Sisanie

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How The CDC Recommends Celebrating Halloween This Year

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If you're trying to figure out how you're going to celebrate Halloween this year, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (aka the CDC) has released some guidelines on what is considered high risk, moderate risk, and low risk activities for Halloween 2020.

The bad news? Traditional trick-or-treating is considered high risk this year and it is not recommended that you let your kids go out and go door to door for candy. Even if kids are wearing costume masks - unless they are made of two or more layers of fabric that covers their mouth and nose - then they still don't really work as masks for protecting against COVID-19.

Instead the CDC is suggesting "alternative ways" to celebrate Halloween.

Low and moderate risk activities that are suggested by the CDC this year include: carving pumpkins with members of your household, carving pumpkins with neighbors or friends while outside and sitting a safe distance away from each other, having a virtual Halloween costume contest, and having a Halloween movie night with the people you live with.

Unfortunately, indoor haunted houses, and group hayrides are still considered high risk activities that are not recommended this year.

Kids have missed out on a lot this year while doing school from home on Zoom and having to spend their summer mostly apart from one another, so I know it's hard for parents to accept that they're also not going to get the Halloween they hoped for! But if you can find a way to still have some sort of Halloween celebration with friends that keeps them 6 feet apart, then you should! Maybe an outdoor movie night (and rent a big projector screen!) would work, and you could buy candy and put them in individual bags for the kids rather than having them all put their hands in the same bowl.

Do you have a suggestion for how to safely celebrate Halloween with kids this year? Yap me below!!

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