If you think about it, the gap-toothed jack o’ lantern makes an appropriate Halloween symbol, what with all those cavity-causing sweets around. But fear not if you feel like saying “boo” to trick-or-treat candy. Smart rounded up a lucky 13 spooky gifts you can give out in place of the sugary stuff — without running the risk of retaliatory “tricks.”
From Target (target.com):
40 pack of bouncy eyeballs ($3.50). Remember: Kids get two each, cyclopses one each.
6 mini flashlights ($1.50). Kids love snooping for spooks who boo in the gloom of night.
4 pack funny glasses ($1.50). Put them on over regular glasses, a mask, or on your crow’s beak of death.
100 pack of bracelets ($3.50). Who says you can’t be chic while you shriek?
From World Market (worldmarket.com):
6 spider clips ($2.99). If a kid’s loose costume is falling down, this treat will come just in the nick of time.
20 bags animal crackers ($2.50). Why no roaches or poisonous snakes in there?
18 bags buttered popcorn ($3.99). The kernels turn pumpkin orange when popped. Here’s to blood red popcorn next year.
16 bags of cheddar Whales snack crackers ($2.50). Sometimes the whale swallows you … and sometimes you swallow the whale.
4 stretch body parts ($1.99). Two feet, a hand and an ear. Gallbladder sold separately.
From Party City (partycity.com):
12 Halloween erasers ($1.59). Even werewolves and mummies make mistakes.
12 pack kazoos (79 cents). With duct tape they’ll double as Frankenstein neck bolts.
Pencil and eraser set ($1). Her pencil as sharp as a fang, she wrote: “It was a dark and stormy night.”
30 note pads ($4.99). If you ask us, the scariest costume of all is … journalist.
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