Celebrating Halloween, Pandemic Style
Hey Loves!
In case you are new here or if you need to be reminded. I love a well-executed Holiday. I just can’t get enough of it. One of my most favorite holidays to celebrate growing up was Halloween. My parents were divorced and lived far away from their families so basically every other holiday was a wash-up of which parent I would be with and what they wanted to do for said holiday. Oh, but Halloween was EPIC.
As far back as I could remember, my dad went hard. Even when I was too old to trick or treat, he went hard passing out candy. For those wondering, he still goes hard to this day and has added costumes to the lineup. Anyway, because of that, guess who then always went hard for Halloween? This girl!
With our usual spots and traditions closed for fall fun, I’ve had to adapt ad we’ve been celebrating all month with the goodies in our BOO Baskets all month long. I am one of those family costumes, coordinating shirts, skipping through the pumpkin patch moms to the point where I get my kids’ costumes as early as possible, like 364 days early.
Well, that all worked out in my favor until COVID-19, which, I kinda feel like is a recurring theme in most households. So, you know me, my brain went to town on planning something out for the kids.
After counting all the doors in my house and realizing I was too tired to hide behind each one, I remembered the scavenger hunt we did on Easter and then searched, “halloween scavenger hunt” and google did not fail me. I few clicks later, I stumbled upon, downloaded and immediately printed this scavenger hunt.
Next, I asked myself, “wait-what is going to be the loot?” I asked this because my kids trick-or-treat for sport. There is so much they can’t eat so we buy it from them and they make out like bandits. This year, they can get some treats they can actually eat and I will probably break even. To start, I found some festive things they could eat like these halloween themed veggie chips and gummy treats. Then, I went went with some of their favorites like Kettle COrn and Lara Bars. To make it cute and have happy kids when they find it, I put the loot in their treat buckets (dollar spot find years ago that I slapped a vinyl monogram on) and viola! A safe, socially-distant family-fun Halloween. Follow along via Instagram or Facebook for more deets.
