Ecoccasions

Tips to make your Halloween more eco-friendly:

Make your own Halloween costumes – check out what you have around the house or check out charity shops for items to use.  Use face-paint or make your own masks.  Use card board, alluminium, bin bags, unwanted material – black velvet is great.

Apple bobbing is a firm favourite.  It’s fun and healthy!  Just float apples in a large bowl of water and take turns trying to take an apple out with your teeth – mind the face paint! 

Bake cakes and anything else but add weird and wonderful food colouring.

Pumpkins are a great eco-friendly decoration.  Cut faces out of pumpkins and insert a candle and after use they can be thrown on the compost!  And in the future why no consider growing your own!  

Use up all the sweets you accumulate during the year for dishing out to trick or treaters.  We have about three jars by the time Halloween comes along and otherwise they’ll be thrown away.  Alternatively buy fair-trade, organic and natural ingredient sweets or dish out a variety of fruits, small toys and crayons.

Have a spooky time!

I know that I am not the only one who believes Halloween has turned into the huge farce in our celebratory calender.  Not only can you not walk into a shop without being affronted with every kind of costume, consumables, decorations and now spooky music CDs (quite absurd I thought) but the time shops are stocking up is almost as ridiculous as for Christmas.

Hey, now I don’t wish to be a party pooper, but as you may have gathered – there is a better way!

I was brought up on Halloween parties!  My mum used to black out our front room and create a ghost tunnel using mainly blankets and string…   I know I was spoilt!

The history of Halloween is ancient and interesting and makes you appreciate it all the more.

Check out our eco-friendly Halloween tips coming soon.