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Halloween is almost here. Every where you look there’s chocolates and sugary treats ready for trick or treaters. You know all this sugar causes trouble for your child’s teeth and the last thing you want are cavities afterwards. What do you do?

With all this temptation, what do you choose when you want your child to have healthier choices?

We’ve put our heads together and come up with some suggestions for a tooth friendly, fun and happy Halloween.

Choosing Non-Food Goodies

When offering treat choices select children’s play favorites such as glow sticks, spider rings, vampire fangs, pencils, bubbles, bouncy balls, finger puppets, whistles, stickers, stencils, rubic’s cube, or yo yo’s.

Healthy Selections For Halloween Treats

These are our top picks for healthy treats you can prepare with your child and your child will love this Halloween —

Itsy Bitsy Spider Bites

These Spider Bites are fun and easy to prepare. Melt chocolate chips and peanut butter together in a bowl then add pretzel sticks. Arrange the pretzel sticks in the shape of a spider on a parchment paper lined sheet pan, place in the refrigerator until firm.

Chocolate Dipped Mandarin Pumpkins

Peel mandarin oranges and separate the individual wedges. Dip the orange wedges into melted chocolate, place on a parchment lined sheet pan and chill in the refrigerator until firm. A yummy treat for the season.

Mummy in your mouth Pizza

Whether you choose pizza dough, english muffins, pita, or a tortilla as your base, spoon on your favorite tomato sauce and criss-cross slices of mozzarella cheese (or your child’s favorite cheese). Slice black olives for the eyes. Bake until everything is fully cooked.

Pumpkin Hummus with Witchy Broomsticks

Fill a festive bowl with your favorite hummus. Run the back of a spoon through the hummus to create the look of a pumpkin. Serve with carrot sticks, celery sticks, broccoli florets, bell pepper slices, or cucumber slices.

Jack-O-Lantern Peppers with Witchy Dip and Vegetable Broomsticks

Remove the stem and seeds from a bell pepper. Make cut outs in the pepper for the eyes, nose and mouth. Fill one pepper with your family favorite dip or dressing. Fill another pepper with pepper slices, carrot sticks, broccoli florets, cucumber slices, carrot sticks or pretzels. This is a festive, fun way to encourage your child to eat their veggies.

Halloween is an exciting time for parents and children. Dressing up, trick or treating, parties with Halloween themed foods and enticing names. This is also a great time to share lessons about how fun food can also be healthy food and help keep their teeth healthy.

Which snack choice will your family try this Halloween? What is your family’s favorite Halloween treat? Share your favorites with us, We’d really like to know! Send us an email at kidstoothhotline@proton.me Like us or Chat with us on Facebook at facebook.com/kidstoothhotline

Happy Halloween and Safe Trick Or Treating!

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