![]() I've also found some great Teal Pumpkin gear, and signs on Amazon. Over the past few years Michaels and Target have had lots of ready made Teal Pumpkins you can purchase. ![]() Plan to add your home to the map in 2021! Where do you get a Teal Pumpkin? This year, FARE isn't doing the Teal Pumpkin Map because of social distancing guidelines, so we aren't able to add our home to the interactive map if e are handing out allergy-friendly treats. Put a teal pumpkin in from of your home and have some non-food and allergy friendly items available for trick-or-treaters. So for my sister, my daughter, and thousands of children with allergies and their parents, please join the Teal Pumpkin Project! I remember when she was a little kid always having to sort through her candy after trick-or-treating to make sure that she didn't accidentally ingest what would have been a lethal candy bar. My now teen-aged sister has a peanut allergy. This Halloween I am literally going to have to take candy from a baby! (and if you have a kid, you know that is actually a very daunting task.) Not only do I have celiac disease, but the past year my toddler has developed a sensitivity to dairy. Teal is the allergy awareness ribbon color, and has come to be a symbol in our community to show support for those with food allergies (much like Pink for breast cancer awareness.) However you are handing out your allergy friendly treats, thank you for helping children with allergies be able to safely participate in Halloween! Why Teal? I've also seen some creative ways to send treats to a trick or treater using a tube made of PVC Pipe. You can set up a table of treat bags for trick or treaters, filling party favor bags with non-food or allergy-friendly treats. Instead of handing out non-food Halloween treats by hand, I'm going to be setting my treats up in my driveway for trick or treaters to safely pick up. Halloween 2020 looks different with social distancing guidelinesĪnd while Halloween looks different this year, you better bet I'm still participating in the Teal Pumpkin Project. If you have allergy friendly goodies for trick-or-treaters just put a Teal Pumpkin on your front porch to alert trick or treaters (or parents of trick or treaters) that you have NON-FOOD trick or treat options. Halloween 2020 is the 7th year that FARE has been promoting the Teal Pumpkin Project.
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