Halloween Trick Or Treating

Trick or Treating was one of my favorite activities as a child! Getting all dressed up in a fun halloween costume, then grabbing a pillow case or a plastic pumpkin box to collect candy and off we went! One year I was allowed to go trick or treating with my neighboring friends and it was great! Halloween was a week night so we had to prepare our costumes ourselves until our parents finishing work. Some of my friends were dressed up as ghouls and zombies, it was great! The air was so clean and crisp on that October evening, but it wasn't cold yet. We walked from house to house and we giggled when we were given treats that we really liked. Sometimes the way that the candy was decorated made us happier than the contents themselves. It was really fun!

These days trick or treating seems to have taken on a different meaning, but I'm sure everyone still derives as much please from it as before. Unfortunately it seems that kids these days are getting more tummy aches and tooth aches than they should. That's why I believe we should be undertaking the healthy halloween treats initiative to ensure that Halloween remains a safe holiday for all of the children and even the adults to enjoy.

In any case, this article is going to explain a bit more about trick or treating on Halloween night, or as they used to call it All Hallow's Eve. The idea is that young children, and sometimes even older kids, dress up as monsters and scary ghouls and gather together. Once in groups, they walk around their neighborhood going door to door, ringing doorbells and knocking on knockers. Until the residents open the door and hand them candy and other treats. Usually the treats are store bought candy and sugary items, but these days coins, toys and other fun items are also offered. The children gather up the treats in their halloween bags: sometimes they use pillowcases, some times they used plastic pumpkins, others they use large plastic halloween bags with ghosts and witches and vampires on them.

After the little zombies and mummies have walked as far as they could, or their bags were overflowing with their treasures, it was time to head home. The kids would walk back home where their parents had been the ones giving out candy to the other neighborhood munchkins. That night the children would sit down with their parents and sort through all of their Halloween candy and treats. A few different piles would decide which candy to keep, to throw out, to give away and to freeze. This way no candy would go to waste, except those that children might be allergic to or that their parents did not approve of otherwise.

That night, the kids would fall asleep filled with excitement and knowing that they had made some good memories and seen some great looking ghosts while spooking the neighborhood cats and dogs with their joy and laughter as they walked down the roads.