Trick or Treating

@Juliaacv It's fun for the small kids for sure. But the thing is, there's just an allotted time for each store to give out candies. And they don't really prepare much at all. My son who's now 22, did it when he was 5 years old. He did it only once.

That sounds like fun. It has changed greatly since the covid years.

When I was a preteen I always went to a party at the church with my cousins, and then we'd have a sleep over. It was so much fun, much more than trick or treating. And the treats were often homemade, like carmel apples and popcorn balls, I miss those days. Trick or treating when you grew up on a farm consisted of your mother driving you up and down the concession roads, and it being quite a time from one door to the next. When we hosted a Halloween party for Jonathon and his friends, we held it in our basement, and sat chairs back to back for them all and had them seated but not able to use their hands, and had cinnamon donuts tied to a string hanging from the ceiling tiles in front of each seat. The object of the gave was to see who would eat the most of the donut, without it falling off of the string unless it went into their mouth. It was our dry spin on bobbing for apples. It was hilarious to watch. I did up a huge canning pot of spaghetti pasta with some ketchup (to look like blood) and they were all given disposable gloves to find something in the worms as we called them. It was a bit of a quick little scavenger hunt.

I have probably had years where there have been more older kids than littles. That has soured it for me because although they do enjoy candy bars, they rarely say thank you like the little ones do.

We don't have jr. high school here, but we suggested to our son, when he was 11 years old, that he have a Halloween party (supervised of course) and have all of his friends in. It was alot of fun, and none of the kids missed out on any candy, they made out like bandits at our place as we had games set up for them with prizes to win and everyone got a Halloween treat bag.

Exactly, and going to public places is, in my opinion, much more age appropriate than going out door to door. When our son was 11 years old, we suggested that we allow him to have a cool Halloween party, and forgo trick or treating. All of the guys he still hangs with, were at that party, along with others and some girls, and they all had alot of fun, and made out like bandits as I had some really cool prizes for the pumpkin ring toss, and the many other games we played, as well I sent home grab bags with full size candy bars and some coupons for Mc'Donalds and such.