Newt's Magical Mapquest

Newt's Magical Mapquest

Halloween Family Fun Night

Post in progress... more pictures coming soon!

Our Halloween Family Program was dedicated to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. We had a lot of fun with the variation on a Harry Potter theme. 

Each child started out with a map that led them around the library, introducing them to different creatures they would encounter. 

Each section of the library was labeled with the creature for that activity... including their Ministry of Magic classification, and information from the Fantastic Beasts book.

The dragon tail decoration was created by taping newspaper into a curved cone

shape, and using hot glue to attach halves of metallic muffin liners so that

they overlapped to create scales.

The dragon area was our craft for the night. TP rolls were wrapped in green sheets of paper. Pom-poms were glued to the top (small for the nose, slightly larger for the eyes) with googly eyes added to the front. Each dragon had red, yellow, and orange streamers glued around the inside of its mouth. When you blow through the roll, the streamers at the end move as though the dragon is breathing fire. After completing the craft, kids received a 'D' stamp on their map.

The Pixie station had a 'plinko' board. We modified this with a printed title and printed pixie images taped to the coins.
The station's decor was completed with two caged pixies. One made of modeling clay and attached to a decorative birdcage with fishing line, and one a simple silhouette in a fairy jar.





The Acromantula area was completely decked out in large spiders (which were easy to find around Halloween). This was a pretty fun game. We filled a tub with green water beads, and a few plastic spiders of different shapes and sizes. There was a scoring system where each spider was worth a different number of coins.