Green Halloween

Hello Everyone!!!

I wanted to find a topic that related to Halloween, and I was searching on the Internet and found one in particular that caught my eye. It is called "GREEN HALLOWEEN" this is a program that a few schools decided to participate in for Halloween. Many of us have all heard of going GREEN which is becoming more environmental concern and efficient with our resources. GREEN HALLOWEEN is where school plan harvest or Halloween celebrations using healthy treats and reusable decorations as well as activities that are all "GREEN". The article talked about some ideas for teachers if they were having a party celebration in their classroom, I am going to provide some of their ideas for food, activities, and decorations.

Some ideas for GREEN FOOD
1. look for local fruit and pumpkins, possibly be donated
2. Think whole and colorful. For example if wanting to use black and orange because of Halloween you could make a black olive, green and orange bell pepper pizza, on whole wheat pizza crust.
3. don't use plates, or cups that are throw away, have a child bring in their own glass and plate from home and offer them a chance to win a prize. This allows the child to not be wasteful but instead reuse their own utensils.

Some ideas for GREEN ACTIVITIES
1. they can learn to make wallets, bracelets, and purses from candy wrappers
2. make art or decor from only things in nature, for example, leaves, corn stalks, etc.
3. make lead rubbing artwork
4. have a Halloween themed bean- bag toss, using recycled boxes and reused cloth for the bean bags. and pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins for inside the bean-bags.
5. make a treasure out of trash
6. have the children use their pillow cases as their Halloween bag

Some ideas for GREEN DECOR
1.use mostly decorations from nature: pumpkins, gourds, apples, hay, corn stalks, etc
2. make Halloween banners from recycled paper or newspaper and paint them and write on them
3. hit up a thrift store and see what you can find there
4. reuse everything from last year and save everything from this year to use next year.

As you can see this takes a lot of thinking and creativity to do something like this in your classroom, but it is possible and is becoming more and more popular in schools. GREEN HALLOWEEN i think is a great idea because it teaches children ways of being efficient and reusable and at the same time they still can have fun and enjoy the Halloween celebration. If i was a teacher i think i would do some of the ideas i mention because it would be different and also start trends that would influence the students to start doing outside of the classroom. I hope you all enjoyed my blog and i know it is a little different but maybe someday when you are a teacher you can use it in your classroom and think of me, since i am not an education major i will never have the chance of sharing GREEN HALLOWEEN with a classroom. Good luck and GO GREEN!