Haunted House Details

This just came in from Glyde Hart King (Griffin's mom, J-5) about the 5th Grade Haunted House. The Haunted House will be held at the Monster Mash on Saturday, October 24, 6-8pm.

Dear 5th Grade families,

Please sign up to help with the Haunted House this year. It is going to be awesome!

Tracy Peltier will be in charge of the "Touchy Feely" room and I will be in charge of the Wax Museum. If you are interested in the Touchy Feely, please contact Tracy (Teya's mom, S-5).

Here's the scoop on the Wax Museum:

The exhibit will be the kids themselves. It will be as big or as small accordingly.

Each child that would like to participate will choose a character from literature, from history, from film... that has a morbid, twisted, gory, haunted past.

Good examples include: Marie Antoinette, Chucky, Joan of Arc, Frankenstein, Dracula, Ivan the Terrible, Mary Queen of Scots, Werewolf, Jesse James, Rasputin, etc.

Each child will dress up as this character and write up a small poster describing that character's BRIEF story written in letters big enough to read in the dim light. (remember no weapons but stage blood is cool). Try to look pale and waxy.

The story poster will be placed on a music stand. The child will be placed beside the music stand in the Wax Museum exhibit.

The child must be able to stay relatively motionless for ten minutes. Then there will be a swap-out and the kids will get a ten minute rest. So, it will be ten mins on and ten mins off for one hour only. (7-8pm)

There will be a red velvet (?) rope between the audience and the characters in the wax museum. There will be no contact between the audience and the exhibit.

Remember, the more the student can stand (or sit) still... the scarier it will be. I will give some coaching in this beforehand.

Adults will provide mood lighting, cool chairs, red velvet ropes, dry ice... and will help herd the cats.

Anybody interested? Please let me know - adults and kids.

For example - Griffin is going to be John Dillinger, the famous gangster. Glyde is going to be champion cat herder.

Our schedule:
Monday Oct. 19, 4:30-5:30pm, planning meeting on the stage at JSIS
Friday Oct 23, 4-6pm, set up part one on the stage at JSIS
Saturday Oct 24, 3-6pm, set up part two on the stage as JSIS
Saturday Oct 24, Wax Museum - 7-8pm
Saturday Oct 24, Clean up 8:30-9:30pm

Cheers and BBBBOOOOO-ya!
Glyde Hart King, kingofharts@mindspring.com