Here's some scans from the October, 1973 issue of children's
magazine Jack and Jill, which is full of
Halloween stories, crafts and puzzles.
The photos below are from an article explaining how to make a "pumpkin man" yard decoration.
A brief bio of
Legend of Sleepy Hollow author Washington Irving.
Build-it-yourself skeleton-themed dice game, Shake Rattle N' Roll.
Instructions for building your own miniature Spookie Shack.
A homemade noisemaker, the "Halloween Whirler".
Halloween-themed crossword. Better use a pencil!
A regular feature of
Jack and Jill was a gallery of children's art. This issue had some Halloween-themed entries.
The photos below are from an article explaining how to make a "pumpkin man" yard decoration.
A brief bio of Legend of Sleepy Hollow author Washington Irving.
Build-it-yourself skeleton-themed dice game, Shake Rattle N' Roll.
Instructions for building your own miniature Spookie Shack.
A homemade noisemaker, the "Halloween Whirler".
Halloween-themed crossword. Better use a pencil!
A regular feature of Jack and Jill was a gallery of children's art. This issue had some Halloween-themed entries.
So cute! Thanks for posting this!
ReplyDeleteThe covers are always so cool - yet its easy to forget about all the great content in these. Thank you for sharing all those pages... and I especially LOVE the Spookie Shack project!!!
ReplyDeleteThe 1970s seem to have been the "Golden Age" for spooky kid's entertainment. The best board games came out of that decade!
ReplyDeleteDUDE!! I've been looking for those "Spookie Shack" directions since ... you would not believe me. I actually made one of them in 1973, but it got "misplaced" by the Free Library of Philadelphia. Now that I have kids of my own, I wanted to make some with them, and THANKS TO YOU, I can. You've made my day! May something tremendously awesome happen to you today!
ReplyDeleteStill have my Spookie Shack my mother made 43 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI was actually looking for the "Baba Yaga and the Alexandrite Ring" story featured on the front cover. Is there any possibility that you could scan that?
ReplyDeleteI created my own spooky shack after reading a girlfriends Jack and Jill. Loved it! Thank you for this great memory!
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