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 👻🎃 Halloween 🎃👻

Halloween can be so much fun, but in times of COVID we are all muddling through thoughts of "is it safe to go trick or treating" or "I don't want to take away something so fun for my child" and we are struggling to find the balance.  COVID has created many different barriers but it has also offered us many different ways to be resilient. After reading through different information on what is best in terms of Halloween I have come to the conclusion that no answer is the right answer because everyone is in a different headspace. I have, however, come to some creative solutions to offer to you on for Halloween.

  • 🍬Candy is obviously the biggest draw from kids and Halloween (or the biggest draw for me), so what if you told your kids that they can walk the neighborhood without getting candy or going door to door and then when they come home you would offer them their favorite candy bar? Not only would they still get the draw of being able to walk the neighborhood but you would not have to worry about them going to doors or eating candy from strangers homes. Or you could allow your kids to go trick or treating at "safe" houses or your quarantine crew's houses.
  • 🚪If they want the experience of trick or treating, have them wear gloves and a mask and have them write positive notes on sticky notes and have them give the homeowners a positive note (or it could even say "Happy Halloween"). This would be like a reverse trick or treat but they would be able to offer the homeowner something and you would not have to worry about the kids getting candy. 
  • 🎉You could celebrate Halloween as a family. Put on a pot of chili, get Hocus Pocus playing on the TV and dance to the Monster Mash. This can be a safe Halloween party that you could invite your quarantine crew to! 
  • 🏠🎃You could also just load up your kids in a wagon or have them walk and just take a stroll through your normal trick or treat spot and just look at decorations and see peoples costumes. 

There are many houses that are doing their best to make things as safe and COVID free as possible but the concern may still be there. This is a time to recognize how you may be feeling, understand that this is an unpresented time and notice where your fears or anxieties may be coming from. Are they coming from fear of getting contaminated candy? Are they coming from fear of contracting COVID from possibly being to close to someone, are you worried that someone could put their hand in the candy bowl and leave traces of COVID on the candy? or is this just a great excuse not to have to go trick or treating? No matter the reason, its good to work through your own processes. Its good to understand where your at emotionally and then drive from there. If your worried about getting contaminated candy, then have your child just say "Hey" or give a positive note and not receive candy. If your worried about your child getting COVID by getting to close to someone, have them wear a mask with their costume and remind them of social distancing (which should still be taking place). If your worried about your own candy bowl being contaminated then you offer the candy or put the candy in sealed baggies and hand it out that way. I can offer tons of solutions but it really all comes down to how you feel safe for you and your family. No decision is the right decision and no decision is the wrong decision. I do, however, encourage you to make this a memorable Halloween and explain to your kids why this Halloween  may look different from others. Joy can still be found, you just have to allow it to be seen.  


Happy Halloween good people. 🎃


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