With Halloween on the way, a Windsor daycare wants to make sure all children have a costume to wear when they go out trick-or-treating.
Kinder Academy has launched its first costume recycling program.
Supervisor Melissa Cammalleri says they've collected 25 costumes so far for the Children's Aid Society of Windsor Essex County.
"I knew that it would be a place that would definitely have families that they knew could use them and we knew that they'd get into the right hands," she says.
Cammalleri would like to collect a few dozen before the deadline. Kinder Academy will be collecting costumes until October 5.
"We have some parents that are passing on some older costumes as well, for older children that they have at home. Really, all ages [are welcome]," she says. "We'd prefer not to have a whole lot of wigs."
The concern about wigs is the transmission of lice from one child to another.
Donors can drop off gently used and laundered costumes at the daycare centre at 3511 Walker Rd. Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm.