It's the work of an evil witch, determined to stop your journey through the woods by blocking your way with a huge pile of leaves. Boo, hiss!
Take on this week's spoooooky challenge to defeat the witch, clear the path and carry on with your adventure.
Glow in the dark
Did you know Hallowe'en is thought to have come from an old Celtic celebration at the end of harvest where lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins like we see today?
It's true!
Have a go at making your own Hallowe'en lanterns.
Here's how to make one from twigs:
twig lanterns
send in your lantern pics
Spooky bingo
What spine-tingling experiences can you tick off on a thrilling woodland adventure?
play now
tell us about YOUR spooky adventure
Hidden faces
Can you find faces lurking amongst the trees?
Look closely at the trunk, patterns in the bark, up in the branches and down at the roots.
Photograph what you find!
tree faces
what did you discover?
Make a Green Man mask
The Green Man is a mythical figure and appears in many legends, lots of them linked to nature.
You can make a Green Man mask out of twigs and leaves:
Green Man mask
Create your own mythical figure!
Weave twigs together to make a body, then thread leaves, bits of moss and grass for eyes, nose, mouth, hair and clothes :O)
Show us what you make:
naturedetectives@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Witches' butter and jack o'lanterns
Hallowe'en-inspired fungi!
Can you find all of the spooky sounding fungi in this blood-curdling wordsearch?
They're all names of real fungi :O)
ghoulish fungi
answers
Ghastly pic bits
Look at these gruesome pictures, yuck!
Can you work out what they all are?
gruesome pic bits
answers
how many did you get right?
Batman
Need a costume for Hallowe'en?
Become a bat! Just print and decorate this bat mask:
bat mask
show off your costume
The truth about vampire bats
Vampire bats are often portayed as evil blood-sucking creatures in films and stories, but they're not like that in real life.
Here are some top bat facts:
- bats are the only mammals that can fly
- vampire bats live in Central and South America
- vampire bats don't actually 'suck' blood or kill their victims - they just make a tiny bite and lap the small amount of blood that comes out
- vampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood (apart from baby vampire bats which drink their mother's milk)
- they are nocturnal. They sleep during the day, hanging upside down from cave roofs in complete darkness, then come out to feed at night - mostly on animals like cows and horses
- they need one to two tablespoons of blood each night to survive
- in one year a 100-vampire bat colony can drink the blood of 25 cows!
- scientists hope vampire bats could one day help human stroke victims - the bats have a special clot-dissolving substance in their saliva which could be adapted to treat people
Haunted house
Turn your home into a haunted house!
Print and decorate these art sheets, then cut them out to make cool, spooky decorations :O)
bat
spider web
moon
toadstool
owl
tree skeletons
what does your haunted house look like?
Things that go bump in night
Make up your own ghost story!
What spooky goings-on can you tell?
Turn it into a play and stage it in this haunted house in the woods :O)
haunted house stage set
my spine-tingling tale
Had a hair-raising adventure?
Clear the leaves by sticking your rake sticker over the leaf pile on your CLUB challenge poster.
Hurray! The path's now clear to travel on to next week's challenge!