Skull and Crossbones with Bats
A bold skull grins above crossed bones while bats, stars, curly clouds, dots, and little bones float all around it.
🎨 How to color it
Color the skull and crossed bones creamy ivory, the bats deep black, the stars golden yellow, and the curly clouds smoky gray. Use broad crayons or markers for the big skull, then switch to a sharper pencil for the tiny bones, dots, and bat wings. Try giving the empty space around the skull a pale purple night glow so the white bones still stand out.
Rattle's Secret Game — The skull’s round eye holes and neat row of teeth look very serious, but a secret game is hiding among the bats and stars. Read the full story →
The skull’s round eye holes and neat row of teeth look very serious, but a secret game is hiding among the bats and stars. A soft rattle-tap drifted through the night air, the kind of sound little bones make when they are trying not to giggle.
The skeleton skull, whose name was Rattle, had just invented Moonbone Hide-and-Seek. The rules were simple: every little bone in the sky had to hide between a star, a cloud curl, or a bat wing before Rattle counted to ten with his teeth. Can you find the tiny bone near the top, floating between the two stars? That one thought it had picked the best spot.
But Rattle noticed a clue. One bat on the right side had a wing tip pointing straight toward another hidden bone. Can you find that bat? Then a curly cloud near the bottom swirled like an arrow, whispering where the last player waited. Rattle grinned wider, because the smallest secret was not a bone at all—it was the little dot beside the cloud, pretending to be moon dust until the next round began.
