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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Some good tips here.
We love pumpkin soup at our house.
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We just do a little trick or treating and give out candy bars. Christmas is the holiday we go all out to celebrate.
Thank you for all the great tips. We’ve actually done quite a few of them. Thank you for the contest!
I remember my aunt making her first pumpkin pie-she called my mom and asked how to get all the seeds out-she thought you used the “guts” of the pumpkin!
Thank you for the great tips, many got me to thinking. Old Styrofoam and used straws can be odd shaped spiders.
So much garbage can be re-used at Halloween when the shape does not matter but weirdness does.
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We use hand-me-downs and thrift store purchases to assemble costumes.
great ideas!
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It’s getting easier and easier to be green. Thanks.
Great ideas. I think I am going to use flameless candles. I tend to use the same decorations year after year.
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What cute ideas for costumes. My sister and I use to make our own costumes and they always turned out pretty good.
thanks for the great ideas. I say instead of plastic bags, why not stuff jeans and a shirt with all the fallen leaves in the yard.
I would love to roast pumpkin seeds, I’ve never tried it and heard they are delicious! Thanks for the contest!
We roast tons of Pumpkin Seeds! I snack on them for weeks. LOVE EM!
Egg Carton Bats: how simple and cute! Thanks!
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kids would really enjoy the crafts, always looking for new ideas
I always loved the pumpkin seeds and now I can’t have them anymore, Darn !!
Thanks
Borrow a friend’s costume from last year.
great ideaas
We rent our costumes – it lets us get “cooler” costumes than we would if we had to buy them. I’m going to be a really pretty devil this year!
i loved halloween as a kid and i’m getting back into dressing up and going out now…40 yrs,. later
Great Ideas! Thank You!
great ideas
thanks
This are great tips! I’m all about being thrifty!
Halloween is just a wonderful time of year… I cant wait to make my little Frankenstein Tin Can…Count me in.
Great ideas. I’m always looking for something new to do with my grandkids.
GREAT IDEAS
Thank you for all the great ideas. I will definately put some of these into action.
We used to love roasting pumpkin seeds, worth the effort.
I think the ideas are mostly common sense but thanks for pointing them out to those of us with no sense.
Great ideas. We place our pumpkins and gourds out in our woods after Halloween and Thanksgiving. The local wildlife get to have a feast, as well. Squirrels love to eat the insides of pumpkins.
Your great tips would make for a memorable Halloween.
We always roast our own pumpkin seeds. It’s wonderful! Thanks for a chance to win a special gift!
These tips are great. Thanks for this contest!
Good ideas. I will use some of them.
Unique and wonderful suggestions that i certainly will try.
love anything that helps the enviroment
I like roasted pumpkin seeds.
who’d of thought?!
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Great ideas.