COVID19: How To Have A Safe Halloween This Year | Wappingers Falls, NY

October 28th, 2020 by

BOO! It’s Halloween week and that means you and your little witches are getting ready for a candy-filled holiday! However, this year Halloween is looking a little different due to the COVID19 pandemic. However, there are plenty of ways for you, your friends, and family to still enjoy the holiday but responsibility and safety. Below you will find tons of fun activities for Halloween directly from the CDC. Depending on where you live, choose from low to moderate risk activities. We urge you to maintain social distancing when participating in the activities below! And when Halloween is over and the winter season creeps in you’re going to want to have peace of mind behind the wheel of your ride. Shop our impressive inventory now and get better peace of mind in a new Mercedes-Benz!

Low-Risk Activities 

  • Carving or decorating pumpkins with members of your household 
  • Setting up a table in the driveway to dress up and carve pumpkins with neighbors while socially distancing 
  • Doing a Halloween scavenger hunt where children are given lists of Halloween-themed things to look for while they walk outdoors from house to house admiring Halloween decorations at a distance
  • Zoom parties are all the rage! Have a virtual custom party with your friends and family
  • Having a Halloween movie night with people you live with
  • Having a scavenger hunt-style trick-or-treat search with your household members in or around your home rather than going house to house

Moderate Risk Activities 

  • One-way trick-or-treating where individually wrapped goodie bags are lined up for kids to grab.
  • Small-group outdoor costume parade where people are six feet apart.
  • Attending a costume party outdoors where protective masks are used and people can social distance.
  • Going to an open-air, one-way, walk-through haunted forest where mask use is enforced.
  • Pumpkin patches or orchards.
  • Outdoor Halloween movie night with local family and friends spaced at least six feet apart.

Higher Risk Activities To Avoid

  • Traditional trick-or-treating without masks and social distancing.
  • Crowded costume parties held indoors.
  • Indoor haunted houses.
  • Hayrides or tractor rides with people who aren’t in your household.
  • Traveling to a rural fall festival outside of your community.

*Advice from the CDC

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