Category: halloween

When Halloween rolls around, one of the most important tools that children need to have other than their costume is a great Halloween candy bag. This bag has to be large enough to handle the enormous amounts of candy that will be collected throughout the night, and should also be easy to carry and look the part, fitting in to all the scary costumes of the night. There are some people who choose to make a Halloween candy bag out of a pillow case, since they are easy to carry and hold a bunch of candy. There are others who prefer the plastic containers, such as the little pumpkin heads or skull heads that will act as a bucket to hold the candy of the night.

Types of Bags

Parents buy bulk Halloween candy to prepare for all of the trick or treaters that will be coming to their door carrying their Halloween candy bags, expecting great treats. There are some Halloween candy bags that can be decorated at home or made from scratch, rather than be bought at the store. There are paper Halloween candy bags that have designs printed on them but are not colored in. These are fun party supplies that individuals can use for Halloween parties for younger children so that they can decorate the bags before going out trick or treating as a group.

There are other paper Halloween candy bags that have handles at the top of them for easier carrying during trick or treating. Some of these bags are decorated in happy pumpkins; others are decorated with goofy Frankensteins, ghosts and black cats. There are other Halloween candy bags that serve as gift bags for take away gifts from Halloween parties. These bags are smaller and are usually plastic with different designs printed on them to create the Halloween effect. Some of these have pumpkins, bats, cats, and other creatures of the night on them and often come in a pack of twelve for under five dollars.

There are also some handy Halloween candy bags that have a drawstring top and are made of cloth. These bags can be looped over the shoulder or back like a purse or backpack for easy carrying throughout the night, and the top stays closed because of the drawstring to prevent any mishaps. These bags are still very inexpensive, often costing about ten dollars for a set of twelve. These are others that are glow in the darks and cost double that, running about twenty dollars for a set of twelve.

Every child that is allowed to go trick or treating is excited to see what Halloween candy he will find in his Halloween candy bag at the end of the night. After going door to door all evening under the watchful eyes of his parents, he gets home and sits down on the floor or kitchen table to empty out the container and sort through all of the Halloween candy. This is an important part of the process, especially if he has siblings, because once the candy has been sorted into piles of each type of candy, then the exchanges can be made. Each child usually has favorite Halloween candy, and he can often trade his siblings their favorite candy for his, so that he ends up with as many of his favorites as possible by the end of the evening.

Preparation

When parents are preparing for Halloween, one important part is buying the Halloween candy for the night. They do not want to be the house on the street that runs out of candy and has to turn out the lights so that no more children come by the house. One way to help to ensure this does not happen is to buy the Halloween candy in bulk, going to a wholesale store or looking for sales on the different types of candy.

It is always nice when choosing the candy to have different sizes of candy in the candy bowl for the children to choose from. This allows the parents to tell children that they can choose one of the large pieces and then a couple of the small ones so that they feel that the children remember that house as the one with the great Halloween candy. There are some people also who mix their Halloween candy with gift certificates from a fast food place, such as a free Frosty from Wendy’s or a free sundae from McDonalds. It is always a good idea to give the coupon and some smaller candy so that the children get an immediate treat as well as the one that will benefit them in the long run.

When placing the Halloween candy in the bowl, it is a good idea not to try and fit all of the candy that is bought in the bowl at one time, but rather to fill it up and wait until it is under the halfway mark to fill it again. As the evening wears on and the trick or treaters thin out, when the candy bowl gets under the halfway mark the parents should not refill it again. In this way the parents are not left with bags of opened, left over candy, but instead have sealed bags that are left over which they can easily return to the store and get their money back. This prevents over eating of the candy, since the children already have plenty of their own.