For this weeks Share & Voice, I decided to find some ways to be Green on Halloween. I found this website called Green Halloween and decided I would share it with you. This website was created by Corey Colwell-Lipson, a martial and family therapist as well as a mother of two children ages seven and four. Green Halloween was developed to help "inspire fun, healthy, affordable, not-too-time consuming ideas that will support your goal of creating a Halloween that is happy and healthy for your kids and the planet we all share."
This month they are promoting a contest called: The Green Halloween Pledge.
Here is a description of the contest directly from their website:
Green Halloween wants to “help people commit to reducing the environmental impact of their Halloween celebration” by holding a contest called the Green Halloween Pledge! All they ask is for people who are planning to commit to the Green Halloween Pledge to do at least 5 actions from the following list:
•Swap costumes with someone rather than buying a new costume. This is a great idea and one of our favorite Green Halloween Tips.
•Purchase your costume, or its components from your local thrift shop.
•Use LED Halloween lights to decorate instead of incandescents.
•Collect candy in a reusable container rather than a disposable bag. Or better yet, make a fun project for your kids by having them make their own Halloween bag out of reusable or recyclable items you have around the house.
•When trick-or-treating, walk, instead of driving door to door.
•Carry a shakable or hand-crank LED flash light instead of one that is battery powered.
•Make your own Halloween face paints.
•Give away one piece of candy instead of handfuls.
•Purchase an organic pumpkin.
•Buy your pumpkin from a local farmer.
•Purchase an edible variety of pumpkin and paint, instead of carving the pumpkin. Then bake and eat the pumpkin when Halloween is done.
•Roast & eat your pumpkin seeds instead of tossing them.
•Use 100% beeswax or soy candles in your jack-o-lantern instead of paraffin candles.
•Give away healthier alternatives to conventional candy.
•Compost your leftover candy.
•Donate your leftover candy to troops overseas.
•Compost your pumpkin.
•Make crafts out of candy wrappers.
•Pack décor away carefully so that it can be reused next year.
•Text “Boo 5” to 27138 to donate $5 to support the Green Halloween® initiative.
"Participants of the Green Halloween Pledge will be entered in a random drawing. One participant will win a $150 gift certificate redeemable at HolidayLEDs."
"So what are you waiting for? If you haven’t taken the Green Halloween Pledge yet, do so now! Visit HolidayLEDs’ Green Halloween Pledge page for details and step-by-step instructions for entering the drawing! "
Hope Everyone has a Happy "Green" Halloween!
I love these ideas! I was looking for a halloween costume so maybe I'll start asking my friends if they have one that I can borrow instead of buying one.
ReplyDeleteThese tips are great, I am trying my best to make a costume out of things I have as we speak. Not so much because I am trying to be green though, I am just being cheap and don't want to buy one!
ReplyDeleteI do several of these things on the list already! I also already have someone who wants to wear my costume next year :)
ReplyDeleteA lot of these tips are things I never would have thought of. I will definitely think of these things next year when I plan for halloween. Some of these tips could be useful for the rest of the holiday season too- like using LED lights to decorate.
ReplyDeleteThese are great tips! I ended up wearing a costume I wore in 5th grade! (How I fit into it I do not know). I also think another fabulous tip is to reuse decorations. A lot of times, my family and I will just throw them away and buy new stuff every year. What a waste!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat great ideas! It's way more fun to be creative and somehow make your own costume instead of just buying one. Thanks for sharing!
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