Before you buy that gigantic bag of candy from your local warehouse store, check out these suggestions from the Green Halloween website:
Food items (“treats”)
– Organic juice boxes or pouches
– Organic apple sauce snack packs
– Real-fruit strips and rolls
– Whole food bars
– Boxes of organic raisins and, where available, other organic dried fruits.
– 100% honey sticks — don’t give honey to children under the age of 2
– Raw or roasted nuts (ask parents before giving out nuts due to allergies)
– Trial size packs of dried veggie chips
– Organic granola/breakfast bars
– Trial/snack sized bags of organic cookies, crackers, or popcorn
– Individually wrapped pumpkin seed treats
– Individual “Jr” packs of organic nut butter (be sure to ask parents about possible nut allergies)
– Organic licorice bars, rope, and gum, (cut into pieces).
– Organic organic chocolate and candy.
– Individually wrapped organic herbal tea bags (all of those princesses will be delighted to have tea for their tea parties!)
Non food items (“treasures”)
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- – Acorns (kids love items from nature)
– Adhesive “bandages” with pirate, black cat and other fun themes (one per child. Great for older kids!)
– Barrettes or other hair things
– Beads
– Bean bags (homemade)
– Bells
– Charms
– Coins (US or non-US)
– Confetti-biodegradable, water-soluble
– Cookie cutters – mini
– Crayon “rocks” (soy-based)
– Earth tone feathers
– Elf and fairy items
– Fake jewels (lead free)
– Fortunes
– Glass rings
– Glass beads
– Jokes
– Large metallic star confetti or “fairy dust”
– Money
– Pencils
– Polished rocks/ skipping stones
– Printed items like word games, word search or crossword puzzles
– Pumpkins (mini, dried)
– Sachets (homemade)
– Seashells
– Seed Packets
– Soap
– Soy or beeswax crayons
– Spider confetti
– Stamps from foreign countries
– Stickers
– Yarn bracelets