Building a Fun and Safe Contactless Halloween

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.

Here is a list of all the material I used which you can find at your local Home Depot.

• 4" PVC pipe
• Home Depot Bucket
• 3M double sided extreme mounting tape
• Stanley tape measure
• Bag of bones
• Bag of skulls
• 5' posable skeleton
• Jack-o-lantern candy bowl
• Skeleton dog
• Skeleton howling wolf
• Skeleton piranha
• 20" Lighted up Jack-o-lantern 

You can find everything you need for a safe and fun contactless Halloween at the Home Depot.

The New Dremel Versa Detail Brush kit

This post is sponsored by The Home Depot.

I've partnered with The Home Depot's Prospective Team and Dremel to review the Dremel Versa's New Detail Brushes. I've been riding my bike a lot lately, which I've also been leaving it outside a lot lately. The grease and dirt build up was getting out of hand and my bike was in desperate need of a detail cleaning. Thankfully the Dremel Versa cuts the elbow grease out of cleaning and speeds the clean process.

Let me start of by saying I love how compact the Dremel Versa is. The waterproof and ergonomic design of the Dremel Versa cleaning tool provides outstanding control and fits comfortably in the palm of your hand. I've used this tool on a countless number of chores around the house, which has cut down the time of cleaning in half. The new durable nylon bristle brushes are great for the hard to reach places that the scour pads cant reach. The new extender is perfect for clean nooks and crannies on plastic and metal making it even easier to hit those hard to reach spots.

I started my bike detailing by taking off the scouring pad, pad holder and splashguard. The pad holder and splashguard easily screws off, for an easy interchangeable brush feature.  

The detail brush set comes with a 4" extender, to make reaching in small crevices easy, and a set of two nylon bristles brushes that are designed for multiple cleaning applications and are long-lasting. The set comes with one Flat bristle brush and conical bristle brush.

The Dremel Versa is water resistant and great for use in dry and wet applications. 

 The Dremel Versa and detail brushes took care of the hard work with a little warm water and soap.

Getting in between the small areas of the bike spokes was easy with the angles detail brush and extender.

 The Extremely durable nylon bristles are perfect for multiple types of surfaces. I put them to the test on the detailing of my bike. I switched between brushes, using the best-fit angle for different areas of the bikes surface.  Switching the brushes out is as easy as unscrewing the tips and screwing on a different brush. The set comes with two shaped bristle brushes Flat and conical.

The flat head bristle brush was great for cleaning flat areas that had heavy dirt and grease. The 4" extender allowed for the tool to reach up under areas my hand wouldn't fit in. 

Cleaning in between the pedals was a breeze with the angled tipped detail brush. The Dremel Versa had so much speed I had to hold the peddle in place to keep my bike from riding away. 

The detailing and cleaning process on my bike was smooth and effortless with the help of the Dremel Versa and the new detail brushes and extender.

Dirt and grease scrubbed away in seconds, and no elbow grease was needed, this high-speed versatile tool took care of all the hard work. 

Even the toughest of grease in the hard to reach places was wiped clean with speed and ease.

You can find the Dremel Versa at your Local Home Depot along with multiple Dremel Versa accessories like the detail brushes and extender, scouring pads, and Kitchen cleaning brush.