Trick or Treat Ideas

The custom of Trick or Treating began in Ireland when poor people would use the time of year as an excuse to dress up in scary costumes and knock on the doors of the gentry offering 'protection' in exchange for food. If none was offered a prank was played on them such as breaking a gate or letting chickens out.

Later on it evolved into a mummers ritual where a procession of young men led by one named Lair Bhan (a white mare in Irish folklore), would gather in the name of Muck Olla (a trickster boar, again Irish folklore.) Lair Bhan would be dressed in flowing white robes and a horses head.

The followers would wear whatever costumes they liked and blow cows horns as they went from house to house offering good fortune to those who offered gifts and bad luck and curses to those who did not.

Here are some funky Trick or Treat ideas

Add some spider web to your party decorations and haunt. Just attach to something and pull it out all over.
For an eerie effect, hang glow-in-the-dark cats, skeletons and spiders from the ceilings and trees. Write scary Halloween messages or body outlines on your front walk using colored chalk or washable fluorescent paint. Use black lights to enhance the effect.
Tie small glow sticks to string attached to helium balloons and let them sail over your house for spooky lights in the sky.
Spice up your doorbell for Halloween with a programmable one. You can use recorded music, a spooky voice or whatever you want to set the mood.
Add artificial ravens and crows to the tops of tombstones, in the trees, anywhere they can sit and stare at your visitors. Cobwebs also add a lot to the theme of Halloween.