Progressive Halloween

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Halloween can be a tricky (no pun intended) time of year for our friends with disabilities. Finding something safe, and age appropriate can be quite a challenge for our friends and their families. Our friends…along with myself…love dressing up for Halloween, but typical trick-or-treating is not
always the best option so I came up with this idea of a Progressive Halloween.

I contacted a few of my leaders (or great for sub-committee members or donors) and asked if we could use their houses to stop at throughout the night. Each house provided us with candy, appetizers, dinner, or dessert. Mapping this out was very simple thanks to the internet! There are a lot of great, free sites where you can input multiple addresses and it tells you the best route, as well as how much time between stops so that you can plan to tell your leaders what time you will get to their house (I used RouteXL but there are many others). Our night was from 5:30-8:00 so I had to calculate the best routes and stops for that time frame (stops typically took 15 minutes). I gave the leaders and parents a printed out list of our stops with addresses and times so that they knew when to expect us.

            Example:
            5:30 (Start) Smith house – 123 Happy Ct.
            5:50 Jones house- 456 Smile Dr. 
            6:15 Roberts house – 789 Laugh Lane

We all met up at our first house, all dressed up, took pictures, and then loaded in the van. You will want to ensure that you have plenty of leaders in the van(s) with you for fun, relationships and safety. Being in the van was honestly my students favorite part of the night (although the food was a close second)! As far as the food went we had small snacks and finger food, and of course candy at a majority of the houses, and then had a sit down meal at one. Don’t forget to take pictures with each of your hosts as you stop for memories and because they serve as great thank you notes after!

Our night was a huge success and parents have already asked that we do this for years to come!



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