Sometimes in all the excitement, we forget to be careful. Here are a few Macaroni Tips to keep your family safe at Halloween. Most are simple common sense, but always worth remembering.
Help your child pick out or make a costume that will be safe. Make it fire proof, be sure the eye holes are large enough for good peripheral vision and watch out for stray pieces that can easily get caught on car doors, etc. If a prop accompanies the costume, be sure the tips are smooth and flexible and won’t cause injury. Be sure their costume includes some kind of light or glow in the dark aspect.
If you set jack-o-lanterns on your porch with candles in them, make sure that they are far enough out of the way so that kids’ costumes won't reach them. Be sure to place the jack-o-lantern on a nonflammable surface, and don’t forget to blow it out at the end of the evening!
Kids love to help with pumpkin carving, but those knives are dangerous! Better plan is to allow your children to help draw the face, which you cut, and then let them reach in and scoop out the goop!
The amount of candy that changes hands, and gets consumed by our kids on Halloween is nothing short of shocking! Treating your kids to a yummy and filling Halloween dinner will make them less likely to eat the candy they collect before you have a chance to check.
Halloween presents an ideal time to review basic safety messages with your kids . . . never get into cars or talk to strangers, look both ways before crossing streets, cross only when the light tells you, stick with a buddy and never eat anything that comes unwrapped.
Keep Halloween safe, fun and happy!
