Fun Eco-Friendly Goodie Bags for Your Trick-Or-Treaters

When you take your little monsters and princesses out on Halloween night to go trick-or-treating they are going to need something in which to keep all their goodies. Instead of toting those classic plastic pumpkins or caldron buckets, they can “feed” fun and reusable monster bags. These colorful creatures were cooked up by Megan, the shop owner of Doves Nest Designs on Etsy.

(above) These fun monster bags are made of various fabrics and are fed treats via their mouths. When Halloween night is over there is no need to put away these cute creations; your kids can hang them in their rooms and use them to hold various other goodies like small toys, allowance money, socks or anything else they want to feed them. Using fabrics instead of plastic products cuts down on our plastic waste, keeping unnecessary amounts of plastic out of landfills, which is always a plus for the environment.

If you can’t get your hands on one of these masterpieces you can always DIY a Halloween goodie bag; they may not get fed through their mouths but they will still get the job done. For those not very crafty you can just decorate and embellish a reusable tote bag you already own. For those who are crafty you can make your own tote bag from low environmental impact materials like burlap. Just cut some rectangles and strips for handles sew it all together to make your bag. Finish it off with some water based craft paint or embellishments and you’re done.

(above) Here’s one I made many years ago using a blue canvas tote bag me and my aunt bought from Michael’s. All I did was use some Halloween themed stencils, also from Michael’s, to outline my design and then I painted it in. My little bag has seen many Halloween nights when I was a monster trick-or-treating and it saved my mom from needing to buy me a new one each year. My treating days many be long behind me but my bag is still in good shape and still getting used each year in my Halloween decoration displays.

Either way you decide to go, finding a substitute for a use once and discard plastic product is an easy way to cut back on cost and impact. So this Halloween season don’t stop at just making your pumpkin or costume greener you can get rid of some of the plastics in your life and green up your treat bags, too.

related: green children previously on alternativeconsumer.com