Stock your treat bowl with these easy, fun options to cut down on fun-sized candy bars.
The pumpkin’s carved. The kids’ costumes are ready. It’s no surprise that children love Halloween, but the haul of sugar that comes with trick-or-treating can mean sugar-hyped children, for days. What’s a parent to do – and not be the lame house on the street? Here are candy alternatives that are fun, healthy, and can still delight children.
The key is balancing out the sweet treats. The non-food items listed below have the added benefit of being suitable for children with food allergies.
Healthier food alternatives
- Mini boxes of raisins
- Single-serve packages of popcorn
- Granola bars
- Single-serve packs of trail mix
- Mini packages of nuts
- Single-serve boxes of cereal
- Fruit snacks, leathers, ropes or squeezable pouches
- Hot cocoa or apple cider packets
- Juice boxes
Toy options
- Mini crayon or marker sets
- Yo-yos
- Silly Putty
- Puzzles
- Bouncy balls
- Glow sticks
- Slinkys
- Temporary tattoos or stickers
- Stickers
- Bubbles
Halloween-themed toys
- Eyeballs
- Slime
- Vampire teeth
- Bat and spider rings
- Decorated pencils, stickers
