How to Use a Teal Pumpkin to Help Kids With Allergies!
What is The Teal Pumpkin Project?
My family will display a teal-colored pumpkin in support of the Teal Pumpkin Project this year. For years, I had no idea what the teal pumpkin meant!
Our Halloween planning is nearly done. Decorations adorn our house, our pumpkins await painting or carving, and our costumes are (mostly) ready.
Next on the list…candy. Wait…what if you didn’t give out candy this year? Or what if you give out a mixture of treats and toys?
There are many reasons why giving out toys is better for kids than candy.
The added sugar in their candy is terrible for their teeth, health, and weight. And parents spend precious time checking the candy to make sure that everything is safe.
What about those kids who have food and dye allergies? Trick or Treating suddenly goes from being a fun and indulgent activity to a dangerous one.
I never considered how hard it must be for people with food allergies to go trick-or-treating until now, and I love that the Teal Pumpkin Project provides a simple and fun solution!
Help Kids with Food Allergies Enjoy Halloween
The Teal Pumpkin Project movement is intended to better include people with food allergies in the Halloween festivities. The idea is simple.
Simply display a teal pumpkin (real or fake) and/or a teal pumpkin flyer and hand out non-food treats.
Ideas for these non-food treats include pencils, erasers, stickers, spider rings, fake spiders, and stamps. You can grab our list of non-food treats below 🙂
We’ll have candy and non-candy treats this year for all kids, and I hope it helps at least one trick-or-treater have a better Halloween.
We all know people with food allergies. Let’s help them have a truly Happy Halloween! Will you be joining us?
We have compiled a list of 25+ non-candy Halloween treat ideas! Get your copy now!
This is really great for kids with food allergies. I know several moms who are very thankful for this.
Love this idea. My little guy can’t have dairy so we love non candy treats!
I love that each Halloween I am seeing more and more teal pumpkins in my neighbourhod.
I’ve never heard of them teal Pumpkin! But I LoVE his idea. What a great way to get bc life every child, despite their allergies!
I had no idea this was a thing… I think this is great. We will get a teal pumpkin!
Fabulous idea! I am SO doing this!!
I love the Teal Pumpkin Project! We don’t have any food allergies, at least not yet, but we always try to have non-food treats for anyone that doesn’t want them
obsessed with this teal pumpkin!!! I love all of these ideas!
Great reminder on the teal pumpkin!
This is a great idea! I always try to have peanut free options available. This is a great way to include everyone.
What a great idea! I’m going to pick up some non – food prizes too.
Yes! I literally never thought about kids with allergies before, and now I feel so bad about that! I can’t wait to have both available for all those trick or treaters!