Ideas from Corey on celebrating a Green Halloween®, with Shaniqua Manning of NWCN Northwest News.
National Costume Swap Day is an effort to save costumes from landfills and to have fun prior to the big day. Host a swap or find one near you.
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Celebrate green this Halloween
Looking for ways to make Halloween healthier for your kids and for the Earth?
You'll find the best, most creative, unusual and inspiring ideas for Halloween at our sister site, www.GreenHalloween.org, but here are a few additional tips from readers. If you've got more to suggest, e-mail us.
See the cutest Halloween bag ever, designed by a child, with a percentage of the proceeds going to our non-profit partner, Treeswing. Best of all, these are Chico bags, so long after Halloween, you can use them to carry groceries or whatever you like and they'll last for years.
For Halloween we gave out coins instead of candy and the kids loved it. So when Christmas classroom gift time came around, we gave out little mini picture frames with snowmen; Valentine's Day we gave mini note pads with heart pens and Easter we gave eggs filled with stickers. All of the purchases were compliments of the dollar bins at local stores.
This year we handed out Bug Bites, a bite-sized chocolate treat from Endangered Species Chocolate, which are organic and fair trade, and included a trading card inside the package that portrayed a rain forest species and some information about the species on it. Jack had a lot more fun handing out the candy than getting his own treats.
Looking for ways to make Halloween healthier for your kids and for the Earth?
