Halloween During COVID: What We Are Doing

Given everything going on in the United States right now, I find myself craving a little levity and joy! That’s why I’ve been wondering about Halloween during COVID.

The CDC recommends against trick-or-treating. That recommendation makes sense as a blanket declaration for the country. I feel okay evaluating the situation in our individual context.

We are definitely canceling our annual Halloween party on the cul-de-sac where we invite the whole neighborhood. However, I do feel okay inviting one other family over and staying in our backyard. Then we can trick-or-treat—being careful to stay very far away from others, to wear masks, to socially distance, and not touch the candy immediately. This won’t be hard in our neighborhood because hardly anyone trick-or-treats, and we go earlier than everyone else anyway.

Henry is the one who requested a “Halloween-themed” party. Our normal party is just pizza. So here’s what we have on deck for our very Halloween-y party….

Our Halloween During COVID Party Menu

Main Dish = Pizza skulls or Mummy hotdogs
Drink = Witches’ brew
Appetizer = A pumpkin spewing spinach and artichoke dip
Dessert = Día de los Muertos sugar skull fruit pizza
Bonus = Jello, custard eyeballs
Decorations = A balloon banner

Supplies

Small pumpkin
Circular ice cube trays
Balloons
Black writing icing
Candy eyes

Mummy Hotdogs Ingredients

Meat hot dogs
Veggie hot dogs
Crescent dough
Gluten-free pizza dough
Ketchup
Mustard

Drink Ingredients

2 liters of ginger ale
4 cups of pineapple juice
1 gallon of lime sherbet

Dip Ingredients

Frozen spinach
Artichokes
Garlic
Cream cheese
Chips

Dessert Ingredients

Sugar cookie dough
Icing
Strawberries
Kiwi
Blueberries
Rasperries
Pineapple chunks
Blackberries

Eyeball Ingredients

Blue jello
Agar
Vanilla pudding
Milk

In terms of costumes, we almost had a theme going! Tate wanted to be a circus ringmaster, and I was going to be a lion. But now he has changed his mind and wants to be a ninja (since he has to wear a mask).

I’ll give him a couple more days to finalize his decision before we start getting our costumes ready!