​Parents Can Create New Halloween Traditions During the Coronavirus Pandemic: 6 Fun Halloween Activities for Families by Jill Walls, Professor, Ball State

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​Parents Can Create New Halloween Traditions During the Coronavirus Pandemic: 6 Fun Halloween Activities for Families

If communities follow new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for Halloween, families should consider creating new traditions that do not involve trick-or-treating, parties and get-togethers. Recently, the CDC posted guidance for the holidays, including Halloween. The federal agency warns people to avoid higher risk activities, including:

  • door-to-door trick-or-treating
  • attending crowded, indoor costume parties
  • visiting indoor haunted houses
  • going on hayrides or tractors rides with strangers

The most important part of any holiday is spending quality time together and making memories. COVID-19 has created a lot of uncertainty for families, but I think it’s possible to still have fun this Halloween season while staying safe. Parents should take time to prepare their children for some new traditions and provide reassurance about the other upcoming holidays, including Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Here are some fun activities to consider:

  1. Watch an age-appropriate, Halloween-themed movie together.
  2. Make a Halloween craft.
  3. Play board games.
  4. Bake holiday-themed food.
  5. Have story time where someone reads a Halloween book or fall-themed book aloud.
  6. “Visit” friends in costume via Zoom or other online video platforms.

For the little ones that just enjoy the costumes and treats, parents could set up candy bowls in various rooms of their home and have children trick-or-treat around the house or apartment.

If your community allows Halloween activities to go on in neighborhoods, Walls encourages residents to place wrapped candy outside their homes in open bowls, instead of handing it out.

I think about many hands reaching inside those bowls, which is not necessarily sanitary. Costumes with masks and gloves might be the best way to go this year!

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Mike Prochaska
Our town just approved trick or treating. So I plan to take them door to door. These kids at my house every day after school they can go trick or treating to each other house. No reason they can’t . These kids are always together as it is stop trying to ruin what these kids have left.
Elisa Schmitz
Great ideas here, Jill Walls, Professor, Ball State . So sad that we need them. We appreciate you sharing. Welcome to 30Seconds. We look forward to learning more from you!

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