Halloween is upon us and no one is quite sure how it is going to look this year with COVID-19 still going strong in a lot of countries. Everyone is desperate to try and find some way to make trick-or-treating safe for children. Children have already lost so much this year, everyone wants to make sure that their children can have something before the year is over. While the CDC may have listed trick-or-treating as a “high-risk” Halloween activity, they have not said that children can not go and collect candy.

According to Reader’s Digest, there may be a way that everyone can try and make this Halloween a little more safe and it involves Purple Pumpkins being placed outside your home. It is important that everyone knows what these colored pumpkins mean.

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We have seen initiatives before involving colored pumpkins. Teal colored pumpkins have been used in the past to highlight a child who has allergies, and they usually would involve a non-food treat, like a pencil or small trinket item. Purple pumpkins are being used this year to mark “safe houses.” The idea of purple pumpkins was started by a group of parents who wanted to try and figure out how trick-or-treating could work.

What Is The Purple Pumpkin Trend For Halloween About?

So, what is this new trend? By placing a purple pumpkin outside of your home this Halloween, you will be telling the neighborhood that you are a safe location when it comes to trick-or-treating. This means that the house has been practicing all of the health guidelines when it comes to COVID-19 and do not have a positive individual in their home.

Parents are telling everyone to get creative, and make sure they have a purple pumpkin somewhere on their property where other families can easily see. This could mean a pumpkin that was painted purple, or purple pumpkins in the window.

Their idea was to show everyone that Halloween and trick-or-treating could be done safely this year if everyone works together. They also remind everyone to hand out candy that is individually wrapped, so that nothing has come into contact with the actual candy.

A purple pumpkin may not be the perfect solution to the Halloween conundrum, but it is definitely a step to letting your community know that your home is as safe as it could be when it comes to COVID-19. It is nice to see how parents are coming together to try and make sure our children have something to look forward to.

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Source: Reader's Digest