The Haunted Hayride

by Abby Klein

  Green food coloring

  Directions:

  Fill a small bowl with 1 cup of water and add 1 teaspoon of Borax powder. Mix until the Borax is dissolved and set aside.

  Pour glue into a medium mixing bowl and add ½ cup of water.

  Add four drops of food coloring to the glue mixture.

  Stir it up a little bit and then add the Borax mixture to the glue mixture. Watch it begin to solidify.

  Mix it up with your hands.

  Pour out the excess water and knead the mixture until it becomes firm and dry.

  Have fun playing with your slime!

  When you are done playing with it, store it in a Ziploc bag or airtight container.

  ABBY KLEIN has been a first-grade and kindergarten teacher for twenty years. She and her husband and two children live in Vermont. They have four dogs.

  JOHN McKINLEY has been drawing all his life. For the Ready, Freddy! books, he hides the word “fin” in every picture. He and his family live in Northern California.

  #1: Tooth Trouble

  #2: The King of Show-and-Tell

  #3: Homework Hassles

  #4: Don’t Sit on My Lunch!

  #5: Talent Show Scaredy-Pants

  #6: Help! A Vampire’s Coming!

  #7: Yikes! Bikes!

  #8: Halloween Fraidy-Cat

  #9: Shark Tooth Tale

  #10: Super-Secret Valentine

  #11: The Pumpkin Elf Mystery

  #12: Stop That Hamster!

  #13: The One Hundredth Day of School!

  #14: Camping Catastrophe!

  #15: Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble

  #16: Ready, Set, Snow!

  #17: Firehouse Fun!

  #18: The Perfect Present

  #19: The Penguin Problem

  #20: Apple Orchard Race

  #21: Going Batty

  #22: Science Fair Flop

  #23: A Very Crazy Christmas

  #24: Shark Attack!

  #25: Save the Earth!

  #26: The Giant Swing

  #27: The Reading Race

  #1: Second Grade Rules!

  #2: Snow Day Dare

  #3: Secret Santa Surprise

  #4: Best Prank Ever

  #5: Haunted Hayride

  Text copyright © 2016 by Abby Klein

  Illustrations copyright © 2016 by John McKinley

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  First printing, September 2016

  e-ISBN 978-0-545-93214-1

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