HAVING A SAFE HALLOWEEN

Halloween is coming in just a few weeks and it's time to start thinking about teaching your children to be safe as they attend parties and go trick-or-treating. Following are some easy, common sense tips to help your children have a safe holiday.

  • Trick or Treat with a group, and take along a parent or teen-age brother or sister.
  • Stay outside the homes you visit.
  • Take a flashlight and walk on the sidewalks.
  • Wear make-up instead of a mask that inhibits your vision.
  • Cross streets at the crosswalks and stay away from cars.
  • Trust your instincts! Stay away from any strange situations.
  • Wear a costume that is light in color and not too long. Add something that glows in the dark or is reflective.
  • Trick-or-treat in neighborhoods you know and trust, and that are well-lit. Stay out of dark alleys, dark stairwells, and remote locations.
  • Discuss your Halloween route with your parents and the time you will return.
  • Be sure all treats are wrapped and sealed. Eat them only after a parent checks them first.
  • If you do not feel safe trick-or-treating, do not trick-or-treat.

Back to the Klaas Action Review Page KlaasKids Home Page


Klaas Foundation for Children
P.O. Box 925, Sausalito, CA 94966
Phone: (415) 331-6867 ~ Fax: (415) 331-5633 ~ E-Mail: klaaskids@pacbell.net

© 1997 by the Klaas Foundation for Children. The Klaas Action Review is published quarterly for Foundation members. Dedicated to the memory of Polly Klaas, the foundation's purpose is to inform parents, children, and communities about how to prevent crimes against children through personal action and support of legislation. Editorial: Freeman Communications, Berkeley, CA. Design Concept: Blackburn Design, Petaluma, CA. Printing: Marin Stat, San Rafael, CA.