Guide · trick-or-treat
Trick-or-treat playlist by number of houses
Whether you are walking a route or sitting on the porch handing out candy, you can use the music as a clock. Here is a simple way to plan it.
About one track per house
The tracks on Candy Bowl, the trick-or-treat playlist, average 2:27. A house usually takes a few minutes with walking, ringing the bell, the “trick or treat” and the thank-yous, so as a rough guide one track is about one house. It is an estimate: your street, your kids’ speed and the weather will move it.
| Houses | About how long | Music |
|---|---|---|
| 5 houses | about 20 min | Candy Bowl (first 5 tracks) |
| 10 houses | about 40 min | Candy Bowl (22 min, 9 tracks) |
| 20 houses | about 1 hour 20 | 1 Hour Halloween Playlist then Candy Bowl again |
| 30+ houses | 2 hours or more | All-Night Halloween Playlist on loop |
An estimate. The minutes per house are a planning guess, not a measurement. Use your own first few houses to correct it.
If you are on the porch
- Put a speaker by the door and start Candy Bowl with loop on. It restarts by itself.
- It is playful and friendly: no growls, screams or jump scares.
- The peak is usually 6 to 8 PM. For a longer stretch of porch time, press play on All-Night Halloween Playlist.
- Keep the volume low enough that you can hear the doorbell.
If you are walking
A phone in a pocket is enough. Open the Kid-Friendly Halloween Playlist page before you leave: the player stays at the bottom of the screen and keeps playing while you move between pages. Each track has an MP3 download if you want it offline.
Questions
What is the best trick-or-treat playlist?
Candy Bowl is the playlist for it: playful, upbeat and kid-safe, with no lyrics. The kid-friendly playlist is a longer alternative.
Does it have lyrics?
No. Every track is an instrumental.
Is it free?
Yes. It is free with no sign-up, and free to use at your event with credit to Purrple Cat (CC BY 4.0).
