Should have told her that they're spooky scary skeletons and no the fun dancing skeletons.
Source: I babysit my friends kids all the time.
Some of the kids are super mature for their ages and actually ask me really interesting stuff so I go "I have no idea, you live in a great age of information so let's go look it up." Cue an hour of surfing the Internet or looking at old books my mom gave me.
Kids are absolutely fascinated by learning when you take it out of school context. I taught my friends 8 and 10 year olds how to type and how to search for stuff they want to know about. It's usually like dinosaurs and cool rocks and volcanoes and military stuff and mapping and all sorts of shit kids want to know about.
I get major friend points and get to instill the passion for knowledge in a younger generation.
They go to music festivals with us and obviously we don't smoke pot or trip balls around them but my best friend and I will occasionally be sitting by a fire talking about some really deep stuff passing a joint around and a wild friends kid will appear from a tent and sit down with us.
It's absolutely amazing getting a kids perspective on things.
We were talking about how our society became what it is and out of no where this little beautiful soul pipes up and goes "why don't more people care about what everyone else thinks? That's selfish."
We just smiled and had him tell us about how he sees people in the world. Blew our minds that this little boy understands so much but grown men don't, we just use more words with less meaning. I love that boy's mother and his father is an amazing father.
Sorry, just had to get that out there.