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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For someone that doesn’t like Halloween I sure do make a lot of Halloween crafts! The kids and I made these ghost lollipops and I made this spooky Halloween tray to hold all of my spooky decor. I thought these Halloween lanterns would be the perfect addition to our decor.

Materials Needed:

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• Mason Jars-any size
• Mod Podge- matte
• Paintbrush
• Orange Fabric– I got a table runner from the dollar store
• Flameless Candles
• Scissors

DIY Halloween Lanterns

To start, clean and wash your mason jars, you won’t need the lids. Measure how much fabric you need to cover your jar and cut to size.

Start gluing the fabric around the jar using Mod Podge. Use as much glue as you need because the glue dries with a slight matte haze, which adds the perfect touch to the Halloween lanterns.

Once your jars are wrapped, add more glue where you need and set aside to dry.

Cut off any excess fabric once the jars have completely dried. I purposefully left mine to stick up from the top because I liked how the shape resembles a spider web.

Next, add flame-less candles and your Halloween lanterns are finished! You can set them on your porch, garden or inside to decorate.

They’re not too spooky, I actually think they’re kind of pretty. The orange fabric glows with the flame and a slight silhouette of a spider web pokes through.

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Materials Needed

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• Wood canvas (I bought this in the craft area at the dollar store, just flip it upside down to make a tray)
• Black & white paint
• Tape
• Mod Podge
• Paintbrushes
• Spooky lettering (stickers, handwritten or use your Cricut machine)

Paint and Decorate a Halloween Wood Tray

Start by flipping your wood canvas over and painting the inside with white paint.

Once dry, add some painters tape on the inside and paint the outside black. You can skip the tape if you have any sort of precision with painting, but I don’t.

Remove the tape and wait for your tray to dry.

You can use your tray now but I decided to make some fun Halloween lettering to add to the middle. I used my Cricut machine to cut the word BOO.

Add a layer of matte Mod Podge all over the Halloween wood tray and wait for it to completely dry.

Once it’s dry all you have to do is decorate your Halloween wood tray with your spooky decorations!

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More DIY Decor Ideas

• Thankful Fall Wood Sign
• 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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