Lovely — Craft Halloween

She held up a perfect little felt pumpkin.

“Not everything has to be scary to be wonderful,” Nana Thistle said softly. “Make what you love, Pip. Make a hug.” lovely craft halloween

But the best part was the tree. Pip had transformed the old oak in his front yard. From every branch hung a “Memory Mobile.” Dozens of tiny felt shapes: a purple witch’s hat, a laughing ghost, a caldron with a single star on it, a little black cat with a button eye. And at the end of each string was a tiny, rolled-up scroll. She held up a perfect little felt pumpkin

Mrs. Hedgehog, the baker, reached up and gently unrolled one. She read aloud, “For the bravest little hedgehog who tried a new candy last year.” Make a hug

Pip’s heart sank. He couldn’t build a thing that went BOO. He tried. He made a ghost out of a bed sheet, but it just looked like a lumpy cloud. He tried to paint a creepy spider, but it ended up looking like a friendly, eight-eyed puppy.

His grandmother, Nana Thistle, found him there. She didn’t say a word. She just sat beside him and started cutting a piece of soft, orange felt. Snip, snip, snip. Then a brown piece. Snip, snip. Then a tiny green stem.