Students: You may wear your Halloween costumes on the day of the Trick-or-Treat on Mainstreet, Friday October 26th. You may not wear costumes on October 31. Costumes must meet the dress code. Gore or weapons are NOT allowed. Costumes must be safe. No masks, please. Minor face painting is allowed, but teachers must be able to recognize you when we look at you. If you are not recognizable, the face paint must come off.
The dress code does not allow hats, so that stands. But if a student wore a headband with kitten ears (or some such), it will not be a problem.
The PTO money is most valuable for me in that it allows me to make purchases at the very beginning of the year when I’m waiting on purchase orders. I usually use the money to purchase a folder for each of my students, and I have bought storage boxes to hold those folders, organized by table group or class period. 
Another invaluable resource that I have purchased with PTO funds is supplies to put together my teacher notebooks, which I use to organize my lesson plans and materials. I bought a heavy-duty binder for each class that I teach, heavy-duty sheet protectors, and numbered tabs to organize my lesson plans, resources, and originals by week of the semester. 
Finally, sometimes I buy treats (candy, hot chocolate, popcorn) for my students for activities in class, such as our Mug Party, where students are served hot chocolate in ceramics mugs that they made themselves. I often spend my own money on this, as food cannot be purchased with the moneys that we get from the state. 