Time to Celebrate Halloween With Your Volunteers

With Fall comes not only back to school, but also thoughts of Halloween. Celebrating Halloween with your volunteers can be lots of fun, if you follow a few suggestions.

Are costumes workable for their volunteer time? Since my volunteers mostly work with animals, costumes are a bit much. Not only for the work that they do, but also for the animals themselves. They would get a bit freaked by changes like that. So costumes don't work in my organization.

But, little extras like Halloween earrings or t-shirts are just fine. And this I encourage to help the volunteers have fun on Halloween. It's something you need to make a decision about and let your volunteers know ahead of time.

Will you celebrate a little trick or treat time? Most of my volunteers are outside a great chunk of their time, but I encourage them to come inside, enjoy some coffee and snacks. For Halloween, I like to have decorated cookies, small packaged candy and plenty of candy corn available for everyone.

Consider your volunteer schedule. It may be best to celebrate Halloween with your volunteers for the whole week. That way all, or most, of your volunteers will be able to participate and enjoy the little extras for Halloween. Not just those that volunteer on October 31st.

When you keep these considerations in mind, you can plan out a fun Halloween celebration with your volunteers and all will be happy for it.