Tech Thursday - Google Maker Camp: Make a Ghoulish Halloween

For many teens, 2013 Summer Maker Camp is but a distant memory. Fear not - over the next few weeks you can re-join Google Maker Camp hosts each Thursday thru Halloween for special Hangout-on-Air sessions, where they will feature their favorite costumes, makeup projects, pumpkin carving...and even a virtual field trip showing what happens after an Alien Invasion!

Schedule:

Thurs. 3 — Welcome to Maker Camp
Thurs. 10 — Macabre Makeup and Costume Design
Thurs. 17 — Fiendish food and the Art of Pumpkin-Carving
Thurs. 24 — Haunted House How-tos and Spooky Alien Fieldtrip
Thurs. 31 — Halloween Parade

Watch the first Halloween Hangout-on-Air:

 

Screenshot of Maker Camp Halloween Edition

Sign up for Maker Camp Alerts: http://makezine.com/maker-camp/sign-up-for-maker-camp/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teen Halloween Party

Halloween is just around the corner and to get you in the spooky spirit, the Mill Creek Library and Mill Creek Parks and Recreation Department are teaming up for the third annual Teen Halloween Party on Friday, October 18th from 7-9 p.m.

This Halloween Party has something for everyone. You can play "Minute to Win it" games, board games, enjoy pizza and snacks, and compete in a costume contest. Four prizes will be awarded for best costume: cutest, scariest, funniest, and most original. Check out some of the winners from last year.

We'll have some creepy crafts. Make "Horror"-gami, decorate mini pumpkins or create spiders out of pipe cleaners. While you're here, check out a scary thriller or mystery from the "Horror-ible Books" display! 

You could win this!

Make sure you stay for the door prizes. We'll be giving away gift cards to local businesses books (including Finding Bigfoot), and other miscellaneous prizes.

Space is limited to 50, so please preregister on the library website. The Teen Halloween Party is open to teens in grades 6-12. Pizza and snacks are provided by the Friends of the Mill Creek Library. We hope to see you there!

Happy Halloween!

How do you celebrate Halloween? Here in Oak Harbor this year we invited people of all ages to dress in costume and bring their pets along for our Picture it With your Pet Costume Contest. We had a good turnout, with a total of seven dogs and many more humans dressed in some very clever costumes.

Here are a few highlights for your enjoyment... it's probably a good thing nobody brought a cat.

Creepy reads

It seems that without fail, every October my reading habits tend toward the creepy and spooky. The shorter days, chilly weather, and parade of pumpkins make me crave something that'll give me nightmares (or at least make me jump). Here are a few recent favorites:

A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz: Once upon a tome fairy tales were awesome. As if Hansel and Gretel didn’t already have it tough in their original fairy tale, Gidwitz pops them into a handful of other obscure Grimm stories and casts the siblings as heroes. Over the course of the book the twins are beheaded (and reheaded), dismembered, hunted, killed, brought back to life, sent to hell, and a number of other terrible fates. Is there a happily-ever-after? I'm not telling. It's really good on audio and you can also watch the book trailer.

Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann: This is still one of the creepiest books I've ever read. Missing boyfriend? Check. Creepy graffiti on your desk? Check. Strange whispers? Check. My advice, don't follow Kendall's lead and go looking for him alone in the woods.

Brains for Lunch: A Zombie Novel in Haiku by K.A. Holt: This isn't so much scary as it is funny and gross, but nothing says Halloween like zombies. Nearly 100 haiku's cover middle school life. Middle school is hard. It's even harder when you're a zombie.

What are your Halloween reads?