Chocolate Chip Ghost

One of my favorite FHE growing up was the story about the "Chocolate Chip Ghost."  I loved the story and the paper puppets.  Everyone October we carry the tradition and tell the story about the disobedient ghosts.  This year, we made cookies to go along with the story.  The kids loved it!

Here is the story:

Once upon a time, there lived 5 little ghosts. As everyone knows, ghosts are white and to stay white.  The only thing they can eat is vanilla ice cream and the only thing that they can drink is milk. One day when Mama ghost went to the refrigerator, there was no vanilla ice cream and no milk. So she had to go to the grocery store and before she left she said, "No matter how hungry you get, do not eat  anything or something dreadful will happen." 

The first ghost became so thirsty and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a little glass of grape juice and thought, "just one teeny sip wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny sip of grape juice and what do suppose happened? He turned purple! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all purple so he ran upstairs and hide in the toy box.  

The second ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a carrot and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of the carrot and what do suppose happened? He turned orange! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all orange so he ran upstairs and hide in the closet. 

The third ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a bowl of spinach and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of spinach and what do suppose happened? He turned green! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all green so he ran upstairs and hide under the bed. 

The fourth ghost became so hungry and he looked in the refrigerator and saw a bowl of strawberries and thought, "just one teeny bite wouldn't hurt." So he took a one teeny bite of a strawberry and what do suppose happened? He turned red! The other ghosts looked at him and said "Mama told us that something dreadful would happen and she was right." The little ghost did not want his Mama to see him all red so he ran upstairs and behind the door. 

The fifth ghost said, "I'm so hungry but I will not do what my brothers did.  I'll look in the freezer and see if there is just maybe a little vanilla ice cream left."  When he looked in the freezer there was some ice cream and it was almost vanilla - it was white with little brown pieces of chocolate in it. So the ghost said, "This shouldn't hurt me - those pieces of  chocolate are so tiny." So he ate one spoonful and became a chocolate chip ghost! He certainly  didn't want his Mama to see him spotted so he ran upstairs and hid in the bathtub. When Mama ghost returned, she knew something was wrong when she didn't see her children, so she started looking for the little ghosts.  

She found the first (purple) one upstairs in the toy box, and an 2nd (orange) one in the closet, and the 3rd (green) one under the bed, the 4th (red) one behind the door and the 5th and last (chocolate chip) one in the bathtub. When she found all of them, she said, "Little ghosts, I told you that something dreadful would happen and it did." Whatever can we do to get you white again for Halloween? She called the ghost doctor and this is  what he told her to do. Keep all the little ghosts in bed for five days and give them nothing but vanilla  ice cream and milk and they should be ready for Halloween. So that is what she did and by Halloween night, the five little ghosts were all white again to go out haunting and spooking and shouting "BOO!" And they never again ate something they shouldn't.