If you’re planning to take your kids trick-or-treating, you may be surprised to find several alternatives to candy this Halloween.
Concerns about health, safety and inclusion are driving new trends in the annual gambol of ghouls and goblins. They include teal pumpkins full of stickers and pencils for trick-or-treaters with candy allergies.
They also include warnings about rainbow-colored opioids that look like candy and precautions about preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Meanwhile, some grade schools have canceled Halloween celebrations over cultural inclusivity and safety concerns.
“In our society today, holidays are not only becoming increasingly secularized, but neutered and bland as well,” said Gregory T.