Using Random.org, we randomly chose our winner for costume giveaway #1. Congratulations to Wenonah for winning the first of three fabulous, 100% cotton Halloween get-ups for baby from Harrison’s Halloween Costumes.

Thank you, Harrisons for your contribution to the early Halloween fun!

Disappointed that you didn’t win?

Buy your own Harrison’s costume here, or enter our second of three Harrison’s giveaways. Yes, we have more!

Here is the scoop:

Celebrate your baby’s first Green Halloween with an adorable, 100% cotton get-up from Harrison’s Halloween Costumes! Designed by a hip Californian mama looking for cute and spooky costumes for parents, grandparents, and gift givers with a sense of humor.

Five styles available:

“Frankenbaby” (cute Frankenstein)
“Dracula” Vampire
“Scary Spider”
“Witchie” girl witch dress
“Vampira” girl vampire dress

Sizes 0-6 months only.

How to win?

All you need to do is reply to this post. Easy!

Stay tuned for your third and final opportunity to win a Harrison’s costume. (We’ll also be announcing additional opportunities for more great, Green Halloween gear.)

Harrison’s Halloween Costumes are the only 100% cotton (non-petroleum-based) baby costumes that we’ve seen on the market. They’re available for sale at CastlesNCrowns.com.

For other safe, eco-friendly costume ideas, visit our costume page.

Winners chosen at random. Comments must be received by SEPTEMBER 18TH at 11:59am PST. Must be at least 10 entries. One per person, please.

Celebrate your baby’s first Green Halloween with an adorable, 100% cotton get-up from Harrison’s Halloween Costumes! Designed by a hip Californian mama looking for cute and spooky costumes for parents, grandparents, and gift givers with a sense of humor.

Five styles available:

“Frankenbaby” (cute Frankenstein)
“Dracula” Vampire
“Scary Spider”
“Witchie” girl witch dress
“Vampira” girl vampire dress

Sizes 0-6 months only.

How to win?

From now through October 15th, we’ll be giving away THREE costumes over the next few weeks. To enter to win the first, all you need to do is reply to this post with your costume plans for this Halloween. Easy!

Stay tuned for second and third opportunities. Winners chosen at random. First round ends August 31st.

Harrison’s Halloween Costumes are the only 100% cotton (non-petroleum-based) baby costumes that we’ve seen on the market. They’re available for sale at CastlesNCrowns.com.

Discover when do baby boy start talking. Most babies say their first words sometime around their first birthday. But babies can start communicating long before that. Before babies start talking they are gathering and absorbing information. That information eventually becomes the foundation of the first baby talk. And the best way for parents to help their babies make it to those first words, and help their language development thrive from there on, is to talk to them.

For other safe, eco-friendly costume ideas, visit our costume page.

Halloween is almost here and that means our contests will be coming to a close.  Don’t forget to enter now for your chance at fame and fortune, or at least a cool prize, like the Razor Scooter being given away by our national sponsor, Crayons Beverages for their pumpkin carving contest.

Pumpkin Carving Contest*

Photo contest (by BabyLegs)

Craft contest

* For help with the carving, you might like these free stencils from the World Wildlife Federation or try

carvingpumpkins.com, dltk-holidays.com or bhg.com.

Pumpkinmasters.com also has some great, free stencils as well as some tips for how to photograph your jack-o-lantern for submission to this or any other pumpkin carving contest.

last week I was a guest on Martha Stewart Radio.

I didn’t actually speak with Martha – she has her own “hosts” – but I’ve never come so close (and yet so far) from the Queen of Crafting herself!

In honor of my 20 minutes of Martha Stewart fame (the show airs on XM – did anyone hear it? Hello? Anyone?) I’d like to invite you to enter a new contest…

The Green Halloween Craft Contest

Send us your inspired ideas (with photo/s) – and we’ll select one winner to receive some as of yet unnamed but nonetheless eco-fabulous prize. Craft items may be for doors, windows, or powder rooms, for all we care – whatever you choose it should somehow incorporate the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) or 3Gs (Good for people, Good for planet, Good for community).

We can’t wait to see what you come up with and hope you have fun in the process. (No, we’re not going to say the ‘fun’ is the prize.)

Submissions due November 1 to corey@greenhalloween.org

Happy crafting!

Did you know that October is Fair Trade month, a time to celebrate fair wages and healthy, safe working conditions for artisans and farmers?

Fair Trade Certification encourages environmentally sustainable business practices and prohibits the abuse of child slave labor, and since the cocoa industry is swarming with accusations of child slavery and other human rights abuses, choosing Fair Trade Certified chocolate is really important. So in honor of Fair Trade month (and Green Halloween!),we’re sending one lucky reader a FREE Fair Trade Trick or Treat Action Kit.

The Fair Trade Trick or Treat Kit has everything you need to make Halloween something special. It includes Fair Trade Trick-or-Treat chocolate to hand out, a ghostly Papel Picado Halloween decoration, a Fair Trade is Boo-tiful poster to hang in your window, festive spooky postcards and an eco-friendly “green” bag for Trick or Treating.

To win this free kit, simply post a comment to this blog by Oct. 22nd (That’s THIS Wednesday!) with your thoughts about the Fair Trade Action Kit, along with your email address so we can let you know if you’ve won, and you’re automatically entered for a chance to win your free kit!

We look forward to hearing from you.