Halloween is my favorite holiday! This year we are having a party but every other year we have gone trick-or-treating. Here are some tips to make your Halloween fun and safe:

1. Very small children should not trick-or-treat with their older siblings without parents.
2. All kids should use the bathroom before they put their costumes on.
3. Make sure your child’s costume and shoes are comfy. It is no fun to trick-or-treat if you are too hot, too cold, or something in the costume is itchy, pulling or uncomfy.
4. Don’t let yor kids wear costumes that drag on the ground. You dont want them to trip and fall.
5. Rollerblading in costume is not the safest way to go about trick-or-treating.
6. Trick or treat only in neighborhoods you are familiar with.
7. Bring your camera!
8. If the costume includes a hood or mask, make absolutely sure your child can see well out of it at night. If not, then take off the mask between houses while your child is walking.
9. Kids have a tendency to get excited and are more likely to run across the street on Halloween. It is best to trick-or-treat on one side of the street at a time rather than zig zag back and forth on both sides.
10. Have your child hold a flashlight at night and put one of those glow stick neon necklaces around her neck or wrist to make her more visible to cars.
11. Parents should take a wagon or stroller to pull small kids around when they get tired. Include an extra large bag to dump candy in so your young trick-or-treaters don’t have to lug around a heavy bag of candy. Include water for drinking.
12. While on the trick-or-treat trail, let your kids eat candy from houses you are familiar with.
13. The younger your children are, obviously the quicker they will get tired out walking. So you wonlt want to trick-or-treat for too long with tiny kids.(I say this, yet we have always been obsessed with getting as much candy as possible and stayed out for hours every single year!)
14. When you get home, everybody should wash their hands!
15. Throw out any candy that is open or looks odd in any way.
16. Have fun with your treasures, and organize your candy by type. Be sure to count it!
17. Pace yourself and your little ones as far as what you eat. Ever eat too much Halloween candy? Of course you have! It doesn’t feel very good afterward. And when a 4-year-old gorges, the consequences are rather unpleasant for the parents!
18. Freeze your chocolate bar candy for later, but not Twix. The cookie part gets mushy in the freezer. You can put a small candy in your child’s lunch (or yours!) every day.

Happy Halloween!

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