9 Ways to Celebrate Halloween Amid COVID

9 Ways to Celebrate Halloween Amid COVID

9 Ways to Celebrate Halloween Amid COVID

If you’re avoiding trick-or-treating this year or trying to figure out ways where you can still safely collect treats with your kids, here are some ideas!

  • Scavenger Hunt: If you decide not to take your kids out trick or treating this year, plan a scavenger hunt for them with treats hidden around your home. (Click here to download a scavenger hunt worksheet!)

  • Trunk or Treat: Organize a trunk or treat with your neighborhood. Put your treats in the trunk of your car and let the neighborhood kids pass by, keeping their distance from you, and take a treat from the trunk.

  • Costume Parade: Some neighborhoods are planning to have the children parade in front of homes, 6 feet from one another, in a costume parade. Neighbours could combine their treats and let the kids pick them up at the end of the parade.

  • Reverse Trick or Treat: In this idea, the kids stay in their own yards in costume, and a parent from each home drives by and throws candy from the car.

  • Candy Hunt in the Dark: Order glow-in-the-dark tape from Amazon, tape onto candy and hide around your house or backyard. Let your kids run around and spot the treats in the dark!

  • Pick a Cup or Bag: Put your candy or treats in small cups or paper bags and set them out on your porch or a table in your driveway. You can sit nearby and let the kids take their treat as they pass by.

  • Halloween Piñata: If your family decides to forgo trick or treating this year. Let your kids take turns whacking a pumpkin piñata until the treats spill out!

  • Ring and Run Treats: This fun family activity is a new take on the old doorbell dash prank. Sneak to your kids friends’ homes and leave a treat on their porch, then ring the doorbell and run! Treats can be Halloween cookies you all bake together.

  • Virtual Costume Party: Let’s face it, what the kids enjoy most is choosing a costume, dressing up, and showing it off to their friends. They can enjoy each-others’ costumes virtually with a Zoom or Facetime party.