We all love our Halloween candy and there are several Trunk or Treat events in the QC before Halloween where your kid can get a stash of sweets.

Some parents love Trunk or Treat events because they say that it can keep kids safer than traditional trick-or-treating can, whether it be because of dark, poorly-lit roads or because drivers always zoom like it's a Fast and Furious audition and might put a kid in danger.

But from the kid's POV: Trunk or Treats mean more candy. It's the precursor to the Halloween night loot if you do plan to go trick-or-treating. For the parents or those in charge of the littles, it's also the test drive of the costumes to see how it looks and if anything needs to be pinned or if the little will in fact rip off and refuse to wear the bumblebee wings.

Trunk-or-Treat Events Around The QCA

So if you want to check out a Trunk or Treat event, for whatever reason, you're in luck because there are several of them around here, starting well before Halloween weekend. Here they are in chronological order.

October 14

• New Life Baptist Church Fall Festival & Trunk-or-Treat (New Life Baptist Church, 1:45 p.m.)

October 21

• Rock Island Conservation Club Trunk-or-Treat (Rock Island Conservation Club in Milan, 4:30 p.m.)
• Silvis Public Library Trunk-or-Treat (Silvis Public Library, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.)
• Moline Parks & Rec Spooktacular Trunk-or-Treat (Greenvalley Softball Complex, 5920 52nd Avenue, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.)
• QC Paws Paws In The Parking Lot & Trunk-or-Treat (QC Paws, Moline, 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.)

October 22

• St. Mark Trunk-or-Treat (St. Mark Lutheran Church, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.)
• East Locust Outreach Trunk-or-Treat (Cafe Express Deli, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.)

October 25

• Cornerstone Baptist Harvest Party & Trunk-or-Treat (Cornerstone Baptist Church, Eldridge, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.)

October 26

• Chick-fil-A Davenport Trunk-or-Treat (Chick-fil-A Davenport, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.)

October 27

• Fright House Trick-or-Treat (Freight House Farmers' Market, 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.)
• Shops of the Woodlands Trunk-or-Treat (Quad City Performance, Bettendorf, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.)

October 28

• Halloween at the Market (Muscatine Area Farmers' Market, 7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.)
• Trick-or-Treat With Hy-Vee (Hy-Vee on Kimberly, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
• MCCQC Trunk-or-Treat (Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.)
• LifeBridge Church Trunk-or-Treat (LifeBridge Church, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.)
• Muscatine Parks & Rec Trunk-or-Treat (Muscatine Soccer Complex, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.)

October 29

• Figge Art Museum Tricks and Treats (Figge Art Museum, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
• Goodwill Trunk-or-Treat Costume Party (Goodwill in Muscatine, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.)

Happy hauntings!