Driving force behind Halloween

Trunk or Treating event takes place in the school parking lot

  While most kids are preparing for the upcoming Halloween by perfecting their costumes and strategically planning their trick or treat route around their neighborhood, others don’t have the same luxury.  Some children who live in apartment buildings, like Key club sponsor Molly Rippa’s son, do not have the opportunity to go trick or treating.

  “We live in an apartment building” said Rippa, “so there is no way we can go trick or treating. All of our buildings are locked you can’t even get in.”

  In order to remedy this, Key Club planned their sixth annual Trunk or Treat event for Sunday, October 27.  Inspired by a local church, Key Club came up with this event in order to offer kids, who would otherwise not be able to go trick or treating, a chance to celebrate Halloween and to provide a fun Halloween event for other Elementary school students.

  For the event, students set up their cars in a circle around the school’s parking lot. Like houses, each car was decorated with a colorful splash of Halloween and seasonal decorations. Starting at 1 p.m., children who were dressed up in various Halloween attire, ranging from the newly popular Avengers to the classic seasonal witch, began filing down the line of cars, stopping at each to receive a handful of candy or to play the games that were set up. In addition to the cars, there was also a cakewalk set up in the center.

  Key Club members had a chance to earn around five hours through this event by decorating and running their own car, and could have even earn a few extra hours by donating homemade cupcakes to the cake walk. Along with the Key Club members, several other clubs also provided a car for the event.

  Anime club, in particular, had always supplied a car for the event. True to their clubs nature, the members running the car were dressed as their favorite cosplay characters and, along with passing out candy, they had a bean bag toss and a face painting station set up.

  “For face painting, we will most likely be painting the kids faces as their favorite Pokemon characters,” said club member senior Veronica Pareja-Lecaros.

  Prowl, as well as Battle of the Books, the schools two main book clubs, both set up a car for the event as well. In order to tie their club into the theme of the car, Battle of the Book members wrapped their car in spiderwebs and suck the covers of their competition book for this year to the web, in order to make them look like bugs caught in a spider web. Along with this, Battle of the Books’ members also provided a tossing game and had a storytime event.

“We will be bringing out a carpet and reading halloween themed books to the kids,” said Battle of the Book’s President senior Alyssa Eversmeyer.

  Along with Battle of the Books, Prowl also incorporated a book theme to their car.

 “We are planning on getting scary children’s books to hang up in my car over a fake fire,” said Prowl’s President senior Michaela Pierre.

  A number of other clubs also donated cars for the event, as well as some honor societies, and each had their own unique theme to it.

  “I just love seeing what all the clubs come up with,” said Rippa.