Halloween Candy
How do you handle Halloween candy? I know every family has their own traditions. At our house, the kids add all their goodies into one big pot and then we eat it as fast as we can. It's usually gone within a couple of days of Halloween. Which I love. Because then I don't have to fight sticky hands and wrappers for an extended period of time.
But this year, we really hit the motherload. The kids came home with way too much candy. Yesterday, we took the colorful ones out their wrappers and sorted them — I think they look so much prettier.
I'm betting everything will be gone by Wednesday.
Labels: kids
posted by Gabrielle of Design Mom at Monday, November 03, 2008
28 Comments:
love this idea for year round.
You do Halloween Candy just like we do. Ours is almost gone. And too funny, we did exactly what you did with our colorful candy. We just have a bowlful of Rockets/Smarties left and a jar of various lollipops. :-)
That's a great idea to sort them that way! You're right! It all looks so much cuter that way!
I let my kids eat as much as they want (me too) the day after Halloween. Then I let them fill a small brown lunch size bag with their favorites.
The balance is donated to a local charity that fills uses the candy to fill pinatas used at Christmas parties for the children of migrant workers here in South Florida.
My kids got waaaaaay toooo much this year, so the donation bag is about 5 pounds. (That is after eating and keeping some, yikes!)
WE do the same thing...it's a free for all for a few days...although I might be re-thinking that next year.
My most favorite night of the whole year is the night we change our clocks back an hour! A whole extra hour to sleep and feel completely refreshed in the morning. Imagine my complete frustration and madness when my 6 year old woke up at 1:00am throwing up all that candy I let him have in 'free for all' mode! We were up all night and I missed out on my extra hour of sleep. I am still bitter!
{sorry, i guess this should have probably been a post on my own blog!}
OH!! great idea. I wonder if I could talk my kids into that? It looks SO much prettier.
We're all about taxes...I make the costumes and take them trick or treating so they give me 10%(it changes year to year depending on how much they got). Great lesson in civics, don't you think?
Hi Design Mom! Huge fan over here.
As the mother of four little ones, I certainly share your thoughts on Halloween candy. A reader of mine just directed to me to this site which gladly accepts and PAYS for your extra candy at $1 a pound. They then send it to American troops overseas to brighten their day. What a swell idea!
http://www.halloweencandybuyback.com/
xoxo
simply seleta
LOVE it!!! What a great idea-so pretty.
Ha- our candy was gone yesterday. I think I ate about 33 Butterfingers.
What a great idea! I was so hoping to see the costumes you put together for your kids this year. Last year's were so great!
The M&M jar would so be gone! :)
Wonderful idea! It looks so pretty I might just not want to eat it!
It does look pretty and tempting.
I hid all the kids candy in the closet and am giving two a day. A bigger one and a smaller one and sometimes two small ones. They do not get any candy if they do not brush teeth in the morning though.
perfect idea. Filing this in my brain for future years when we are going to have more than one kiddo bringing home the goodies. 5 houses this year didn't yield too much for mommy, daddy and toddler to handle!
your blog is just fantasic! I am loving browsing around at all of these neat ideas!
LOVE this.
Tonight the Halloween Fairy is coming to our house. She gave us 3 days to enjoy our candy and is now going to offer us something in return. We will place our candy bags on the front steps and in the morning, will go and see, with much anticipation, just what she left us in return.
Someone shared this idea with me and I'm trying it out for the first time this year. We'll see...
I love this idea! As we're almost through our daughter's candy this year (yes!) I will have to try this next year.
They look so much more fun your way!
It's not the candy smorgasboard in the UK that I had growing up in the States. We did our area and hit 11 houses which is just right. As Halloween was pretty non-existent when I had my little boy 6 years ago I wanted it to be as special for him as it was for me so I went around to all the neighbors I knew and told them we'd be coming around Halloween night to wish them a Happy Halloween. We turned up with bags of homemade treats and some of them swapped for candy. Now we still bring our treat bags, but there's lots of other houses that participate. We just look for pumpkins in the windows. My husband says I've trained them well.
Oh, I forgot the question. We've got Bonfire Night coming up here in the UK so anything left by November 5 will go to Bonfire Night and shared with friends.
How cool is that!
My kids doesn't like candy so much so he took the candies just for the fun and then just gave them to me and I ate them!; lol...
He only ate the choco coins he loves... lol...
That is such a cute idea!!! Everything does look so much prettier that way:) Now, all I need is to find some jars.
LOVE the sorting idea - like beads or buttons. Yea! Here's hoping I can talk my kids into doing that.
I can't stand having so much sugar in the house....especially when I am off sugar.
My husband takes the candy to work so I don't eat it all. I have a friend who buys her kid's candy and then they can get a toy instead of a sugar high.
Yep. I'm one of those moms who buys my kids candy too. My son is buying pokemon cards with his cash.
Those pictures look so gorgeous, it makes me wish that halloween was a big holiday here in Australia too... I might just have to buy some things instead just to make my own jars although I'm not sure it will last very long!! :)
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