Play along with Fiz Osborne's Giggling Ghosts
About Author
Fiz Osborne takes us on a gently spooky journey with this gaggle of giggling ghosts - watch children giggle, glide and BOOOOO! their way through the story as they follow along with the actions.
Fiz is an author who also works as an editor, and she is a former publisher. She has written for children across picture books and non-fiction using the pen name Emma Adams, Fiz lives in London.
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October 2025
Enjoy a fun, interactive story time with Fiz Osborne's Giggling Ghosts (Simon & Schuster)
Sneak, spin and glide along to Fiz Osborne's Giggling Ghosts, an interactive picture book by Fiz Osborne and Tim Budgen, that encourages young children to follow the movements of a group of sweet giggling ghosts through the story. A great story for group sharing during Halloween, it can also be used as a bedtime read, with the ghosts snuggling up to sleep in the last pages.
Along with the movement the story inspires, teacher Sue Wilsher suggests a range of craft activities that can follow a reading, bringing the story to life through games, displays and learning opportunities (below).
Here is author Fiz Osborne to introduce her picture book, Giggling Ghosts (Simon & Schuster).
More about Giggling Ghosts: In a busy town, when it's quiet after dark, there is a house full of ghosts who are ready to scare! Sneaking and spinning, gliding and booooing are all great fun, but their favourite thing to do is giggle!
Perfect for sharing, Giggling Ghosts offers a fun, interactive story time. Bouncy rhyming text encourages children to join in with the little ghosts as they have a great time stretching, tiptoeing, jiggling and wiggling, encouraging everyone to be active and interpret the ghosts movements in their own way.
Although obviously full of ghosts, this is not really a spooky story, making it just right for sharing with younger children at Hallowe'en time. The illustrations are lovely, showing 'cute' little ghosts surrounded by sparkling dust as they glide around and even the pictures showing them peeking round gravestones are not frightening!
Children are sure to quickly identify their own favourite amongst the ghosts and follow its adventure from picture to picture as each seems to have its own personality. They might enjoy thinking up names for each one!
Sweet, gentle and fun, this lovely book would make a wonderful story time and could easily be used to inspire lots of craft activities!
Reviewed by Sue Wilsher, teacher
Follow a reading of Giggling Ghosts with these lovely Craft ideas:
Make your own Giggling Ghosts!
Add black eyes and a mouth to foot or handprints in white paint (or cutouts on white paper) and you have an instant ghost which even the youngest children can create. By adding a trail of different coloured glitter to each, they could reflect the giggling ghosts in the story.
Fun for decorating a room, the little ghosts could also be used to practise cardinal numbers (1, 2, 3 etc) and ordinal numbers (first, second, third etc), developing children's mathematical language and understanding through play.
Dip a cotton wool ball into white paint and use this as a simple printing tool to paint the little ghosts onto black paper, or this technique could be used to create a collage, with children filling in a ghostly shape or creating their own. Or use white balloons to draw on ghostly faces - who doesn't love playing keep up the balloon or having a balloon race!
Create a 'popping' ghost
With older children, 'poppers' could be made; a great favourite in school. A paper cup with the bottom removed with part of a balloon stretched over it and secured in place with tape creates a 'popper' when the balloon is pulled down and released! Add small scrunched up bits of paper or pompoms to the cup and these will 'pop' out! Draw a ghostly face on the cup to create a popping ghost based on one of the giggling ghosts from the book.
Practice numbers with ghost skittles
Paper cups or toilet roll tubes could be used to create ghost skittles. Writing numbers on them allows for some addition practice as children keep their score! With the ghost cups placed the other way up, children could score points for throwing a ping pong ball or similar into the cups and scoring accordingly.
Theses are just a few of the many ways in which this lovely story might inspire some crafty activities.
Ideas contributed by Sue Wilsher, teacher
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