7 Halloween Safety Tips for Trick-or-Treating

1. Plan Your Route

Trick or treat in neighborhoods you are familiar with and always use sidewalks and crosswalks. Make sure the entire family knows the route and if older children are going with friends make sure to set a designated time to be home by. This is the time to choose a route with minimal street crossings. But if crossing is necessary always stick to sidewalks, crosswalks and look both ways before crossing the street. Avoid walking across lawns and alleyways!

2. Wear Reflective Clothing

Wear bright clothing when possible or buy reflective tape to add to your costume for greater visibility. Add reflective tape to any bags or backpacks too. Additionally, avoid wearing masks as they obstruct views and make it harder for kids to see their surroundings. Glow stick bracelets or necklaces are also a great addition for added visibility.

3. Stick Together.

Trick-or-treat as a family or as a large group. If older kids go with friends make sure they have a cell phone so they’re able to contact you if they need to. Follow the typical trick-or-treat hours, usually between 5:30-8:30pm, and avoid taking shortcuts or going off route.

4. Avoid Certain Houses

A porch light usually means that a house is participating in trick or treating so skip houses that aren’t well lit or have their porch light off. Never enter a stranger’s house, backyard, or vehicle, even if they seem friendly.

5. Wear Comfortable Shoes and Costumes

Wear comfortable shoes and weather-appropriate costumes. Avoid carrying unnecessary accessories like swords or wands. Also, ensure your costumes aren’t too long or heavy, to avoid tripping.

6. Wait to Eat Your Candy.

Don’t eat any candy as you go! Wait until you’re home and have had a change to go through the candy with parents. This is the time to throw out anything open or potential choking hazards for small children.

7. Make Your Home Safe

Ensure the lights are on. Remove any debris or tripping hazards from your lawn and porch. Illuminate walkway to make it safe for trick-or-treaters

And lastly, have fun. Let’s make this Halloween a hauntingly safe one!

Looking for some Halloween crafts? Check out these fun lollipop ghosts and these Halloween lanterns.

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Materials Needed

I’m not a fan of super spooky things, but these little ghosts are just too cute! They’re easy to make and it’s an activity the whole family, or classroom, can make together.

You’ll need:

• Lollipops
• Tissue Paper (or you can use a coffee filter or napkin)
• Baker’s Twine (or any string)
• Scissors
• Black Marker

DIY Lollipop Ghosts for Halloween

You can use any round lollipops for this craft, we used these Rocket Double Lollies. Start by wrapping a piece of tissue paper over the lollipop. This will be the ghostly head!

Next, tie a piece of string around the bottom of the lollipop.

Now, draw some scary eyes and maybe a mouth too, on the tissue paper.

And you’re done! You can make as many as you need, they make sweet little decorations or classroom treats, Kids love this craft, but make sure you keep a couple extra lollipops because you’ll be sure to eat them as you make your little ghosts.

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More Kids Activities

• 10 Mess Free Kids Crafts
• Outdoor Scavenger Hunt
• S’mores Campfire Cones

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Charcuterie boards are all the rage these days. I like to think of them as adult sized lunchables, but you don’t have to use them for just meats and cheeses. I love the idea of candy charcuterie boards for special occasions like Valentine’s day, Easter and birthday parties. Plus you can easily make a candy charcuterie board on a budget. I made mine with everything from the dollar store! I already had the board but I did see nice wooden boards at the dollar store.

I found this adorable heart plate at the dollar store. I really wanted to use it but I think it was too big for the board for I decided to save it for something else.

Decorate your Candy Charcuterie Board

The candy caught my daughter’s eye so of course she had to help out, plus eat some candy along the way! We started by placing some marshmallow hearts and candy hearts on the board. You can pick a color scheme for your candy board or buy whatever sweets you like the best. We made ours for Valentine’s day so we bought a lot of hearts.

Stack, pile and arrange the candy on the board. This is the fun part because you can decorate your board however you like, the creative possibilities are endless.

If you ‘re having a party you can give everyone a little bag to carry some candy home.

I can’t believe that earlier I said that decorating your candy charcuterie board was the best part because obviously eating the candy is the best part. Enjoy!

What’s your favorite candy?

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