by Corey

Thank you so much to the families who entered our 2011 Spooky Faces Contest!

We received so many awesome photos and quotes (about what entrants find most spooky about an UN-green Halloween). It was nearly impossible to decide who should win!

But a contest is a contest, so we got down to it, and chose these entries as funniest, spookiest, cutest, most creative and best overall.

FUNNIEST

We loved 9-year-old Thomas Sokol’s silly spooky face! But, as Thomas’ mom, Stephanie, tells us the truth about what’s spooky about an un-green Halloween isn’t so funny.

“Thomas has autism and this is his attempt at a scary face. Having Autism means food allergies for lots of kids on the spectrum.  So the scariest thing about Halloween for him is all the chemicals in the candy. That’s how these chocolate lollipops ended up as play things rather than getting eaten. lol.”

We agree, Thomas! In this case, DO play with your food. Who wants to eat chemicals? Yuck.

Congratulations, Thomas, for winning great, green gifts from Revolution Foods and Good For You Girls.

 

SPOOKIEST

7-year old Luca Michallet may become a world famous special effects artist (and actor!) someday. He convinced his mom to help him use glue to make “decaying skin.” We think Luca hit the nail on the corpse, er- head with this one.

And we don’t know what’s scarier, his makeup or the spooky fact that, “”All the waste from cheap store costumes can be saved if we make our own!”

Luca, your entry rocked. You are the lucky winner of gifts from Natural Luxe and Eli’s Earth Bars.

Congrats!

 

CUTEST

10-month-old Skyler Lehnick wins our prize for the cutest entry. Even with some spookiness on her face, she’s still utterly adorable and, as Mom, Anne, tells us, Sklyer is revealing “her menacing front teeth. Careful – she bites! Well…she gnaws.”

But what’s truly spooky about Halloween to Anne is “all the sugary treats eaten with abandon. I have been overweight for the past few years and struggle to lose the weight and the last thing in the world I want for my daughter is to grow up with weight problems. I don’t have a problem with my kids having an occasional sweet snack, but Halloween (as well as Valentines, Christmas, and Easter) overwhelms us with candy and sugar. There are a staggering number of children with health issues because they suffer from obesity and I want to do whatever I can to stop this for future generations.”

So true, Anne. Halloween is just the beginning! Starting now to create traditions that treat kids to healthy fun will make an impact for generations to come.

Congratulations on your win of gifts from Green Party Goods and Preserve, Jr.!

 

MOST CREATIVE

Christy Garrard of Issaquah, Washington doesn’t just have mad creative skills with her costume/hair/makeup/lighting and photo editing. She’s also poignantly poetic in her opinions:

Sugar gluttony = sluggish kids

Creative treats = inspired kids!

We couldn’t have said it better, ourselves. Christy, congrats on your prizes from Today I Ate A Rainbow and LiveGreene!

 

BEST OVERALL

Jasper Mark (5) is one groovy, green kid. We think Jasper’s adorable Munch-esque scream, while dressed as a Earth-lovin’ hippy is the perfect symbol for the spooky facts about being un-green on Halloween. Furthermore, Jasper highlights a concern we are working hard to educate families about – Frankenfoods - which, according to mom, Lesli, “give him a belly ache and are bad for the earth.”

Jasper, thank you for your entry and congratulations on your prize package, which includes green goodies for your and your family from: Eat Cleaner, ecomom.com, Revolution Foods, Today I Ate A Rainbow, Natural Luxe, Eli’s Earth Bars, EcoPartyTime.com and ThredUp.

Thank you again to everyone who entered our 2011 contests! And congratulations to all for doing your part to make celebrating a healthy and green Halloween FUN!

What do YOU find most spooky about an UN-green Halloween?

(See contest rules for the details on specific prizes)

by Corey

Send us your best “Spooky Face” and win!

We all know (and are hearing more each day) of the scary stories surrounding the precarious-state of our children’s health and the planet we all share.

Holidays are supposed to be about making memories and having F-U-N, but unfortunately, the issues that impact our families and planet during the other 364 days of the year bleed over into this holiday, too:

Heavy metals in masks and face paints, mood-altering artificial colors, childhood obesity, diabetes and food allergy epidemics, genetically modified “Frankenfoods,” hormone disrupting costumes, child-slavery in the coco industry, single-use decor traveling half way across the planet just to end up in a landfill (where there really is no “away” in “throw-away”). The list goes on and on.

Scary.

And while Green Halloween is all about inspiring families and communities via positive messages, we agree that these spooky truths are indeed important to be aware of.

But that doesn’t mean the F-U-N has to go down the drain.

NO way!

So to highlight the reasons why it’s good for people and planet to celebrate healthy and Earth-friendly traditions, but to make sure that fear doesn’t get the best of us (this time, we’re having F-U-N with F-E-A-R), we’re hosting a brand new “Scary Face” Contest.

Just e-mail us a photo image (no larger than 72 dpi) or link to a photo with your (or your child’s) best “scary face” and tell us what you/your family/your child thinks is scary about an UN-Healthy/Green Halloween.

We’ll pick our 5 favorites (funniest, spookiest, cutest, most creative and best overall) to WIN one of the great, green prize packs below:

Prize #1

• Revolution Foods™ Organic Snack Packs! Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom. Value – $8-10
• Good for You Girls: Complete Skin Care Starter Kit. Value – $19.99

 

Prize #2

• Today I Ate A Rainbow kits.  Kit contains: An interactive chart that uses colorful magnets to track daily consumption of a rainbow of fruits & veggies, a color coded shopping list and a children’s book called The Rainbow Bunch. Value -$25
• LiveGreene orange Vapur anti-bottles. Value – $9

 

Prize #3

• Natural Luxe Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids. Value – $9
• Eli’s Earth Bars; 6 bars. Value -$15.54

 

Prize #4

• Green Party Goods. Box of 144 straws of your choice and a package of Stripe Napkins. Value – $21
• 1 set of three Preserve Jr. Toothbrushes. Value -$10

 

Prize #5 (Top prize for Best Overall)

• Eat Cleaner; 1 Pack of 6 Eat Cleaner Wipes and a Bottle of Fruit and Veg Wash Concentrate with a reusable produce Bag. Value -$10
• $15 EcoMom gift certificates via email (Can be used at the EcoMom Green Halloween store or for anything on EcoMom)
• Revolution Foods™ Organic Snack Packs! Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom. Value – $8-10
• Today I Ate A Rainbow kits.  Kit contains: An interactive chart that uses colorful magnets to track daily consumption of a rainbow of fruits & veggies, a color coded shopping list and a children’s book called The Rainbow Bunch. Value – $25
• Natural Luxe; Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids. Value -$9
• Eli’s Earth Bars; 6 bars. Value – $15.54
• EcoPartyTime: Halloween 8 feet felt banner, $35.95 value, and a surprise costume make up kit for kids, $11.95-$19.95 value
• thredUP 1 box. Browse thousands of boxes of pre-loved kids Halloween costumes, clothes, toys or books listed by other moms across the country.  Giveaway includes a promo code that can be used for one box & shipping. Value – $15.95

For more ways to win gifts & goodies from our green partners, click here.

Giveaway rules:

• Beginning 12:01am PST on 10/11/11, send your best “scary face” and submit your opinion on what you believe is most scary about an un-healthy/green Halloween. Include your name, your child’s name (if applicable), your child’s age, city/state, e-mail address and phone number. Subject of the e-mail must be: SCARY FACE.
• Entries e-mailed to: info AT GreenHalloween.org (we are typing our e-mail like this to avoid spam, please use @ sign)
• 3 entries per person allowed.
• Photos must be received no later than11:59pm PST on November 5, 2011
• Photos must be sent by e-mail (attachment, embedded into the body of e-mail or as a link) to: info AT GreenHalloween.org.
• Photos sent as attachment or in body of e-mail must NOT be larger than72 dpi.
• Only legal guardians and parents over the age of 18, living in the continental US, may submit photos. Photos become the property of Green Halloween and may be used via our social media network – on Facebook, Twitter, our blog, etc. Entry into the contest is your “signature” that the requirements above have been met.
• We are not responsible for photos that do not arrive.
• Winner will be contacted via e-mail no later than November 30th, 2011 and will be announced on Facebook/GreenHalloween and on Twitter @GreenHalloween.
• Winner’s name, phone number and e-mail address will be provided to prize partners, who will mail product separately.
• Green Halloween and partners are not responsible for winning announcement that doesn’t make it through to the winner, lost or damaged prizes.
• Prize partners may send prizes of equivalent value and/or gift certificates for free product in lieu of actual gifts.
• Shipping of prizes to continental US only; gift certificates/codes do not include free shipping of items.
• If you have questions about products, please contact the product companies directly.
• Winners chose, based on categories above, by the Green Halloween team.

by Corey

 

#Win a HUGE Green Halloween prize pack!

Just follow us on Twitter, then send us this tweet:

“@GreenHalloween: Please pick me to #win a #GreenHalloweenPrizePack!”

And you’ll be entered to win great, green goodies worth over $200!

Prizes include:

Angell Bar – Sample pack: 2 bars each Crisp, Dark, Snow, 1 Organic cotton T-shirt and assorted stickers

 

Natural Luxe – Shainsware recycled bracelet for kids

 

Eli’s Earth Bars – 6 bars

 

Revolution Foods™ – Organic Snack Packs! Reusable paper lunchbox for kids filled with samples of Grammy Sammys, Jammy Sammys, Mashups and Yo’ Drops, Tattoos and stickers for kids, and coupons for mom.

 

Terra Firma Cosmetics – Gift certificate for our Halloween Face Paint set

 

Select Preserve food storage products

 

thredUP – 1 box. Browse thousands of boxes of pre-loved kids Halloween costumes, clothes, toys or books listed by other moms across the country.  Giveaway includes a promo code that can be used for one box & shipping

 

Eco Party Time – Felt pumpkin Trick-or-Treat basket plus Kids Floral Perfume Trilogy

 

Good for You Girls – Complete Skin Care Starter Kit

 

LiveGreene.com – Orange Vapur anti-bottles

 

Limited edition, reusable 2011 Green Halloween ChicoBag®

 

Total prize value = $200+

WOW!

Giveaway rules:

• Enter by following @GreenHalloween on Twitter, then posting the phrase: “@GreenHalloween: Please pick me to #win a #GreenHalloweenPrizePack!” Phrase MUST be posted to Twitter (not Facebook, blog post, etc.). You must be a follower of @GreenHalloween to win.
• One post per twitter account. You will receive up to 10 extra entries for up to 10 re-tweets by your followers.
• Tweet must be posted by 11:59pm PST on 10/31/11
• We are not responsible for Tweets that do not post or do not post correctly
• You must be 18 to win and live in the continental US
• Winner will be contacted via Twitter no later than November 15th, 2011 and winner’s Twitter handle will be announced on Twitter and Facebook.
• Winner will have 7 days to reply to Green Halloween with their name/shipping address.
• Green Halloween and partners are not responsible for winning announcement that doesn’t make it through to the winner (via Twitter), lost or damaged prizes.
• Prize partners may send prizes of equivalent value and/or gift certificates for free product in lieu of actual gifts.
• If you have questions about products, please contact the product companies directly.

For more ways to win gifts & goodies from our green partners, click here.