This is our weekly guest-blog post from the moms behind Red Tricycle, a site that focuses on the "lighter side" of parenting. Every week, they'll be bringing us their picks of stuff to do around the Bay Area with kids.

Halloween is coming! And that means bunches of adorable kiddos in silly and fun costumes. Dealing with the pop-up Halloween shops can be unnecessarily stressful and don't even get us started on trying to navigate the messy aisles with strollers or overly excited kids! So we’ve come up with a great list of Halloween costume hunting alternatives in the Bay Area that’ll give your kid the coolest costume and won’t make you want to tear your hair out. Hooray!

Click here for all the kid-friendly costume shops int he Bay Area!