Editing Trick-or-treating (section)

==Etiquette==
[[File:First house for trick-or-treating.jpg|thumb|upright|Two children trick-or-treating on Halloween in [[Arkansas]], United States in 2007]]
Trick-or-treating typically begins at dusk on October 31. Some municipalities choose other dates.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-26|title=Trick or Treat to remain on Saturday - Portsmouth Daily Times|url=https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/68363/trick-or-treat-to-remain-on-saturday|access-date=2021-11-01|website=www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=HOGAN|first=VERSHAL|title=Trick-or-treating will be Saturday|url=https://www.ashleynewsobserver.com/news/trick-or-treating-will-be-saturday/article_2f8b2818-372b-11ec-8d92-c3803cb62156.html|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Ashley News Observer|date=27 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=KOCO Staff|date=2021-10-28|title=What day are cities in Oklahoma celebrating trick-or-treating?|url=https://www.koco.com/article/what-day-are-cities-in-oklahoma-celebrating-trick-or-treating/38046465|access-date=2021-11-01|website=KOCO|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-29|title=Saturday officially set for trick-or-treating|url=https://www.southwesttimes.com/2021/10/saturday-officially-set-for-trick-or-treating/|access-date=2021-11-01|website=The Southwest Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Saturday, Sunday or both? Here's when North Alabama communities suggest you trick-or-treat|url=https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Saturday-Sunday-or-both-Heres-when-North-Alabama-communities-suggest-you-trick-or-treat-575614031.html|access-date=2021-11-01|website=WAAY News|date=29 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[http://www.hauntedwisconsin.com/information/trick-or-treat/ 2013 Municipal Trick-or-Treat List], Haunted Wisconsin, dated 2013, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130429200549/http://www.hauntedwisconsin.com/information/trick-or-treat/ copy at archive.org], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926011140/http://www.hauntedwisconsin.com/information/trick-or-treat/ copy at webcitation.org]</ref> Homeowners wishing to participate sometimes decorate their homes with artificial spider webs, plastic skeletons and [[jack-o-lantern]]s. Conversely, those who do not wish to participate may turn off outside lights for the evening or lock relevant gates and fences to keep people from coming onto their property.

In most areas where trick-or-treating is practiced, it is considered an activity for children. Some jurisdictions in the United States forbid the activity for anyone over the age of 12.<ref>{{cite web |title="What's The Age Limit On Trick Or Treating?", CBS Detroit, October 30, 2011 |date=30 October 2011 |url=http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/10/30/whats-the-age-limit-on-trick-or-treating/}}</ref> Dressing up is common at all ages; adults will often dress up to accompany their children, and young adults may dress up to go out and ask for gifts for a charity.
<!--The nonprofit [[Food Allergy Research & Education]] says on its website that in 2014 it started the practice of teal pumpkins as decorations to indicate that a house is giving out items other than food. This inspired Alicia Plumer, the mother of an [[Autism spectrum|autistic]] son, to start the blue bucket movement in 2018. Plumer's son carried a blue bucket, and National Autism Association president Wendy Fournier encouraged the use of blue buckets by other autistic children, to indicate that they might not have the abilities of other children but still deserved to be included.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsweek.com/blue-bucket-halloween-autism-trick-treat-1465718|title=Halloween Blue Bucket Autism Link Explained: How the Trick-or-treat Pumpkin Bucket Is Being Used to Raise Awareness|last=Kim|first=Soo|work=[[Newsweek]]|date=October 18, 2019|access-date=November 21, 2019}}</ref>-->