How to Celebrate Halloween as a Teenager

Enjoy Halloween as a teenager by celebrating it in new and different ways. Teenagers often feel too old to engage in traditional Halloween activities but are not aware of the alternatives to the regular trick-or-treating and bobbing for apples.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Plan a teenage Halloween party. Decorate your home with ghoulish decorations without fear of frightening the children. Include a spook alley or haunted house. Play a mix of Halloween favorites and popular music to set a Halloween mood. Serve candy and other Halloween treats. Encourage the teenagers to wear costumes.

2. Take a younger child trick-or-treating. Enjoy the sights of Halloween even if you are too old to participate yourself. Accept all candy offered but do not take candy from the children you walk around the neighborhood.

3. Invite a few friends over for a scary movie marathon. Choose movies with Halloween themes. Pop some popcorn, serve soda out of a pitcher with dry ice to make the drink smoky, and watch out for ghosts and goblins.

4. Hand out candy at your house or offer to assist neighbors with the trick-or-treaters. Give each costumed child a treat when they knock on the door. Take the leftover candy to your room and revel in your Halloween loot.

5. Volunteer at or plan a community Halloween event. Provide a fun, safe Halloween for children who cannot safely walk their own neighborhoods. Decorate cardboard houses where children pretend to trick-or-treat. Plan activities such as apple bobbing, ring toss or a costume contest for an inside Halloween experience.

6. Forget you are a teenager. Dress up and go trick-or-treating with your friends. Enjoy the shocked and amused looks of parents and teachers as you beg for candy with the rest of the ghouls.