It’s Halloween night and costumed kids are ringing your doorbell nonstop. You might think that all the ghosts and witches and princesses want candy! But the truth is some trick-or-treaters have food allergies – meaning they can’t eat any of the sweets you’re offering. That’s where Halloween toys come in!
HALLOWEEN TOYS ARE SAFER FOR SOME KIDS
Halloween toys are a safer alternative to food for those trick-or-treaters who are allergic to the ingredients in candy.
We’ve rounded up 20+ Halloween toys that you can drop into teal trick-or-treat pumpkins that costumed kids are carrying – or feel free to offer non-food treats to all of your trick-or-treaters. (Perhaps, some kids would rather have a toy than candy!)
Or if you’re wondering what to put in Halloween goodie bags for a school class party or an upcoming Halloween party at home, the list below will be helpful.
TEAL PUMPKINS FOR THE WIN
How do you let trick-or-treaters know that you have non-candy items available? Place a teal pumpkin on your doorstep! You can use a teal pumpkin made of foam, a teal trick-or-treat bucket, or break out a paintbrush and paint a real pumpkin!
These days, more and more stores are carrying teal pumpkins, including Wal-Mart and Michael’s.
BEST HALLOWEEN TOYS
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- Hand out homemade Halloween soap – with eyeballs or spiders or bugs inside!
- Make homemade playdough and give it out in plastic baggies. You could even include a Halloween-themed cookie cutter, too.
- Drop a glow-in-the-dark bouncy ball in her teal pumpkin.
- Hand out mini coloring books and crayons.
- Give out ghost slime!
- Fill teal pumpkins with glow sticks, glow bracelets or glow necklaces.
- Put Halloween pencils or erasers in his trick-or-treat bag.
- Share bottles of bubbles.
- Drop some finger puppets into their teal bucket.
- Hand out vampire fangs.
- Give out temporary tattoos.
- Share sheets of 3D Stickers with kids.
- Offer spider rings in a variety of colors.
- Hand out reusable Halloween drinking straws with pumpkins and skeletons.
- Drop a flying slingshot frog in her teal bucket.
- Give out mini sticky hands toys.
- Hand out mini vinyl paratroopers.
- Dish out some die-cast toy cars.
- Slap bracelets are a fun non-candy alternative!
Consider adding some Halloween-themed toys to your “candy” bowl this year. Trick-or-treaters with food allergies will thank you!
What non-candy items do you typically give out on Halloween night? Please share your Halloween treat bag ideas in the comments below.
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- Start the day off right with these fun Halloween breakfast ideas.
- Make fun Halloween cookies for a class party, a Girl Scout meeting, or just to munch on at home.
- We’re so inspired by this company that makes Halloween costumes – free of charge – for kids who have wheelchairs.
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- Need some school lunch ideas for Halloween? This Halloween bento box is full of inspiration!
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