Food Allergy Research and Education has blown Halloween out of the water! This sheer brilliance was the good work from the Food Allergy Community of East Tennessee and now it’s a hot national trend! Within two days of the launch, over 2.2 million people read FARE’s blog post about it and today the Teal Pumpkin Project Facebook page post has been viewed over 38,000 times! The purpose of painting our pumpkin’s teal is to raise awareness and start those important food allergy conversations AND to encourage people to offer non-food treats. The project works like this:
- Buy low-cost, non food treats to give away for Halloween (I scored great items at the Dollar Tree in Reno for less than the cost of candy)
- Paint a pumpkin teal (I also scored a sweet $1.00 pumpkin that I painted from the Dollar Tree)
- Display your pumpkin along with the FARE POSTER on Halloween Night to indicate you are giving away non-food items.
I spent less that $8.00 on this endeavor – including paint!
The cut out light up pumpkin cost under $5.00 from Target the smaller pumpkins were $1.00 each the Dollar Tree
FREE Teal Pumpkin Project Downloads:
- Teal Pumpkin Flyer (share this with friends—start a movement)!
- Teal Pumpkin Poster to Display on Halloween Night
I’m going to add a picture of my pumpkin to FARE’s TEAL PUMPKIN PROJECT FACEBOOK PAGE–you too? Here are some fun ideas from FARE of non-food items:
I get carried away with Halloween Trinkets (I think I have converted Connie Green, co-founder of the California Advocates for Food Allergies) and have some left over from last year too. I love eye patches, spider rings and pretty much anything Halloween related! Yes, I wear my spider rings all month long with great pride and great embarrassment to my kids.
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..
We are handing out glow sticks! 🙂 Bought a bulk pack on Amazon for a good price.
Keeley–that’s super clever! Bulk pack shopping and immediately useful. I was trying to think of some fun for the parents but then I realized that giving out wine would look really, really bad!