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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I didn’t even think of going green with halloween!
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Great tips. Thanks!
What great ideas,thanks
great tips for halloween.
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Cute ideas thanks.
these are some great ideas
Great Tips! Thanks for sharing!
Great tips
I like taking old clothes and stuffing them and putting a pumpkin head on top to make Halloween people. Lifesize! You can use leaves as the stuffing.
Great ideas! Thanks, I enjoyed reading all the tips. Please enter my name too!
Great ideas for the kids.
Good Ideas. I’d love this
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Thanks for the tips! I’ve made Halloween dummies using old hay and clothes that we no longer wear.
Thanks for the helpful tips!
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Please enter me! We try to give out sustainable toys or recycled-paper stickers at Halloween.
Don’t you worry about our pumpkins going to waste: the squirrels start eating them before we can even carve them!
thank you for having this. great ideas
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Halloween is so fun, thanks for the tips
Thanks for the tips!
We bought the kids their costumes at the thrift store. After Halloween, they can reuse them to play dress up. We use a pillowcase for the candy when Trick or Treating.
Very good tips
Pumpkin soup sounds just weird enough to be tasty!
I love roasted pumpkin seeds and I love surprises! Count me in!
Great tips, thanks!
Great ideas! Thanks!!!
great tips might try a few this weekend.
Great ideas to walk softly on this earth!
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Happy Halloween
My daughter still fits in her costume from 2years ago – and wants to wear it!
Thanks for the great Halloween tips.
Great Ideas! Thank You!
Excellent Halloween green ideas, thank-you.
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Excellent Halloween green ideas, thank-you.
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My friends at work and I all have multiple kids of all ages and sizes, so each year, we do a costume swap. I haven’t had to buy a new costume in 3 years and the kids are perfectly happy with them.
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Wow what great ideas!!!
Thanks!
Interesting ideas.
thanks for all the useful and interesting ideas and tips will keep them in mind and probably use a few, thanks for the chance to enter this fantastic giveaway, of course I’ll be hoping to win, GLTA
Great tips! Thanks!
Thanks for the great giveaway and tips!