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Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween Trunk-or-Treat

October 29, 2014 By Lynlee

The Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween trunk-or-treat ideas ~ Lynlee's

I can’t believe Hal­loween is a mere TWO days away!!! We just returned from a trip to Dis­ney­land to par­take in all the Hal­loween fun they offer at the park, which includ­ed the per­fect pho­to shoot set­ting for my daugh­ter’s cos­tume this year! And as soon as we got back, it was hol­i­day cel­e­bra­tion time at my daugh­ter’s school, includ­ing our sec­ond annu­al trunk-or-treat festivities.

First of all, I am beyond hap­py that Hal­loween is on a Fri­day this year. It just makes it so much eas­i­er on the kids when they can enjoy the evening trick-or-treat­ing and not have to wor­ry about get­ting up ear­ly for school the fol­low­ing day. But in addi­tion to that, our state of Neva­da cel­e­brates its admit­tance into the union with a statewide hol­i­day every year and this year it falls on Hal­loween! No school on Hal­loween AND it’s a Fri­day? What could be bet­ter?! That being said, it meant that we had less time to plan and prep for the trunk-or-treat event. Last year was our first time dec­o­rat­ing our trunk and we went with the icon­ic It’s the Great Pump­kin, Char­lie Brown theme. This year, my daugh­ter, Anabelle and I decid­ed to go with a more mod­ern clas­sic {as con­tra­dic­to­ry as that sounds!} with Tim Bur­ton’s The Night­mare Before Christ­mas!

Nightmare Before Christmas Fondant Cupcake Toppers

I made these fon­dant top­pers inspired by the ani­mat­ed film approx­i­mate­ly three years ago and have always want­ed to re-vis­it this theme in some man­ner, so this was the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty! For those of you unfa­mil­iar with the movie’s premise, the main char­ac­ter, Jack Skelling­ton, is the king of Hal­loween Town, but upon dis­cov­er­ing the notion of Christ­mas, decides he wants to take over for San­ta Claus {or Sandy Claws}. So mix­ing both Hal­loween and Christ­mas themed decor based on the dynam­ic images from the film was our objective.

Jack Skellington Pumpkin craft ~ Lynlee's

When one is a pro­cras­ti­na­tor and per­pet­u­al­ly behind on the many projects one has on his/her plate, it often means the prod­uct he/she had her eye on is sold out when final­ly pre­pared to make the pur­chase! Lol! Such was the case when I was in search of a white foam pump­kin. So, I did the next best thing and pur­chased an orange foam pump­kin from Joann Fab­ric & Craft Stores and spray paint­ed it white. Then I paint­ed Jack Skelling­ton’s facial fea­tures on, cut and paint­ed ele­ments of his col­lar on black craft paper and fin­ished him off with a San­ta hat. Being late on the Hal­loween pur­chas­es also means hav­ing your pick at Christ­mas items! Glass half full… 😉

Nightmare Before Christmas trunk-or-treat ideas

The rest of the dec­o­ra­tions were direct­ly cor­re­lat­ed to the sto­ry’s ele­ments and char­ac­ters. The wrapped gifts includ­ed tags I print­ed out and per­son­al­ized from DIY Night­mare Before Christ­mas Hal­loween Props. I embell­ished potion bot­tles with labels offered by Altered Arti­facts, then fur­ther accen­tu­at­ed the pre­sen­ta­tion with an adorable cook­ie jar resem­bling witch­craft books and mea­sur­ing cups in the form of a poi­son bot­tle from Cost Plus World Mar­ket! I also cre­at­ed Zero’s {the ghost dog} house out of a foam tomb­stone and a hand-drawn ban­ner on a Christ­mas gar­land. All the decor was placed over a beau­ti­ful black tulle table­cloth from the Can­dy Crush Shop that I used at my book launch par­ty and the Day of the Dead par­ty a few weeks back!

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally decor ~ Lynlee's

Nightmare Before Christmas trunk-or-treat decor ~ Lynlee's

Nightmare Before Christmas decor ~ Lynlee's

Nightmare Before Christmas gift decor ~ Lynlee's

Nightmare Before Christmas trunk-or-treat ideas & crafts ~ Lynlee's

We were super hap­py with how it all turned out and I’m hap­py to report it was a big suc­cess! I was so inspired, I’m going to save all these dec­o­ra­tions for a future dessert table!

Do you par­tic­i­pate in trunk-or-treat events? If so, what themes have you done?!

The Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween trunk-or-treat ideas & inspiration ~ Lynlee's

Merci Beaucoup!



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Comments

  1. Dawn Bowers says

    October 29, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    I LOVED those top­pers! You made our cel­e­bra­tion extra spe­cial. Has it real­ly been 3 years? I have to say time sure does fly. Once again you have out done your­self. This is WONDERFUL! Keep up the good work my friend. Hap­py Hal­loween to you and your family.

  2. Chrissy @ Adventures in DIY says

    November 24, 2015 at 3:12 pm

    I’ve nev­er done a trunk-or-treat, but now I want to! lol Love all of these and I just might try them out next year. Also, love your 2015 trunk-or-treat also. I nev­er even thought to make a Minnie/Mickey pump­kin out of those faux, craft pump­kins! (Duh!) Thanks for shar­ing your won­der­ful ideas — you cre­ate won­der­ful things! (found you through Mag­i­cal Mak­ers on Instagram)

Trackbacks

  1. Vintage Minnie Mouse at Disneyland - Lynlees says:
    January 25, 2015 at 5:23 pm

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  2. Halloween Mickey and Minnie Trunk-or-Treat - Lynlees says:
    October 1, 2016 at 10:25 am

    […] up our car the past cou­ple of years, from It’s the Great Pump­kin, Char­lie Brown to last year’s Night­mare Before Christ­mas! In brain­storm­ing ideas for this year’s motif, my daugh­ter, Anabelle and I came up with a Disney […]

  3. Day of the Dead Trunk-or-Treat Ideas - Lynlees says:
    October 3, 2016 at 8:22 am

    […] It’s the Great Pump­kin, Char­lie Brown and it has been incred­i­bly pop­u­lar! Since then, I did Night­mare Before Christ­mas and Mick­ey Hal­loween trunks, so I real­ly want­ed to focus on a dif­fer­ent theme this time […]

  4. Nightmare Before Christmas Party Ideas - Lynlees says:
    October 10, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    […] inspired by this theme! Plus, we already had many items we had used to dec­o­rate for a trunk-or-treat a cou­ple of years back, so we put them to good use for our dessert table and watch […]

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