Speaker 1: This is going to be the spookiest Halloween ever. We
Speaker 1: are even making a haunted house to scare the whole neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Spooky indeed.
Speaker 3: And are your costumes ready?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm going to be a zombie monster ghost. I'm going
Speaker 2: to be a scary witch. Ah that is scary. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's scary. It's Halloween. What are you going to be? Elliott?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: Actually I made a bumblebee costume see tenn.
Speaker 2: Oh, not very scary.
Speaker 6: But I can't quite figure out how to make the antenna.
Speaker 3: Well, Elliott, you are in luck because today we are
Speaker 3: going to meet a very special guest who will know
Speaker 3: exactly how to help you with your costume.
Speaker 4: Ooh, is it a wizard?
Speaker 3: Not quite? Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids,
Speaker 3: where we discover fascinating facts about the world around us
Speaker 3: and the fun of play learning. Today is Halloween, and
Speaker 3: some of the Lingo Kids' friends are excited for a
Speaker 3: good scare. But what if not everyone likes feeling scared?
Speaker 3: Does Halloween have to be scary to be fun? Let's
Speaker 3: join Cowie, Billy, Lisa and Elliott as they put the
Speaker 3: finishing touches on their haunted house and get some costume
Speaker 3: advice from a very special guest costume designer, Ruth E. Carter.
Speaker 1: Ellie, can you please pass this tissue paper? I need
Speaker 1: to make more ghosts.
Speaker 2: More ghosts.
Speaker 6: But Cowie, you already made so many ghosts.
Speaker 1: Ooo, silly Elliot, you can't have too many ghosts on Halloween.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. Hey, everyone want to hear the spooky
Speaker 2: music I'm making.
Speaker 3: For the Hunted House?
Speaker 4: Sure, so spooky.
Speaker 3: Billy says he is making a skeleton out of popsicle
Speaker 3: sticks and he's building a motor so the skeleton can dauns.
Speaker 2: That's so cool, Billy.
Speaker 3: Elliott, what are you making for the Haunted House?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm in a jackal intern family.
Speaker 6: See here's the mama jackal lantern, Papa.
Speaker 1: And two cute little baby pumpkins. Ah, those are pretty cute, Elliott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Elliott, cute is not scary, and how we is
Speaker 1: about scary?
Speaker 3: Billy says you should add fangs to your jack o' lanterns.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so they get sick flood like vampires.
Speaker 2: Non, sinks, My pumpkins don't like blood.
Speaker 1: Hockay suit yourself, Hey, Belly, what's in that big cauldron.
Speaker 3: Billy says, it's a surprise. Close your eyes and reach
Speaker 3: in for a Halloween treat.
Speaker 2: Ooh, I love treats. I'll try it. What is that?
Speaker 1: It feels slimy and loly gooey.
Speaker 3: Billy says, it's a.
Speaker 2: Pot of.
Speaker 1: Eyeballs high ballsy yuck, yucky, yuck.
Speaker 2: I don't want to touch.
Speaker 3: Eyeballs, Elliot. You know they're not real eyeballs, right, but.
Speaker 2: They feel like eyeballs. I mean, how I imagine eyeballs
Speaker 2: would feel.
Speaker 3: Billy says they're actually just peeled grapes.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't like touching eyeballs, even pretend ones.
Speaker 1: But why not, Elliot? Eyeballs are so spooky. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't like spooky.
Speaker 2: But Elliot, that's the old boys of Halloween. Well then
Speaker 2: maybe they don't.
Speaker 3: Like Halloween, Elliott. Some kids really like spooky things, and
Speaker 3: they like to be scared on Halloween. It feels fun
Speaker 3: because they know it's just pretend, like me and me.
Speaker 3: But some kids do not like that part of Halloween
Speaker 3: as much. And that's perfectly okay. There are lots of
Speaker 3: ways to have a g eat Halloween, lingo, kids, friends,
Speaker 3: can you think of some not so scary ways Elliott
Speaker 3: can have fun on Halloween.
Speaker 2: Candy you get the best candy on Halloween. And costumes.
Speaker 2: You like making costumes, right, niot? Yes, but not the
Speaker 2: scary kind.
Speaker 1: Why know something else that you like? Carvering pumpkins?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are all great ways to have fun on Halloween,
Speaker 3: even if you don't like to be scared.
Speaker 1: But Elliott, will you at least try or Haunted House?
Speaker 1: You might like it?
Speaker 2: Maybe, But I have to fix my costume first.
Speaker 7: Nice drives, thinks, but I can't quite figure out how
Speaker 7: to make the antenna.
Speaker 8: Oh, I can help you with that. Let's see what
Speaker 8: I have in my bag of tricks.
Speaker 3: Lingle Kids friends meet Ruth E. Carter. She is an
Speaker 3: award winning costume designer who has created costumes for many
Speaker 3: famous movies like Black Panther and Wakanda Forever.
Speaker 1: Wow, so you get to meet costumes all the time,
Speaker 1: not just on Halloween.
Speaker 8: I sure do, Ruth.
Speaker 2: What was the hardest costume you've ever made? Was it tricky?
Speaker 8: The hardest costume that I ever made was the broccoli
Speaker 8: for Eddie Murphy and Daddy Take Care. Why was it
Speaker 8: so difficult? Because I had to make him look like
Speaker 8: an actual broccoli. You know, when you go to the
Speaker 8: grocery store and you're in the produce section, you see
Speaker 8: a large broccoli stock. Sometimes they have a red rubber
Speaker 8: man around the middle section. We had to figure out
Speaker 8: what we were going to make it out of. So
Speaker 8: we carved a phone base, we painted green, and then
Speaker 8: we had the challenge of how do we make the florets.
Speaker 8: I walk through a craft store and I found these
Speaker 8: little brown fuzzy balls. They were all different colors. They
Speaker 8: were in the pipe cleaner section.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Root.
Speaker 3: Did you like Halloween when you were later?
Speaker 8: I especially liked Halloween because I liked making up a costume.
Speaker 8: I'd go to the attic of our house where my
Speaker 8: mother stored all of the old clothes that nobody wanted
Speaker 8: to wear anymore, and I would look. I would search
Speaker 8: and search and search for something that I could imagine
Speaker 8: might make a cool costume. We would find things and
Speaker 8: we would make up our costume. And that was a
Speaker 8: fun part about Halloween, because you never know what your
Speaker 8: friends are going to come out as.
Speaker 3: Ruth.
Speaker 2: Do you know how to make fake blood?
Speaker 8: Fake blood can be made of all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 8: You can take cherry syrup and maybe add a little
Speaker 8: food coloring to make it darker, and then drip it
Speaker 8: onto your costume. But in the movies, we actually buy
Speaker 8: the blood. It comes in a bottle just like ketchup,
Speaker 8: but on the label it says fake blood.
Speaker 1: Do you have any fun ideas for making Halloween costumes?
Speaker 8: If I wanted to be a witch, I would find
Speaker 8: a dress and I would make sure it was dark.
Speaker 8: Maybe it was black dress or a dark blue dress
Speaker 8: that I could add a black belt to in a
Speaker 8: black hat. Witches are pretty simple. Sometimes they even wear
Speaker 8: a cape and they carry a boom.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 2: That sounds fun.
Speaker 3: Speaking of costumes, you'd better put yours on, it's getting dark.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, anyone meet back at the Haunted House.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, miss Carter. Do you think we can still
Speaker 6: fix my bubble be costume?
Speaker 8: You bet. We can just use head cleaners, a headband,
Speaker 8: a couple of puff balls who two bumble daily, and
Speaker 8: tennis who you are good? Thank you, my pleasure. Enjoy
Speaker 8: the Haunted House.
Speaker 2: I'll try, but it seems a little too scary for me.
Speaker 3: Ah well, you could always just peek in before your
Speaker 3: friends get back and see if you like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great idea things.
Speaker 5: Okay one, two, three, Wow, spider webs are glueing, but
Speaker 5: it is pretty dork in here.
Speaker 1: Hope.
Speaker 2: I'm hi, O good ah, who are you well?
Speaker 3: Lingo Kids listeners. Today, the Lingo Kids' friends got to
Speaker 3: meet a real costume designer, Ruth E.
Speaker 8: Carter.
Speaker 3: They also learned there are many ways to enjoy Halloween,
Speaker 3: and some are spookier than others. Join us in the
Speaker 3: next episode to continue play learning together and to find
Speaker 3: out who or what Elliott meets inside the haunted house.