Here’s a really brief and simple sniglet about Halloween safety.
LIGHT is your child’s friend. Even if trick or treaters will be accompanied by an adult or older sibling, neighborhood walking is risky in the dark. Reflective tape, reflective bags or containers, and a light source of some kind for EACH child will help prevent accidents.
One flashlight for big brother or sister herding a flocklet of six little ones is just not enough. On the plus side, children LOVE lights in general. Glow sticks carry a particular fascination, and can be activated and hung like a necklace or from a belt or waistband using ribbon or a sash. If flashlight is the illumination of choice, be sure it can be fastened somehow to the costume so that hands can be free. Asking a child to hold onto a lit flashlight throughout the mission is not likely to succeed. The flashlight will wind up in a pocket, (if you’re lucky), or more likely dropped and broken before the trip has gone halfway.
Just a quick sniglet for family safety. Please feel free to post any ideas for child safety this upcoming Halloween right here.
