16 Green Halloween Tips
October 14, 2008 by Noel
Filed under Green Living
Okay, it’s just a few more days before the halloween activities begin. I bet you and your family are already excited with the planning and preparations for halloween parties, trick or treat costumes and what not.
I’ve searched the web and compile a list of things and ideas to make this a “green” Halloween.
So here it is, the 16 Green Halloween Tips
1. Email party invites instead of using paper or cardboard greeting cards. (save the trees)
2. Make use of all pumpkin parts.
(I remember seeing pumpkin soup sometime before in the food channel. )
3. Use reusable plates, cups, utensils.
4. Rent a costume instead of buying
5. Use reusable bags for trick or treat
6. Make your own costume.
Check out these last minute costumes for kids
7. Give ecofriendly organic treats (ie organic candies, or things that have little or no packaging)
8. Roast pumpkin seeds.
9. Make a Tissue ghost
10. Stuff an old jeans and shirt with plastic bags and turn it into a scarecrow.
11. Replace lightbulbs with low wattage red bulbs
12. Turn your yard into a cemetery. Use cardboard box and black paint.
From allfreecrafts
14. Egg carton bat
16. Recycled CD jack-o-lantern
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Great tips, thanks!
Cute ideas. We have always done the tissue paper ghosts and we have used the same plastic pumpkin for trick-or-treating 4 years running. Thanks!
We add our costume to the dress up area.
Wonderful ideas! Thanks!
I like the idea of a tin can frankenstein.
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Great Ideas!! I love this time of year from now thru Christmas.
thanks for the ideas
Cool a green Halloween. Great ideas.
Those are fun ideas!
Thanks for the great ideas.
Great ideas.
Thanks for the tips
Thanks for the tips!
I love so many of your “green” ideas. I especially love the one about making your own costume. We’ve been trying to help teach our children about going green and I think that by us making our own costumes is a great example.
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the tips. My kids would really enjoy the crafts.
the best thing about halloween is deciding what everyone want to be and than looking around the house for items to make them.
Thanks for the tips
Thanks so much for the Halloween ideas and the giveaway! Pumpkin soup sounds delish.
I love roasted pumpkin seeds!
Great ideas! I’ve bought each of my kids their own cute fabric trick or treat bags and they are my favorite part of the H’ween holiday.
Great tips!
We have made many scarecrows like yours for our porch chairs. Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas! Cindi
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A lot of wonderful suggestions. Thank you. And thank you for the contest!
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Thank you for the wonderful list of useful ideas.
We have spent the last couple of years doing everything possible to go green in our household.
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Mmm, roasted pumpkin seeds are one of my favorite snacks!
trade costumes with other or just borrow
Super tips. We look forward to it every year
Thanks for the great Halloween tips
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Thanks! Done and done.
Great ideas! Thanks for the contest.
Wonderful ideas! Thank you for sharing!
great ideas, already doing many of them!
Pumpkin pie and roast pumpkin wedges are two more great ways to use the whole gourd! Go Green!
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Great ideas, thanks.
Great tips for getting the whole family involved.
OH BOY
Thanks for the helpful info.
good thoughts
Never thought of being green on Halloween, these all make sense thanks!
Some cute crafts. I can’t wait until my little is older so I can do fun projects with her. My oldest is a teenager now, so no halloween fun for us this year. We don’t get visitors so I kinda miss celebrating and passing out candy to the little kids.
some good fun ideas
Thaks for the great ideas and a chance to win a surprise.
don’t do halloween
Great tips…we always make tissue ghosts.
All of my grandaughters have purchased costumes of some character or other from Nickelodean or the Disney channel and I think that is a shame because when I was a kid part of the fun of Halloween was in raiding the attic or the bottoms of closets looking for things that we could turn into a costume. Also my street’s houses are littered with plastic decorations and that is a shame too. As for using all of the pumpkin, please do not use the pumpkin meat after is has set unrefrigerated for several days as it will be too spoiled to eat. Actually canned pumpkin is far better for cooking than trying to make the smooth puree from stringy pumpkin with home machines.
I Love Surprises!