My Dog's a Scaredy-Cat: A Halloween Tail by Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver

Author:Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Social Issues, Humorous Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, School & Education, Halloween, Friendship, Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780448438788
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-10-15T10:37:19.031137+00:00

CHAPTER 13

THE TEN COOLEST THINGS WE PUT IN OUR HAUNTED HOUSE

Can you guess who came up with these plans for our haunted house? Try to figure it out as you read each one. Good luck. I hope you get all ten right.

1. We hung the black light on the skeleton’s ribs, so the entire bony dude glowed a creepy whitish, purplish color.

2. We tied all the rubber spiders onto Ashley’s dad’s fishing pole and hung it in the corner, so when people walked by, we could drop the spiders into their hair. That would make the hair on their necks stand at attention.

3. We recorded Frankie’s scary howl into a tape recorder. Then we slowed the tape recorder down so when we played it back, the howls turned into spine-chilling shrieks.

4. We peeled grapes so they had the perfect texture for eyeballs and put them in a bowl of slimy egg whites as if the eyeballs had just spewed their gooey insides into the bowl.

5. We made a human brain by boiling spaghetti noodles until they were mushy and mixing them with Marshmallow Fluff so the brain would stick to kids’ fingers when they touched it. Nobody wants to walk around with gray matter stuck to their fingers.

6. We lined my old Mets hat with Saran Wrap and put the brain mixture in it. When kids stuck their hands in that hat, they would think someone took their hat off and their brain came with it. (I’m even grossing myself out now.)

7. We made a ghost out of Emily’s bedsheet, and then we put a fan under it, so it would billow out and look like it was about to take off and fly around the room.

8. We went through three large economy-size bottles of ketchup, covering most anything you can think of with fake ketchup blood—including a roasting fork, gauze bandages, and an old undershirt of my dad’s.

9. We saved the last bottle of ketchup to add a bloody spot to the ghost’s chest area, where its heart would have been.

10. We put Ashley’s head through the cardboard from my Italian table costume. Then we squirted Ashley’s cheeks with ketchup and threw a napkin over her head. We gave her a flashlight to light up under her chin whenever someone uncovered her head.

Answer Key

1. Hank***

2. Hank***

3. Hank***

4. Hank*** (although Ashley peeled the grapes)

5. Hank***

6. Hank***

7. Hank*** (Frankie pulled the sheet off the bed)

8. Hank***

9. Hank***

10. Hank***

*** I hope it doesn’t seem like bragging for me to take the credit for all the ideas, but I felt really proud of them. It’s not every day that I actually get to say I’m proud of my brain. So excuse me for getting a little excited.

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