21 Clever Trunk or Treat Ideas To Inspire Your Creativity
We have collected 21 24 Clever Trunk or Treat Decorating Ideas that nailed it. Take these DIY Trunk or Treat ideas and turn them into your own interpretation.
No Spooky Trunk or Treat Ideas
Our collection of Trunk or Treat Ideas is not spooky, just good family fun. Most of these are from Trunk or Treat at Church events.
I snapped pictures for several years at my own Church. Some people really nail the spirit of the fun. There seems to always be themed with candy and sports. One of my all-time favorites was an emoji theme.
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How Does Trunk or Treat Work?
Trunk or Treat usually begins around dark and ends about 2 hours later or when all the candy is gone, whichever comes first.
Some churches will have super large crowds and prepare weeks in advance by having the congregation donate candy and sign up to participate with their cars and trucks.
Cars are lined up in the parking lot typically side by side depending on how many participants there are. Sometimes there are gaps in the parking spaces to allow for games to go in between or to prevent a bottleneck in the lines.
Then the kids are lined up at a designated beginning location. Sort of a parade of costumed kids begins to make their way around the parking lot collecting candy from each car as they go.
There may be one or two familiar design ideas worth considering to put your own twist on. You will also find some unique ideas which are sure to be a lot of fun. A good trunk or treat lineup wouldn’t be complete without a candy theme trunk or a sports team trunk.
When Is Trunk of Treat Held
Most places host Trunk or Treat the Saturday or Sunday evenings before Halloween. If Halloween falls on a Saturday, it may generally be held that day but could possibly be the week before.
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21 24 Clever Trunk or Treat Decorating Ideas
21 Clever Trunk or Treat Decorating Ideas
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Use your Birthday party leftover decor for a fun Race Car Theme Trunk or Treat design.
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Carnival
Home Team
Sports Team. Use your own home team name and have some football fun!
Easy Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin Trunk or Treat Decor
Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
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Trix-N-Treats Bake Shoppe
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Wizard of Oz design is a classic from The Adams Family.
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Candyland trunk or treat design from Sprinkled Events
Pirate Ship Trunk or Treat from Sprinkled Events
I hope you have been inspired by the creative designs in this collection. I like the interactive designs best. Can’t you just see the children lining up to toss the glow sticks onto those drink cans?
It’s amazing what you can make with some boxes, paint, and creative thinking!
More Halloween and Trunk or Treat Ideas For You
These 7 Super Easy Halloween Party Food Ideas include how to make those cute Mummy Hot Dogs with Crescent rolls, Banana Ghosts with chocolate chips and Pumpkin Cuties.
Your little’s will love these super duper easy to make Charlie Brown cookies while they are watching The Great Pumpkin. FYI, you will enjoy those cookies too.
If you are also a fan of sweet and salty then you will love these no bake Corn Chip Halloween Dessert Bars. You get to have some fun with candy googly eyes.
When we think of Halloween, the first thing we think of is candy. I made these Halloween Candy Kabobs for a family Halloween party and they were a big hit. No cooking is involved.
Do you love serving food in a jar with a spoon? It’s always fun to eat that way for a festive atmosphere. Make these delicious and fun to eat Halloween Brownie Parfaits. We added some orange candy sprinkles for fun.
What is Trunk or Treat? More answers about Trunk or Treat right here.
More Trunk or Treat Ideas. These pictures are all from my church event.
Toilet Paper Toss was one of the games at this Trunk or Treat event at my church.
Trunk or Treat is right around the corner! Thanks for sharing these fun ideas! Hope you are having a wonderful week Shirley! Pinning and stumbling to share!
Hi Shirley! I JUST heard about Trunk or Treat for the first time this week (whaat?!), and I decided to Google it and your post came up! I was very excited b/c I recognized you as a blogger I follow, so just had to share that your post is appearing really high in Google searches. Woohoo! And also–great post as always! Such clever ideas!
Well, Happy Halloween!
Cheers!
Shana from Technotini.com
Shana, thank you so much for sharing that with me. You made my day. I remember when I first heard of Trunk or Treat too. Now we go with the grand children every year. It’s so much fun!
These are wonderful ideas! I know the kids must love them.
so many fun ideas! I think the pacman is the best though 🙂
Great ideas here so thank you for sharing and linking up with us at #anythinggoes. Have a great week and see you at the next linkup.
You seem to make everything sound so easy!
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Wow! What fun and amazing decorations. So much thought and energy put into making them look great. Thanks for sharing with us at #WednesdaysWisdom
Wow, such creative ideas! Looks like so much fun. 🙂 Thanks for coming by Free and Fun Friday!
Thanks for stopping by with us Sarah!
There are some cute ideas here. Thanks for sharing! Pinned.
Hi Leigh, thanks so much or the Pin! I’d love to see your trunk or treat design this year!
These are all fantastic ideas! My husband would go nuts over that Colts one! Thanks for this list. Love it!
I really like the Colts one also! You can take that idea and put your own twist on it. The sports themes are fun one’s to me! So many people have such creative ideas, don’t they!!
Wow, these are AMAZING! So many creative ideas…love all of them.
LoL, you’re like me, I love them all also! I like the interactive one’s the best but then those Fall designs with Mums and pumpkins are so adorable…
Your Trunk or Treat ideas are always so much fun! I love your Pinterest board. And the Great Pumpkin has always been a favorite of mine. 🙂
~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai
They did such a wonderful job on the Great Pumpkin design, didn’t they! They are all just so creative!
These are great, Shirley! We just decorated ours for Fall last time we did it – I hope to be a lot more creative this year!
There’s a few ideas I haven’t seen before. We’ve always loved participating in Trunk or Treat! It’s so much fun for everyone – the adults and the kids!
I completely agree, Trunk or Treat, especially when there is a Fall Festival attached are just so much fun!
It was fun searching for new designs that weren’t so common. I like the old favorites too though! It’s fun to see the twist and creativity from each one.