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It's Easy Being Green This Halloween!
Get your green on this Halloween and renew, recycle and reuse! Use a cardboard box to create an iPod masterpiece or reinforce the composting effort with a green floral covered costume. Learn ways to reduce your own carbon footprint and hand out eco-conscience candies.
ECOWEEN: Pillowcase Trick-or-Treat Sacks
When it comes to carting home candy, children have a lot of options — plastic bags and containers, even noise-making plush handled pumpkins or cardboard carriers. But for moms and dads that want to save money and have their wee ones get more mileage out of their treat sacks, use pillowcases. They hold more trinkets and sweets than the other options and can be slipped under your tot's head to lull them to sleep.
ECOWEEN: Combating Halloween's Carbon Footprint
When day turns to night, don't add to the fright. This Ecoween leave your car at home and trick-or-treat locally. If you are venturing outside of your neighborhood, lessen your family's carbon footprint by going on foot and pushing babies in their strollers or pulling wee ones too tired to walk in wagons.
ECOWEEN: Ghost Lollipops
If you're looking for an earth-friendly treat that may cause a bit of fright go with ghost lollipops. Toddlers love projects so enlist your lil ones help in wrapping each individually wrapped organic sucker in a sheet of recyclable tissue. Tie it off just under the candy with a piece of string, ribbon, twine or raffia found around the house.
ECOWEEN: EnviroKidz Organic Crispy Rice Bars
If you're a mom that's not too keen on candy, switch it out with EnviroKidz Organic Crispy Rice Bars on Ecoween. These low-fat, low-sodium 1-oz. bars are made from organic brown rice flower and available in Cheetah Berry, Koala Chocolate and Panda Peanut Butter varieties.
ECOWEEN: Old Bridesmaid's Dress Fit For a Lil Princess
Be your daughter's fairy godmother and snip and hem that old bridesmaid dress collecting dust in the back of your closet into a princess dress Cinderella would envy! No worries if you aren't a seamstress, babysugar has put together this very simple video tutorial for cutting down dresses. Then, add some embellishments from things found around the house — gift ribbon, a broach, a clip-on earring or ric-rac — and your vision comes to life.
ECOWEEN: Endangered Species Chocolates
Make Ecoween extra decadent with some delicious fair trade treats. Endangered Species Chocolate offers kid-friendly ethically traded candy. Their organic chocolate bars ($2) feature pictures of endangered animals on their recycled wrappers and list conservation tips.
ECOWEEN: Dakota Gourmet Sunflower Seeds
Seasonal candies create a lot of wrappers and tummy aches, so switch out traditional treats for those that give back. From healthy alternatives to organic fair trade chocolates, this week lilsugar's all about Eco-treats! Whether your tot is headed to a preschool party or you are passing out goodies for trick-or-treaters, consider Nature's candy — and I don't mean raisins.
Lil Tip: Eggcellent Use of Egg Cartons
Egg cartons are good for more than just safely carting raw eggs home. As you prepare your Halloween costumes, consider including them in your design as ears, noses, and other crafty costume parts.
- Use one pod and paint it pink with two black slits and attach pink ribbon to tie it around the face for a pig's nose.
- Paint two of them black and hot glue them on a headband for a pair of cat ears.
- Paint them yellow and wrap yourself up in green for a cute "corn on the cob" get up.
- Cut out two side-by-side pods and attach pipe cleaners for a pair of goggles or glasses — punch out the bottom so your wee one can see of course!
ECOWEEN: Don't Just Go Green, Make Green Your Theme
We've gone green for Halloween here on lilsugar, which means we are bringing you tricks and treats for celebrating the favorite holiday while encouraging children to make, swap and reuse their costumes. These costumes aren't just made with eco products, but they highlight the recycle, reduce and reuse theme and are great conversation starters for budding conversationalists.
- Crush It in a Blue Box — Suit your sweet one up in a familiar blue box full of recyclable items.
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