Halloween Tips for Special-Needs Families
Help for getting through Halloween with a child with special needs.
What Do You Do With Leftover Candy? - Using Leftover Candy for Learni…
Share your strategies for using up leftover Halloween candy -- or Easter candy, or Valentine candy, or goody-bag treats -- without putting your child into sugar overload.
Share your strategies for using up leftover Halloween candy -- or Easter candy, or Valentine candy, or goody-bag treats -- without putting your child into sugar overload.
12 Ways to Use Up Halloween Candy
If you're child's on a restricted diet, bounces off the wall with too much sugar, or just needs to avoid a long stay in the dentist's chair, big batches of high-calorie, high-sugar, hyper-loading sweet stuff can be a crisis. Rather than empty the trick-or-treat bag (or Easter basket, or goody bag) into the trash when the kids aren't looking -- or scarfing it all up yourself -- think about using t…
If you're child's on a restricted diet, bounces off the wall with too much sugar, or just needs to avoid a long stay in the dentist's chair, big batches of high-calorie, high-sugar, hyper-loading sweet stuff can be a crisis. Rather than empty the trick-or-treat bag (or Easter basket, or goody bag) into the trash when the kids aren't looking -- or scarfing it all up yourself -- think about using t…
Before You Plan Your Halloween Fun
Children with special needs may need some extra magic to make their Halloween a treat. Find foods and finery especially intended to make the day less scary.
Children with special needs may need some extra magic to make their Halloween a treat. Find foods and finery especially intended to make the day less scary.
How to Make an Emergency Last-Minute Costume
Your child decides at the last minute that he wants to go trick-or-treating after all, or chooses bedtime to inform you that there's a pageant tomorrow and she's in it. You have no time and no special supplies to make a costume, but a costume is quickly called for. Here's how to throw together something, using items you have around the house, that will do in a pinch.
Your child decides at the last minute that he wants to go trick-or-treating after all, or chooses bedtime to inform you that there's a pageant tomorrow and she's in it. You have no time and no special supplies to make a costume, but a costume is quickly called for. Here's how to throw together something, using items you have around the house, that will do in a pinch.
How to Make a Halloween Costume for a Child with Sensory Integration Dysfunction
Children with sensory integration problems may balk at scratchy costumes, itchy makeup and pinchy headgear. Making a costume that puts a premium on comfort will make your little ghoul happy -- and being able to use the clothes again after will make you happy, too.
Children with sensory integration problems may balk at scratchy costumes, itchy makeup and pinchy headgear. Making a costume that puts a premium on comfort will make your little ghoul happy -- and being able to use the clothes again after will make you happy, too.
Halloween Costumes for Kids in Wheelchairs
Looking for good Halloween costume ideas for a child in a wheelchair? These sites offer inspiration, photos, and specific instructions for outfits that either disguise the ride or use it as part of the ensemble. Use them to get your little goblin in fine trick-or-treating form.
Looking for good Halloween costume ideas for a child in a wheelchair? These sites offer inspiration, photos, and specific instructions for outfits that either disguise the ride or use it as part of the ensemble. Use them to get your little goblin in fine trick-or-treating form.
Treats Too Tricky? Try Some Sweet Charity
Children with special needs like diabetes or food allergies may not be able to partake of traditional treats on Halloween. But they can still have fun trick-or-treating, and do a little good on the way.
Children with special needs like diabetes or food allergies may not be able to partake of traditional treats on Halloween. But they can still have fun trick-or-treating, and do a little good on the way.
Halloween on a Restricted Diet
For children with diabetes, food allergies, Prader-Willi syndrome, and other special needs, gorging on Halloween candy can bring more than a tummy ache -- it can be a serious health risk. These sites offer suggestions, strategies, and recipes for making the night less spooky for kids whose diet needs to be carefully watched.
For children with diabetes, food allergies, Prader-Willi syndrome, and other special needs, gorging on Halloween candy can bring more than a tummy ache -- it can be a serious health risk. These sites offer suggestions, strategies, and recipes for making the night less spooky for kids whose diet needs to be carefully watched.