Building a Fun and Safe Contactless Halloween

October 21, 2020

I've partnered up with my good friends at the Home Depot to create a fun a safe contactless trick-or-treat experience for our neighborhood trick-or-treaters, using simple materials found at the Home Depot.

I started off by decorating our front porch handrail, which will be the base for our contactless candy drop off experience.

I picked up a bag of bones found at the home depot in the Halloween decor section along with a bunch of other fun and spooky decor that I’ll be incorporating into this project.

(I’ve listed everything I’ve used below)

I used 3M mounting tape to secure a tape measure that was locked and extended out to 6' to the top of our wood handrail. I also added the same mounting tape to the skeleton hands that I add to the top of the handrail, which will be holding the PVC pipe in place.

I purchased a 10-foot long piece of PVC pipe that was 4" in diameter at my local Home Depot. I measured the 4” pipe to be 6 feet in length and cut it down to length using my miter saw.

I then placed the PVC pipe on top of the skeleton hands that had the 3M mounting tape secured to. The nice thing about the 3M mounting tape is extremely strong and made for outdoor use.

I tested the 6-foot long contactless candy shoot with multiple types of candies and they all past with flying colors going down the pipe to the pumpkin candy bowl at the bottom. I picked up this fun motion sensor jack-o-lantern candy bowl at the Home Depot, which has a fun, little surprise. Once the motion sensor is activated from the candy dropping into the bowl, a spider pops out from a secret compartment in the back section of the bowl, startling the trick-or-treaters.

What would Halloween be without skeletons? I had a lot of fun incorporating skeleton into this spooky design. The Home Depot has a wide selection of different types of Halloween skeletons. I picked up a few of the 5-foot posable skeletons, and dressed them up with different costumes, that I happen to have on hand. One of the skeletons I placed on the front porch by the tape measure and dressed him as a construction worker, I positioned one of the skeleton’s hands to hold the tape measure and positioned the other hand to be waving hello.

I was able to place a small bucket on the ledge of the handrail tucked under the skeletons arm, which I can fill with candy to pass down the shoot to the trick-or-treaters on Halloween.

I used a large black paint pen to mark each foot of the 6-foot pipe and then relocated the tape measure to the top of the pipe for a better visual.

I really had fun creating this fun and safe contactless Halloween for our front porch. It was simple and easy and you can do the same to fit your home with a few simple materials and some creativity.