Safety Tips For Halloween Parties and Costumes

Safety Tips For Halloween Parties
Whether you're an adult or a kid, having a Halloween party can be fun and exciting. To ensure that the party goes smoothly, here are some tips to make sure that there are no accidents, and to attract people to make the party more enjoyable.

If you live in a small, close community where everyone knows everyone else, setup a table on your front lawn with treats and goodies, and maybe even a punch bowl. To get the party going, send invites to the other children on the street, and their parents, to stop by for refreshments and games. Setup some games and crafts in the front yard too, and maybe even a nice yard haunt too.

If you're planning on having lots of kids and their parents over, ask the other parents to pitch in to help out. Ask some of the parents to help with the planning and preparation, and ask other s to do some baking or help out with some of the food.

If you decide to use dry ice in the refreshment bowl, make sure that the person serving keeps the dry ice chips out of the drinks. If injested, it can cause serious harm. It is suggested that you just skip it for serving drinks.

Everyone has breakable knick knacks and precious heirlooms around their house. If you're having a party, put away any items that would really upset you if they were to get broken. You don't want your night ruined by having that irreplacable heirloom vase that grandma gave you knocked over and broken.

If you're having a kids party, make sure that you have lots of crafts and games to play, like a scavenger hunt. If you're having an adult party, keep the party hopping by preparing something like a murder mystery. You can even have people dress up like the characters in the murder mystery to make it more fun and realistic.

Safety Tips For Halloween Costumes
Halloween costumes should be scary to those that see them, not to those that wear them. Whether you buy a Halloween costume or make it, make sure that they are fun and safe. Here are some tips and ideas to hazard proof costumes.

Make sure that the outfits are bright so that they can be seen at night.

The last thing you want is your costume to light up the night in a blaze of glory. Make sure that the material is flame retardant.

If you're making your child's costume or buying it, try to incorporate reflector strips, light sticks or flash lights to make them more visible at night.

Make sure that the costume doesn't have long, dangling pieces, is too long, or includes odd footwear that they don't normally wear. You don't want your child tripping and falling everywhere.

If the costume includes a sharp accessory like a sword, dagger or scythe, make sure that they are made of light, flexible plastic that will easily bend if your child accidentally falls on it. You don't want to spend Halloween in hospital.

If the outfit comes with a mask, make sure that the eye holes are big enough so that peripheral vision is not restricted.

If your children are going out trick or treating with a group of people, try to make their costumes unique, so that they stand out from the other kids in the group. That way you can easily spot them in a crowded area.

If you have mutiple kids, or have friends and family with kids, arrange to swap costumes every year. Exchanging costumes will allow your kids to have a different costume every year, and save you the cost of buying or making new ones.

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