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The Teal Pumpkin Project

Making sure Halloween is special for all kids.

Cindy Schriver
Oct 04, 2016
University of North Florida
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The Teal Pumpkin Project
Cindy Schriver

October means the start of fall and pumpkin flavored everything. The weather is cooler and the leaves change colors; the month ends with some people’s favorite holiday, Halloween.

Halloween means costumes, parties and to a kid Trick or Treating. Ending the night with enough candy to last through the new year is the goal of most kids. Some of the best childhood memories revolve around trick or treating.

Can you imagine being a kid, dressing up, going door to door with your friends and then having to give most if not all of your candy away because you are allergic?

That is what happens to the one in thirteen kids that suffer from food allergies. To those kids most if not all candy is off limits.

The teal pumpkin project was started to help raise awareness and help all kids make great memories at Halloween.

The Teal Pumpkin Project was inspired by a local awareness activity run by the Food Allergy Community of East Tennessee (FACET) and launched a national campaign by FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education) in 2014.FARE’s Teal Pumpkin Project helps make sure all children will come home on Halloween night with something they can enjoy. It just takes one simple act: offering non-food treats, such as glow sticks or small toys, as an alternative to candy.

The FARE website has downloadable signs on their website that you can place on your door along with your teal pumpkins to let kids know that you have non-food options available to them.

Popular online retailers are joining the teal pumpkin movement. Oriental Trading is the "go to " website for inexpensive bulk items and they offer a whole page of great non-food items.

Oriental Trading's Page of Teal Pumpkin Project ideas.

Party City offers special Teal paint specifically to paint your pumpkins

Pinterest is overflowing with ideas to make your Teal Pumpkins stylish.


It doesn’t take a lot of money or time to take part in the Teal Pumpkin Project. Even a simple sheet of stickers can help a child with allergies have the same magical time as other kids trick or treating.

So as the season for pumpkins and candy begins, take the teal pumpkin pledge and have a few extras on hand so that this Halloween all the ghosts and Princess that knock on your door leaves happy.

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