Comments on: Healthier Halloween – 5 tips to bring some moderation to the treat-eating this Halloween

By: Liz Ditz

Liz Ditz — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:51:00 +0000

Here are some more ideas that our family used back in the day:

Because there is “so much”, encourage your children to play with the “wealth”.
1. Each child could sort their own haul, making de-facto bar graphs by type of candy
2. Sort by colors*
3. “Let’s have a tasting flight!” — cut up or otherwise dismember the treats, and allow tastings and discuss what you like and don’t like.
4. Talk about “who likes what and why”. Jane doesn’t like candies with nuts; Jim prefers dark chocolates over all other candies; Julio likes chewy candies like gummy bears and worms and so on; Janet likes intense flavors like sour balls more than chocolate; Jamal *loves* sticky caramels but can’t eat them because of braces, etc.

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*back in the day my daughter spent more time playing with Skittles (those little, colored fruity candies) than she did eating them. Sometimes she’d save up a week’s worth of Skittle treats (3 packets) in order to really have a lot.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:36:59 +0000

Last year, my friend’s mom had a great idea. When her 3yo grandson came home, she held out two bowls, a large one and a small one. She passed the small one to him first and said, put all your favourite candies in here. Because the bowl was small, he made a small selection. The rest of the candy went into the big bowl. The small bowl remained the one he enjoyed candy from for the following days. Probably wouldn’t work on older children, but great for little ones.

By: ourfamilyworld

ourfamilyworld — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:06:48 +0000

We trade some of the candies at the dentist. They offer toothpaste, toothbrush and cash!

By: Dr. Flanders

Dr. Flanders — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:11:30 +0000

A lovely story and a fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing…
DF

By: Emma Cunningham

Emma Cunningham — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:56:27 +0000

My mom always said I could eat candy on Halloween, and then I should put the rest by my bed for the Halloween Fairy to take to kids who were too sick to go trick or treating.

One year, when *I* was too sick to go out, candy “magically” appeared. Made all those years of limited candy completely worth it.

I’m thinking I’m going to do this with my kid, too.