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pumpkins after the party if you don't send them home with the guest. For children's parties, decorate small pumpkins with markers and stickers. If you are throwing a children's Halloween party, remember that goodie bags are usually an environmental crime. They are often plastic bags filled with cheap little plastic "toys" and chocolate (usually made by exploiting poor families.) What a waste! Have your child decorate brown paper (recycled) lunch sacks with Halloween characters. Fill them up together with art supplies , stickers, and a small wooden toy or kite. Halloween stickers can also be given out as party favors or used as game prizes.

FOOD & DRINKS

Do not use disposable plates! Or if you do, use recycled paper plates and compost them after the party. Why not just buy Halloween stickers and decorate your own cups and plates? The treats you hand out shouldn't be "tricked" with pesticides and preservatives, so buy all-natural, organic candy. Buy fair-trade to make sure that your candy is produced by people who work for a living wage. Traditional foods for Halloween include pumpkins and pumpkin seeds, apples, corn, nuts, turnips, and kale. (Many recipes for the food can be found by doing searches on the Internet.)

An example of an Appetizer Halloween Party Menu would be:
-meatballs and olives (labeled "Eyes and Brains of Newt")
-apple slices
-pumpkin or pecan pastries (decorate with icing: draw on jack o'lantern faces)
-mixed nuts or Halloween Trail Mix: 1 box coco puffs, 1 can mixed nuts, 1 bag of pumpkin seeds, 2 bags holiday orange and black M&M's, 2T edible gold glitter or orange sprinkles
-cornbread muffins (add olive "eyes" on toothpicks or cashew "antennae")

A fancier Buffet-Style Halloween Party Menu might include:
-any roasted meat dish
-corn on the cob
-broiled turnips
-braised kale greens with nuts
-candied apples
-pumpkin pie

Other options include caramel apples, roasting s'mores, and, of course, traditional Halloween candy like chocolates and candy corn. Drinks for a Halloween party could be Apple Cider or an Orange sherbet punch:
mix: 2 2L. bottles lemon-lime or orange soda and 2c. pineapple juice, add: 1 gallon orange sherbet.

Happy Halloween! Be safe and have fun!

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