Re: Halloween ideas

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Loren,

Your question prompted me to tell everyone about what we did last year that

was a big hit with my 2 son's classes. I made gfcf ghost cookies. 1 per

child. We used a standard Royal white frosting (gets hard) and added gfcf

chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth. The other huge success if you aren't

in the mood for the work of the royal frosting. I made mini-cupcakes.

(after all the kids get enough snacks and this gives your son something to

bring in and it can be done in one cake mix. I suggest making some bigger

ones and freezing them for those unexpected b-day parties. My sons actually

even love them still frozen.) Because we were trying to avoid food coloring,

I frosted some white and some chocolate and bought those little bat and

spider plastic rings and put one on top of each cupcake. It looked so cool

and the kids loved it. You can get the halloween mini-cupcake papers in the

stores.

As far as the candy, if you son isn't interested in candy, ask the teacher

if you could bring in a seperate little baggy (she could transfer into her

special ones) and put little halloween toys and such that he would like.) My

sons classmates know he can't eat their types of candy and the teacher

substitutes things my son can have and does like. We have done chips and

stickers and stuff like that. Infact my sons teachers have ziplock bags in

there desks of special treats that my son(s) like for those special

unexpected days.

Infact, since we can't eat the regular candy that goes on sale, and we have

close to 300 children come through our neighborhood, this year I bought

Halloween pencils. The older kids want the chocolate, but if I do that, then

they come back for seconds. Can you imagine what it would cost if I tried to

supply everyone with gfcf artificial free candy? I don't want to eat the

" regular " candy, and my husband and sons have to be gfcf.

Oh and what do we do with the candy that my sons get when they do their few

houses that they like to do? Well some neighbors are open to the potato chip

idea, others have done the stickers, and for those that really don't know

us, we recycle the candy when the boys come home and swap them for fun

things they like. (Yes, I give out the candy they can't eat to the next

group of neighbors that say trick or treat. ;-) saves a little money there

too.) Shhh, don't tell my neighbors. ;-)

My boys like handing out the candy better than going door to door so after

about 10 houses they come home.

Hope this helps.

Joyce

Ross is having a Halloween party at school. The

> teacher asked us to each

> bring a bag of candy and sighn up to bring a snack.

> What would you all

> recommend me to do? Ross really won't eat any treat

> or candy anyway, but I

> don't want him to feel left out. do I bake just

> something for him or do I

> bake something for the whole class?

>

> Loren