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Halloween Helpers


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 participating in one or more of these Halloween projects:

  • Halloween Costume Collection
  • Halloween Candy Drive
  • Sight Night® Eyeglass Collection

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.

SIGHT NIGHT® EYEGLASS COLLECTION

Sight Night ® is an annual eyeglasses collection project organized around Halloween or trick-or-treat in your community, sponsored by Give the Gift of Sight Foundation and Lions Club International. Complete pairs of children's and adult's prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses are needed, as well as nonprescription sunglasses. All collected eyeglasses are cleaned, repaired, and hand-delivered to developing countries.

Steps Involved:

  1. Explain to your children why collecting eyeglasses is important, and how participating in the project will help others.
  2. Download or order free materials by clicking here.
  3. Promote Sight Night® in the community.
  4. Collect the eyeglasses during trick-or-treating times.
    Count the number of glasses collected and report results online at www.givethegiftofsight.com/events/sightnight/results/index.asp by the end of November to receive a Sight Night® certificate.
  5. Turn in collected eyeglasses at your nearest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center or at one of the following stores: LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, BJ's Optical, Target Optical or Sunglass Hut. Find the location nearest to you.
  6. Contact Goodwill, Salvation Army, or other organizations to donate eyeglass cases.


Sight Night® is part of Give the Gift of Sight, a series of charitable vision care.