Trunk or Treat

Decorate your car trunk for toddlers through 8th grade kids in the Hillcrest parking lot! It's a safe and fun way to engage with our community. Dress in costumes and invite your friends and neighbors. Covid safety will be followed. Hillcrest will provide individually wrapped candy for you to hand out. Please wear gloves when serving candy.

Heaters are available. Prizes given for the best dressed dog, best dressed car owners, best trunk and kid participation awards. 

Sign up to host a trunk!

Trunk Decorating Parameters:

• Consider the two-year-olds looking at your decorations
• No scary themes: witches, goblins, ghosts, zombies, skeletons
• No propaganda

Instructions for Parked Cars:

• Arrive between 5-6 PM to set up trunks
• Please wear a face mask and gloves
• Leave one parking spot between your car and the next one (6ft)
• Give out one piece of candy per child (candy provided by Hillcrest)
• One family at a time at your trunk
• At least one person at each trunk handing out candy
• Please stay parked until the event is over at 7PM
• Favorite Trunk will win the grand prize
• Rain plan: each participant will decorate an office door frame inside Hillcrest main building

Instructions for Trunk or Treat Attendees:

• Leave six feet distance between you and the next family
• Wear a face mask
• Do not crowd pathway
• Wait on designated spot before approaching trunk
• Allow space between yourself and other trick or treaters
• Do not congregate at a trunk
• Practice one-way trick or treating (follow arrows)
• Each family will be handed a card to vote for their favorite trunk to hand in at the end
• Each child will receive a prize at the end when they hand in the “favorite trunk” card
• Take family photos at the photo booth
• Please enjoy every trunk and have fun!
• Rain plan: go indoors and enjoy each door frame as you move through in one-way direction while social distancing

 Kid-Friendly Trunk Decorating Ideas:

• Blast from the past (50s, 60s, etc.)
• Christmas in October
• Hawaiian luau
• Under the sea
• On a farm
• Western
• Pumpkin patch
• Bubble gum machine
• Camping
• Pirates
• Circus
• Emoji
• I Spy books
• Superheroes
• Football (or other sports)
• Specific professional or college sports teams
• Animals (dogs and frogs are popular choices)
• Dr. Seuss
• Children's books
• Cartoon characters, like Minions or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Video games like Pac-Man or Minecraft
• Popular movies, like Cars, Frozen, Star Wars or Incredibles
• Candyland