How to Celebrate Halloween Safely With Children

Halloween will be here before you know it so if you haven’t started thinking about costumes, you should. If you have children they will need costumes to dress up for school and other area events. Why? Because it is fun. Children love dressing in costumes and having a reason to celebrate. Unfortunately, there are a lot of wackos out in the world. Therefore, you need to research area events and plan a schedule so that your children can celebrate Halloween safely.

Instructions: Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

* Costumes
* Schedules of area events

Step1
Check your on line newpaper and community calendars. Start looking for area Halloween celebrations that are safe and fun for children. Look in the newspaper, some are published on the internet. Look in your weekly free community ad paper, notices sent home by schools, and community calendars on radio website. Check with area churches to see what they are planning for Halloween.

Step2
Halloween hayride Decide on a schedule of activities for the week before Halloween. Many events begin a few weeks before Halloween such as haunted houses, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, hay rides, Zoo Boo, and apple picking complete with homemade apple cider. Some of these even reinforce science class information and help the children learn.

Step3
Carve pumkins Carve pumpkins with your children several days before Halloween. If your children are very young, let them draw the face and you cut it out. Then let them help scoop all the goo and seeds out. Don’t forget to save the seeds and bake them in the oven to munch on later.

Step4
Check with your area school Trick or Treat at a church trunk party. Trusted members fill their trunks with candy. Children, dressed in costume, go from one trunk to another saying, “Trick or Treat.” Area elementary schools may also have special Trick or Treating at the school on Halloween night.

Tips & Warnings

* Provide children with flashlights.
* Plan your own celebration for neighbors and friends.
* Don’t let children Trick or Treat in neighborhoods alone.
* Check your child’s candy and dispose of anything suspicious or unwrapped.

By: Julia Fuller