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Trick or Treat Safety!

When out Trick or Treating, please put safety first and follow these simple guidelines for staying safe and having fun! If you need any help looking great, click here to check out our Fancy Dress Tips!

While you’re out and about:

• Carry a torch with you.
• Walk, don’t run.
• Stay on the pavement and pay careful attention to traffic.
• Stay in familiar surroundings.
• Don’t cut across lawns or driveways.
• Wear a watch you can read in the dark.
• Make sure costumes don’t drag on the ground.
• Shoes should fit comfortably (even if they don’t go with your costume).
• Avoid wearing masks while walking from house to house.
• Carry only safe, flexible knives, swords or other props.
• Only approach houses that are lit.

Hints for Adults:

• Young children of any age should be accompanied by an adult.
• Make your child eat dinner before setting out.
• Children should carry some loose change so they can call home.
• If you buy a costume, look for one made of flame-retardant material.
• Older children should know where to reach you and when to be home.
• You should know where they’re going.
• Although tampering is rare, tell children to bring the candy home to be inspected before consuming anything.
• Look at the wrapping carefully and throw out anything that looks suspect.

Tips for Homeowners

• Make sure your yard is clear of such things as ladders, hoses, dog leashes and flower pots that can trip the young ones.
• Pets get frightened on Halloween. Put them up to protect them from cars or inadvertently biting a trick-or-treater.
• Battery powered jack o’lantern candles are preferable to a real flame.
• If you do use candles, place the pumpkin well away from where trick-or-treaters will be walking or standing.
• Make sure paper or cloth yard decorations won’t be blown into a flaming candle.
• Healthy food alternatives for trick-or-treaters include packages of low-fat crackers with cheese or peanut butter filling, single-serve boxes of cereal, packaged fruit rolls, mini boxes of raisins and single-serve packets of low-fat popcorn that can be microwaved later.

Thanks to our friends at Angels Fancy Dress for all the hints and tips featured on this site.
    Angels Fancy Dress have been around for nearly 170 years. They started supplying costumes in 1840!

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