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Halloween
With children wandering door to door, parents should be especially
mindful of adult party revelers haunting the neighborhood...
Mind
Your Munchkins
Halloween Safety Tips & Fun
Ideas
 Keep
the lights on - both inside and out - to welcome and protect
trick-or-treaters.
- Be friendly,
but don't invite trick-or-treaters inside - you wouldn't want
your children going into a stranger's home.
- Get creative
- create a costume using makeup instead of a mask. If you do
use a mask, make sure the eyeholes are large to allow full vision.
- Costumes
should be light-colored and/or decorated with reflective tape
that will glow in the beam of a car's headlights. Bags or sacks
also should be light-colored or decorated with reflective tape.
Reflective tape is usually available in hardware, bicycle and
sporting goods stores.
- Costumes,
masks, beards and wigs should be made of flame resistant fabrics
such as nylon or polyester. Look for the label "Flame Resistant."
Flame resistant fabrics will resist burning and should extinguish
quidkly.
- Costumes
should be well-fitted. Little ghosts and goblins can trip and
fall if their costumes drag on the ground.
- Decorate,
decorate, decorate ... but keep candles, luminaries and Jack-o'-lanterns
away from landings and doorsteps where costumes could brush
against the flame.
- Always
accompany your young Munchkins on their trick-or-treating route.
Consider throwing a bash for your Munchkins and their friends,
complete with Halloween-decorated treats.
- If your
older trick-or-treaters go out without an adult, they should
always be in a group and you should know their route.
- Make sure
the treats you offer are wrapped and sealed, and carefully inspect
your children's treats before letting them dig into their riches.
- Remind
your children of everyday safety ... don't go in strangers'
cars, don't go in strangers' houses and abide by all traffic
laws - go on green, stop on red and look left, right, left before
crossing.
- Keep the
whole neighborhood safe by reporting any suspicious activity
to the police by dialing 9-1-1.
Be
Safe and Have a Happy Halloween!
Source:
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Fun
Halloween ideas from around the Web
to help keep your munchkins close to home:
also
see related article -> Healthy
Halloween Treats
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