Halloween Safety 
Decorating, Costumes, and Trick-or-Treating

Halloween is a wonderful time to celebrate the change of season. Halloween celebrations and traditions from decorating your home, costume making and buying, trick-or-treating on Halloween night, to Halloween parties, are many traditions. Children and teens specifically enjoy Halloween night for Trick-or-Treating and related celebrations. Pro Consumer Safety provides parents with injury prevention safety tips, from decorating, costume planning, and Trick-or-Treating on Halloween night safety tips so your celebrations can be fun, safe, and eventful. Check the pages below.

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How are Children Injured during Halloween?

Before Halloween

• ​Decorating - Injuries include lacerations and puncture wounds from pumpkin carving

​On Halloween

• Trick of Treating - Pedestrian deaths-between the hours of 6:00-7:00pm, during twilight, when it's more difficult for drivers to see children crossing streets
  

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Decorating

Trick or Treat Planning

Trick or Treat Safety

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