50 Healthy Trick Or Treat Ideas

Halloween is such a fun holiday and definitely one of our favorites.  Our kids love to dress up, go to parties, and definitely trick-or-treat! It seems like it is the beginning of the holiday season and sometimes that means that nutrition goes out the window.   After a fun night of trick-or-treating, my kids come home with HUGE bags of candy!  But more than just the sugar overload, there are a few different reasons to handout something a little healthier to the trick-or treaters that come to your house:

• Food Allergies.  There are more and more kids that have food allergies.  If you haven’t heard about the Teal Pumpkin Project, it is a really great thing for kids with food allergies.   The purpose is to raise awareness of food allergies and helps to include all trick-or-treaters throughout the Halloween season.  If you will be providing non-food treats to trick-or-treaters, then you put a teal colored pumpkin on your porch to let parents and kids with food allergies know they can come to your home to get a safe treat.

• Dye Sensitivities.  A lot of different candy contains food dyes which many parents are concerned about.   Food dyes can have an effect on some children with hyperactivity, mood swings, and inability to concentrate.
• Dental Health.  Dentists agree that the worst type of sweets for kids’ teeth are the sticky or gummy type.  The sticky material coats teeth and cavity causing bacteria have an opportunity to grow and spread.   Dentists recommend to limit sugar intake, consume healthy foods that strengthen teeth and brush regularly.
  

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If you don’t pass out candy, then what can you do on Halloween?  Non-food items can be really fun and just as much of a ‘treat’ as any type of candy they would get.  These ideas are things that kids really love and will get excited about! 

Non-Food Trick Or Treat Ideas

1. Wikki Sticks
2. Glow Bracelets/ Mini Glow Sticks
3.  Bendable Character Toys
4. Silicone Finger Puppets
5. Bendable Spiders
6. Mini Squishy Toys
7. Sticky Hands
8. Mini Slimes
9. Sticky Frogs
10.  Temporary Tattoos
11.  Mini Stamps
12.  Punch Balloons
13.  Mini Slinky
14. Slap Bracelets
15.  Novelty Erasers
16.  Bouncy Balls
17.  Mini Flashlights
18.  Character Toothbrushes
19. Scented Monster Markers
20. Mini Playdough
21.  Mini Novelty Erasers
22.  Mini Fidget Spinners
23.  Mustache Lip Whistles
24. LED Finger Lights
25. Multi Color Pens

What about if you still want to hand out some kind of food item?  There are plenty of options besides candy!  These are some of our favorite portable, healthy and fun foods that would be perfect to hand out to trick-or-treaters!

Healthy Trick Or Treat Food Options

1. Fruit Leather
2. Applesauce Pouches
3. Cuties
4.  Honey Sticks
5.  Mini Raisin Boxes
6.  Mini Popcorn Packs
7.  Mini Granola Bars
8.  Freeze Dried Apple Packs
9.  Trail Mix Individual Packs
10.  Banana Chips
11.  Annie’s Whole Wheat Bunnies
12. Mini LaraBars
13. String Cheese with ghost faces drawn on
14. Smart Cracker packs
15.  Clif Kid Z Bars
16.  Mini water bottles
17.  Sugar-free gum (with xylitol)
18.  Mini baby carrot bags
19.  Mini fruit cups in natural juices
20.  Snack size pretzel packs
21. Mini Craisin Boxes
22.  Whole fruit (small apples or oranges)
23. Annie’s Fruit Snacks
24.  Roasted Chickpea Snack Packs
25. To-go Sunflower Seed Packs
    

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