How to Choose an Eco-Friendly Trick-or-Treat Bag
Going "green" means finding ways to eliminate waste, even during the holiday season. Help reduce unnecessary waste this Halloween when you choose an eco-friendly trick or treat bag for your child or help your child make one. Avoid the typical plastic, disposable Trick or Treat bags and buckets and make this Halloween a little more eco-friendly. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- White or light colored canvas bags
- Orange and black fabric paints
- Paint brushes
Instructions
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Choose Halloween bags made out of durable, reusable material. The more times your child can use the trick or treat bag, the less impact it will have on the environment. There are many festive, eco-friendly Halloween bags widely available online. Visit Green Feet to find a sturdy, lightweight, Halloween-themed trick-or-treat bag your child can use year after year.
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Use bags that you already own. Large canvas reusable shopping bags make great trick-or-treat bags for your children. Let your children decorate the white or light colored canvas shopping bags with orange and black fabric paint. This gives the eco-friendly shopping bags the perfect holiday look that your children can be proud of.
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Turn white pillow cases into eco-friendly bags. Purchase white pillow cases from a thrift store, recycle your old white pillow cases or put extra pillow cases to good use. Get out the orange and black fabric paints and paint brushes to let your children design unique trick-or-treat bags that they can use over and over.
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Tips & Warnings
Make your positive impact on the environment a little more far-reaching. Plan a neighborhood bag-making party so that more kids in your neighborhood will use eco-friendly trick-or-treat bags this Halloween. Ask each child who participates to bring an old pillow case or canvas shopping bag to decorate with fabric paints. Be sure to tell the kids about the positive impact they are making on the environment.
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writer7
Oct 26, 2010
Good ideas. When I was a kid we either used pillow cases or old brown shopping bags recycled from store purchases. -
grgshrb
Oct 26, 2010
I don't understand how buying something new can be 'eco-friendly.' A new bag would have been created and transported using fossil fuels, and therefore would not be friendly to any ecosystems I am aware of. Neither would using paints and markers be friendly to our natural environment (what is so bad about not decorating the pillowcase and using it as a pillowcase again after Halloween instead of filling the attic with something that gets used once a year?). I also have to question if this 'eco-friendly' Halloween bag would be used to collect and participate with non-eco-friendly Halloween stuffs such as small candy bars (which are not friendly to human bodies) wrapped in plastic that come in larger plastic bags and were purchased from corporations which have long records of social and environmental abuse, shameless plastic costumes and decorations, an increase in power consumption,...
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Larry Fike
Oct 26, 2010
LOVE doing Halloween with pillow-cases. You can always sew some holiday-appropriate thingies onto one. Thanks!
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ceewhy
Oct 26, 2010
We always used a pillow case--- won't break and holds alot!!
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dorinmouss
Oct 26, 2010
Simple but fantastic ideas!
