What to Do with Leftover Halloween Candy
Six ideas to donate or re-purpose your kids' Halloween candy.
By the time my kids call it quits on Halloween night, we will have more candy than we know what to do with. It’s way too much to eat in one sitting. It’s certainly not healthy. You can’t bring it to work because everyone else brought their extra candy to work. Your waistline doesn’t need to collect on the “Mommy or Daddy Tax” from the candy haul. You don’t want to throw it out but you certainly don’t want to urge your kids to eat more candy, so it doesn’t go to waste. That won’t win you any Mom-of-the-Year awards. So, what should you do with the leftover candy? 1. Play with it Use the candy to have some fun. Have your kids build with the candy as if they were building blocks. My kids love to build structures using the jelly, butter …
Loralee
8:53 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
I'm so glad you like the candy experiments idea! Older children will love the scientific experiments, but even little children like "experimenting" on their own. I can give my two-year-old a pile of candy, a bowl of water, and a spoon, and soon she's unwrapping, dunking, and stirring away. more ›