Five Little Ghosts Feltboard Story

This is a project that I just put together on the day of Halloween, it may be a little past "All Hallows Eve", but you can always remember this little story for next year!

You may have heard this little story before.  I know that it was one that I loved as a kid and I asked my Mom if she still had a copy.  She called me a few days later and told me she had found it and sent me the pattern!  It has a copyright on it from 1984 by so I don't know if I can share the story that I have on paper, but I did find one online that is practically the same.  I'll share it at the end of this post.

I gathered my material, I used 5 different colors of felt for the different colored ghosts in the story, then I used googly eyes, instead of trying to figure out how to get those cute faces on the felt.  I pinned together the pattern and two pieces of felt (one colored, one white) for each ghost and then cut each one out.

I also cut out the food, but made it a little more dimensional.  I cut out tiny little triangles with the brown felt for the chocolate chip ice-cream and ghost.

I then sewed the two sides of each ghost together and hot glued the googly eyes on.  I also glued the food together and the chocolate chips on one by one. (tip: Use a low temp glue gun, mine is only high temp and I kept burning my fingers on those tiny ch. chips!)  I had to trim some of the edges to make them even after sewing them... and if you would rather, you could go ahead and use some hot glue!  I just like the look that sewing gave them.

White side...

Colored side...

Next, I threw a blue blanket over a large white board and told my daughter the story of the 5 Little Ghosts... (I have a felt board that I made, but it was being borrowed!  Maybe I'll show you that later!  I'm so proud of it! ;)

Once upon a time, there lived 5 little ghosts. As everyone knows, ghosts are white and to stay white.  The only thing they can eat is vanilla ice cream and the only thing that they can drink is milk. One day when Mama ghost went to the refrigerator, there was no vanilla ice cream and no milk. So she had to go to the grocery store and before she left she said, "No matter how hungry you get, do not eat  anything or something dreadful will happen." The first ghost became so thirsty and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a little glass of grape juice and thought, "just one teeny sip wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny sip of grape juice and what do suppose happened? He turned purple! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all purple so he ran upstairs and hide in the toy box.  The second ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a carrot and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of the carrot and what do suppose happened? He turned orange! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all orange so he ran upstairs and hide in the closet. The third ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a bowl of spinach and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of spinach and what do suppose happened? He turned green! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all green so he ran upstairs and hide under the bed. The fourth ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a bowl of strawberries and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of a strawberry and what do suppose happened? He turned red! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all red so he ran upstairs and behind the door. The fifth ghost said, "I'm so hungry but I will not do what my brothers did.  I'll look in the freezer and see if there is just maybe a little vanilla ice cream left."  When he looked in the freezer there was some ice cream and it was almost vanilla - it was white with little brown pieces of chocolate in it. So the ghost said, "This shouldn't hurt me - those pieces of  chocolate are so tiny." So he ate one spoonful and became a chocolate chip ghost! He certainly  didn't want his Mama to see him spotted so he ran upstairs and hid in the bathtub. When Mama ghost returned, she knew something was wrong when she didn't see her children, so she started looking for the little ghosts.  She found the first (purple) one upstairs in the toy box, and an 2nd (orange) one in the closet, and the 3rd (green) one under the bed, the 4th (red) one behind the door and the 5th and last (chocolate chip) one in the bathtub. When she found all of them, she said, "Little ghosts, I told you that something dreadful would happen and it did." Whatever can we do to get you white again for Halloween? She called the ghost doctor and this is  what he told her to do. Keep all the little ghosts in bed for five days and give them nothing but vanilla  ice cream and milk and they should be ready for Halloween. So that is what she did.  By Halloween night, the five little ghosts were all white again to go out haunting and spooking and shouting "BOO!"  They never again ate something they shouldn't and always obeyed their Mother!

(Five Little Ghosts story found HERE)

And then I just let her play with the little creations!  She loved them!  And... she started recognizing the color purple!  Yay for felt board stories!

Hope you enjoyed my little "tutorial"!  It was actually really easy and fun to throw together! :)  Maybe I'll do some more felt stories... ???