Posted by:
NormaRae
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Date: November 01, 2017 08:12AM
I live in a metropolitan area in the Southeast and am very involved in a UU church. About 8 years ago I suggested a trunk or treat for our children's Halloween party. Only one person in our group had ever heard of it, but thought it sounded cool.
Course, it's probably not the Utah Mormon kind, but I never went to one there, so I don't know. That's just where I heard of it. But it has become one of our most anticipated activities. And we have a lot of extremely fun activities to compare it to. Everyone gets into it and we make it a competition for best trunk and the competition gets fierce. Very few of the people who decorate their trunks even have kids at home, but we have the most fun. Well, someone always makes some hot adult beverages that help us keep warm.
It's such great outreach to the community and we have a big party inside the church. The youth group does a spook alley, we sell pizza, have a cake walk and other activities inside and a dance party. This year we had at least 250 people from outside the church and they were all wonderful, at least 70% African American. The kids were dressed so cute.
OK, I know the Mormon ones don't compare, but I do appreciate having heard about it in Utah. Trick or Treating has almost died out in our town and most churches are doing parties instead. Even other trunk or treat parties--but I'll guarantee they don't have as much fun with it as we do.