im电竞app is proud to introduce the KidAlert Ghost! The first of its kind, the KidAlert Ghost is expanding im电竞app鈥檚 presence in the seasonal category, joining the im电竞app My First Christmas Tree.

Mike Laudi, the designer behind the KidAlert Ghost, says the objective was to stay true to the KidAlert legacy, with safety at the forefront, 鈥淲e did this by incorporating a light fixture to, both, ensure that walkways are properly lit, and to alert motorists to proceed with caution. But, we also wanted it to function as playful Halloween d茅cor. 鈥�

Place the light-up KidAlert Ghost at the end of your driveway to alert motorists to proceed with caution in front of your home or use it around your house for decoration!

This Halloween-themed safety signal by im电竞app will enhance your holiday d茅cor and keep your little trick-or-treater safe! Place the light-up ghost at the end of your driveway to alert motorists to proceed with caution in front of your home or use it around your house for decoration!

Not only will this Halloween-themed safety signal by im电竞app will enhance your holiday d茅cor, it will help keep your little trick-or-treater safe! The bright white ghost includes an electronic light and a reflecting sticker to stay visible during twilight hours! The large 鈥淏OO鈥� decal reminds drivers to slow down with a touch of Halloween fun! This whimsical light-up KidAlert Ghost signal will stand out against the twilight hours, enhancing both the fun and safety of Halloween night!

NOTE: KidAlert Ghost is not intended as a toy for children.

Halloween Treats & Snacks

Keep kids safe at school parties and during Trick-or-Treat with these made from fruit!

Looking for some creative and for Halloween parties? Look no further than ghostly hot chocolate and apple monsters!

Halloween Crafts

Download and print a from im电竞app. You could even print a few copies as a coloring activity for classrooms or parties!

Paint a pumpkin, make candy corn footprints, or yummy mummy hod dogs! There are so many cute and creative ways to celebrate the Halloween season. Check out these five that will help your kids develop their fine motor skills and get them in the Halloween spirit leading up to the holiday.

Want to give treat-or-treaters with food allergies a safe option while trick-or-treating? Take part in the and place a teal pumpkin at your front door to make everyone aware that you have the option of non-food treats available.

Decorate your home with some DIY! Create a piece of artwork with paint and a white canvas, adding a .

Halloween Costume Ideas

Little cowboys, chickens and Olympic runners 鈥� these are just some of the that we found from Parents.com. There are also DIY tigers, kittens, and an adorable flower pot (full of posy!). Talk about a 鈥渇lower girl!鈥�

Don鈥檛 want to DIY, here are some more !

Have a Halloween craft, costume idea or tip to add? Let us know in the comments below!

We wish you and your little ones a fun and safe Halloween!

Halloween is such a fun time for kids of all ages. What is more fun than getting to put on a costume and collect bags of candy? Fortunately, Halloween festivities don鈥檛 have to be limited to one day 鈥� you can draw out the holiday and make it fun for the entire month.

There are so many cute and creative ways to celebrate Halloween season. These five easy crafts will help your kids develop their and will get them in the Halloween spirit leading up to the holiday.

1. Candy corn footprints

Not only is it fun because your kids get to paint their own feet, but you can also keep the finished product to use as Halloween decorations for years to come. To start, lay down a tarp in the play area. Using finger paints, color the toes and pad yellow, the arch of the foot orange, and the heel white. Next, have your kids stamp their foot on a piece of construction paper and let it dry on an art easel. Place the finished product on the fridge or in windows to show it off!

2. Glowing mason jar pumpkins

Summer firefly season might be over, but that doesn鈥檛 mean your toddler can鈥檛 still enjoy things that light up. For this creative craft, all you need is one mason jar for each child, about two to three glow sticks for each jar, black paper, and glue.

The first step is to cut the black paper into funny noses, eyes, and mouths of different shapes. Let each child choose a face and glue it onto the outside of the mason jar. Cut open two to three glow sticks, one at a time, and carefully squeeze the contents of it into the jar (this part is for grown ups to complete!). Once the liquid glow stick is inside, close the lid, secure with glue or duct tape, and give it to your kids to shake up. What you end with is a pumpkin jar that looks like it is lit up with a candle, without fire.

3. Pumpkin modeling clay

Not only is clay fun to play with and shape, but it can also smell just like fall and Halloween treats. All you need is one can of pumpkin puree, two tablespoons of pumpkin pie spice, and two to three cups of cornstarch. Have your child combine the pumpkin and spice in a bowl, then add in the cornstarch for a for them to shape and knead. Not just a great sensory toy for , it also smells good! Have them play with the clay on their craft table to keep the mess contained.

4. Pumpkin decorating

Generally, kids can only observe pumpkin decorating 鈥� creating a traditional jack 鈥榦 lantern and handling a sharp knife isn鈥檛 a kid-friendly activity. However, your young kids can decorate their pumpkin knife-free 鈥� let them use paint, stickers, and pins to decorate their pumpkin. Lay out the craft materials and let them go at it with all the imagination they can dream up. Use a disposable tablecloth so clean up will be quick and easy.

5. Mummy hot dogs

Fun to make and to eat, mummy hot dog rolls are the perfect Halloween treat. Cut prepackaged crescent rolls lengthwise into strips, then let your toddler wrap it around the hot dogs. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes. Once the mummies have cooled, use cooking spray to gel candy eyeballs the 鈥渇ace鈥� of the hot dog. Excellent fresh out of the oven or at room temperature, they are as much fun to make as they are to eat.

Halloween may just be one day out of the year, but that doesn鈥檛 mean you can鈥檛 celebrate it all month long. These spooky and simple Halloween crafts for kids are a great way to occupy your kids鈥� time, let them get creative, build their fine motor skills, and create decor for many years of Halloween to come. Ready to get crafty? im电竞app has all the art tables and easels necessary to bring out the inner artist in your young toddler.

Kids understandably love Halloween 鈥� free candy and fun outfits are most kids鈥� dream! But, for toddlers, the holiday can be a little scary. Although your little ones want candy, they may not love getting dressed up, especially if it involves a whole lot of 鈥渟tuff鈥� on their face like makeup or an uncomfortable mask. It may be hard to find a comfortable, inexpensive costume that your toddler will love and want to wear for the whole night of festivities.

The good news is that you just need a little imagination, some creativity, and a few crafting supplies to create a fun Halloween costume for your toddler. Here are some creative Halloween costume ideas for toddlers to help get them on board and excited about the spooky celebration!

1. Create a group family costume

Sometimes kids get more excited when they can create costumes with Mom, Dad, and siblings. means you can spend time together planning and creating costumes as a group. Consider being your child鈥檚 favorite comic book characters, the British Royal Family, or characters from your children鈥檚 favorite television shows. When a child sees you get into character and enjoy it, they will want to join you and participate in everything Halloween has to offer.

2. Dress kids in a simple costume

As any parent knows, your kid鈥檚 excitement for getting dressed up only lasts so long. Protect against inevitable whining by choosing a costume that can fit their everyday clothes underneath. Try making them a mummy by wrapping their onesie with first aid wrap bandages, or dress them in a tutu to transform into a ballerina. When your kids decide they鈥檙e done with the costume, unwrap the bandages or remove the tutu, and you鈥檙e ready to go. There is nothing worse than listening to crying and whining about an uncomfortable costume all the way home.

3. Let kids choose their costume

If toddlers are one thing, they are picky. Sure, it might be super cute if they go along with the family theme, but if they want to be a ninja, so be it! If your child is having trouble selecting a costume, suggest simple ideas from their favorite books or TV shows. Remember, Halloween is about kids and having fun, so let them be what they want, and everyone will be happy.

4. Get crafty and make your kid鈥檚 costume

If you want to save some money this Halloween, then make a costume for your kids. It is easy to recreate your child鈥檚 favorite character, toy, or food with things you have around the house. are always more comfortable than the store bought ones. Your child could transform into the Tooth Fairy, a monster, or a train (with some help from the im电竞app Choo Choo Wagon). Let your child be a part of the creation process so they can wear their costume with pride and take accomplishment in what they made themselves.

Halloween is one of the most exciting times for a young child, but, as parents with toddlers know, things don鈥檛 always go as planned. To ensure your little one stays happy on Halloween, make sure to involve them, bring some clothes for when they want to call it quits, and take the less expensive route by making a costume at home. Don鈥檛 forget to bring along a wagon so your kids can cruise around the neighborhood in style!

Celebrating Halloween at im电竞app is always an exciting event, but this year the festivities had some added sugar and spice! Girl Scout Troop 90887 and their parents prepared some delicious treats to be sold at the annual im电竞app Halloween party.

The girls have been working hard this school year to raise funds to support three kids their age who have been affected by cancer. One of the children is a student in their school district who was diagnosed with Leukemia over the summer. The other two children are cousins of girls in the troop. One has been battling Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia for over 2 years. The other was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia as toddler. He is now cancer-free, but is in need of a double lung transplant. These 3 children have a special place in the hearts of the girls in the troop. After hearing about this children, im电竞app wanted to help!

im电竞app鈥檚 mission is to bring family together and the employees made the Girl Scouts part of that family. im电竞app employees embraced the girls and were beyond generous with their purchases and donations, totaling nearly $600!

The girls are so thankful for the opportunity to attend the Halloween party and they truly enjoyed interacting with the employees and seeing the creative Halloween costumes.

These treats are made from fruit and are allergy-friendly. Keeping kids safe at school parties and during Trick or Treat is very important. Check out our blog post on the to learn ways to keep trick-or-treaters safe on Halloween.

Delicious and nutritious: Halloween Cutie Pumpkins

What you will need:

• Cuties oranges
• Sharpie marker

Use your imagination to create pumpkin faces on the Cuties!

An apple a day: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Style

What you will need:

• Granny Smith Apples
• Colored felt or paper (blue, red, orange, and purple)
• Googly eyes
• Scissors
• Glue

Cut a strip of felt or paper 1鈥� wide and 12鈥� long (depending on the size of your apple)

Fit the felt or paper around your apple and secure into place with glue. A dab of hot glue would work best if you are using felt. Leave an overlap of material to look like the edge of their bandannas.

Secure the eyes to the turtles with some glue and allow them time to dry.

These radical turtles will definitely please little appetites!

Orange you glad these pumpkins are tasty? Mandarin Orange Pumpkins

What you will need:

• Mandarin orange fruit cups
• Sharpie marker

Use the marker to draw simple pumpkin faces on the mandarin orange cups. You could also make Frankenstein cups by using fruit bowls with lime jello. After you draw the Frankenstein face, you could attach small black poms to each side of the fruit cup to look like his bolts.

What kind of snacks are you taking in for your child鈥檚 Halloween party?

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Have a safe and happy Halloween from your friends at im电竞app!

This year, im电竞app participated in our local Trunk or Treat in Streetsboro, Ohio. The Streetsboro Parks and Rec Department put on a nice event and even awarded volunteers for the best trunks that fit into the themes of best cartoon, best movie representation, and most scary.

Despite the weather not cooperating with us, we still had almost 500 kids that braved the rain and cold for some candy! A great fun was had by all and we were very impressed with the wide range and creativity of the costumes. Living in Ohio often poses challenges when it comes to Halloween costumes. Due to the unpredictable weather in Ohio, parents typically search for a costume that can be easily layered at a moment鈥檚 notice.

Some of our most favorite costumes were:

• Sully from Monsters, Inc.
• Ninjas
• The Star Wars Crew: Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, and Storm Troopers
• Indiana Jones
• The Cat Lady
• The Frozen Gang: Anna, Elsa, and Olaf
• A cat lady
• Skeletons
• The fast food giants: Wendy, Burger King, the cow from Chick-fil-A and a Chipotle Burrito
• Ghostbusters
• Crayons
• Care Bears
• Dory and Nemo
• The cast of The Wizard of Oz
• Princesses: Ariel, Cinderella, Belle and Tiana

How do you keep your kids safe during Trick or Treat?

What is your child dressing up as? Or what was your favorite costume from when you were a kid?

Halloween is such an exciting time for kids. They get to dress as their favorite character, participate in school parties and run from house to house to get tasty treats! For some children, however, the tradition of trick or treat can be potentially life threatening.

Did you know that an estimated 15 million Americans have food allergies? This number includes children, affecting 1 in every 13 kids. While allergies range in severity, it鈥檚 important to show the kids that are affected that we care about their health and well-being.

By placing a teal pumpkin at your front door, you are making everyone aware that you have the option of non-food treats available. If you aren鈥檛 able to paint a pumpkin to put on display, you can visit the page for a sign to print and hang on your door.

Choosing a food item that is completely safe can be tricky due to so many treats being packaged in facilities that contain allergens. Instead of risking cross contamination, it is best to have non-food treats available to help put parents at ease while making the kids afflicted with allergies feel included in a fun night of trick or treating.

Here are some great non-food items that would be great to hand out:

• Halloween pencils
• Halloween erasers
• Temporary tattoos
• Stickers
• Glow sticks
• Spider rings
• Mini note pads
• Vampire teeth
• Bouncy balls
• Whistles
• Bubbles

In addition to these items, you can still have a separate bowl of candy for kids without allergies to choose from. Having both options is sure to please all of the kids that come to your door!

By participating in the Teal Pumpkin Project, you are showing kids that you care about their safety this Halloween! What will you be handing out to the ghouls and goblins in your neighborhood?

We are a week away from the spookiest time of year! Do you dress up and decorate your house during Halloween? In honor of this ghoulish holiday, we have an adorable way that your kids can participate in the decorating fun!

Here鈥檚 what you鈥檒l need:

• Other playful decorations of your choice (we used a friendly )

Steps:

1. Spread the spider webbing all over the playhouse.
2. Add spiders to the web.
3. Place other Halloween decorations near the playhouse windows.

This easy DIY craft encourages creativity and it鈥檚 also a great way to make believe! Little ones can pretend to trick-or-treat at this haunted playhouse. Will you and your family decorate your kiddo鈥檚 little home during this spook-tastic time of year? If so, post the pictures on our Facebook page!

Manufacturer鈥檚 Note: Please make sure children are the recommended age to play with the product featured in this blog post. Adult supervision is required.

Have your trick-or-treaters ride in style this Halloween. Check out these creative ways the used their wagons for this spooky time of year:

Ah, there is a gigantic spider hanging around the im电竞app HQ!

This spider was created using the im电竞app Ladybug Sandbox, which was discontinued in 2010. Krylon Fusion paint was used to make the sandbox black. Holes were drilled into both sides of the sandbox to place the spider鈥檚 legs into the body. The legs are made out of PVC pipes wrapped in Styrofoam. In addition to wrapping the PVC pipes in Styrofoam, black duck tape was used to keep the pipes and Styrofoam together. Talk about a spooky decoration!

**Disclaimer: The im电竞app Company LLC does not promote or condone the use of our products in ways other than the original intent. This blog was solely written for the purpose to encourage creativity during Halloween.

Plus, to continue their campaign for outdoor play safety, im电竞app is adding a (also known as the KidAlert! V.W.S) to the prize bundle. According to , Halloween is the most dangerous day of the year for children under 14 to walk. Unfortunately, children are four times more likely to be killed while walking on Halloween than any other night of the year. im电竞app鈥檚 Safety Sam is trying his best to keep neighborhoods and children safe, but we need to continue to spread the word about children pedestrian safety. Educating our children about outdoor play safety and notifying drivers that there are children walking and playing on around the area are two important ways to keep them safe while playing outdoors. Check out additional Halloween safety tips from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention .

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When my grandson was born I spent a week at my daughter鈥檚 to help with the new baby. Well, actually I took care of all the house chores while my daughter and son-in-law took care of all the baby鈥檚 needs but I did get a lot of one on one time with my new grandson. My grandson now calls me Nonna which is Italian for Grandma.

Because they live about 2 陆 hours away, I don鈥檛 get to see my grandson on a daily basis but we manage to see each other about once a month, sometimes they come up to stay with us but most times I travel to Columbus for a weekend stay. I don鈥檛 mind the 2+ hour drive down but the drive back always seems longer and not as exciting.

Being a grandparent means you get to spoil and break some (or most) of the rules. For example: My grandson loves chocolate chip cookies especially home made. My daughter and son in law have a two cookie rule. When I babysit he usually manages to get three cookies (sometimes four) especially when he looks at me with those big baby blue eyes and says 鈥淥ne more, Nonna? one more?鈥� Bedtime is always at least an hour later than normal. After all you can鈥檛 send the little guy to bed when he鈥檚 having so much fun.

While visiting this past weekend, we made a trip to the park on Saturday and spent Sunday at the Columbus Zoo for Boo at the Zoo. My grandson went as a fireman, a very handsome fireman. For some reason I was up at 6:44AM on Sunday! I was probably excited about going to the zoo, so I decided to sneak down stairs and clean up the kitchen from the night before and start the coffee, when I heard a small voice upstairs say 鈥淚s that my Nonna?鈥� my heart melted.

I ran across a couple quotes that explain it all:

鈥淭he idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with NO grandchildren.鈥�

鈥�Grandchildren are God鈥檚 way of compensating us for growing old鈥�

To all you grandparents out there, what do you think the most rewarding part of being a grandparent is?

Sara is a mother of four. She has two daughters 鈥� Jamie age 35 and Taylor age 16 鈥� and two sons 鈥� Justin age 20 and Christopher age 14. She is also a grandmother of one 鈥� Andrew age 3. She lives in Mantua, Ohio with her husband Bill. She has worked at im电竞app for the past 12 years (before that she was a stay at home mom for 9 years). Sara is the Operations Manager for im电竞app Direct internet sales.

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Here at im电竞app, We wish you a Happy & Safe Halloween

Check out these creative and cute costumes:

Olympic Runner:

In spirit of the 2012 Olympics, why not remember it by dressing your child as a runner! This costume is great to invest in because many of the materials that will create it can be repurposed such as the tennis shoes and sweatbands.

Fierce Tiger:

Kids love transforming into their favorite jungle animals. Better yet, kids can even help create this costume by helping to glue and cut out the shapes for the stripes. Here are the

Chicken Little:

Cluck, cluck, chicken! The chicken costume will keep infants and toddlers very warm just in case it is chilly on Halloween! to find out how to make this costume.

Cuddly Cowboy:

Get ready to pretend to be a part of the wild West, this little cuddly cowboy will make you say 鈥淵EEHAW!鈥� to find out how to make this costume.

Wild Kitty:

Do not let this furry kitty fool you, she is dangerous ;). This costume requires an animal print vest, hoodie, ears, tail, and maybe some eyeliner or other method to create whiskers.

Flower Pot Full of Posy:

Take a trip to the craft store to gather fake flowers and a plastic pot to create this flourishing posy.

Do you have any ideas for DIY costumes for the kids for Halloween? Have a safe & fun Halloween 馃檪

Here are some spooktacular treats from to create with your little ones:

What a sweet surprise! This snack includes a fruit which will make mom happy and then the delicious candy that will make kids ecstatic. Let you imagination run wild when creating these delectable monsters.

Now that we have had our fix of sweets, let鈥檚 eat some veggies! Make your vegetables look appealing by carving out a pumpkin and putting some type of dipping sauce to go with your veggies. Adults and children alike will not be able to resist this!

Finally, the easiest treat of them all is making hot cocoa! Make a ghost out of whip cream and use chocolate chips or Junior Mints to create a face.

What Halloween treats are you creating for this spookiest holiday of the year?

Leading up to Halloween, you can of course carve a pumpkin but you can also help your children design their own by finding a canvas tote bag from a local craft store and letting your child鈥檚 imagination run wild with paint and markers and whatever else they can find!

To contribute to the decorations outside, children can design empty by painting them to look like creepy creatures. It might even be easier than attempting to carve a pumpkin!

I am the first to admit that Martha Stewart I am not. Making large dinners is not my thing. Actually, making any dinner is not really my thing. My husband cooks for himself and I cook for myself (that is what happens when one of us is carnivore and the other a veg head). My husband does his laundry and I do mine. We split meals for our little one and also split laundry duty for daily wardrobe changes. However, one domestic task I have always enjoyed is decorating for the holidays.

I think the love of decorating the house was passed on by my Mom (who also enjoys cooking, cleaning and laundry so I鈥檓 not quite sure why the decorating bug stuck with me). She was the queen of window stickies and we would decorate our sliding glass and front door with new designs every month. She also had a small decorative tree that she kept out year round. We would decorate it for all of the major holidays including Valentine鈥檚 Day, St. Patty鈥檚 Day, Easter, 4^th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. It was so much fun for us growing up, but I now realize how much work that must have been!

I don鈥檛 have stickies for every month nor do I have a year round tree that stays up, but boy do I have a lot of Halloween decorations. Many of my decorations, I inherited from my Grandma when she passed a few years ago. She loved Halloween. In fact, her and my Grandfather married on Halloween. I鈥檝e absorbed the love of the holiday from her and that day also marks my hubby鈥檚 birthday so we normally go all out. Three foot tall witches and scarecrows, dancing skeletons, pumpkin string lights, blinged out Jack-O-Lanterns, and cauldrons typically fill our house from October 1^st through November 1^st. However, this year, I am thinking about not decorating for the first time since I鈥檝e been married.

My favorite little boy is now 14 months old and minutes away from walking. The thought of giving him so many extra opportunities and objects to get into (and for us to clean up) sounds about as appealing to me as making Thanksgiving dinner. I also don鈥檛 know if all of these props, which are life sized to him, will scare the daylights out of him. Plus, are they choking hazards? I hadn鈥檛 even thought about choking hazards!

I know there is a school of thought out there that as parents, you should keep doing what you always have done, tell your little ones no, and ensure that they will listen to you. I鈥檓 just not sure if I subscribe to that school of thought. I think my belief is more along the lines of avoiding melt downs and toddler tantrum traps if at all possible. Just like I know that bringing my little dude on an afternoon shopping trip at nap time is not going to go well, I think it might be a smart idea to sit out on the decorating fun this year.

Before becoming a Mom, these were not the things I pondered. I knew that the most important part of being a parent is to raise a happy, healthy and independent adult, but that is big picture. The devil is surely in the details and I never realized that the option of decorating the house vs. not decorating is a big decision with the possibility of equally big consequences.

So now I have to know (so I can against you J) 鈥� did you/do you change the way you decorate for the holidays to accommodate your one year old?

About Tena

Tena and her best friend (and hubby) had their first child in July, 2011. Their little guy has a congenital heart defect and he is one tough little cookie; don鈥檛 ever think about calling him sick though 鈥� 鈥渉is plumbing is just different.鈥� Tena is an animal loving vegetarian and is excited to teach her son about compassion and the importance of volunteer work. She secretly hopes her son will be left handed like his momma. She is the Online Marketing Director for im电竞app.