Conjure up your own Frankenstein...

Our dog Dr Watson is all ready for Halloween, though there's still
almost a week to go until 31st Oct. He's a real party animal.

How to make a monster:

Feed your child a lot of chocolate, fizzy drinks and let them stay up way too late. Just joking. 

The kind of monster we once made went down a treat with kids of about 8 or 9. 

Step 1: While the kids are on a treasure hunt finding red toffee apple vampire hearts and driving kebab sticks trhough them, find a room and put four tables in a square leaving a gap in the middle big enough for a person.

Step 2: Cover the tables with table cloths (crushed velour in red/orange or black from Jysk Sengetøj) that reach the ground but leave a gap in the middle over the hole.

Step 3: Cover the hole with another smaller table cloth.

Step 4: Fill a sack with body parts - a cauliflower for a brain, heart, wig, gloves that look like a hands, shoes, old pair of mens underpants, bra? etc. etc.

Step 5: Hide a daddy under the table wearing some of the same stuff

Step 6: Turn down the lights and invite in the kids in to sit on chairs around the outside of the tables. Parents round the walls 

Step 7: Explain you're going to make a monster because Halloween isn't cool without a monster

Step 8. Take the sack of body parts slowly round the table getting kids to fish stuff out one by one and carefully peeling back just the relevant corner of the top tablecloth (brain at top end, feet at bottom) and tuck the body parts underneath the cloth out of sight. You'll still see a lumps.

Step 9:  When done, get the kids to hold hands and chant Aberacadabera. Then louder. Then really loud.

Step 10: Up through the hole in the tables, draped in the top tablecloth rises your very own monster and as the tablecloth slips off you see he's wearing a bra, underpants and all kinds of other body parts/makeup - this time not a mummy but a willing Daddy - preferably the tallest of the lot.

I accept no liability for telling you this trick. But it really worked. The parents were as goggle-eyed as the kids :o) 

Photo by Thomass Hanhan
Here's a dear smiley spider from the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen. We'll be showing you more of his friends in a week or two - that exhibition is on until December. And we'll be showing you the mummies on show at Glyptoteket all year round.

But first....there's only two days left of the Halloween exhibition in Tivoli so check out the other post quick!