LYNN — Any other year the most creative part of Halloween for families and their kids would be crafting the perfect costume for a night out trick-or-treating. But this fall being safe while stockpiling the candy has forced some in the community to be creative in a different way.
For Sheila Curry and her husband, Sean, bringing their two boys RJ, 4, and Oliver, 2, from house to house wasn’t the best option in the world of COVID-19. So the boys and a handful of their cousins will be taking their trick-or-treating to Georgetown, where instead of gathering sweets by knocking on the doors of different homes, they’ll be doing it all at the same place.
“We’ll be going to my brother’s house Saturday night,” Sheila said. “Their house actually has five different doors so the adults are going to be giving out candy at each door while the kids make their way around.”
A dinosaur-obsessed RJ will be collecting his candy as a T-Rex skeleton while Oliver is following in his older brother’s footsteps with another dinosaur costume. They may not get to show off their costumes to as many people this year, but they’re excited to be satisfying their sweet tooth however they can.
Keeping Halloween small and in the family seems to be a common trend this October and another Lynn family, the Luques, with three young trick-or-treaters, have had the same kind of ideas.
With Penny, 3, set to be a magical llama and her two brothers Flynn, 5, dressing as an emoji, and Landon, 6, another member of the dinosaur-inspired costume wearers, the Luques can rack up a lot of candy this time of year.
And to keep things safe, the trio’s parents, Andrew Luque and his wife, Jess, came up with a couple ideas including placing candy throughout the family’s yard and arming the kids with flashlights as they looked around, sort of like a make-shift spookier Easter egg hunt before the neighborhood started to form other plans.
“We were going to go with the candy-hunt,” said Luque, a Lynn firefighter. “Until we found out all of the neighbors were going to be doing a sort of normal Halloween, while obviously keeping our distance.”
With a neighborhood full of kids, the members of their street are hoping to create their own Halloween bubble. The city and Mayor Thomas M. McGee have advised against trick-or-treating in general so the Luques, along with the rest of their neighborhood are ready to flexible for whatever seems the safest for the big night.
“A lot of the houses around us have kids too, so we’re all probably going to hit the same houses in our little circle,” Luque said. “It seemed abysmal at first but things are starting to look up right now for Saturday, at least for us. And we have our flashlight candy hunt as a second option.”
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