Halloween is a beloved holiday for many children and young adults alike. It's a chance to revisit childhood memories and be creative with friends, not to mention score some free chocolate. Here are a few ideas for celebrating Halloween while maintaining social distancing.
Things that you can do for Halloween celebration while social distancing:
Put on a Halloween Parade
Invite a group of friends to all dress up and me out the quad at the same time and take a tour around campus. Show off all your cool onesies or costumes and throw out a couple pieces of candy here and there if there are onlookers. Perhaps even stop at Walmart and get some squirrel food and feed the squirrels while you're at it.
Hold a Halloween door decorating contest
Something especially fun for RA's, host a door decorating contest and have a competition to see who has the best decoration skills. Come up with some themes such as scariest door, most effort door, and hardest to take down. Don’t forget to send us pictures at the Learning Commons! We’d love to see what you’ve made!
Make Halloween a month or week long celebration with a fun DIY countdown calendar
Get some yarn and hang up in the corner of your room, add some plastic spiders from the dollar store or make some out of puffs and pipe cleaners, then write numbers on the back or with each spider pick a random candy from a bowl or premade surprise canisters. You can also make Witch hats out of construction paper and hide candy inside!
Hang Up A Piñata
Piñatas are known mostly for small children's birthday parties, however they can still be relatively cheap and are a lot of fun in small to large groups. Snag a Frankenstein's monster, a ghost, a pirate, or a creature of your choosing and set up a time with your friends to snag some candy. Just make sure to clean up your trash after you're done.
Hold A Mask Costume Contest
Ask friends to design their own face mask, then gather over Zoom to see who’s come up with the most inventive one. A few clever ideas: a cat, butterflies, monster, and beard mask!
Most of your supplies for this can be made with supplies found at the dollar store such as pompoms, pipe cleaners, markers, gems, paint to dye with, and glitter if you’re feeling brave.
Michael's also has instructions for how to make all kinds of different types of masks.
Try The Good Kind Of Ghosting
Ring the doorbell of a friend, leave a special bag of goodies out front, and then run before anyone can get to the door. Tape a big sign to the bag that says, “You’ve been booed!” along with the recipient’s name and who it’s from so they know exactly who to thank for the sweet surprise.
This can be a paper bag filled with their favorite candy, some knickknacks, decorations for them to hang around their room, confetti, you name it.
While we may be a little old for trick or treating and our usual get togethers may be canceled, there are still lots of fun ways to get the gang together and enjoy some fun. What are some ways you plan to celebrate Halloween this year?
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