Many traditional Halloween and Día de los Muertos activities can be high-risk for spreading viruses. To minimize the spread of COVID-19 and ensure children have a fun, safe holiday, the County of San Diego offers guidance for the most common activities to protect you and your loved ones.

Trick-or-treating can be difficult to do while maintaining social distancing, and haunted houses can be dangerous because they typically involve several people in a tight and poorly ventilated space. If you may have COVID-19 or have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, you should not participate in in-person Halloween festivities and should not give candy to trick-or-treaters.

Consider these lower-risk activities:

Halloween
  • Carve pumpkins at home with family. Or, make your gourd masterpieces, outside, at a safe distance, with neighbors or friends
  • Decorate your home
  • Have a Halloween scavenger hunt in or around your home.
  • Join a virtual Halloween costume contest
  • Watch scary movies with family

Día de los Muertos
  • Prepare traditional family recipes for family and neighbors and deliver the meals in a way that doesn’t involve contact with others
  • Play music in your home that your deceased loved ones enjoyed
  • Make and decorating masks or build an altar for the deceased
  • Set out pillows and blankets in your home for the deceased
  • Join a virtual get-together celebration