What age do kids start trick or treating?

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Just that really. Debating with my DH if DS is too young

As soon as they can walk around here

My eldest is 16 and has never been. It's not obligatory.

As soon as they could toddle in the village I used to live in -- we used to get together with other children DS knew from his childminder or pre-school and do a little, gentle circuit very early, pretty much as soon as it was plausibly dark. There would be mini-hordes of tiny ghouls and witches getting mildly high on Haribo.

(Having said that, this was a small, safe village with a lot of young children where the pub, shop, PO all got into it and decorated (the pub used to dress up skeletons on their barstools and do apple bobbing, the shop staff used to dress up as zombies), lots of people went to mad and wonderful lengths to decorate their houses, and everyone obeyed the 'only go to decorated houses' rule. We've moved to a city since, and Covid has meant we haven't gone out.)

Since they could walk - small children come early and the older kids later. Be aware that some houses are really quite scary though, if they’ve gone to town! We stuck with immediate neighbours when they were tiny. Now they are older our kids enjoy just handing out the treats.

I wouldnt personally take a child younger than 3 unless they were going with older siblings

Always taken mine whether they could walk or not! We have older nephews and all go together. It's just a fun community thing round here.

With parents - around 3yo. Without parents - around 11yo.

About 3

Where I am there's no set age, everyone just does what suits them but surely you judge by knowing your own child not what everyone else does dont you?

I wouldn't take a nervous child at all as some costumes are quite scarey and I know plenty of families who don't do Halloween at all, it's not that big of a thing here.

People around here take children if all ages from babies to tweens.

I would say primary school age so about 5-6. My dd is 11 and grew out if it a year or so ago thank god. I used to hate going trick or treating with her though she absolutely loved it. As they get a bit older they tend to go to organised Halloween events.

It was at around 8 around me, but we tended to have groups of kids 8-14-ish going around without adults. You'd get a handful of younger kids with adults but that tended to be just going next-door, you didn't go around the neighbourhood proper until you were old enough not to need to drag an adult with you.

We took dd1 from around 3. Dd2 went from babyhood as she just came along when we went out with her sister. We go early though, more or less as soon as it's dark as it's a lot scarier when the older kids are out - creepier costumes and just a different atmosphere.

3 or 4 I reckon

Toddling. Stops when they're in secondary school.

We are in Scotland so they guise rather than trick or treat.

Dc don't go out until they can approach the door themselves and do a wee turn (tell a joke or something), so you dont usually see them until they are around 6ish. If they dont do a turn they dont get any sweets. They have usually stopped before they start secondary.

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As soon as they could toddle in the village I used to live in -- we used to get together with other children DS knew from his childminder or pre-school and do a little, gentle circuit very early, pretty much as soon as it was plausibly dark. There would be mini-hordes of tiny ghouls and witches getting mildly high on Haribo.

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