Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but it's not so healthy or even green with all those indiviually wrapped treats and goodies floating about. My cute friend Jessica sent me this website. It has some fun ideas. Take a look around and see what you think.
http://www.greenhalloween.org/
Over the years we have tried a few different things to make Halloween a bit more healthy and allergy friendly for the family. The best one yet, is to have the Halloween witch comes to visit on Halloween night after the kids have rooted through their haul. They get to pick out 15 of their favorite treats to keep and then the rest is left out to trade with the Halloween witch. She usually brings something bigger and better like a book or legos or something the witch knows they are wanting. At first I thought it would be a hard sell, to get the kids to give up their candy after their hard work of gathering it all. But, it turns out they are more than happy to pick their favorites, give up the rest and look forward to waking up to a new treat! The real trick is-to make sure the Halloween witch takes the other candy far far away from the house or you might be tempted to hide it and eat it all by yourself (I may or may not know this from experience).
What are your traditions?
Happy Haunting!!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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