Charlie Brown Trunk or Treats

You can't see it, but under the Charlie Brown mask I'm cheesing.

My wife is a talent. A creative genius, if you will.

God created.

Picasso painted.

Mozart composed.

Leonardo sculpted.

C.S. Lewis wrote.

Lacey mached.

I learned something new about her this weekend. The girl can paper mache like no one's business.

It's like being married to a 3D printer only better.

I'm asking her to paper mache everything now!

She whipped up these costumes for our church's trunk or treat. (And she didn't even have to look on Pinterest!)

I also learned a few things at trunk or treat this year.

1) Kids find life-size cartoons in homemade costumes creepy.

The event was an outreach to the community, so the majority of families weren't people from our church.

They didn't get the memo on how you are "supposed" to dress in a church parking lot. Which was refreshing, because they weren't playing games. They were real. Many were the type of people Jesus hung out with the most. (Not trunk or treaters, but the outcast.)

Kids came dressed as every grotesque character imaginable, but let an adult-size Charlie Brown and Lucy hand out candy and they had to change their underwear. Kids were so scared that they were asking how to be saved.

There was something enjoyable about frightening kids dressed up like the devil while wearing a Charlie Brown costume. (Don't worry, I've repented.)

2) Children singing Bible school songs are creepy on Halloween.

A trunk nearby was jamming to an album of kids singing church songs.

The music played as we were setting up and it felt normal.

But there's something unsettling about the mixture of kids dressed up in costumes and the children songs that will make your hair stick up on your neck.

Of course, all the glue and paint fumes from inside the paper mache mask had me light headed, so that could've had an effect.

Question:
What interesting things have you learned at your trunk or treats?