"I'm amazed that so many are so blind"
You must be Anti Christmas tree as well.
When my kids were little we started having fall parties at the church every Halloween. The kids and most of the adults all dressed up in non-ghoulish costumes. We played a bunch of party games and had a costume contest. Each family brought enough hotdogs and buns for their family and another sidedish or dessert. A bunch of the men took the hotdogs outside and grilled them.
We had a table set up with big paper bags and lots of arts and crafty things and let the kids take turns making their own treat bags. At the end of the night the adults lined up with bags of goodies and the kids took their bags and went down the line and ended up with a full bag of safe treats. It was always a lot of fun.