The CDC's Trick-or-Treating Guidelines 2020 — Can I Trick-or-Treat in 2020?

Tips

• Avoid door-to-door trick-or-treating as it is considered a high-risk activity for spreading COVID-19.
• Avoid trunk-or-treat events where treats are handed out from car trunks in parking lots.
• Avoid costume parties, indoor haunted houses, hayrides, and rural fall festivals as high-risk activities.
• Consider one-way trick-or-treating where individually wrapped goodie bags are lined up for families to grab and go.
• Participate in outdoor, open-air parades if you maintain distance and wear protective masks.
• Attend outdoor costume parties where protective masks (not just costume masks) are used and people stay more than 6 feet apart.
• Visit a pumpkin patch or apple orchard while maintaining social distancing.
• Carve or decorate pumpkins with your household.
• Decorate your home for Halloween.
• Host a Halloween scavenger hunt around your neighborhood with your quarantine group.
• Play Halloween games with the people who live in your household.
• Make Halloween crafts at home.
• Cook Halloween-themed dinners or snacks with your family.
• Make Halloween cocktails for adults in your household.
• Paint Halloween nails as a safe activity.
• Host a virtual Halloween party with a costume contest.