A lot of churches get in on the fun too and their trunk or treat is generally open to the public. And of course community centers are a likely place to find this new form of trick-or-treating, sometimes offered as a safer alternative to the traditional free-for-all in the streets.
While trunk or treat events are normally no cost to attend, be sure to check ahead of time. If it functions as a fundraiser or is hosted by a non-profit cause then there may be a donation item or small ticket purchase required. This is the fun for the adults! If you have no yard, a small yard, or have already filled your yard to the street with Halloween decorations, then this is a brand new opportunity to add more festivity to the world. You have to get creative since it's such a small space to work with, but the results can be either adorable or spooky depending on your liking.
Here are a few quick trunk or treat ideas:. This adult dressed up as Jason Voorhees for Halloween and became a prop in his Trunk or Treat display. Many people assume trunk or treating takes place on Halloween night; that it only exists as a bit of a buzzkill to kids racing through the neighborhood trying to scoop up as much candy as possible in one glorious evening. This isn't necessarily true! You can still be a fan of the original way to trick or treat while participating in a trunk or treat event.
Some parents and community members do feel that trunk or treating is safer than going house to house and collecting candy from strangers. If you live where traditional trick or treating just isn't safe or where it's impractical such as in a town of far-spread homes , this really works great as a trick or treating alternative.
But otherwise why make it an "instead"? There's always plenty of room in the world for Halloween celebrations! Trunk or treating is no exception and can occur any night leading up to Halloween or even during the daytime.
In fact, it's often held a week or so before the 31st which allows kids to get two times the fun. Check ahead of time as if there will be a prize or at least honor and glory for the best trunk or treat decorations!
It may be a gift card to a local restaurant, a small cash amount, or even something specific to the location. For example, an elementary school in Michigan awarded a reserved parking space at future events to the best decorated trunk.
There may be judges or it may be voting done by the kids after they've visited each car and gotten their candy. Of course, children may be more influenced by high quality sweets than the decorations themselves! Be sure to keep in mind that even if you're in a competition, trunk or treat is ultimately about Halloween fun for all involved.
Packing up from trunk or treat is easy to do, much more so than setting up. You just pick up and pile up in your trunk or truck bed, saving the organizing and storage for home. Another option is to ask grocery stores or community groups to donate candy to keep the cost down for the PTO and school parents.
At many trunk or treat events, people who decorate their cars are asked to set up small, carnival-type games for kids to play, such as a ring toss, bowling, or shooting a foam basketball.
The games should be short and easy enough for young children to play. You can add an educational element with estimation games—for example, guessing how many pieces of candy corn are in a jar or how much a pumpkin weighs.
Children who win the game can be given small prizes or extra candy; however, all children should receive candy at each station, regardless of how they did on the game. At some events, awards are given for the top decorated trunks. Costume contests are also popular. You can gather trick-or-treaters together and have the crowd applaud for their favorite costumes. An alternative to a costume contest is to gather together all the children wearing a similar costume.
Take photos of the groups of princesses, pirates, or superheroes and share the photos with families on the school bulletin board, on Facebook, or in your newsletter.
Another option is to have a pumpkin decorating contest. Select a panel to judge the entries or allow people attending your event to vote by placing raffle tickets into a jar or bag for each entrant.
Many groups play music and have space for kids to dance in costume or schedule a costume parade during the event. Add some fun by reaching out to other schools in your community.
Consider inviting the high school band, cheerleaders, and mascot to perform. Have a drawing for tickets to upcoming school plays or musicals. Invite the drama club to raise money by face painting or ask the art teacher to show kids an easy Halloween-theme craft. Set up a backdrop for a photo booth and encourage people to pose with these Halloween photo booth props.
If your event will be around a meal time, you may want to have volunteers grill hot dogs or hamburgers for hungry trick-or-treaters and their parents or book food trucks. All that candy will make people thirsty! Provide trash cans in several locations for attendees to place empty candy wrappers or used water cups. The discrepancy between the amount of candy being purchased and the decline of trick-or-treating is considerable.
So where is all this candy going other than into the mouths of purchasers? In the Seattle metro area alone this year, over 20 Trunk-or Treat events are taking place. And it is not only a suburban practice; Trunk-or-Treat events have been scheduled in the Seattle neighborhoods of Phinney Ridge and West Seattle Junction as well. Credit: Greenwood Christian Church, Phinneywood. Trunk-or-Treat is exactly what it sounds like.
Instead of walking from house to house, children are taken to a parking lot where they go from car to car collecting candy. The cars are decorated with Halloween themes. Often the participants are screened in advance to increase safety, and only sealed, packaged food is permitted to be distributed at the event, which is usually sponsored by an organization with a large parking lot.
Advocates for Trunk-or-Treat promote its increased safety and convenience. Martin said in an interview with the New York Times. Others prefer Trunk-or-Treat because of its convenience and predictability. Unlike traditional trick-or-treating, parents do not have to walk long distances with children, and RSVP policies help ensure that there is plenty of candy for all of the children who attend.
It was really fun. We would get a lot of candy. Now Fliss lives in North Seattle with her husband and young daughter. Popular Halloween costumes may change every year, but over the past few decades, trick-or-treating has stayed essentially the same: Grab a pillowcase and some friends, then go door-to-door threatening your neighbors to give you something good to eat or face the wrath of your stinky feet. Or so the saying goes. Over the past few years, though, a trend has bubbled up in cities nationwide, particularly in places where you may not know your neighbors very well—or the houses are so far apart that by the time the kids have hit house No.
It's called Trunk-or-Treating, and the premise is simple: A bunch of parents band together typically in a school or church parking lot , deck out their trunks with Halloween decorations like they're starring in an episode of Pimp My Ride: Spooktacular Edition , and let their kids meander from car to car, collecting candy at each stop.
If at first this seems a little lackluster, just wait until you see the cars. Some people really get into creating themed designs that blow away most of the houses in a typical neighborhood, like this SUV-turned-pirate-ship:. Disney movies—from Frozen to Toy Story —tend to be just as popular as spooky, traditional Halloween -y themes. Another favorite that pops up all over Pinterest and Instagram trunkortreat is a variation on Candyland:.
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