Doing the 100 days and with Halloween falling into this time period, we need to be making some decisions. Our children will be getting candy for Halloween I am sure. What to do with it all, is the question. If anyone has any input, please share. I wont be handing anything out since we will be at our fall party at the church, but if you are maybe you can think of something else to hand out besides candy. Here are some ideas:
- Packs of mini play dough containers
- A mix of inexpensive Halloween-themed toys. Something that wont just be thrown away!
- Miniature bottles of water or all natural juice boxes.
- Light-up glow sticks.
- Halloween pencils and mini activity books or pads of paper
- Toothbrushes (big kids might turn their noses up to this, but my children happen to think new toothbrushes are fun)
- Packs of raisins
- “Birthday landfill”, which is basically a collection of all the little gizmos and gadgets from party favor bags throughout the year
- Temporary tattoos and/or stickers
- Small bags of microwavable popcorn
- Fruit leathers (made with 100% fruit)
- Homemade crayons made in muffin tins in the oven (google it)
- Pennies (let them grab a handful)
What do you do with all of the candy that your children get? I don't care for it to be in my household when we can't have it. I think I will let them pick out of couple of pieces to have and do away with the rest. Here are a couple of ideas:
- Allow them to keep a few pieces and then trade in the rest to you for a quarter each…then off to the toy store or dollar store!
- Keep it simple – just offer your kids the choice to trade in all their candy for a trip to the toy store or for something else they’ve been really wanting
- Leave the bulk of the candy out on the front porch for the mysterious “Halloween Fairy” who will miraculously leave a non-candy surprise (like a game or a toy) in its place…tell them the “better” the candy the “better” the surprise!
- Ship your candy off to the troops
- Or combine the best of both worlds – find a local dentist who participates in a Halloween Candy Buy Back Program because they will give you something in exchange for the candy and also ship it off to the troops for you!
If anyone has any other ideas, I would be glad to hear them.
As it turned out, I had a denist appt. yesturday, so I asked about if they knew of any dentist around who is collecting candy. They gave me a name of someone to call. I was planning on making that call today, but as it turns out we have very little candy and it would not be worth it. It all fit into a little container that I put into the freezer! We only went to 3 houses and hung out at the church!
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