How to Have a Boo-tifully Safe Halloween.

AuthorNicholson, Haley

Getting creative with holiday celebrations has been yet another adjustment courtesy of the pandemic.

As Halloween approaches, complete with a rare blue full moon, a group of private partners has launched halloween2020.org. The site breaks down how to safely celebrate while minding participants' community needs and health officials' social distancing recommendations.

Don't worry, the breakdown will have you celebrating in less time than it takes a mummy to decompose.

The site has three steps and color-coded categories to help little ghouls and vampires determine the safest way to celebrate the Halloween spirit. The three steps are:

* First refer to the site's map to see current COVID risk in your county.

* Scroll down and click on the tab corresponding to your county's color--green, yellow, orange or red, depending on the level of risk.

* Choose from several ways to safely celebrate, based on your county's color code.

Green zone activities can include visiting official trick-or-treat safehouses, a garage trick or treat that gives more room to roam (be wary of frightful decorations, though), or playing "trunk-or-treat," where Halloween-goers can find decked-out trunks filled with goods.

Activities in a yellow zone include "yeeting" the treats, where homeowners toss out treats from 6 feet away to costumed travelers walking safely on sidewalks; organizing a neighborhood parade with a predetermined route marked with distances between participants and sanitizing stations; throwing a socially distanced pet parade where furry friends can be a part of the fun (because pets love costumes); and distributing "boo bags" that neighbors have filled with fun treats and delivered anonymously to someone's doorstep.

Orange zone communities can arrange a trick-or-treat drive-by, where friends and family can ride over for a visit and honk or text upon arrival, leaving treats before they go, or channel that wolverine...

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