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It’s the Great Pumpkin Trunk, Charlie Brown!

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Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

Hap­py Hal­loween, sweet friends!

What are your favorite Hal­loween tra­di­tions? Though we usu­al­ly par­take in fun school par­ties and parades, as well as trick-or-treat­ing with our dear friends, we have nev­er had a “Trunk or Treat” expe­ri­ence! Not only was that state­ment about to change this year, we also signed up to dec­o­rate our own trunk for the fes­tiv­i­ties. The stu­dents at my daugh­ter’s school are dress­ing up in their cos­tumes and, as they show them off to fel­low peers and par­ents, they will be able to vis­it sev­er­al par­ents and mem­bers of the PTO that adorned their trunks to give out treats!

I let my daugh­ter pick the theme for our trunk and she was adamant in her choice of the clas­sic Hal­loween car­toon “It’s the Great Pump­kin, Char­lie Brown”. Good grief! We decid­ed to re-cre­ate the pump­kin patch with Linus wait­ing for the Great Pump­kin, along with the oth­er char­ac­ters dressed up in their trick-or-treat­ing cos­tumes. To keep the bud­get at a min­i­mum, we found some super inex­pen­sive plas­tic pump­kins at Tar­get and added burlap as both the lin­ing of the trunk for a rus­tic feel, as well as fillers for the pump­kin bins that did not con­tain can­dy. To add a bit more col­or, I added some Fall fab­ric place­mats and faux leaves I found at The Dol­lar Tree. With poster and foam board, I cut and paint­ed Linus and the icon­ic wel­come sign and fin­ished it all off with an adorable Char­lie Brown-inspired ban­ner by the amaz­ing Pig­gy Bank Par­ties!

Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

To make the lit­tle ghost trick-or-treaters, my hus­band and I used chick­en wire left over from our Moth­er Hen Brunch to form the struc­tures. I chose a white felt fab­ric due to its thick­ness that would aid in hid­ing the wire sil­hou­ette and hold up their forms. The eyes were cut out of black felt and backed with an adhe­sive Vel­cro to eas­i­ly adhere to the ghosts. Of course, Char­lie Brown’s cos­tume would have a few more holes than the rest! Each ghost is hold­ing up their trick-or-treat­ing bags tied with pipe clean­ers, bear­ing anoth­er small ban­ner and lit­tle word bub­bles {again, by the fab­u­lous Pig­gy Bank Par­ties!}, dis­clos­ing what good­ies they received. Poor Chuck… always gets a rock! I mean real­ly, who gives out rocks to children?! 😉

Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

I hope the kid­dos at school enjoy our trunk-or-treat­ing dec­o­ra­tions! My daugh­ter is very excit­ed to share it with her friends, in addi­tion to the many fes­tiv­i­ties and two cos­tume changes tak­ing place today! I also can’t wait to trick or treat with my lit­tle Lalaloop­sy doll and wish you and your fam­i­ly a hap­py and safe Halloween! ♥

Charlie Brown Trunk or Treat

Merci Beaucoup!



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  2. My son and daugh­ter are actu­al­ly Linus and Sal­ly for Hal­loween this year! I post­ed pics on my FB page of them all dressed up with the excep­tion of Sal­ly wear­ing pink instead of blue (could­n’t find a blue dress). I am bor­row­ing your idea for our Church’s Truck or Treat and with my kid­dos all dressed up help­ing pass out can­dy, it’s sure to be a hit! Thanks for the fun and cute idea!!!

  5. I’m hav­ing trou­ble mak­ing the lit­tle ghosts.. any tips or maybe a pic­ture of the chick­en wire under the felt? Any help would be appreciated!!!

    • There­sa — I took a large roll of chick­en wire, rolled it into a cylin­der and attached the sides all the way up to the top. I then fold­ed the top inward towards the cen­ter and round­ed it out as much as I could to look like a head. Does that make sense? If you still need help, e‑mail me at lynlee@lynlees.com and I will send you a photo! 🙂

  6. Hi!! I absolute­ly love this!! How much white felt fab­ric did you pur­chase? Where did you buy your chick­en wire? What did you use to make the dark mark­ings on the “I got a quar­ter ghost” 

    Thank you in advance!! Our church trunk or treat event is this Sunday

    • Thank you so much, Mar­cy! As far as the felt fab­ric goes, depend­ing on the size of your ghosts, you’ll prob­a­bly need approx­i­mate­ly 3 yards for each. I pur­chased the chick­en wire at a local feed store and I used paint to mark up the dirt on the Pig Pen char­ac­ter! I hope this helps! 🙂

  7. I just love this idea. I am going to try this for our annu­al Church Trunk of Treat.
    ques­tion. how many yards of burlap did you use and did you have it reach­ing all the way to the ground? I have a reg, suv, chevy equinox.

    • Hi Patri­cia! Thank you so much! I used about two to three yards of burlap and no, it did­n’t go all the way to the ground. I just want­ed it to cov­er the trunk and bunched it quite a bit to give it some dimen­sion. Hope this helps! 🙂

      • Thank you. Helped a lot. 🙂 Did you hot glue the leaves? what exact­ly did you use for the ghost? I was think­ing of sheets.

  8. How much chick­en wire is used on each ghost fig­ure? How wide did you make the cylin­der shape for the ghost bodies?
    Thanks! Just Adorable!

    • Thank you so much, Melody! I would say maybe about a yard each? I just rolled the chick­en wire into itself and attached the two ends, then round­ed out the top for the heads. Hope this helps! 🙂

    • I actu­al­ly drew Linus free hand on a cream col­ored poster board {first with pen­cil, then over with a per­ma­nent mark­er}, then I traced it over a foam board to make it stur­dier and adhered them togeth­er. Hope this helps! 🙂

      • Hey Lyn­lee, please email the pic­ture tuto­r­i­al way to make ghosts ao I can do my trunk for church also for the kids.

        Thanks and great work!!!!!

  10. Fab­u­lous job on cre­at­ing this!
    What did you use to cre­ate the entire Wel­come Great Pump­kin sign?

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  6. […] Along with trick-or-treat­ing on Hal­loween, we are also dec­o­rat­ing our car for a Trunk-or-Treat event at my daughter’s school this week! I’ve nev­er par­tic­i­pated in this type of event in the past, so I was thank­ful for the dec­o­rat­ing tips gen­er­ously offered by Mari­ah at Gig­gles Galore! Anabelle decid­ed she want­ed our trunk to resem­ble scenes from the clas­sic Hal­loween car­toon “It’s the Great Pump­kin, Char­lie Brown”, so I’ll be shar­ing the pic­tures of how it all turned out soon! {check it out here!} […]

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