Pirate Themed Trunk & Treat

Shiver me timbers and batton down the hatch, it's trunk and treat time and have we got a theme for you. Be sure to check the video out at the bottom so you can see everything.

Suggested items:

• gold spray paint
• brown packing paper (the kind that comes in all those boxes you get in the mail)
• gold plastic table clothes
• burlap
• 1" or thicker wooden dowel
• plastic beads
• old crates
• chests
• lanterns
• trunks
• a fog machine
• old sheets
• poles (you could make ship masts with them)

  The treat bags:

I made a treasure map that showed the way to Jesus. I ended up using the one on the bottom because I thought it conveyed the message of how to have a relationship with Jesus more clearly.

I printed the bottom picture on labels and then attached them to the treat bags and filled the bags.

Decorations

Gold Coins

I purchased a one inch thick dowel. A friend cut it into 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick circles and spray painted them gold.

Other ideas

The "trunk" that the treat bags went into.

Pirating Children's Interests

In my former life, I used to work in the children’s room at a local public library. One of my jobs included being in charge of the story programs for school-age children. I often used ideas I would have used in a church program to transition into a book. Here is one of my favorite story time programs that I did: Dress Like a Pirate Day.

Of course everyone including me had to