There’s No Trick to Sharing Creative Treats

If you don’t want to spend November 1 cleaning eggs off your windows or pulling toilet paper out of your trees, you should think carefully about what you hand out to the kids on Halloween night! But that doesn’t mean your only option is to fill their bags with the same old candy they’re going to get at every other house on the block. You can make trick-or-treaters happy – and make yours the house they look forward to coming back to next year – by handing out fun, creative alternatives to the usual Halloween candy. Original options kids of all ages will love include:

• Granola bars
• Packages of peanuts or raisins
• Fruit Snacks or Tongue Tattoo Fruit Roll-Ups
• Low-fat microwave popcorn
• Yoplait Fizzix Sticks
• Mini bags of Chex Mix
• Juice boxes
• Cheese sticks

You can even make the kids happy by handing out treats that aren’t food at all. What little goblin wouldn’t be delighted to get one of these fun candy alternatives?

• Stickers
• A box of crayons
• Halloween pencils and erasers
• Temporary tattoos
• Glow sticks/necklaces
• Bottles of bubbles
• Bouncy balls
• Vampire teeth
• Favors from a party supply store

Kids will get more than their fair share of traditional Halloween fare from your neighbors. Make yours the house they remember for its fun and creative treats!

Test Kitchen Manager Shirley Dolland had a creative neighbor whose clever alternatives to candy on Halloween night made a lasting impression.

“I loved trick-or-treating at my neighbor’s house,” she says, “because I always received something different. One year he gave out tennis balls, and another year we received Frisbees. These were treats we could enjoy all year long, and they were so much more memorable than candy!”