Halloween Day Guidelines

Halloween is not a national or school holiday, but we do recognize that many of our students will participate to some extent in the opportunities for fun that this day presents. With this in mind and because it falls on a school day, students will be allowed to wear their costumes to school, if they would like. Please have your child follow the guidelines below when they are considering their costumes:

• Children come to school dressed in their costume. We will not allow costume changes to take place at school.

• Children should wear a costume that can be comfortably worn throughout the entire day.

• Be sure to have your children wear proper clothes and underclothes underneath their costume just in case they find their costume to be too hot or uncomfortable and wish to take it off before the day is over.

• Children may not wear masks that depict violent or frightening characters to school. (Child cartoon character masks that are part of an overall costume are acceptable.)

• Children may not wear make-up to school. (For example, no full face makeup, no dripping blood, no make-up on hands that will smear on papers.)

• Children should not bring any object that they will need to hold in their hands. Of special emphasis is our State Education Code that states children may not bring any toy weapons to school of any sort at any time.

• Children should not come in costumes that depict any kind of graphic violence.

• Children should be discouraged from wearing any costume material that could be easily damaged.