Before your kids dive face-first into their trick-or-treat bags this Halloween, give the Switch Witch a try! There are a few different ways that you can make this part of your family’s Halloween tradition.
Oh, Halloween! It’s so much fun to choose costumes and head out trick-or-treating. The real trick, though, is often on parents, who end up wrangling sugar-infused children for days or even weeks after candy collecting is done. Of course, it would be great if more people gave out healthy Halloween treats, but you have the power to make this Halloween less sugar-laden by introducing your child to The Switch Witch.
The Switch Witch was introduced on the show Shark Tank just before Halloween 2016. There’s an actual stuffed Switch Witch and book that you can buy, but the good news is that you don’t necessarily have to buy everything to bring the legend of the Switch Witch into your home. My family did it last Halloween without even realizing that there was a product attached to it. The book and toy look like they’d be helpful for getting older kids who have had a lot of Switch Witch-free Halloweens on board, though.
How the Switch Witch Works
The short version is that The Switch Witch comes to your home on Halloween night and trades out your child’s candy for a coveted book or toy.
Before Halloween gets here, you can start seeding the Switch Witch with your kids. Tell them that they can keep a certain number of candies (or none! Do what works for your family.), and explain that before bed on Halloween, they’ll hang the rest of their haul up for The Switch Witch to find.
When your kids wake up the next day, the Switch Witch will have magically transformed all of that cavity-inducing candy into something much healthier that your kids will still love.
Switch Witch Variations
The prize that the Switch Witch leaves doesn’t have to be a material one. Instead of a book or toy, the Switch Witch can leave your kids an experience gift, like tickets to a movie they want to see or passes to a children’s museum.
I know that some parents don’t like the idea of deceiving kids with made-up figures like Santa or the Tooth Fairy. If the Switch Witch herself doesn’t fit into your parenting philosophy, you can certainly do this swap without her. Just tell your kids that they get to keep X pieces of candy, and they can trade the rest in for a book, toy, game, or experience that they want. You can even negotiate with them on how many pieces of candy to keep, so they feel more involved in the trade.
No matter how you bring the Legend of the Switch Witch into your home, it’s a fun way to make Halloween more about spooky fun and less about eating candy. Happy Halloween, everyone!
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