Parent Resources

Zero Trash Ideas for Parties

• Buy or bring in mugs, plates and reusable cloth napkins. 
• A variety of games and activities where the kids make something out of recycled items and take them home.
• Anything that helps students to reduce, reuse and recycle while having a great classroom party.

Healthy Halloween treat ideas

• Grapes
• Kiwi
• Cantaloupe
• Pretzels
• Popcorn
• Yogurt
• Carrots
• Celery

Fun Treat Ideas~

Creepy Halloween Wagon
Cut celery into 2-inch pieces. Spread with peanut butter and add some raisins or gummy creatures. For wheels, slice carrots into thin slices and secure with toothpicks.

Orange Jack-o'Lanterns - Icy Treat
Draw jack-o'-lantern faces on oranges with a sharpie. Cut off top part of orange and scoop out pulp. Mix some of the orange pulp with a vanilla yogurt.  Add some swirls of green Jell-O and some raisins into the mix. Pour into the oranges and place them in a muffin tin and chill in the freezer. (The muffin tin will keep the oranges steady while they chill).

This is a great healthy treat and children love it!

Monster Apples
Make caramel apples from kits. Let kids create their own monsters by adding marshmallow eyes, raisin nose, and a carrot pieces for mouth, nuts slices for hair, etc.

Pumpkin Cracker Snacks
10 reduced-fat wheat crackers (reduced-fat Triscuits can also be used)
10 thin slices of reduced-fat cheddar cheese
5 or more slices of light salami or sliced deli turkey
10 slices of black olives (if desired)

• Set out 10 wheat crackers on serving plate.
• Carve out 10 pumpkins from the slices of cheddar cheese using an open 2-inch pumpkin cookie cutter. Set a pumpkin on each cracker.
• Carve a half slice of salami into two eyes, a nose and a mouth and place on the cheese pumpkin. You can use a black olive slice for the mouth if desired.
• Serve and ENJOY!

Makes 5 servings (2 crackers each)

1/2 serving low-fat crackers and 1/2 serving cheese.
Per serving: 96 calories, 8 g protein, 6 g carbohydrate, 5 g fat, 1 g fiber, 250 mg sodium.

Trick or Treat Trail Mix
This is a great snack if you are on the go on Halloween afternoon.
1 cup of pretzel sticks or mini pretzel twists
1 cup of reduced-fat cheese crackers (such as Reduced Fat Cheese Nips)
1 cup lightly salted roasted or party peanuts (or similar nut)
1 cup orange or black dried fruit (raisins or dried apricots or dried peaches)
1/2 cup Halloween M&Ms (optional)

• Combine all the ingredients in a big bowl and toss to mix well.
• Use a 1/2 cup measure to scoop out 1/2 cup of the mixture into a zip-top or plastic bag. Tie the ends closed with orange and black curling ribbon or decorative wire.

Student Instuance

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Parent Teacher Orginization

Click here for more information on the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO). Please join the PTO the second Monday of each month for meetings at Riffenburgh Elementary Media center at 6:30 pm.