Dear Occoquan Forest Residents:

Let’s get ready for trick or treating!

Costumes, decorations, community, fresh air – there are lots of reasons to love
Halloween trick-or-treating. So join your neighbors for an afternoon/evening
celebration of spookiness that includes strutting in your Halloween costume and
gawking at the best tricked out driveways/houses. Last year families placed tables
at the top of their driveways with goodie bags. This placement of treats shortened
walking distance for tricksters as they didn’t have to stroll down driveways to knock
on doors and then walk back to the street. Trick or treating at 4:30 p.m. allowed
enough daylight hours for participants to appreciate driveway/house decorations
and the amazing costumes they were bound to see.

Sunday, October 30, 4:30 p.m.

CANDY/GOODIE DISTRIBUTION
Instead of having kids reach into a communal candy bowl, we’re asking that
individual goodie bags be lined up on a table for kids to grab and go. Place the
table at the beginning of your driveway or edge of your yard.

CANDY/GOODIE COLLECTION
We’re asking that candy receivers sign up at the link below just so we have a
ballpark estimate on participation.

VIRTUAL DECORATION/COSTUME CONTEST
Everyone likes a prize. So take your driveway/house Halloween decorations to the
next level and win that prize! (If you want to give out candy, but not decorate,
that’s great too!)
Then, put on that fantastical outfit/ensemble and enter the costume contest.
Categories follow:

 Pets
 Preschool (age 4 and under)
 Elementary/middle school (ages 5-12)
 Teens (ages 13+)
 Driveway/house

SIGN-UP LINK
Please use the following link to sign up if you plan to give candy, receive candy, or
enter the house/driveway decoration contest. Please register at the link below by
October 23 so we have time to create a map of participating houses.
https://forms.gle/g8s1qxSGbsWT29TA7
Thank you for your support of this event! Please let us know if you have any questions.

-Your Trick-or-Treat Planning Committee