So you've done it every year.
Every year since you were a baby being pushed in a stroller, you've trick or treated.
This year you are a freshman in high school, but you still feel like a kid and you still love candy.
Do you dress up and trick or treat? When are you too old? Here are some good ways to solve the problem.
Go to a party, host a party, dress up and pass out candy, or if you just can't stand it and you have to trick or treat to get your candy rush, baby-sit and volunteer to take your neighbor's kids trick or treating.
Find out if any of your friends are having a costume party.
Take a bag of candy to pass our to your friends.
They will love it that you thought of them.
Ask your parents if you can transform your basement of family room into a haunted mansion, and host your own party.
There are plenty of CD's out there that are loaded with Halloween party songs to keep the music pumping all night long.
Invest in some dry ice or rent a fog machine to set the atmosphere.
Get several little pumpkins and have a pumpkin-carving contest.
You can ask your parents to help with this.
If you don't want them to be seen, have them dress in full costume as well.
Do a "guess what body part this is" game and have several large brown bags with various items in a bowl inside.
Some suggestions are hard-boiled de-shelled eggs for eyes, a cooked cauliflower head for a brain, a beef liver for a human liver, etc..
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There are tons of exciting Halloween games to play all over the Internet.
Hosting your own party is always fun.
So no one is having a party, and your parents won't let you, but you still want to participate in Halloween.
Go ahead and dress up.
You be the one to pass out candy.
There is lots of fun to be had here.
Dress up like a stuffed scarecrow and play dead until the kids walk up to the door, then jump up! (Just don't scare the little tots!) Keep the lights off in the house, keep the porch light on, and when they come to the door, play scary music out the window.
Decorate the outside of your house like a haunted house.
Turn your front yard into a graveyard.
Again, just be nice to the little kids.
They will come early when it is still light outside, unless they are with older brothers and sisters.
You just can't stand it; you have to trick or treat.
Volunteer to take your neighbor's kids around as a chaperone.
If you have younger siblings, tell your parents you will supervise.
If you can't find any kids to go with, resign yourself to being too old.
At least if you have kids with you, the people handing out candy will take pity on you and maybe, just maybe, give you candy.
Time to grow up and resign yourself to being older now.
But just because you are getting too old to trick or treat, doesn't mean you have to lose your inner child.
Feel free to participate in any of the above-mentioned activities.
By all means, have fun.
Don't take Halloween too seriously.
It's just a night to get out and have a little fun.
But, please don't have your fun at someone else's expense.
Every year since you were a baby being pushed in a stroller, you've trick or treated.
This year you are a freshman in high school, but you still feel like a kid and you still love candy.
Do you dress up and trick or treat? When are you too old? Here are some good ways to solve the problem.
Go to a party, host a party, dress up and pass out candy, or if you just can't stand it and you have to trick or treat to get your candy rush, baby-sit and volunteer to take your neighbor's kids trick or treating.
Find out if any of your friends are having a costume party.
Take a bag of candy to pass our to your friends.
They will love it that you thought of them.
Ask your parents if you can transform your basement of family room into a haunted mansion, and host your own party.
There are plenty of CD's out there that are loaded with Halloween party songs to keep the music pumping all night long.
Invest in some dry ice or rent a fog machine to set the atmosphere.
Get several little pumpkins and have a pumpkin-carving contest.
You can ask your parents to help with this.
If you don't want them to be seen, have them dress in full costume as well.
Do a "guess what body part this is" game and have several large brown bags with various items in a bowl inside.
Some suggestions are hard-boiled de-shelled eggs for eyes, a cooked cauliflower head for a brain, a beef liver for a human liver, etc..
..
There are tons of exciting Halloween games to play all over the Internet.
Hosting your own party is always fun.
So no one is having a party, and your parents won't let you, but you still want to participate in Halloween.
Go ahead and dress up.
You be the one to pass out candy.
There is lots of fun to be had here.
Dress up like a stuffed scarecrow and play dead until the kids walk up to the door, then jump up! (Just don't scare the little tots!) Keep the lights off in the house, keep the porch light on, and when they come to the door, play scary music out the window.
Decorate the outside of your house like a haunted house.
Turn your front yard into a graveyard.
Again, just be nice to the little kids.
They will come early when it is still light outside, unless they are with older brothers and sisters.
You just can't stand it; you have to trick or treat.
Volunteer to take your neighbor's kids around as a chaperone.
If you have younger siblings, tell your parents you will supervise.
If you can't find any kids to go with, resign yourself to being too old.
At least if you have kids with you, the people handing out candy will take pity on you and maybe, just maybe, give you candy.
Time to grow up and resign yourself to being older now.
But just because you are getting too old to trick or treat, doesn't mean you have to lose your inner child.
Feel free to participate in any of the above-mentioned activities.
By all means, have fun.
Don't take Halloween too seriously.
It's just a night to get out and have a little fun.
But, please don't have your fun at someone else's expense.