Help a Mom: What to do when kids have outgrown trick-or-treating

A mom wonders what families do on Halloween when their kids have too old for trick-or-treating.

Posted 12:42 a.m. Oct 30, 2013 — Updated 12:42 a.m. Oct 30, 2013

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

A friend, whose kids are in high school and college, posed this question on Facebook the other day.

Here's what she wrote:

What do you do when your kids have outgrown the usual Halloween trick or treat tradition? Any ideas on how to make new traditions for Halloween?

I actually trick or treated right through my senior year of high school. And I have vivid memories of local college students asking for candy too on Oct. 31. But I know that most kids these days seem to stop trick-or-treating by the time they get to high school. In fact, Oxford, N.C., says that traditional trick-or-treating is only for kids 12 and under, according to the town's website.

So how have families with older kids marked the holiday together?

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