What is a fun way activity you did for Halloween as a child and with your own kids?

I was never much into Halloween.  But we did create our own costumes.  We never had a store-bought ones until the kids were much older.  

We would go out trick-or-treating, as a family.  We would come home and go through all the candy. 

So in today's world, my kids were probably depraved.  We didn't decorate, we didn't carve pumpkins until when they were older.  We didn't buy costumes.  

 But we had fun going out together and getting candy.  They would swap candy so they had things that they really liked.