A few weeks ago I had a "trick-or-treat" booth at Yew Dell Gardens in Crestwood, KY for their Boo Dell Halloween event. This was the first year that they've done trick-or-treating at this event, and it was a HUGE success. They offered a free table to community businesses if they would hand out halloween candy to all the kids that came by. I bought 8 giant bags of candy from Sam's (in 3 different trips), because I had no idea and since they've never done this before, what kind of turn out there was going to be.

I put together little treat bags for the kiddos (the same ones that I put together in my neighborhood for Halloween Night). The bags had candy, crayola crayons (you can buy little boxes from crayola.com that have 4 colors in them), and halloween erasers (from Oriental Trading Company). I also printed off coloring pages for the kids and asked them to color the pages and send them back to me.

I handed out over 75 treat bags and went through another 4 bags of candy and had 3 pieces of candy left when it was all said and done (I had to get stingy towards the end because I wanted every kid to have something). I even went through an entire box of business cards! All in all it was a fabulous event - one that I'm still hearing rave reviews on.

The Coloring pages are starting to trickle in now, and I wanted to share with you guys the great artwork these kids were doing. There was no age limit to this contest, and everyone wins a $5.00 gift card to McDonalds if they mail it back to me.

Check out these great artists!