A person writing on a family tree beside a stuffed cat holding up an old photo of a relative.
A stuffed cat holding a family tree.
A table with some old heirloom books, a stuffed cat holding up a photo of a relative, and the Folks and Fables tin on top of it.
A stuffed cat sitting on the Folks and Fables tin holding up a family tree.
A stuffed cat holding a family tree beside the Folks and Fables tin.
A stuffed cat with embroidered features.
A family tree next to a stuffed cat.
Folks and Fables tin with orange and gold colors featuring a cat and profile faces beside flower vases.
The side of the tin featuring a design of profile faces and ribbon.
A person writing on a family tree beside a stuffed cat holding up an old photo of a relative.
A stuffed cat holding a family tree.
A table with some old heirloom books, a stuffed cat holding up a photo of a relative, and the Folks and Fables tin on top of it.
A stuffed cat sitting on the Folks and Fables tin holding up a family tree.
A stuffed cat holding a family tree beside the Folks and Fables tin.
A stuffed cat with embroidered features.
A family tree next to a stuffed cat.
Folks and Fables tin with orange and gold colors featuring a cat and profile faces beside flower vases.
The side of the tin featuring a design of profile faces and ribbon.

Folks & Fables Halloween Tradition Set

$ 28.00
Minus Plus

This item is FINAL SALE and cannot be returned.

October is not just the month of Halloween. It is also Family History Month, and Folks and Fables was born from that happy overlap.

Here is how it works. Sometime at the beginning of October, you bring Boo the black cat out of storage along with a pedigree chart to fill out as a family. You take a few minutes to sit down together, remember names, match faces to photographs, and talk about the people who came before you. Then throughout the month, Boo slips out of his tin at night and returns with a small memento, sometimes a photograph, sometimes an object tied to a story. A bag of pink mints for grandpa. A tube of red lipstick or a cookie jar for grandma. Whatever Boo finds becomes the prompt for a story, and the kids get to hunt him down in the morning before the telling begins.

It does not happen every night, and that is part of what makes it work. The randomness keeps it special, and the stories are what make it last.

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Measurements:

  • Tin: 4.25" x 7.5" x 3.25"
  • Linen Cat: stands 8.5"

Made of tin and linen.

Heirloom tin includes a blank pedigree chart and a fabric cat doll.

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