Halloween During a Pandemic

 Due to the restrictions of the pandemic, Halloween didn't quite go the same as years past. Instead of trick or treating and passing out candy, we had a whole new experience. We spent the first part of the afternoon swimming in my parent's new pool (they moved 15 minutes away from me YAY!!!!). Then after getting out some much needed energy, we carved pumpkins. We had the kids clean out their pumpkins of all the innards, draw faces on them and then carved them. They had so much fun as you can see. 

Bugaboo is not a fan of touching the inside of the pumpkin with his hands. He used his hands once this year but I didn't catch it on camera. But spoon scooping is just as effective if not more so. 

Chickadee was arm deep as soon as I opened the pumpkin for her. She was happy getting her hands dirty and get all of the pumpkin guts out. 

The pumpkins turned out great!

After pumpkin carving and clean up, we moved on to the next activity of the day, cake decorating! 

We made a graveyard cake... This can be made with any flavor cake that you want as the base. After cooled frost the cake. Then take chocolate sandwich cookies crush them completely and sprinkle on top of the cake. Cover the entire top of the cake, to create the dirt. Then take milano cookies, cut them in half and push them in to make the tombstones. If you have some melted chocolate or edible marker to write RIP on the tombstones then go for it. Also add in some gummy worms that are moving through the dirt or some pumpkin candies throughout. 

These zombies loved decorating the cake. Once dessert was made, it was costume time. 

Even though they couldn't go trick or treating, we didn't want to deny the kids the chance to dress up. 

My kids and their cousins dressed up and ready for the next activity. 

My Bugaboo is riding a t-rex around and he loves it. He loves dinosaurs and was ecstatic with this costume. 

Chickadee dressed up as Mal from Descendants. She is a big fan of all the musicals that the Disney channel puts out and loves to sing and dance along with them. 

Once costumes were on and pictures were taken, it was time for the final activity of the night. 

A search for glow in the dark bugs!!!!!

They were some nifty little toys with glow stick that we stuck around the dark back yard and had the kids search for them kind of like an easter egg hunt. The kids had so much fun that we sent them inside for a piece of cake and hid them again. 

After that it was time to clean up, putting everything away and getting ready to go. Each kid was sent home with a bag of candy still. 

What did you do for Halloween during the pandemic? Did you have any fun and unique ideas that you guys did this year? 

Until next time, I'll just continue on in this unprecedented journey...