Handing out candy from the trunk of a car just wasn’t scary enough for Sam Carradine, so he decided to grab some ice, a hose and a pickle jar.

“I was searching on the internet and saw something called ‘boo bubbles,’” said Carradine, a senior toxicology major.

Carradine said he wanted to give the “kids” something fun to look at as they walked around to each trunk at Up ‘til Dawn’s Trunk-or-Treat on Friday.

To peak their interest, he connected a mini hose to a jar filled with water and put dry ice in it to create smoke.

“Then I dip the hose in dishwashing liquid and bubbles form,” Carradine said. 

Kids walked by in a single file, reaching their hands out to touch the bubbles with the tip of their fingers.

Carradine said he is a senior and wanted to “go all out” since this is his first and last year participating in the annual event.

“I never knew about it,” said Carradine. “Last year I wanted to do it but I found out about it too late.”

Carradine said he regrets not participating in years past, but that he’s glad to have this experience with the children.

“It’s great to see kids coming out to a safe environment to do something they look forward to doing each year,” Carradine said.

Shelby Penni said that’s what Trunk-or-Treat is all about.

“It’s just a way for all the [campus] organizations to give back, especially Up ‘til Dawn, who hosts the event,” said Penni, a junior mathematics major.

Penni also said that all the different organizations creates a variety of Halloween displays for the kids to watch as they walk by each trunk.

“They each get a diffrent environment,” said Penni. “They get to experience different themes that they otherwise wouldn’t get to expereience in a neighborhood.”

Penni is a board member of Up ‘til Dawn who is doing this for the second time.

She said while she enjoys giving back to the community, her greatest joy of doing Trunk-or-Treat are the kids.

“As a college kid you don’t get to see a lot of children,” said Penni. “You’re always surrounded by your own age 24/7.”

Penni said there’s also a safety factor that Trunk-or-Treat provides for the community.

Instead of trick-or-treating in neighborhoods and knocking on the doors of people you know nothing about, she said Trunk-or-Treat provides them with a place they can feel comfortable.

“Here, they know they’re going to have a safe environment that’s not going to scare them,” Penni said.

Carradine said he likes that Trunk or Treat gives an assurance of safety for families who are concerned for their children.

He said he has seen kids go out by themselves on Halloween and that it “can lead to trouble in a wrong neighborhood.”

“You never know what you can come across when you’re in someone else’s neighborhood or in your own neighborhood knocking on some random person’s door,” Carradine said.

Penni said it’s important for children to have that because not having it could put their favoriet holiday in jeopardy.

“If a kid doesn’t have that safety factor for Halloween that’s pretty much taking away one of the best holidays away from them,” Penni said.

Up ‘til Dawn has another event coming up that will also be open to the public called “Hawktober Fest.”

It will be held in Bayou Park this Saturday, Nov. 7 on ULM’s campus.