With the world in which we live today it is important to keep in mind the cautious parent when we are putting together our goody bags for Halloween. The wonderful homemade Halloween treats that we all once enjoyed so as children from the elderly neighbors are just not acceptable any more. There are still ways however to give a treat other than the expected wrapped candy that everyone else seems to give. Important to mothers, fathers, and any guardian of any type, keeping the children safe, intrigued and out of trouble should be the goal of everyone.

So how can you achieve this? There are several ways to keep the sugar high in control, first and most obvious being to give something other than candy. If you have time to prepare in advance for the trick or treating ghouls, check out the bulk suppliers of party favors. Usually, you can find pencil packs, game pads, rings, or whatever else there is out there that is pertinent to Halloween. As the season nears to an end you can also usually get them at a discounted rate or if the season has already passed and you are on the ball enough to order for next year, the nonperishables are a great way to save on your pocket and appease the parents.

Staying creative with a mystery bag for age groups or those that might be gender specific is always a great way to appeal to the wondering child. Likewise, it might be interesting to give the parent a goody bag rather than the kids so that the parents have some leverage over the children in the event that they need a reason to continue listening. Being the extraordinary house with the special touch put into the goody bag will be the way that you can enjoy repeat ghosts year after year. As with any gift giving, making it age appropriate and parent approved leads to an evening in which everyone wins.

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Start off your thanksgiving holiday right with some fun and free thanksgiving games to keep the guests entertained. These are easy little activities that help remind everyone of the point of the thanksgiving holiday while keeping everyone involved.

Its autumn and outside there is a veritable wonderland of interesting stuff. Have the guests get all bundled up and head outside while waiting for the food to cook with this Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt. You’ll need to make up a list of the following items that the guests can find by themselves or they can break up into groups to scavenge. They are:

a red leaf

a brown leaf

an orange leaf

a yellow leaf

a pine cone

an acorn

a walnut

a dried weed or pod

a seed

a piece of bark

a sweet gum ball

dried berries

feather

The first group to get all of the items or to get the most items wins. You can hand out special prizes for winning such as feather boas which are made from turkey feathers.

The Giving Thanks game is a fun activity that also helps to remind the family what the point of Thanksgiving really is all about. Have everyone sit in a circle and start off the game with a sentence that lists something really unusual that you are thankful for such as, ‘I am thankful for Hotdogs because’ and then the person to your right has to finish the sentence with the reason why they are thankful. When they’ve completed the sentence they get to begin a new one with the wildest subject they can think of to be thankful for. This can be anything, aliens, feet, or even sneezes. Try and keep the circle going as long as you can.

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The Candy Cane Ornament is a fun activity for kids to make during your family Christmas party and it can be a tasty treat after the holidays are over. You’ll need the following to make your ornaments:

Candy canes

craft foam squares in different colors, red, green, yellow, etc.

Ribbons for decoration

Mini-garland

Star pattern

Glue

You can easily cut out some star shapes from these cute and fairly stable foam squares. Try cutting out three foam stars each one smaller than the last and gluing them on top of each other. Then glue small pieces of the mini-garland around the candy cane. You can also cut out a small section of the ribbons and make it into a bow. Glue the stack of foam stars onto the bottom of the candy cane and glue the bow to the center of them. Once this has dried you can hang the candy cane by its hooked end from the tree. Kids may end up eating the candy canes before they’ve hung on the tree for very long though.

Another fun game to play around Christmas is the ‘What’s in Santa’s Stocking?’ game. Get several Christmas stockings and place objects inside of them that you would find interesting or unusual, such as a stuffed animal or a compact mirror. One object per stocking, and don’t let the guests see you put the objects into the stockings. Tie off the tops of the stockings and have everyone sit down together. You might want to number the stockings so you can keep track of them and what’s inside them. Then hand them around to the guests and each guest must feel the object through the stocking to try and figure out what’s inside. Everyone who guesses an object right gets a small prize.

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