Halloween 2020: The Year We Built a Candy Chute

So this is what Halloween looks like in 2020. No trick-or-treating, but plenty of tricks and definitely some treats. I spent three hours building what Marcus calls ‘Elena’s Engineering Marvel’ – a PVC pipe candy chute that delivers candy from our front door to the sidewalk. Because apparently I’m the type of mom who builds contraptions now.

Halloween 2020: The Year We Built a Candy Chute

Sophie went as a doctor (wonder where she got that idea), Theo went as a T-Rex because of course he did, and Biscuit got voluntold into being a hot dog. Marcus’s costume was ‘exhausted parent’ which required zero effort and maximum accuracy. The vampire teeth hanging around his neck were supposed to be part of it but he gave up after five minutes.

Dr. Sophie diagnosing a rare case of dinosaur-itis while Biscuit questions his life choices

The candy chute was a hit with exactly three kids before Biscuit figured out he could intercept the deliveries at the bottom. We lost approximately fourteen fun-size Snickers to his quality control process. Sophie asked if she could keep the stethoscope for ‘future medical emergencies’ and Theo growled at every house we passed on our socially distanced candy walk.

Nailed it. Next year I’m just buying the fancy candy chute on Amazon like a normal person. But probably not, because where’s the fun in that?