Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31st. Dressed in costumes, children go door-to-door trick-or-treating to collect candy and other gifts.
Your Club can choose to celebrate the holiday by helping others through participating in one or more of these Kids Care Clubs Halloween Helper projects:

• Kids Care Clubs Celebrate with a Cause Parties
• Halloween Costume Collection
• Halloween Candy Drive
• Sight Night® Eyeglass Collection

 Kids Care Clubs Celebrate with a Cause Parties

Photo:
St. Hilary's Kids Care Club, OH 

HOWL-o-ween Party
Cause: Animals

Kids love Halloween parties. Instead of the traditional Trick or Treating for candy, your club members will be collecting or making treats for your local animal shelter. Call your local shelter and ask what they have on their wish list. Food, treats, animals toys, and newspapers are a staple of what all shelters need.

Collect items from your club members, your sponsoring organization or your neighborhood. Send out flyers in advance that your Kids Care Club will be collecting items for the local animal shelter.

For more ideas and resources on click on Kids Care Clubs Animal Friends.

HOWL-o-ween and Meals on Wheels? Yes! Your club could use it's celebration to assemble "doggie bags" (and kitty bags, too!) to be distributed to seniors who are recipients of Meals on Wheels and have pets. There can be a great need for pet food for these seniors who are on a fixed income and whose pet is their only company.

Halloween + Hunger

Host a Halloween party and ask kids to bring in an item requested from the local soup kitchen or food bank's wish list.

Halloween + Literacy

Ask guests to bring a new or gently used children's book to your Halloween party to donate to a low income school or library. You can also ask that children dress up as a character in their favorite book.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME COLLECTION

Materials Needed:

New Or Used Halloween Costumes

Steps Involved:

1. Call your social service agency, a low-income school, or community center or shelters and ask if they would like to receive Halloween costumes.
2. Make a flyer and advertise the collection in your organizational newsletter. Ask for new or gently used, clean, costumes and Halloween accessories.
3. Provide a drop box. Decorate it with Halloween themes. Collect your costumes and deliver to the agency a week before Halloween.
4. If possible, consider pumpkin painting, T-Shirt decorating, or face painting with your recipients.

HALLOWEEN CANDY DRIVE
Hold a Candy Drive on the day after Halloween. Ask kids or parents to drop off excess candy in your drop box. Much of the wrapped candy can be frozen or refrigerated. Wrap in cellophane and tie a ribbon around several pieces for distribution at Thanksgiving or the Holidays to one of the above agencies, Meals on Wheels or a nursing home.

Materials Needed:

Colored cellophane or small clear plastic sandwich bags
Ribbon
Paper and markers

Steps Involved:

1. Make a poster announcing your Candy Drive
2. Decorate a box and place it in a central location for the collection
3. Separate the obvious Halloween wrapped candy from the other pieces. Place in a separate bag and ask the agency if they want that along with your wrapped candy.
4. Discard any opened or unwrapped candy.
5. Wrap in cellophane and tie a ribbon around several pieces or put several pieces in a baggie and tie with a ribbon.
6. Make a small tag fitting the occasion and attach to the ribbon.
7. Deliver to an agency.