If you would rather not let your kiddies consume all of the sugary treats that they gathered while Trick-or-Treating, you can participate in the Halloween Candy Buy Back program. Simply put- dentists around the country will “buy back” Halloween candy from kids. “Payment” varies from cash to coupons to other rewards.
The candy will then be shipped overseas for the men and women serving our country to enjoy!
Find a participating dentist near you.
How fun!
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You will then have access to FREE printable Halloween activity books!
Choose from:
Preschool
K-1st grade
2nd-5th grade
Score FREE shipping on any and every order at The Children’s Place – no minimum required and no promo code needed!
Offer is only valid today, 10/31.
Shop through Ebates to earn cash back.
Save on food today!
There are a bunch of Halloween Meal Deals to be had:
Kids eat free at Applebee’s (Philadelphia/NJ/DE area)
Kids eat free at Boston Market
$2 Meal at Chipotle (requires dress-up)
20% off online orders at PF Chang’s with promo code TREAT
Know of another one?
List it in the comments!
Re-posting these in case you’re like us, and have yet to carve your pumpkin! 
There are a ton of free pumpkin carving patterns available online. Here are some of my favorites:
DLTK’s Pumpkin Carving Patterns – from silly to scary, you will find a big selection!
Pumpkin Lady Free Templates – some unique ones! I like the awareness ribbon template.
General Mills Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns – these are a funny twist on traditional patterns.
Thanks to Keeping Cents for this week’s round up of free activities!
AC Moore –
Saturday 10/29 from 1-3pm, Halloween Costume Parade: Free Cookie Decorating Make & Take, Free Halloween Craft for kids in costume, Kids’ costume parade at 2pm.
Sunday 10/30 from 1-3pm, Demo: Harvest Drizzled Pretzels.
Friday 10/28 from 4-7pm Trick or treating, from 5-7pm free Halloween reflector necklace craft, from 6-7pm Costume parade with giveaways, from 5-8pm free 4×6 photo with The Great Pumpkin Charley Brown and free coloring sheet.
Saturday 10/29 & Sunday 10/30 from 11am-5pm free 4×6 photo with The Great Pumpkin Charley Brown and free coloring sheet, from 1-4pm free color a wood pumpkin craft, at 1:30pm, 2:30pm & 4:30pm enjoy free samples of Marshmallow Roast. See store for Apple Dessert sample info.
Monday 10/31 from 4-7pm Trick or treating, from 5-7pm free Peanuts trick-or-treat bag craft, from 5-8pm free 4×6 photo with The Great Pumpkin Charley Brown and free coloring sheet.
Build-A-Bear Workshop stores - 10/28-10/30, Kooky Spooky Bear Bash: Come in costume for free virtual gifts and samples of their new Smashbar!
Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft Stores - Saturday 10/29 Free Demos: from 11am-1 pm ProvoCraft Cricut Expression, from 1-3pm ProvoCraft Cricut Imagine, from 3-5pm Babyville Boutique.
Lakeshore Learning – Saturday 10/29 from 11am-3pm, Batty Buddy: kids make and decorate a life-size hanging bat.
LEGO Stores – Tuesday 11/1 at 5pm, Free Lego Monthly Mini Model Build: Turkey! Quantities are limited to approximately 250 per store.
Michaels –
Friday 10/28 from 6-8pm Halloween Clay Pot Event: Make-It Take-It with purchase of $0.50 clay pot.
Saturday 10/29 Halloween Extravaganza Event! From 11am-Noon, Duck Tape Pail or Tote Make-It Take-It with purchase of pail or tote (see Coupons here). From Noon-1:30pm, FREE Face Painting. From 1:30-2pm, Halloween Parade.
Sunday 10/30 from 1-3pm Halloween Crayola Pumpkin Patch Event: FREE Make-It Take-It.
Target – select a city to find free or reduced-price admission to arts and cultural events in your area, sponsored by Target.
Toys R Us - Saturday 10/29 from Noon-3pm, Geoffrey’s Halloween Parade: FREE SpongeBob Halloween bag, Parade led by Geoffrey every half hour and FREE Giveaways!
Walmart Event Finder – enter your zip code to see what is going on in your area. My local Walmart will have Starbucks ice cream, Diet Snapple, Macaroni Grill and Slim-Fast sampling events.
*It’s always a good idea to call your local store to confirm participation.
Getting your Nick Jr fans ready for Halloween?
Be sure to take a look at their FREE printable projects page – there are SO many activities and crafts to choose from, featuring your kids’ fave Nick Jr characters.
These could make cute activities to keep kids busy while their siblings are putting on their costumes!
