Make your Halloween perfect with this variety of spooky, tasty, and fun items that I have put together for you! If you are simply looking for candy alternatives to hand out to little trick or treaters, gifts for your kids, or even costumes – I have compiled it all. Check out the top 10 things I really think everyone needs to make their Halloween perfect here. This guide contains affiliate links.
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Welch’s Fruit Snacks
Welch’s® Fruit Snacks is America’s favorite fruit snacks brand. The Welch’s® Fruit Snacks Halloween-themed box and pouch have custom graphics with fun shapes which include a Bat, Witch, Ghost, Haunted Castle, and Pumpkin. The snacks are perfect for trick or treating, lunchbox treats, or parties. Moms and Dads love that every pack is made with REAL Fruit, is Fat-Free, Gluten-Free, and contains No Preservatives. Welch’s® Fruit Snacks feature fruit as the first ingredient, so they taste delicious!
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iClever BoostCare Kids Headphones
When it comes to children, not all headphones are created equal. The best headphones for adults are rarely the best models for kids. using the wrong headphones could damage kids’ hearing. iClever BoostCare Over the Ear Headphones are designed specially with kids in mind. They have Kid-Safe Volume Limiting Technology: built-in volume-limiting circuitry that keeps the sound pressure down to levels recommended as safe for young ears. Colorful Halloween Theme Kid Friendly Headsets are batman styled and flexible. Makes for a good gift for family/friends kids or buy for your own. Good also for KG/pre-school teachers.
Pirate’s BOOty
Halloween is a spooky time of year, but sometimes the scariest part isn’t the creepy masks, skeletons or ghouls – it’s the sugar-overload from candy that is the nightmare! This year, hand out a better-for-you, gluten-free treat you can feel good about and all kids can enjoy. Your favorite Aged White Cheddar Pirate’s BOOty is now available in convenient ½ oz. limited-edition Halloween packaging for trick or treaters. Pirate’s Booty: No tricks, just treats: No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Gluten-free. Always baked, never fried. Made with real, aged white cheddar cheese We love this stuff in our house! Yum!
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Swaponz Halloween Phone Case
This Halloween, while you’re deciding what to dress up as, don’t forget to dress up your phone case! Swaponz.com, the swappable smartphone case company, carries hundreds of designs including some spook-tacular Halloween designs! For just $25, customers can select a protective phone case model (which come in a variety of colors) and two scratch & fade resistant swappable designs, which can be selected from the brand’s 700+ online inventory. From there, swapping out a new design only costs $7.50. I love the idea of this and have been obsessed with my Swaponz case since it arrived. What a fun way to show off your ever-changing style!
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Deluxe Cinderella Dress (Great Pretenders)
This deluxe dress features a full length bottom made of blue satin & multiple layers of glitter tulle. Top features more satin, ruffles of mirrored organza highlighted with butterflies. We have gotten several costumes from Great Pretenders in the past and are never disappointed. They are great quality, handmade, and true to size. After Halloween, my girls have tossed them in to their dress up chest and played with them for months to come! They hold up well through heavy play. When picking out a costume this year, I suggest checking out Great Pretenders. Use the code halloween2016 for 15% off your order!
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My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Collection
If you are looking for a great trick or treat candy alternative, boy do I have one for you! The My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Collection is compact, adorable and outfitted in Halloween costumes! This collection features characters portrayed from the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic animated TV series celebrating their Halloween-like celebration, Nightmare Night! These adorable themed playsets and mini pony-figures would make for a great non-candy/ food allergy alternative for little ones this Halloween! My girls love My Little Pony and so of course, these will be a hit in our house. This year, give trick or treaters something that will last!
Personalized Halloween Gear (Stampout)
Create customized trick or treat bags, wooden signs, mugs, and so much more at StampoutOnline.com! We created some trick or treat bags for our daughters that they cannot wait to take around with them this year. We also got a gorgeous hanging wooden sign that will be going up every Halloween! We have gotten several compliments already on it. With fast shipping and quality work, you cannot go wrong with Stampout for all your personalized Halloween needs!
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The Hershey Company Candy
Halloween is all about candy, isn’t it? Well The Hershey Company has lots of options for Halloween specific candy to choose from this year! There are Reese’s Ghosts, Kit Kat Minis, Jolly Rancher Lollipops, Caramel Apple Milk Chocolates, and Cookies ‘n’ Creme Skulls. There is even a Halloween party assortment which is a large plastic pumpkin filled with an assortment of classic snack-sized Halloween treats from The Hershey Company! No matter what you are looking for, you can find it from Hershey!
All products available in retailers nationwide, including Walmart, Target, Kroger and C-stores.
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Halloween Lava Lamp
This spooky lamp contains a removable, spider that has a sound-activated chip that will shriek at those brave enough to pass it. Watch the Lava move up and down the spider web frosted globe resting on a black painted, hand-spun base and cap. Make your next Halloween SPOOKTACULAR and enjoy the colorful motion of this creepy version of the timeless Lava® lamp.
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PBS Kids Halloween DVDs
From going trick-or-treating with Peg and Cat, to picking out a costume with Caillou, spooktacular DVDs from PBS Distribution will get kids excited about Halloween. Four DVDs are highlighted below. Each DVD features a different PBS KIDS series – CAILLOU, DINOSAUR TRAIN, PEG + CAT, and WORDWORLD.
CAILLOU: CAILLOU’S HALLOWEEN: “CAILLOU’S HALLOWEEN” features 13 stories including “Caillou Loves Halloween,” “Pumpkin Patch Kid,” and “Caillou’s Halloween Costume.” In “Caillou’s Halloween Costume,” Caillou and Rosie are trying to pick out costumes as Halloween quickly approaches – but Caillou can’t decide what he wants to be. With help from Mommy and Daddy, a furry blue monster costume is created for Caillou so he can join Leo, a cowboy, and Clementine, a bumblebee, for trick-or-treating!
DINOSAUR TRAIN: BUDDY’S HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE: Join Buddy and his family and friends for some spooktastic adventures! The Pteranodon family visits a haunted roundhouse in Troodon Town where they meet a nocturnal mammal named Vlad Volaticotherium. The fun continues when the family goes to a pumpkin patch and learns about carving pumpkins from Larry Lambeosaurus. The four stories included on this DVD are “Night Train,” “Fossil Fred,” “Haunted Roundhouse,” and “Big Pond Pumpkin Patch.”
PEG + CAT: A TOTALLY AWESOME HALLOWEEN: Combine Halloween excitement with mathematical fun and you’ve got “PEG + CAT: A TOTALLY AWESOME HALLOWEEN.” This DVD features four adventures, two of which are Halloween themed – “The Parade Problem” and “The Halloween Problem.” In “The Parade Problem,” kids will learn about sorting and estimating as they watch Peg and Cat clean up a park to ensure the nursery school’s Halloween parade takes place.
WORDWORLD: HALLOWEEN FUN: In the DVD “WORDWORLD: HALLOWEEN FUN,” join the WordFriends on adventures that demonstrate the connections between letters, sounds, words, and meaning. This DVD features five stories including “A Kooky Spooky Halloween” and “Sheep’s Halloween Costume.” In “A Kooky Spooky Halloween,” Pig is so worried about finishing his Halloween bags, because he’s missing the letter B, that he ends up sleepwalking. As he sleepwalks, collecting Bs along the way, everyone thinks he’s a ghost!
Sky Pony Press Books
It’s almost Halloween! A brand new picture book and two of our older favorites are the perfect spooky and fun reads for little ones ages 3–6!
THE GHOSTS GO SCARING by Chrissy Bozik and Patricia Storms: It’s Halloween night and the ghosts are out of the shadows and ready to scare! Just in time for fall festivities, The Ghosts Go Scaring doubles as both a Halloween tale and a counting book. An enjoyable Halloween take on “The Ants Go Marching,” the sing-song nature of the text makes this a great read-aloud before bedtime and the perfect devlish story for fans of this special holiday!
BRUNHILDA’S BACKWARDS DAY by Shawna J. C. Tenney: Brunhilda the witch loves making trouble. As soon as she leaves the house, she begins to spread her misery. But one night, Brunhilda’s cat makes trouble instead. When Brunhilda wakes up that next morning, she is on the right side of the bed. The day has gone completely backwards. What will happen when Brunhilda casts her all-time favorite misery-inducing spells? This is a silly story about how sometimes being nice can be more rewarding than being mean.
I WANT TO EAT YOUR BOOKS by Karin Lefranc and Tyler Parker: There’s a zombie in the school, but he doesn’t want brains… He wants books! When he catches a whiff of the school library, the children need to come up with a plan fast before all their books become history! This monster book is silly and fun, with a strong message about kindness and friendship. This is the perfect monster book for little ones who want a thrill but aren’t looking for anything too scary!
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