Halloween Trick-Or-Treat Hours For Plymouth, Canton

PLYMOUTH, MI — Wondering what time trick-or-treaters allowed to roam the streets on Halloween? In the city of Plymouth, super heroes, ghosts, and witches can hunt their neighborhoods for candy from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

In Plymouth Township, hours are from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Canton Township does not have official trick-or-treat hours, police said.

According to the National Weather Service, the forecast for Halloween looks mighty chilly. After a mostly cloudy day with a high near 41 degrees, temperatures will dip down all the way to 35 with winds 11-14 mph and gusts as high as 20. There’s also a 20 percent chance of rain or snow.

Halloween should be a fun evening. But the authorities advise parents and children to keep these safety tips in mind:

• Parents should help their children pick out a costume that will be safe. The costumes should be fire resistant, masks should have eyeholes large enough to allow for good peripheral vision, and finally, the costume should allow free movement.
• If your child will be carrying a prop such as a pitchfork or a sword, make sure the tips are flexible enough to not cause injury if fallen on. Of course, never carry real weapons of any kind.
• If you set jack-o-lanterns on your porch with candles in them, make sure that they are far enough out of the way so that children’s costumes will not accidentally be set on fire. Better yet, use battery operated pumpkin lights!
• Make sure you know the route your children will be taking for trick or treating if you are not going with them.
• The best bet is to make sure that an adult is going with the children during trick or treating. If you cannot go with your child see if another parent or a teenaged sibling can.
• Children should stay together as a group if going trick or treating without an adult.
• Make sure your child carries a flashlight, glow stick or has reflective tape on their costume to make them more visible to cars. Tell your children to only cross streets at crosswalks.
• Instruct your children never to go into the home of a stranger or get into their car.
• Make sure you set a time for your children to be home and stress the importance for them to be home at that time.

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