived in colonial New England or are used to display artifacts for the period. This adds unexpected candy challenges as shown here. I hope I never need to be concerned about the animals at our house; I just need to be concerned with the humans and they're just as destructive (we usually need to buy our Halloween candy at least twice.)

We went to this shindig with our neighbors Sophie and Charlotte, both adorable little witches to go with Sam's ghoulish ghost. Apparently witches and ghosts can't be shown to associate socially in photographs - at least one must be looking at something other than the camera every single time.

But my little ghost wasn't always camera shy. And when Halloween is over his costume will be recycled into rags.