POST HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT

Why let trick or treating be only one day? Take advantage of all the candy you have and trick or treat again and again. The fun doesn’t have to end.

My daughter was so upset that Halloween was over and she couldn’t trick or treat anymore. We came up with a solution. Trick or treating inside our house. We did it multiple ways, many times to keep it fun. Each time we did it, she changed her costume too.

Materials:

• candy
• bowls
• stuffed animals
• Halloween music
• cardboard (for door) or actual doors
• costumes

Options:

Option #1: Place stuffed animals behind a doors in your house. Have your child/children knock on the door and then the adult opens the door. Child/children then take a piece of candy from the bowl. Repeat at all of the doors in your house. If an adult doesn’t want to be behind the door to open, then child/children can open the door after knocking.

You can also do this with adults and siblings, instead of stuffed animals behind the doors. Then take turns trick or treating.

Option #2: Throughout your house set up stuffed animals with bowls of candy. Then have your child/children explore through their house and find them. Say trick or treat and then take on piece of candy out of each bowl.

Option #3: If your house has a lot of open space and few doors, or if you want to stay in one part of the house- make a door! We made a door out of cardboard and then moved it after every stop. Once done knocking and the door opens, move the door to the next spot as child/children is getting candy from current spot.

After Trick or treat:

Sort!

What did you get? How many of each? Put your candy in size order! Smallest? Biggest? Favorite?

Play “I Spy” Game…colors, letters, words, shapes

Examples: “I spy with my little eye something blue”, “I spy with my little eye something that starts with a K”, “I spy with my little eye the word minis”, “I spy with my little eye something orange & a square”.