The Witches by Roald Dahl book and a movie night.

I don’t know about you, but I read a lot of Roald Dahl books as a child, and the same seems to be true of many movie producers because in the last 20 years his books have been made into tons of movies, and made my book and a movie night very easy.  The Witches is one I remember reading as a kid and being rather spooked by it, but also laughing at the end results.

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The Witches by Roald Dahl summary

The Witches* (book) or The Witches* (movie) is about a boy and his grandmother who go on vacation and run into a witches’ meeting.  The boy discovers the witches plan to turn children into mice and have them killed by rat catchers.  He must work with his grandma to stop the witches’ plan.

It’s a little surreal to read about all the terrible things witches do and how a young child is turned into a mouse.  But, it’s also Roald Dahl, so it’s described in such a way you don’t really freak out by it.

I don’t know how he does it.

 

The Witches projects

My kids all did PSAs to warn other kids of the witches terrible plans.  Unfortunately I did not get any pictures of these, but they were quite hilarious.  We also attempted to make gummies using jello, which didn’t go so well.

 

The Witches snacks

Part of how the witches planned on transforming all children was poisoning their sweets, so of course we had large numbers of poisoned food.

 

Gryphon steak- steak bites marinated in soy sauce

Butterfly wings- the gummies we attempted to make

Snake’s tails- shrimp (my daughter had a lot to do with my choice of foods, and she loves steak and shrimp)

Phoenix eggs- jelly beans

Worms- gummy worms, because my kids love gummy worms

Poisoned candy- Hershey’s Nuggets* because Jeff and I needed a candy we liked

Poisoned cookies- leftover from our dinosaur fossil dig

Witches’ brew- dry ice, sherbet and Sprite (I’d link to amazon but their price is just ridiculous)

 

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