I find it interesting that towns publish when kids can trick-or-treat and how old kids can be. We live in a community where seriously, my kids can start trick-or-treating on Friday night and continue all day Saturday. Heck, we could have started last weekend! Friday night there is a senior living building that is opening up for kids to come and trick or treat in their hallways from 4-5 and the Boys and Girls Club is having an event for the public. There are also a couple of churches doing Trunk or Treat on Friday night. On Saturday starting as early as 9:00 in the morning there are trick or treat events at the children's museum, the mall, the nature center, the university, a local owned toy store, another senior living center, several churches, one of the middle schools, a learning farm, a neighborhood parade, and several churches. There were at least 5 trick or treat events last weekend! Seriously it is overload!!! We live a couple of hours south of a community that is the self-proclaimed "Halloween Capitol of the World." I think lots of communities in our state try to keep up with them. One of my friends who lives in a nearby small town took her kids trick or treating three times last weekend!
We also have lots of middle and high school age kids who come trick or treating. Many of them are refugees or immigrants from countries that don't celebrate Halloween. They are getting a chance to be kids and participate in some good old American culture. We also get several high school kids who come trick or treating for food donations for the local food shelf. I always give them candy too!
We didn't do any of the events last weekend. We might stop at the senior living center on the way home from school on Friday. The kids will already be in their costumes because their school still has Halloween parties and a costume parade. We are also going to go to the event at the middle school. It is a fundraiser and my kids are very excited about shooting silly string at their principal! We will probably start in our neighborhood around 5:30-6:00 after we eat dinner and it starts getting dark. We live on a very large block that has a long cul de sac half way around it. It usually takes us 30-45 minutes to go all the way around. We end up at one of our friends' homes. Everyone in their cul de sac gathers in front of their house. They always have a fire pit set up in their driveway and along with handing out tons of candy they also have hot coffee and cider (and usually some adult beverages). Sometimes they have old horror movies from the '50s and '60s playing on their garage door. Then we go home and the kids hand out candy until we shut off the porch light at about 9:00.