Halloween is a fun-filled holiday that’s best known for the deluge of candy. Between trick-or-treating and Halloween parties, it can be tough to moderate kids' intake of sweets and treats. In an ...

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Halloween is often all about candy, but kids crave more than just sweets. Fun and unique goodies can make their spooky season even better. Think of cool toys, glow sticks or festive stickers that keep ...

Today is National Candy Cane Day, and with bowls still full from Christmas, people look for simple ways to put those extra ...

Does your kids' Halloween candy call your name? Mine does. Sure, the candy can sit quietly for a little while, but then it peeps up in a tiny little voice. Hey Dina, we're sitting here in the drawer.

It might be everywhere during the fall, but candy corn has a history of being a very divisive candy. Sour Patch Kids, on the other hand, are pretty much universally beloved (at least by the editorial ...

Yellow, orange, blue, red, pink and green have a common element. They are candy colors and can be used in interesting, colorful ways to spice up various rooms of a home, especially those that don’t ...

Sour Patch Kids is rolling out a huge wave of candy innovations for 2026, including glow-in-the-dark gummies, peel-apart ...

A few days ago, I saw a letter to a Slate advice column entitled, “My Wife Just Threatened to Divorce Me Over My Position on Halloween Candy.” Basically, these parents had a major disagreement over ...

For kids — or really, anyone — the concept of trick-or-treating is pretty amazing. Not only do you get to dress up in a costume, but you are permitted to walk from house to house requesting candy.

Eighty-six percent of parents shamelessly steal candy from their children’s Halloween haul, new research reveals. A study examining America’s Halloween candy-eating habits found many sneaky parents ...