Candy chute

Candy chutes are another household adaptation to help keep the Halloween spirit alive during the Coronavirus lockdown. However will this invention really make trick or treating safer for kids? Below is the process to make candy chutes and our main concerns about it.

Step 1: Building Candy Chutes

Let’s look at the construction of the chute. Someone purchases a PVC tube from Ace Hardware, decorates the tube with fun Halloween props, then sets it up in front of their home.

Step 2: Attracting the Kids

Just a PVC pipe on your porch isn’t gonna bring the candy hungry masses. Therefore, the next step is add fun decorations and lights to your porch and lawn. Make sure you have clear instructions at the bottom of the chute so kids don’t come up to the door. We suggesting keeping it simple, such as “OPEN MOUTH AND PLACE AROUND TUBE. WAIT FOR CANDY.” This will help pique the interest of passing kids and bring them over.

Step 3: Feeding the Kids

Now that the kids are close, you can deliver the candy. Ask the kids to open their mouths and wrap it around the end of the PVC pipe. Then you unwrap the candy and slide it down the chute directly into the child’s mouth. Although this process is quick and convenient for the child, is the candy chute really protecting the kids? This is the part that worries us.

Everything else in this process seems sanitary and safe. But why would you allow a child to walk up to 40 houses and have strangers slide candy down a tube directly into their mouths? Research suggests that this practice, which guises itself as a safe candy delivery method, may actually cause an increase in COVID-19 cases. It’ll be interesting seeing how kids and parents react to this new practice.

With the government canceling Halloween this year, candy chutes are a controversial topic. What are your thoughts? Would you let your child partake in this candy chute trick or treating?