Green Halloween

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by Patricia Mayville-Cox (Subscribe to Patricia Mayville-Cox's posts)
Oct 16th 2007 @ 12:24PM

Filed under: Kids and Parenting

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Green Halloween is a Seattle-based group aiming to make Halloween healthy and green. One of their first suggestions is to remove the emphasis on candy by giving out alternative treats. Here are some of their suggestions:

Organic juice boxes
Organic fruit leathers
Organic raisins
Soy crayons
Stickers
Mini cookie-cutters
Barrettes
Temporary tattoos

Also, Green Halloween suggests having a green Halloween party, instead of focusing on amassing as much candy as possible by going door-to-door. Green Halloween will also be raising money for Treeswing, a non-profit dedicated to improving the health and wellness of children.

I like the idea of reducing the amount of candy involved in Halloween, but I'm not sure that totally removing it is the answer. It is part of the tradition in my mind. I might try mixing it up this year though, giving out a little bit of candy along with a few non-candy trinkets, depending on the age of the kids. Check out their website for more Green Halloween ideas.

Via TeensyGreen

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10-16-2007 @ 2:59PM

ryaninc said...

While I like the idea of healthy stuff, I would never use it for Halloween. Man, I remember being a kid and coming to the house that gave bags of pretzels, or stickers, or apples or some other healthy stuff. We hated those houses and we'd make a point of telling the other kids to avoid them. :-)

10-17-2007 @ 10:46AM

The Simple Family said...

I do not understand how handing out a juice box makes anything "greener." Perhaps they should change name to "healthy Halloween." Or, you know "How to have the house that kids throw eggs at on Halloween."

I'm all for mixing up the candy with things that have less sugar (last year, I gave out a lot of dairy free things due to food allergies). But, if you're going to have a "green" Halloween, handing out individually-wrapped things isn't the answer.

Sad part is that we all know if you do try to do something greener (which would most likely involve making something), nobody's parents will let them touch it.

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