23 Ways To Celebrate Halloween At Home This Year

There’s been a lot of talk in the last week or two about whether or not there will be a Halloween this year. Of course there will be a Halloween! Twitter user pennysnark said it best:

Screenshot of a tweet by @pennystark

But while there absolutely will be a Halloween, there may not be trick or treating, and there certainly won’t be the parties, harvest festivals, haunted houses, and costume parades many kids are used to. I know a lot of parents are feeling real sadness at the idea of their kids missing out on Halloween, so I wanted to pull together a list of a few ways to celebrate October 31 at home.

First, a few caveats:

1. You don’t need to do 23 things. I want to get that out of the way now. Parenting during a pandemic is hard enough. You might want to do one or two things in whatever time you have.
2. Of these 23 activities, only four require a backyard or access to outdoor space. We just moved into a place with a yard this summer, but most of these activities we did for years in places without outdoor space and they worked very well.
3. I tried to minimize how much stuff you have to buy. We’re all operating under financial…