Hopefully by now you’ve heard of the Teal Pumpkin Project. Food allergies are on the rise, and those kids with life-threatening allergies get systematically excluded from one of the funnest days of the year–but the teal pumpkins are trying to help that. With candy alternatives for Halloween trick or treaters, everyone can have fun, and most importantly, stay safe!
If you’re putting out non-candy treats, be sure to put them in a separate bowl from any food items to prevent contamination, and let the trick-or-treaters know you have treats that are safe with a teal pumpkin, like this one from our Minecraft Trunk or Treat.
You can also print a teal pumpkin out for your door on this site.
If you’ve checked out the price of Halloween candy lately, it’s not even more expensive to go the small toy route. Here’s a list of my favorites. These are affiliate links–clicking costs you nothing, but helps me maintain this site!
GLOWING THINGS
On Halloween night, kids are going to go NUTS for light up stuff. Here are a few things we’ve given out in the past that got snatched up by ALL the trick or treaters!
- Finger lights – very inexpensive (buy them here)
- light up bumpy rings (buy them here)
- light up emoji rings (buy them here)
- Glow sticks (buy them here)
- Glow eyeglasses (buy them here or buy them here)
- Glowing hair extensions (buy them here)
OTHER GREAT STUFF
If you don’t do glow-in-the dark, there is still plenty to choose from that kids will love that isn’t candy!
- Wikki sticks (buy them here)
- Pokemon figures (buy them here)
- toy gliders (buy them here)
- emoji bracelets (buy them here)
- bubbles (buy them here)
- sticky hands (buy them here)
- mini playdough (buy them here)
- bouncy balls (buy them here)
- stick-on moustaches (buy them here)
- Lego minifigures (buy them here)
- Slap bracelets (buy them here)
- Monster tattoos (buy them here)
- Halloween pencil tops (buy them here)
- Sticker favor boxes (buy them here)
- Pull back cars (buy them here)
- Ball catch game (buy them here)
- Slinkies (buy them here)
- Halloween disk throwers (buy them here)
Whatever it is you choose to give out, a kid that wouldn’t otherwise be able to trick or treat because of a food allergy will really appreciate it!
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Wednesday 4th of October 2017
[…] Crowd favorites? Lighty blinky glow in the dark toys, like blinking spiders or finger lights. I have a whole list of suggestions along this route in this blog post. (click here) […]
Sandra Garth
Friday 28th of October 2016
I've been wondering what the teal pumpkins are for, thanks for explaining. These are great alternatives for all the kids. We don't get many trick-or-treaters anymore so I don't buy tons of candy. It's amazing how the price of candy has risen over the years.