Make It a GREEN Halloween!

Let your family’s Halloween be scary and fun but environmentally friendly, too.

Jump-start your imagination and get creative. Instead of buying ready-made costumes, raid your family closets to assemble costumes that are truly one of a kind. Make the accessories at home, too—wands, wizard hats or whatever—and go for eco-friendly, nontoxic paints and makeup.

Keep it safe, organic and fun, advises Tim Sanchez of the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit Washington, DC, organization designed to help Americans be responsible consumers. Throw a backyard party. Bob for organic apples. Quench your thirst with “gremlin grog�?(organic fruit juices and seltzer, ghoulishly spiked with natural green food coloring).

After the party, brush away sweets with a cheery, colorful recyclable toothbrush. Preserve makes 100 percent recyclable ones in regular or kid-size versions (available at major retail outlets). Just mail them the used Preserve toothbrushes, and then sign up for their automatic replacement program ($13 for 4 brushes). For more info, click here.

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