Green Your Halloween
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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle at Halloween
You can green your Halloween with Green Halloween Costumes, Recycled Costumes, Green Halloween Decorating Ideas and serving or passing out Green (Healthy) Food Ideas.
There are many ways to "Go Green" on Halloween.
Make eco-friendly, earth-friendly and healthier choices with the types of costume we wear, the types of foods we serve and how we choose to celebrate.
This lens takes a look at the growing trend of going Greener at Halloween and how you can reduce, recycle and reuse a lot for your Halloween festivities.
Green Jack a Squid created from Microsoft Clipart
Have a Green Halloween
Note to Self: For Halloween this year try to be greener.
Recycle or reuse costumes, decorate with nature items, make and eat healthier Halloween treats.
What is a Green Halloween?
The main focus is of Greening Your Halloween is to be making eco-friendly, earth-friendly and healthier choices when it comes to the food, the costumes, the decorations and the activities people are choosing to celebrate the Halloween Holiday.
Green Halloween
- Food - Focus on Healthier and Organic Treats
Costumes - Reused, Made from Reused or Recyclable items
Decorations - Reusable or Recyclable ones
Activities - Carnivals, Trick or Treating with emphasis on the 'treats' (treating others or volunteering)
Orange Halloween
- Food - Lots of Candy and Sugar
Costumes - Store Bought
Decorations - Store Bought
Activities - Trick or Treating, with emphasis on the 'tricks'
Discover Ways to Green Your Halloween
Vote on Your Favorite Halloween Color
Go, Go Green! 
Orange all the way!
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IdeaCenter says:
I think that being green at Halloween is one way to express your creativity. I've long been a fan of making costumes from what you already have in your house. Now that I have grandchildren, I'm really excited to see so many healthier options when it comes to the Halloween treats too.
Posted September 09, 2011
Pastiche says:
I'm green but when it comes to Halloween color, I go Black, no doubt about it.
Posted September 14, 2009
Mortira says:
If you consider that Hallowe'en is a harvest festival, it shouldn't be anything but green! It's all about the vegetables ;)
Posted October 23, 2008
naturegirl7 says:
Green is the Word! The word that will help save our planet.
Posted October 22, 2008
says:
of course GREEN! and always practice the 3R's
Posted October 22, 2008
Danali says:
Although I have bought costumes before I always use them more than once. Also I love to make costumes by putting together different clothes I already own or getting something I can wear for different occasions.
Posted October 19, 2008
Orange all the way!
Tips for Having a Green Halloween
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1Food
Focus on Healthier Foods, Making Healthier Foods more fund to eat.
For Treats consider Organic candies, Dark Chocolate and low fat foods like licorice. -
2Costumes
Reuse your costume from before. Create a costume from Reused or Recyclable items or clothes. -
3Decorations
Decorate with reusable items or recyclable ones like newspaper, leaves, sticks, branches, cornstalks, cardboard boxes.
Use Fluorescent light bulbs and LED lights. -
4Activities
Attend Local no cost Carnivals or Halloween Festivals. Focus on treating others rather than 'treats' or volunteering your time to fundraise for a good cause (like UNICEF).
Green Your Halloween
Will it be an Orange or Green Halloween?
Image of Pumpkins by Weetabixx.
Predictions for a Green Halloween
My prediction
I predict that people will be going a bit greener for Halloween.
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YourIslandRoutes, at 1am on September 12, 2011 predicts:
I predict with the economy the way it is people will be putting their own costumes together--making new out of old.
Jace Low, at 2am on December 21, 2010 predicts:
This is really a good idea. :) Halloween is a good start to go green but I hope that this trend continues. Another goo idea to go green is to use solar powered lights at home or using solar powered christmas lights for chistmas.
Dan, at 5pm on October 15, 2010 predicts:
more people will become vegetarian as they realize that it's best for their health, their family, their spirit, and for our environment.
JoanneOtt, at 12am on October 9, 2010 predicts:
The trend is to go green, and Halloween will be no exception.
prosperity66, at 8am on September 11, 2009 predicts:
I'm going to recycle the greatest part of my used cans into Halloween decorations! I like the idea of a Green Halloween!
, at 7pm on October 29, 2008 predicts:
I think people don't spend too much money,just stay with your love,can enjoy the halloweens,eat simple,looking to the sky with the star in the south.no body behide we.kiss your love everyday,every day is holiday and HALLOWEENS....LOVE IT.
fotolady49, at 11pm on October 24, 2008 predicts:
I think people will start going greener for Halloween, it might take a few years to get people used to the idea. It is a great idea for all holidays.
fotolady49, at 11pm on October 24, 2008 predicts:
I think people will start going greener, but it will probably take awhile to catch on for some. It is a great idea.
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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle to Green Your Halloween
- 1Reduce - reduce or limit the amount of money spent on Halloween food, costumes and decorations.
- 2Reuse - find clothes, decorations or other items that can be reused for Halloween. If you have to purchase something, make sure it can be reused from year to year.
- 3Recycle - look for clothes and decorations that can be recycled, or use recycled items (boxes, leaves, clippings, branches, newspaper, packing supplies, fabric, yarn) to create costumes, decorations and activities.
Reduce for Halloween
Tips to Reduce Your Halloween
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1Halloween Food
Reduce the amount of money spent on candy and empty calorie foods.
Focus on making healthier foods more spooky and fun to eat. -
2Costumes
Reducing amount of money spent on costumes.
Find ways to Reuse or Recycle costumes instead. -
3Halloween Treats
Buy the healthier candy or treats such as chocolate covered nuts or raisins.
Choose ones that use the least amount of packaging. -
4Decorations
Reduce the amount of money spent on decorations.
Find ways to Reuse or Recycle decorations or decorating items instead. Fill bags with leaves or newspaper, decorate with natural items such as pumpkins, cornstalks and branches.
Use Fluorescent light bulbs to decorate the house and an LED tea light for the pumpkin. -
5Activities
Reduce the amount of money spent on elaborate activities.
Find ways to have fun that don't involve a lot of money or resources such as going to free carnivals, walking around and looking at Halloween decorations, bobbing for apples or Trick or Treating for UNICEF or Sight Night (and do a good deed in the process). -
6Transportation
If possible walk, ride a bike or using public transportation to get to Halloween parties or if trick-or-treating.
If you have to drive, carpool to help reduce traffic and air pollution.
Reduce Halloween Sweets by Passing out Healthier Treats
With all of the individual packaging look for the options that have the least amount of additional wrapping.
- 1100% Fruit-Roll Ups or Fruit leather
- 2Boxes of raisins
- 3100% Fruit juices
- 4Small packages of nuts or sunflower seeds
- 5Mini-bags of microwave popcorn
- 6Small bags of pretzels
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7Organic Candy
It's still sweet, but more environmentally friendly. - 8Mini granola bars
- 9Snack-size graham crackers, animal crackers or goldfish
- 10Mini dark-chocolate bars with nuts
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11100 Calorie Packs
Portion controlled packages it helps to keep kids from going hog wild. - 12Packages of Cheese and Crackers or Peanut Butter and Crackers
- 13Pre-packaged apple slices or carrots sticks
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Reduce for Halloween - Trick or Treat for Unicef
Trick or Treating for Unicef
Make Halloween count and do a good deed by Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF. By raising funds for UNICEF you can help us get water, education and medicine to the children who need it most.Start with a UNICEF box or canister. Order boxes online, or create your own using the UNICEF canister wrapper at the link below.
Then go door-to-door on Halloween-or create your own fundraiser-and ask everyone to help you raise money for kids around the world.
Once you've collected the money, send it to UNICEF to help save kids lives.
More Information on Trick or Treat for UNICEF
- Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF
- Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has evolved into year-round, nationwide mobilization of young people working to save and improve the lives of the world's children.
- Trick or Treat for UNICEF Canister Wrap
- You can create your own Trick or Treat Canisters for UNICEF just by downloading and printing out the UNICEF wrapper.
- Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Safety Tips
- Safety Tips from Trick or Treat for UNICEF.
Celebrate Sight Night on Halloween
Sight Night - Give the Gift of Sight on Halloween
Halloween Night is "Sight Night' for the Gift of Sight Foundation. You can reduce and recycle by participating in this worthwhile cause.Each year on Sight Night, girls and boys collect used eyewear during trick-or-treat. All the eyewear collected on Sight Night is then cleaned, repaired and hand-delivered to underprivileged people in developing countries who couldn't otherwise afford them.
Since the program began in 1999, more than 1,000,000 pair of eyewear have been collected -- enough to help approximately 30,000 people on 30 separate missions!
In 2008, the Gift of Sight Foundation has 20 International missions planned and will need to recycle 1.2 million pair of used eyewear to make these missions a success.
How to Participate in Sight Night
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1Step 1: Get Your Group Together!
Sight Night is a great service project -- the perfect opportunity to give while you receive. So plan ahead to collect alone or get a group together. To organize your group, start by downloading the Collection Guide to share with friends, classmates, scout troops and others. This will help get your team excited about collecting used eyewear on Sight Night. -
2Step 2: Promote Eyewear Collection Through the Media (optional)
Three or four weeks before Halloween, contact your local or community newspaper, radio or TV station to promote your used eyewear collection by asking the community to join in on Sight Night. The more people who know about your involvement in the program, the more used eyewear you'll collect! Spread the word by using a sample news release and Public Service Announcement (PSAs). -
3Step 3: Place Doorhangers Along Collection Route
The week before Halloween, distribute doorhangers on your trick-or-treat route to give your neighbors time to find their used eyeglasses and sunglasses. Keep a list of addresses where you left doorhangers so you can return to them on Sight Night for pick up. -
4Step 4: Ghost Hunt for Used Eyewear on Sight Night!
The big night is here, so put your official Sight Night volunteer sticker on your costume and get out to collect prescription eyeglasses and non-prescription sunglasses. -
5Step 5: Enter Your Results Online at the Sight Night Website
Enter your results online, November 1-9 -- and don't forget to tell us about your experience. -
6Step 6: Turn In Collected Eyewear to:
1) Your local LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Sunglass Hut store or participating optometrist. Find a store near you.
More about Sight Night
- Sight Night - from the Gift of Sight Foundation
- Halloween Night is "Sight Night' for the Gift of Sight Foundation.
- Youth Community Service Project - Sight Night
- Sight Night is a national collection of used eyeglasses during trick-or-treat.
More Ways to Reduce at Halloween
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1Reduce on Costumes
* Reduce the amount of money spent on costumes by- Reusing something that is already hanging in your closet.
Reusing clothes that are in storage.
Reusing someone else's clothes. Check with family members, friends or thrift stores. -
2Trick or Treating
* If Trick or Treating, let the kids use a pillow case. It doesn't cost anything and holds a lot.
* Reduce the amount of candy children eat by letting them pick their favorites and toss the ones they don't like. -
3Reduce Energy
Halloween is a great time to reduce energy usage from lights, by turning them out!
You can also use Fluorescent light bulbs. Look for ones in Halloween colors.
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Energy Efficient Halloween Lights
Reuse for Halloween
Tips to Reuse at Halloween
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1Costumes
Create your costume reusing your own clothes, thrift store clothes or clothes that have been stored by other family members. (The attic or storage is a great place to find Halloween costumes)
If buying clothes for a costume pick or create costumes with items that can be reused. -
2Trick or Treating Bags
This Halloween Trick or Treating Bags are being made that can be reused as shopping bags. (Or shopping bags are being made that can double as trick or treating bags.) -
3Decorations
If buying decorations, look for energy efficient lights and decorations that can be reused for several years.
Reuse Halloween decorations the same way that Christmas ornaments are reused from year-to-year. -
4Party Supplies
Use reusable utensils, plates, napkins and tablecloths instead of disposable ones.
Use reusable anatomical or candy molds year to year to create scary looking foods.
Reusable Outdoor Halloween Decorations
Have a Spooktacular Hallogreen!
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13 Ideas for Reusable Halloween Costumes
If you have to purchase them, to find clothes that can be reused as a Halloween Costume. Solid-color sweats can be turned into many different adult or children's costume imaginable - frog, ladybug, spider, banana, Q-tip, carrot, giraffe.
Make sure accents like ears and tails are easy to remove afterwards, and you'll get a set of play clothes or weekend wear to reuse.
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1Zombie Kid, Zombie Cheerleader, Zombie Prom Queen, Zombie Slayer
* Takes old clothes, old cheerleader outfit or an old dress.
* Cut with scissors.
* Add scary dark makeup. -
2Secret Agent
* Wear a suit and be Agent 86 (Maxwell Smart).
* Wear a stunning dress and be Agent 99. -
3Professional(s)
* Wear a set of Scrubs go as a nurse or a doctor.
* Wear a lab coat and go as a doctor, lab assistant, chemist, make-up artist. -
4Sports Star
* For those who play sports wear your favorite sport clothes - soccer, hockey, basketball, football. -
5Teacher
* Grab a stack of textbooks.
* Add an apple.
* Carry a ruler and a calculator. -
6Sports Fan
* Wear your favorite sport clothes - soccer, hockey, basketball, football.
* Decorate your face as a fan. -
7Armed Forces
* Raid the closet, borrow some fatigues or go to a thrift store and go as your favorite armed forces. -
8Hawaiian Traveler or Tourist
* Dig out the old Hawaiian shirts, shorts, flip flops and beach wear.
* You could even become a Zombie Tourist. -
9Camper or Hiker
* Wear camping gear or Hiking Gear.
* You could even become a Zombie Camper. -
10A Giant Marshmallow
* Create holes in the bottom and sides of a white trash bag.
* Stuff with newspaper or old packing materials into the shape of a Marshmallow.
* Bring or add a stick, you can be a roasting marshmallow. -
11Arachnid (Spider) or other Bug
* Create holes in the bottom and sides of a black garbage bag.
* Stuff with newspaper, old packing materials.
* Cut more black garbage bags length wise to create legs.
* Roll up garbage bag length wise and stuff.
* Create eyes, black widow hour glass out of paper and add. -
12Giant Q-Tip
* Start with white clothes or sweats.
* Add a hat covered with quilt stuffing or batting.
* Wear with white face make up. -
13Ladybug
* Start with red top or sweats and black pants.
* Add black spots on the back cut from paper, fabric or felt. Tack into place with a few removable stitches.
* Add black to stomach.
* Wear a red hat with more spots.
Black Reusable Trick or Treat Bags
Reusable Grocery Totes Solid Color 5 Pack (Black)
Amazon Price: $10.95 (as of 02/13/2012)
A set of black reusable grocery totes will work for you and your family to enjoy this Halloween and then as a chic black bag all year round.
Made of 100% non-woven polypropylene, compact and washable.
The black bags measure: 12.5"W x 8.5"D x 13.5"H
Green Halloween Baggu Reusable Bags
BAGGU Reusable Shopping Tote - 6-Pack,Lime,one size
Amazon Price: (as of 02/13/2012)
A set of six green Halloween bags is made from super strong rip-stop nylon (holds 25 lbs) and are only 2 oz.
The Baggu is machine washable, and folds up into a 5"x5" pouch small enough to tuck into your handbag or pocket
One Baggu holds the contents of 2 to 3 plastic grocery bags.
Orange Reusable Grocery Tote Bags
Reusable Grocery Tote Bags, Orange W/contrast Trim, Super Saver 10 Pack
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 02/13/2012)
This 10 pack set of reusable grocery totes come are enough for many of the kids in the neighborhood. The orange bags have a large capacity: 12.5"W x 8.5"D x 13.5"H
Made of 100% non-woven polypropylene, compact and washable.
Recycle for Halloween
Tips for Recycling at Halloween
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1Food
Recycling the Halloween Pumpkin by cooking the seeds and making pumpkin pie. -
2Costumes
Find costumes that can be recycled. Share or swap old costumes with other parents.
Make costumes about recycling.
If you have to buy a costume, buy regular clothes that can be recycled as costumes. -
3Decorations
Pick decorations from existing items (cardboard boxes, packing materials, sheets) and items that do not create any new waste using natural items such as pumpkins, leaves, branches, newspaper.
Decorate with something that you'd use anyway, like trash bags. Fill them with leaves or newspaper.
Use biodegradable lawn bags, draw scary faces on the bags and use them as outside decorations. -
4Activities
Find ways of raising awareness about recycling as part of your Halloween or Fall Festival activities.
Halloween Lawn Bags
Choose from friendly pumpkins to scary skeleton heads.
Biodegradable Lawn Bags
Costumed Squidoo Squids
The Squidoo Squid dresses up in a collection of different Halloween masks.
Ideas for Recyclable Halloween Costumes
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1Recycle a Box into...
An old box can be turned into many different items. Let your imagination run wild.
A Television set
A Computer screen
A Box of Cereal or Crackers
A special delivery package
A Dice
A "Jack or Jill" in the box
A Squid in the box -
2Recycle Sheets into...
Old sheets and shirts can be painted, marked or torn and used to create different costumes.
A Ghost or Spirit
* Cover your head in a recycled sheet.
* Remember to add eyes.
A Mummy
* Find an old sheet or old white shirts.
* Tear the sheet and shirts into pieces.
* Attach the torn sheets to top and pants.
* Wrap some of the sheets around your arms, legs and head.
An injured person
* Tear an old shirt.
* Add some red stains. -
3Recycle old Clothes into...
The closet, attic or storage place is just filled with old clothes waiting to be made into Halloween Costumes.
A Retro look from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's
A Secret Agent
A Zombie Kid, Zombie Cheerleader, Zombie Prom Queen, Zombie Slayer
A Professional - Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher, Nurse, Veterinarian -
4Recycle Leaves and Nature items into...
Old leaves, branches, cornstalks and clippings are great items to use to create costumes.
A Tree or Bush
* Find a brown top and pants.
* Attach recycled leaves branches and twigs (preferably those that have already dropped.)
A Camouflaged Soldier
* Start with fatigues, helmet or other field wear.
* Attach leaves branches and twigs
A Trash Bag Decoration
* Fill a White Trash Bag with leaves and clippings.
* Decorate with Black Marking Pens.
* Turn it into...A Spider and spider web, a ghost, a spirit or a Jack Skeleton Head.
A scarecrow
* Put on a plaid shirt, jeans and boots.
* Stuff old cornstalks into the top of the pants, the shirt sleeves and boots.
* Add a straw hat. -
5Recycle Old Packing Materials into...
Packing materials like peanuts, bubble wrap, newspaper or packing paper can be turned into different costumes.
A Special Delivery Package
* Put on Clothes
* Wrap Yourself in Bubble Wrap
* Mark with "Special Delivery"
Fragile Handle with Care
* Put on Clothes
* Wrap Yourself in Bubble Wrap
* Mark with "Fragile Handle with Care"
All the News Fit to Print
* Put on Clothes
* Wrap Yourself in Newpapers
* Mark with "All the News Fit to Print"
A Giant Marshmallow
* Create holes in the bottom and sides of a white trash bag.
* Stuff with newspaper or old packing materials into the shape of a Marshmallow.
* Bring or add a stick, you can be a roasting marshmallow.
Arachnid (Spider) or other Bug
* Create holes in the bottom and sides of a black garbage bag.
* Stuff with newspaper, old packing materials.
* Cut more black garbage bags length wise to create legs.
* Roll up garbage bag length wise and stuff.
* Create eyes, black widow hour glass out of paper and add.
More Ideas for Green Halloween Costumes
Before splurging on a costume that may only be worn once, consider what is in the closet.
- 1See if there is anything that can be modified and mixed up to be used as a costume.
- 2Left over 1980's clothes or an old sport coat can be the beginning of a retro-theme costume.
- 3Overalls and a plaid shirt can be the basis for a farm or scarecrow costume.
- 4A common theme for teens is dead anything - from a dead prom queen to a dead baseball player. All it takes is an old dress or uniform and some scissors and makeup.
- 5If your closets aren't serving up any costume ideas, visit a local consignment or thrift shop.
365 Ways to Live Green
365 Ways to Live Green: Your Everyday Guide to Saving the Environment
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Saving the world is as easy as changing the way you think-so take the green movement's motto to heart. With 365 Ways to Live Green, you will learn what it really means to "think globally and act locally."
365 Ways to Live Green will educate, inspire, and motivate you to do your part.
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Celebrate a Green Halloween
Green Halloween.org
Green Halloween is a non-profit, grassroots community initiative to create healthier and more Earth-friendly holidays, starting with Halloween.It is hosted by Treeswing, a 501(c) 3 committed to improving the lives of children through nutrition, exercise and healthy environments.
It began in the Seattle area in 2007 with backers such as Whole Foods Market and was such a huge success that in 2008, the initiative is going nation-wide. In cities across the country, volunteer coordinators are not only working to turn their city's Halloween holiday healthy and eco-friendly, but they're also raising money for their own, local non-profit beneficiaries.
More about Green Halloween.org
- GREEN HALLOWEEN: A healthy, green & fun community movement
- Green Halloween is a non-profit, grassroots community movement to create healthier and more Earth-friendly holidays, starting with Halloween. It is hosted by TreeSwing.org
- TreeSwing.org
- A 501(c)3 committed to building generations of healthy, active communities.
- Green Halloween Blog
- Blog for the Green Halloween website.
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- Celebrate Green - Website
- A website focusing on creating eco-savvy holidays, celebrations and traditions for the whole family.
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Celebrate Green!
Celebrate Green
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 02/13/2012)
Celebrate Green! offers tips, strategies and ideas for creating celebrations with more meaning and less negative impact on people and the Earth.
Whether planning a Halloween Party, a Thanksgiving feast, an Easter egg hunt or any of dozens of other celebrations, this book is provides creative, engaging activities and memory-builders for the entire family.
Green Your Skull or Your Skeleton
Ways to Green Your Skull or Your Skeleton
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1Green Your Skull
Change your outlook and perspective and be on the look out for ways you can "Go Green" at home and at work.
Make "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle" part of your everyday lifestyle.
Teach your family how to "Go Green." -
2Green Your Skeleton
Look out for ways you can "Live Green" at home and at work.
Wear 'Green' clothes.
Use 'Green' cleansing and cleaning products.
Drive a 'Green' car.
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Even the Skeletons are Going Green
This will be the third year that I've volunteered in my daughters' classroom to teach them a bit of bone anatomy and also to be less afraid of skeletons.I started using skeleton puzzles to teach children about bone anatomy in 2006 so for another year will be recycling the puzzle and reusing ideas that I've come up with as teaching handouts.
So far, I have taught bone anatomy to preschool children, Kindergarteners, First and Second graders.
This year I'll be adding in third graders to the list of students. We'll be reusing a skeleton that the school already has in storage.
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Skeleton Floor Puzzle
Amazon Price: $17.37 (as of 02/13/2012)
A great way to teach children about bone anatomy during Halloween as they assemble this unique, soft foam 15-piece puzzle.
The skeleton is 4 feet, 3 inches tall, from skull to toe, making him more exciting for children to build. The since the skeleton is the same size as the average 6-year-old.
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Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween Lawn Bags
Nightmare Before Christmas Lawn Bags - Set Of 2
Amazon Price: (as of 02/13/2012)
You can decorate your lawn with Jack Skellington Lawn Bags.
Fill with Leaves or Recycled Newspaper.
Two bags 30" wide x 36" high.
Green Halloween Skull
Reusable Skull Shopping Tote Bag
Silver Skull Polyester Tote
Amazon Price: (as of 02/13/2012)
This skull shopping bag will still be Gothic stylish even after Halloween.
Measures 16 1/2" x 4" x 13" high.
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Skull Reusable Shopping Bag from Get Hip Get Green
This sturdy, yet lightweight, reusable bag makes going green a little hipper. It is sleek black with a green goth skull on both sides.
Each sale will also mean a donation to the children's environmental group, The Green Ambassadors.
- Get Hip Get Green - Skull Bag
- You can order the Skull Bag from Get Hip Get Green.
Green Skull Mask
Image Source: Pam Roth. Halloween Mask. Royalty Free Use.
Green Skeleton Stuff on Amazon
Skeleton Featured Lenses
Skull SIGG Reusable Bottle
Sigg Kids Water Bottle (0.4-Liters, Girlie Skull)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 02/13/2012)
Get a reusable water bottle that is in the Halloween spirit with this SIGG Skull Reusable bottle.
This BPA-free lined bottle holds 0.4L
Green and White Skull
Image Source: Linda Åslund. Skull. Creative Commons. Some rights reserved.
My SquidBoo Lenses
- Green Your Halloween
- Halloween is another opportunity to 'Go Green' and make eco-friendly, earth-friendly and healthier choices with the types of costume we wear, the types of foods we serve and how we choose to celebrate.
- Healthy Halloween Treats
- It is possible to enjoy Halloween, stay healthy and still survive the start of Candy Season.* To do so it takes a bit of thought, planning and perhaps developing new traditions for how one typical spends Halloween.
- Spooky Halloween Meal
- Our Halloween tradition for the last five years has been to create a Spooky Halloween Meal for my grade-school-aged daughters. We always hold the Halloween dinner at my parents house.
- Easy Halloween Costumes
- With a bit of imagination and a little time, you can create a variety of easy Halloween costumes. Many of these ideas include using just a few items, items you have at home or items that you can reuse or recycle as a Halloween Costume.
- 13 Ways to Cloak Your True Identity for Halloween
- One easy way to create a simple, fun and effective Halloween costume is to start with with a mask, a cloak, a cape or a robe to hide your true identity. Halloween is a time when children and grown-ups alike get to take on a different identity for a a few hours, a night or a day.
- How to Make a Pink Clover Who Hat or Pink Clover - Easy Halloween Costumes
- It's easy to become a Who or Horton the Elephant for Halloween. All you need is a few pipe cleaners a large pom pom and a little time. With a few twists and turns you'll soon have your own Pink Clover Who Hat or Pink Clover Accessory.
- How to Make Horton Hears a Who Headband Ears - Easy Halloween Costumes
- It's easy to become Horton Hears a Who for Halloween. All you need is a headband, a few pipe cleaners, some blue paper, yarn or a large pom pom and a little time. With a few cuts of paper, some twisting and turning you'll soon have your own Horton Hears a Who Ear Headband.
- Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
- Although occurring around the same time of the year as Halloween, Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, celebrated in many Latin American countries, is a very different holiday, with a very different focus. This festival to celebrate the unity of life and death.
- Dem Dancing Skeleton Bones
- Skeletons have been a symbol of death at least since the Middle Ages when they were portrayed as the Grim Reaper. Dancing skeletons are featured as participants in La Danse Macabre* or the dance of death and as such skeletons have become objects of fear.
- The Original Phantom of the Opera
- The Phantom of the Opera, Erik, is the main character in Gaston Leroux's 1909 book by the same title. This musical genius lives beneath the Paris Opera house in the catacombs masking his face because of a physical deformity.
- Take a Trip Underground to Visit The Catacombs....and the Dead
- Far beneath the city streets of Paris lies the bone remains of more than 6 million people, in an elaborate labyrinth of passages, tunnels and corridors. It is a place of mystery, of intrigue, of history and of death.
Other Lenses on Green Halloween
Green Halloween in the News
- What Are President Obama & First Lady Michelle Obama's Valentine's Day Plans?
- Access Hollywood Live: Kids Halloween Costume Fashion Show! 'Angry Birds,' 'Sesame Street,' 'The Avengers' & more invade the set! Check out these pics of Access Hollywood's Billy Bush on the job! Check out the stars as they visit Access Hollywood Live, ...
- The "Mira"-cle Workers
- By Sarah Thomsen - bio | email Some Green Bay elementary kids are saving up their allowances to help a little girl fighting a life-threatening disease. Handwritten messages line the halls at Annie Jackson Elementary School. It's "Mira"-cle Week, ...
- Margaret Southern: small efforts can add up to big impact
- She also writes about green living for TNC's Cool Green Science blog. She recently started All Hands On Earth, an organization which informs the public about the little things anyone can do to make a positive impact on the planet.
- Green Brook burglary suspect charged with Hunterdon spree
- 26 in connection with a Halloween burglary in Green Brook has been charged with a string of burglaries in Hunterdon County, authorities said this week. Nicholas James Pokriots, 24, of Trenton is believed to be one of several people likely responsible ...
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Green Your Halloween is featured on the Giant Squid Community Showcase
On October 24, Green Your Halloween was one of the featured lenses on the Giant Squid Community Showcase.It tied with my "Easy Halloween Costumes" lens.
This is what was said about the lens:
- At Green Your Halloween find out how you can celebrate Halloween the eco-friendly way. This awesome lens contains information and ideas for recycling Halloween costumes, green Halloween decorating, and healthy green foods your family will love.
- Giant Squid Community Showcase - Going Green on Halloween
- This week we have a tie for first place in the Choose Your Favorite Giant Lens Contest and with Halloween only one week away, how appropriate that hat today's winning lenses are both about October 31st.
More Sites Full of Tips for a Green Halloween!
A collection of Green Halloween Lenses compiled by Lisa from the Living the Green Organic Lifestyle Group.
Vote for your favorite and add your own.
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News about Green Halloween
- It's easier being green at Beth Or Eco-Expo
- Eco Party Time plans to host its third Green Halloween event this year, coordinating a costume swap with Impact Thrift Store and promoting healthy, organic treats. Monica said she hopes to make Green Halloween a tradition in the local area.
- Twee nieuwe glijbanen voor Océade
- Alvorens de 26 seconden lange afdaling te starten, kan de bezoeker een kleurenthema (Pink Sparkle, Blue Run, Green Halloween) kiezen die aan de hand van LED-verlichting de sfeer van de weg naar beneden bepaalt. De Baraccuda is de langste duoglijbaan in ...
- Twee nieuwe glijbanen
- Je kan kiezen tussen de kleuren rainbow, pink sparkle, blue run, circle light, disco, green Halloween, yellow snake en flash light. Vooral flash light geeft een enorme meerwaarde aan deze glijbaan. Océade is open van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van 10 ...
Reader Feedback on Green Halloween
What will you be doing this Halloween that is Greener?
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IdeaCenter
Sep 9, 2011 @ 5:24 pm | delete
- This is a fantastic lens with so many excellent resources! Thanks for putting it all together. This year I'll be giving out healthier snacks as a way to be green.
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MouradE
Aug 11, 2011 @ 9:36 am | delete
- Hey there, I just wanna say thank you so much for this great work , I just appreciate everything on your blog, valuable writing great layouts! it's only Awesome!
thank you again.
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ChihuahuaClothesInfo Aug 8, 2011 @ 6:59 am | delete
- I dress my dogs up every year in these cute little chihuahua costumes and I usually just throw them out afterwards because they're cheap and because it's fun to see them in a new outfit each year. But in the name of helping out with our planet by reducing waste, I'm going to recycle their chihuahua clothes this year and keep them for the next Halloween. I might have to pay a bit more for the higher quality dog costumes so that they actually last a few years, but I think it will be worth it!
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terrapin719
Sep 17, 2010 @ 2:54 pm | delete
- So much stuff goes into the trash on Halloween, wrappers, bags, packaging, etc... Great resources and ideas here.
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aj2008
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- What an amazing collection of Green Halloween resources! Lensrolled to my Environmentally Friendly Halloween lens ;)
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Sep 26, 2009 @ 1:26 pm | delete
- Great ideas! Making your own costume is so much more FUN too! When I was younger I was a can of Cambles Soup! haha.
I need to eat "better" candy. There is a such thing as "better candy" right? :)
Happy Halloween everyone!
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- This lens is better than ever. Blessed and blogged by a squid angel. :)
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- This is ultimately the greenest Halloween lens on Squidoo! :) Blessed by an Angel!
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- Congratulations! You've been SquidBoo Blasted. Happy Halloween!
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- You did a wonderful job in gathering so many ideas on how to have a green recycled Halloween! Congrats on that!
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