HAUNT FOR HOPE
Here is an idea that will make you happy - no matter how your Halloween Night turns out...
Start your own "Haunt for Hope." Here is how ours works:
Each year, we have a "Haunt for Hope" area and encourage all visitors to drop off canned goods. We first began with just a bin by the front door on Halloween night. As our haunt has grown - so has the generosity of our friends, neighbors and visitors! Food donations increase each year. Yours will too as word spreads - trust me!
In 2009, we kicked it up a notch and set out several large, black plastic cauldrons near the front of our driveway. The natural place was in front of the hearse and near the front yard cemetery. Picking a spot at the beginning of your haunt makes it easy for guests to drop the cans - and not have to carry them around while they trick-or-treat at your home.
Guests to our pre-Halloween party are invited (it is printed on the invitation...) to bring canned goods for our local Free Store Food Bank that operates in downtown Cincinnati.
Our number of visitors continues to grow. Last count, we averaged more than 200 treaters! and in 2009, we collected nearly 100 pounds of canned food.
Find a a local food pantry that serves the needy and spread the word that your haunt is THE stop to drop food donations! You will feel good about how much it helps - no matter the number of cans you collect. (our first year, we collected only 23 cans...) When you do - you'll get that warm feeling -- right down to your bones!
Besides - nothing is more scary than being hungry....
2010 - Haunt for Hope plan:
For the first time this year, we are planning to use a photo-op site in our haunt to help raise funds for the Haiti orphanage I help support. We are going to let kiddies sit in our hearse seat - next to the skelly driver and hold the reigns! We will help the little ones step up to the seat - and they are given a little voo-doo doll as they step down. Parents can take the pic (with their own camera) for $5.00 - all photo proceeds support The Saint Joseph Orphanage in Haiti.
We are also planning a "stick your head in" stockade photo place with a sign that that says "I'm just Hanging Out on Halloween" with a "drop bucket" underneath to collect change. Again - all proceeds will help my friends in Haiti.
Start your own "Haunt for Hope." Here is how ours works:
Each year, we have a "Haunt for Hope" area and encourage all visitors to drop off canned goods. We first began with just a bin by the front door on Halloween night. As our haunt has grown - so has the generosity of our friends, neighbors and visitors! Food donations increase each year. Yours will too as word spreads - trust me!
In 2009, we kicked it up a notch and set out several large, black plastic cauldrons near the front of our driveway. The natural place was in front of the hearse and near the front yard cemetery. Picking a spot at the beginning of your haunt makes it easy for guests to drop the cans - and not have to carry them around while they trick-or-treat at your home.
Guests to our pre-Halloween party are invited (it is printed on the invitation...) to bring canned goods for our local Free Store Food Bank that operates in downtown Cincinnati.
Our number of visitors continues to grow. Last count, we averaged more than 200 treaters! and in 2009, we collected nearly 100 pounds of canned food.
Find a a local food pantry that serves the needy and spread the word that your haunt is THE stop to drop food donations! You will feel good about how much it helps - no matter the number of cans you collect. (our first year, we collected only 23 cans...) When you do - you'll get that warm feeling -- right down to your bones!
Besides - nothing is more scary than being hungry....
2010 - Haunt for Hope plan:
For the first time this year, we are planning to use a photo-op site in our haunt to help raise funds for the Haiti orphanage I help support. We are going to let kiddies sit in our hearse seat - next to the skelly driver and hold the reigns! We will help the little ones step up to the seat - and they are given a little voo-doo doll as they step down. Parents can take the pic (with their own camera) for $5.00 - all photo proceeds support The Saint Joseph Orphanage in Haiti.
We are also planning a "stick your head in" stockade photo place with a sign that that says "I'm just Hanging Out on Halloween" with a "drop bucket" underneath to collect change. Again - all proceeds will help my friends in Haiti.
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