Easy Tips to Green Your Halloween

Halloween ought to be scary ideal reasons. But the waste generated by this celebration is altogether another cause of fright. The store-bought costumes, individually wrapped treats, toxic glow sticks and spider web sprays, and disposable decorations made of plastic and vinyl, to name a few Halloween staples, get this to holiday a landfill's nightmare! Here are a few easy ideas to green your Halloween in order to reduce waste, protect your kid's health with non-toxic products, by leaving a less spooky ecological footprint.

1. Make a costume and win big for creativity and uniqueness

Many store-bought costumes are produced with heavily-processed materials and plastics, and they are often only worn for just one night. Vinyl ( poison plastic) can often be included in purchased costumes. Instead, try brainstorming for methods to produce a costume from homemade materials. This will also permit an even more creative character and costume like a vampire jack-in-the-box, a 'random' character, as well as a tooth fairy ghost. The imagination can run wild with scissors, fabric plus a cardboard box!

2. Choose candies which can be healthier and/or wrapped in recyclable or biodegradable packaging

There's without a doubt that the Halloween garbage pile of wrappers, chip bags and plastics hasn't evolved much through the decades, despite our growing green conscience. To reduce account on this year's Halloween waste pile, try finding treats, for example Smarties, which can be packaged in cardboard or any other recyclable materials. Or, if you might want to skip the treats altogether, you will want to offer your trick-or-treaters a treasure? Stickers, international coins, gemstones, sea shells, hockey cards, tattoos, colored dice, or other small items may be a novelty, and solve the packaging problem.

If you might be a traditionalist whilst still being want to offer candies, there are numerous healthier choices on the market industry (not including the aptly named, Toxic Waste candies!). Look for candies which can be organic or which can be sweetened with veggie juice and possess no preservatives, like fruit strips and rolls, organic crispy rice bars, other healthy snack bars, honey sticks or sesame snaps.

3. Use non-toxic products for make-up and hairsprays

To avoid the pollutants or another harmful substances that are located in Halloween make-up, try making your personal face paints and hair dyes. Kool Aid crystals will do a great job of temporarily streaking hair bright colors, no toxic spray needed!

As for face paints and fake blood, check for their easy recipe suggestions. A bit of cornstarch, food coloring, corn syrup and liquid dish soap is perhaps all you will need to transform your little ones right into a princess or pirate.

4. Use natural decorations

Dollar store decorations literally litter the neighborhoods of North America on Halloween night. For a more natural exterior d??cor, consider decorating with nature. Haystacks, dried corn arrangements, cornstalks, scarecrows, and lastly jack-o-lanterns make an enticing Halloween outdoor d??cor. For a spooky interior, get one of these black light, black gauze or cheesecloth webbing, and some downloaded Halloween tracks. A cackle or two wouldn't hurt either.

5. Stay safe minus the glow sticks

The need to be seen on the streets after dusk has given rise to wasteful disposable glow sticks. This year, opt for reflector tape that could be re-used again and again, and hand-cranked or solar-powered flashlights.

A few conscious choices to use non-toxic and less wasteful products this green halloween can help celebrate things that go bump during the night without adding more to this already high impact holiday.

Hi! I’m Carmina, also known as Nana. I love Diy projects, parties, crocheting, and traveling. In this blog I share patterns, recipes, Diy projects, pet tips, party ideas, and travel tips.