Games & activities

Host your own spooky Creakers-style sleepover

Planning a sleepover with all your friends? Make it a Creakers-themed one! Download our Creakers catching kit and have a fun evening battling those smelly creatures.

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You will need:

• The Creakers catching kit

• A printer and A4 paper

• A bunch of friends

• A little bit of bravery

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How to host your own spooky Creaker-catching party:

1. Download The Creakers catching kit and print it off onto A4

2. Those Creakers are crafty creatures. Use the invites to invite all of your bravest friends

3. Make sure you check under the bed! Everyone knows it’s the first place you’re likely to find a Creaker

4. Use the recipes to make some disgusting ear wax fudge and some super-sticky slime

5. Play ‘hide and creak’ with your friends to try and catch a Creaker!

6. Once you’re tired from all that creakin’ about, try the word search to see if you can speak like a Creaker

7. Read the creepy extract included in the kit. Psst, try it by torchlight for an extra spooky effect

8. Draw a Creaker and give it a name!

Congratulations, you are an official Creaker catcher! Don’t forget to fill in your certificate!

 

The Creakers

Tom Fletcher

Tom Fletcher is one of the UK's bestselling authors for children. The Christmasaurus was the biggest debut middle-grade novel of 2016 and was shortlisted for a British Book Award, and The Creakers was a number one bestseller. Tom is also the bestselling author of the Who's in Your Book? picture book series, as well as one half of the author duo behind the Dinosaur that Pooped picture book series, which has sold over a million copies. Tom's books have been translated into thirty-three languages and counting. He is also a music-making, song-writing, guitar-playing, Guinness World Record-holding, nappy changing, galaxy-defending dad!

Tom Fletcher

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Games & activities

Make some disgusting slime inspired by The Creakers

Mix up some rotsome slime with your fellow Creaker Catchers using this fun how-to. Things are about to get messy!
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Extracts

The Creakers by Tom Fletcher

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