Totally Fun and Kid-Friendly Ways to Celebrate Halloween With Your Pod

Have a traveling podluck: Get your pod together and visit each other's houses for a traveling trick-or-treat. Each pod house provides a different trick or treat! Here is Halloween appetizer inspo for the occasion!

Create a Halloween scavenger hunt at home. Kids, and their pod if they have one, can go around the yard searching for candy, trinkets, and mini pumpkins, including a golden mini pumpkin with a surprise inside! You can make sure every kid gets a special pumpkin providing a list of what they should find. #notearshalloween

Bob for apples. Remember this? Get kids in on the act at home with your own Halloween festival! Think Eyeball spoon relay, spider ring toss, a carnival wheel of treats! After you bob for apples, here's how to candy them too!

Coordinate a Halloween caravan. Have neighbors and nearby friends have treats at the ready while you drive kids to their houses. You can even make a candy cannon to make it super silly. Kids can wave to their friends from a 6-foot distance.

Surprise neighbors with a boo basket. Put a basket of Halloween fun (dollar stores are great for this) like masks, art supplies, BOO-ze if you know them well, and let them know they've been BOO'ed! They can then pay it forward and surprise another neighbor with their own boo basket.

Host a virtual Halloween costume contest. Get extended family or work fam on Zoom for a hilarious display of Halloween fun and creepy drinks. Wanna raise the stakes? Everyone pools in $5 via Venmo and the winner takes all!

Host a craft night: Make candles, emoji pumpkins, ghost pinatas, spooky s'mores, jack o' lantern balloons and more!

Break out the bikes. Deck your bikes with Halloween lights and ride around town before all the Halloween decorations come down!

Get in the baking mood: Here are easy Halloween desserts to bake with your pod, and enjoy while celebrating together in costume. Make it boozy with these 25 cocktail recipes too!

Have a scary movie marathon. Go for really spooky (The Shining, Get Out, Halloween, The Birds) or tame (It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Goosebumps, Coraline) depending on age. Make it an outdoor movie night for extra safety points!

Create your own costume parade. Walk around the neighborhood in a one-way direction (according to the CDC a distance Halloween parade is moderate risk) with your crew, keeping your distance from others of course, bring music, sing songs, and just make the night a reminder that not all things about 2020 are scary.