How did I forget to share these? I wrote two recent articles for KidsOutAndAbout.com:
Beyond Candy: why you should offer trick-or-treaters choices, with a few suggestions, and
Fourteen Frightfully Fabulous Halloween Read-Aloud Books, which has since become fifteen after a reader wrote in with a suggestion.
I’m hoping to post about J’s work-in-progress costume soon.
Mary Ellen Whiteley
As I can not be trusted around Snickers bars , I never buy candy until the actual day of Halloween. This year I will add some non candy choices as per your suggestions. Thanks for the fun, informative article.
Big Sister
Last year, we had absolutely no trick or treaters in the new neighborhood I moved to and I was forced to eat the whole bag of Snickers by myself- because my husband hates Snickers. And of course, I knew that when I bought them. Thanks for the good ideas!
Katie
Ah, I LOVE Snickers, too! As long as the big bag is sealed, I’m okay. Once I bust that open, it’s tough to hold back.
Sarah Allegra
I’m honored that my dryad costume helped inspire J! Her costume is beautiful! I hope she loved wearing it and her circlet stayed in place 🙂
If it makes you feel any better, my methods of creating a costume aren’t that much different than yours… a lot of pinning, trial and error and the sweet bliss of the glue gun 😉 Hope you both had a wonderful Halloween!
Katie
Oh, Sarah, she loved it! And we actually DID go out and have her pose on a tree stump before she headed out trick-or-treating. Thanks for the inspiration!