Are you pulling things together at the last minute for your Green Halloween? ByNature.ca has a great collection of all-natural dress up costumes and non-toxic face paints in their Green Halloween section. A few simple pieces are all you need to create homemade Halloween costumes for kids.

For a baby who can’t yet walk or talk, this Halloween is likely the first she will remember of familiar people putting on costumes and making scary faces. To make this a fun holiday for baby, be sure to give her an easy escape. If you are babywearing, a hip carry can give her choice.…Read the full article.

Before our children are developmentally able to focus on consequences, it’s up to us to help them see alternatives to immediate choices. We can shift focus from GIMME CANDY to things and ideas that will still satisfy in other ways. I usually welcome my children to have a small amount of Halloween candy. My son…Read the full article.

Halloween is such a beautiful holiday at the end of the harvest. How does it become yet another excuse to wrap our houses and kids in plastic and fill them full of sugar? That is not the way my family celebrates. We embrace the beauty of the season as well as the fun of dressing…Read the full article.

Like so many holidays and community celebrations, Halloween becomes another opportunity for commerce. I see a lot of parents struggling to find the best way to instill in their children deeper meanings for holidays. Four inches of snow have definitively killed my pumpkin vines. These hearty pumpkins are my last harvest of the season. As…Read the full article.

Sunday, after the potential excesses of Halloween treats on Saturday, you may be looking for a way to fill your children up with a nutritious meal—and get rid of the Halloween pumpkin while you are at it. This soup is very easy to make, and it leaves everyone warm and full. 2 cups pumpkin, cubed…Read the full article.

Awareness of lowering impact of holidays has been growing. There are several years of eco Halloween tips available online, so I’ve gathered some of the best I’ve seen. Treats I’m not that impressed by the idea of organic candy. The problem isn’t so much the organic or the fair trade (good issues, but not the…Read the full article.

Creative babywearers incorporate their babies into excellent Halloween costumes. After seeing so many great costumes, I wish I had a baby to wear this year. I passed up several great baby costumes (the jack-in-the-box) in favor of great thing-on-thing themed costumes. 8. Baby Dorothy being worn by a big rainbow. Wear in any carry as…Read the full article.

Has the costume parade started in your neighborhood yet? My kids have been trying on costumes for at least a month, and each has settled on a final masterpiece. They settled weeks ago. Truthfully, they’ve probably been planning for a year, but I have “Don’t talk to me about Halloween until September” policy that is…Read the full article.

A year ago my children carved pumpkins on our sidewalk. They didn’t really clean up very well. Can you see where this story is going? We were surprised in the spring to have little pumpkin plants pop up in our flower garden (you can see our poor flowers struggling to reach the sun between the…Read the full article.