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October 23rd’s Issaquah Highlands Green Halloween Festival was a spooktcular day, indeed!

About 5,000 attendees enjoyed hay rides, mazes, mad scientists, DIY face painting, bounce houses, and green goodies galore. By all accounts the event was a smash hit.

Despite the weather forecast, participants stayed (mostly) dry!

Early birds received free ParentMap reusable shopping bags with goodies inside.

The event was also a food-raiser for the Issaquah Food Bank and Seattle Humane Society. By the end of the the day, these bins were overflowing!

Kids trick-or-treated for healthy, eek-o-friendly goodies from Larabar, Cascadian Farm, Stretch Island Fruit Co, Glee Gum, Recycling is Cool and more.

The do-it-yourself face painting (featuring Lyra pencils) at the Green Halloween booth was a HUGE hit for kids (and some parents with a good sense of humor)

HAPPY HALLOGREEN!!!

For more Seattle-are Green Halloween events, click here.

Whole Foods Market, Bellevue is going to be ROCKIN’ their costume swap!

Why? Check out CostumeSwapDay.com for the astonishing amount of waste that can be saved from landfills by swapping costumes instead of buying new.

When? Saturday, October 16th – noon to 3pm (THIS WEEKEND!)

How? Drop costumes off this week (or arrive early on Saturday) and get a ticket for a new-to-you get-up.

Cost: None. Zip. Zero.

Questions? Call 425-462-1400 or connect on Facebook.

All left-over costumes will be donated to a local charity, TBD.

Thanks so much to Whole Foods Market, Bellevue for hosting this event and to Whole Foods Market Interbay and Whole Foods Market Roosevelt Square for hosting their wildly successful swaps on the 9th!

Welcome back NW Families!

We’re so thrilled to announce that Seattle’s Green Halloween 2010 is off to an incredible start. With partners Whole Foods Market, Overlake Hospital and ParentMap magazine, the “dream team” from the inaugural year (2007) is once again back together.

And we’ve got awesome events in store for families this year.

Check out our events page for more on Seattle & Eastside events including:

• * Small Threads & Macaroni Kid’s COSTUME SWAP for National Costume Swap Day. October 9th, Issaquah
• * Holli Dunn Photography‘s COSTUME SWAP for National Costume Swap Day. October 9th, Bellevue
• * Whole Foods Market’s COSTUME SWAP for National Costume Swap Day. October 9th, Bellevue, Interlake & Roosevelt stores
• * Issaquah Highlands’s Green Halloween event (October 23rd)
• * Wallingford’s Green Halloween trick-or-treat trail (October 31st)
• * Green Halloween at Seattle and Tacoma-area zoos & aquariums

… and much, much more!

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Here’s to a healthy, EEK-O-friendly Halloween and beyond!

Best WITCHES,

Corey, Lynn & the GH Team

Green Halloween® is a nationwide non-profit initiative started by mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell. In 2010, Green Halloween became a program of EcoMom® Alliance and has events in cities across the U.S.