Tonight StuCo will be holding their annual Halloween community event, Trick-or-Treat Street. From 5-8 p.m., children from ages two to ten will have the opportunity to participate in Halloween festivities, dress up, and get a jump on their candy collecting.

“It started with an officer in StuCo and she had gone to another school that had something like [Trick-or-Treat Street],” StuCo sponsor Jani Wilkens said. “We wanted to do a community event. Ever since then, we’ve done the event.”

This year, Trick-or-Treat Street will be run similarly to how it has been run in previous years. The event will begin at the front of the school where parents will sign in and pay the $2 admission fee per child. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Participants can then move through the main hallway, located in the Butterfly Hallway, which is decorated by StuCo.

“Usually getting spiderwebs up can be a challenge,” StuCo Chief of Staff Abigail Griffin said. “This year we will be getting mums, hay bales, and pumpkins to school. Usually set-up isn’t too bad as long as we have people working efficiently.”

Participants can then go room to room in the main hallway and the Commons. Each of these rooms will be decorated according to a different theme decided on by each of the 12 groups participating in Trick-or-Treat Street this year. These groups include clubs such as Epsilon Beta, National Honor Society, Knights of Excellence, and Speech and Debate.

“Everyone is dressed up and it’s just a really fun way for kids to kick off Halloween,” Griffin said. “It’s also cool because it’s a bunch of different clubs. It’s StuCo run, but clubs from all around the school contribute.”

Along with the other clubs, StuCo will have a decorated room as well. This year, StuCo has decided to base their theme on the movie, “Despicable Me” and will be having activities such as minion bowling, coloring, and a minion-making station where kids have the opportunity to create their own minions out of Twinkies. The StuCo members will also be dressing up as minions and other characters from the movie, all while broadcasting the movie from the SMART Board throughout the course of the evening.

“I love interacting with kids and seeing how excited they get,” Griffin said. “It’s always fun seeing the older kids, who think they are too cool for this little kid thing, end up having fun.”

After participating in room games and activities, participants are able to go to the Learning Commons to listen to Halloween book-readings, or they can go to the Commons where they will find a bounce house and refreshments to supplement the candy received from each room.

“We just want to give the parents a place where they know their kids can have fun in a safe environment for trick or treating,” StuCo President Rowan Pugh said.