Parents Come Up With A “Candy Slide” For Safe Trick-Or-Treating This Halloween
The coronavirus pandemic has ruined a lot of things this year: sports, concerts, vacations, school, the list goes on. But a couple from Austin, Texas, may have just saved Halloween from it.
With October creeping around the corner, DIY YouTubers Wicked Makers released an amusing and informative how-to video, teaching how to make a genius candy slide that allows people to stay six feet away from any trick-or-treaters while still filling their baskets.
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A couple from Austin, Texas, may have just saved Halloween
Wicked Makers Jamie and Jay describe themselves as YouTubers who create high-quality, free DIY videos about all kinds of fun and interesting things, including woodworking, decor, tech, and electronics, as well as gaming projects, and all sorts of other awesome stuff. “We do this because our favorite thing and we want to share it with the world,” they wrote on their website.
DIY YouTubers Wicked Makers made a genius candy slide
Jay has worked in the video game, media, and animation industries for over 15 years and leads the product development team at Faceware, an animation and motion capture company based out of Los Angeles, California. Jaimie, on the other hand, has a strong background in marketing, engineering, and special effects fabrication. She spent 8 years working at DreamWorks Animation, several years at Rooster Teeth in Austin, and is currently a full-time mom, and Wicked Maker.
Which allows people to stay six feet away from any trick-or-treaters
While still filling their baskets
Jaimie and Jay have said that Halloween is their favorite holiday, and it really shows. During the past couple of years, they have shared several great DIY ideas for the spooky holiday. They’ve made videos ranging from how to make graveyards for your front yard, to a life-size mummy.
They released an amusing and informative how-to video about the whole process
Watch it below
Image credits: Wicked Makers
Here’s what people have been saying about the project
What about the fact that the people giving out the candy while being distanced are still touching the packets and then kids are touching those packets
Exactly. Not to mention how many kids are going to want to touch the display and tube.
Load More Replies...It's certainly preferable to launching candy at kids with a sling shot (kidding). If I didn't live in bear country, I'd leave the candy on a table outside in individual baggies, put in a few pieces per bag with a note letting people know it was handled while wearing gloves. But seeing as there was a bear outside my window just last week, this wouldn't be a good idea.
If you can go to the supermarket you can go trick or treating. Seriously. Don't be stupid. But it is a cool candy slide. I'd be willing to do something similar
If picking up groceries at the store and bringing them home and unpacking them is safe, it does seem like passing out candy would be safe too, if the people are all wearing masks and gloves, and doing it outside. I mean like being out on the driveway or yard in the front, or something. If we can eat together outdoors, we should be able to trick or treat outdoor right?
Load More Replies...Not only are the people inside the house touching the candy but ALL of the children are touching the area where the candy drops out. Total fail.....if you believe what the media tells you.
I plan to buy and package the candy in plastic bags at least a week before. Then I'll just put all the bags in a bowl on my porch with a bottle of sanitizer next to it. All the candy will be clean and people can clean their hands after touch the bags and bowl. Nothing is 100% but if you have better ideas let me know.
I've been stressing about this. My kids are 2 and 6. The 2 year old won't necessarily know what he's missing, but my 6 year old definitely will and I feel terrible about it.
Don't! After 5 houses they're tired anyway. But em candy, dress up and hide the candy like Easter. Be goofy. Have fun. As long as it's fun, the kiddo won't care! Just say it's a cool new way to trick or treat! You can also face time his class buddies with their costumes. You got this ! Good luck!
Load More Replies...My elderly parents live in Austin and put up a huge Halloween display in their front yard. They've been doing it for many years. They have hundreds, even a cpl thousand on big years, visiting their home. It brings them so much joy seeing the smiles on the visitors. But this year they will not be handing out candy. They feel bad about disappointing the kiddos, but they know it's the safe and right thing to do. Hopefully next year they'll be able to give out candy again.
I think the same.. if my children have done half a year without school, friends and playground they can do without trick or treat for once .. health is more important ..
Load More Replies...I live in a rich white liberal area of dc burbs. These people all love fauci and hate trump. We currently have covid 19 spike Meanwhile they all built tributes to RGB for halloween in their yards (i wish i was joking but im not) They either had six feet long candy shoots or tables right in front of their houses. Very cold night so people kept running back and forth in their houses. Kids being kids kept running up to other parents and kids spititng coughing and yelling. Very few parents with masks on. Beers were handed out for parents, so you had drunks parents and kids high on sugar all spreading germs while cackling about "3 d more days." While, me an independent, stayed home and followed our county's guidelines to not dare trick or treat.
Safe? You still don't know if the candy sliding down the tube is coated in crack or LSD or not. First, these moronic parents tell their kids "Don't talk to strangers" and then they actually ENCOURAGE them to go door to door getting and eating stuff from them! Insane!
Amazing !!!! Happinnes is to be able to make the others happy. Believe me you guys' attitude made me incredibly happy ! All my love to you .
I think halloween here in my city is gonna be cancelled, at least for my family. We might look out the window at the trick-or-treating kids (if there are any) and eat our granola bars while wearing costumes inside lol
My hubby made a good point...Shes still touching the candy...we simply cannot win in this matter. Go buy your kids a bunch of junk, throw it in a pillowcase and stand outside their bedroom window with it after dark. Trick or treat!
Go to home depot and buy a 6" by 6' pvc pipe.
Load More Replies...It's still not safe... The people still have to touch the candies to give to the kids duh! People just don't get it and they never will. It's like their brains don't compute common sense! Here it is breaking it down BARNEY STYLE: GET CANDY WITH HANDS, GIVE CANDY TO KIDS, GIVE POSSIBLE VIRUS TO KIDS, KIDS GET SICK, EFFECTS OTHER KIDS= DUMB A*S IDEA FROM THE FIRST PLACE!
Except that kids are the least likely to get COVID if at all...and there's no data to support or instances of kids picking it up and spreading to anyone. So why we are emotionally and mentally screwing up our kids for our own fears, I have no idea.
Load More Replies...What about the fact that the people giving out the candy while being distanced are still touching the packets and then kids are touching those packets
Exactly. Not to mention how many kids are going to want to touch the display and tube.
Load More Replies...It's certainly preferable to launching candy at kids with a sling shot (kidding). If I didn't live in bear country, I'd leave the candy on a table outside in individual baggies, put in a few pieces per bag with a note letting people know it was handled while wearing gloves. But seeing as there was a bear outside my window just last week, this wouldn't be a good idea.
If you can go to the supermarket you can go trick or treating. Seriously. Don't be stupid. But it is a cool candy slide. I'd be willing to do something similar
If picking up groceries at the store and bringing them home and unpacking them is safe, it does seem like passing out candy would be safe too, if the people are all wearing masks and gloves, and doing it outside. I mean like being out on the driveway or yard in the front, or something. If we can eat together outdoors, we should be able to trick or treat outdoor right?
Load More Replies...Not only are the people inside the house touching the candy but ALL of the children are touching the area where the candy drops out. Total fail.....if you believe what the media tells you.
I plan to buy and package the candy in plastic bags at least a week before. Then I'll just put all the bags in a bowl on my porch with a bottle of sanitizer next to it. All the candy will be clean and people can clean their hands after touch the bags and bowl. Nothing is 100% but if you have better ideas let me know.
I've been stressing about this. My kids are 2 and 6. The 2 year old won't necessarily know what he's missing, but my 6 year old definitely will and I feel terrible about it.
Don't! After 5 houses they're tired anyway. But em candy, dress up and hide the candy like Easter. Be goofy. Have fun. As long as it's fun, the kiddo won't care! Just say it's a cool new way to trick or treat! You can also face time his class buddies with their costumes. You got this ! Good luck!
Load More Replies...My elderly parents live in Austin and put up a huge Halloween display in their front yard. They've been doing it for many years. They have hundreds, even a cpl thousand on big years, visiting their home. It brings them so much joy seeing the smiles on the visitors. But this year they will not be handing out candy. They feel bad about disappointing the kiddos, but they know it's the safe and right thing to do. Hopefully next year they'll be able to give out candy again.
I think the same.. if my children have done half a year without school, friends and playground they can do without trick or treat for once .. health is more important ..
Load More Replies...I live in a rich white liberal area of dc burbs. These people all love fauci and hate trump. We currently have covid 19 spike Meanwhile they all built tributes to RGB for halloween in their yards (i wish i was joking but im not) They either had six feet long candy shoots or tables right in front of their houses. Very cold night so people kept running back and forth in their houses. Kids being kids kept running up to other parents and kids spititng coughing and yelling. Very few parents with masks on. Beers were handed out for parents, so you had drunks parents and kids high on sugar all spreading germs while cackling about "3 d more days." While, me an independent, stayed home and followed our county's guidelines to not dare trick or treat.
Safe? You still don't know if the candy sliding down the tube is coated in crack or LSD or not. First, these moronic parents tell their kids "Don't talk to strangers" and then they actually ENCOURAGE them to go door to door getting and eating stuff from them! Insane!
Amazing !!!! Happinnes is to be able to make the others happy. Believe me you guys' attitude made me incredibly happy ! All my love to you .
I think halloween here in my city is gonna be cancelled, at least for my family. We might look out the window at the trick-or-treating kids (if there are any) and eat our granola bars while wearing costumes inside lol
My hubby made a good point...Shes still touching the candy...we simply cannot win in this matter. Go buy your kids a bunch of junk, throw it in a pillowcase and stand outside their bedroom window with it after dark. Trick or treat!
Go to home depot and buy a 6" by 6' pvc pipe.
Load More Replies...It's still not safe... The people still have to touch the candies to give to the kids duh! People just don't get it and they never will. It's like their brains don't compute common sense! Here it is breaking it down BARNEY STYLE: GET CANDY WITH HANDS, GIVE CANDY TO KIDS, GIVE POSSIBLE VIRUS TO KIDS, KIDS GET SICK, EFFECTS OTHER KIDS= DUMB A*S IDEA FROM THE FIRST PLACE!
Except that kids are the least likely to get COVID if at all...and there's no data to support or instances of kids picking it up and spreading to anyone. So why we are emotionally and mentally screwing up our kids for our own fears, I have no idea.
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