Hiya Pandas,

Have you stopped by the castle yet? It’s been taken over by the roots of an incredible tree monster!

I’ve never heard of a tree monster. It looks pretty creepy, though. Max and I stopped by yesterday and had a little chat with the monster. Max hid behind me a bit because he was scared that it would grab him! We found out that the tree monster isn’t all bad – it’s just that some dark forces are overtaking his soul and he’s doing his best to fight against them. It’s kinda sad.

Don’t worry, Ella, I’m sure that lots of Pandas will be on the search for the jack-o-lanterns. You have to light them all and then the tree will be back to his normal self.

I hope you’re right. In the mean time, Max and I have been carving our own pumpkins. Max came over to my tree house with a gigantic pumpkin. I don’t know how he carried it up all those steps. We did a good job carving a very creepy face into it. Afterwards, we lit a candle and put it inside so the face would glow. It looked great! Satisfied with our work, we went back inside to have a bit of pumpkin tea.

That’s when we heard someone outside the tree house: “You jack-o-lantern ghosts won’t fool me! I’ll get every last one of you!” Then we heard a big thump.

We ran to the door and that’s when we saw it – Kamaria stood on the porch over our smashed pumpkin with a broomstick. She looked very satisfied with herself. That’s when we had to tell her it was our Halloween decoration. She still didn’t believe us…

Oh well, we can make a new one. You can make one, too! On Friday we’ll post step-by-step instructions on how to make your own jack-o-lantern. You can look for a pattern yourself if you want and then we’ll guide you from there!

Be good Pandas,

Max and Ella