If you want to celebrate Halloween in Baton Rouge, there are multiple approaches. Some people may be content with ghost tours or haunted houses, others take their kids out through the neighborhood to go trick-or-treating. This article is concerned with making the biggest impression on a variant of the latter; trunk-or-treat.

Trunk-or-treating is like your traditional candy crawl, except that the kids go to cars and all the willing candy-givers are parked in one spot. While some people are content to just park in the designated area and prop open the trunk for kids to get candy, others want to channel the spirit and aesthetics of the holiday, leaving the neighborhood talking for years to come. We have highlighted six stellar design inspirations to use for your own vehicle.

1. Toothless from "How To Train Your Dragon"

This works best with a black car, though white works if you are willing to rework the project as a Lightfury from the third film. You want some canopy stands going across the sides to stand-in for the wings, some covers for the headlights so they match Toothless' green or Lightfury's blue eyes, and then you can go the extra mile by popping the hood and lining the rim of the interior with some pink, to represent gums; and a bunch of white solo cups, for the teeth.

2. Circus

Decorate your car with a bunch of big-top aesthetics, grab some red and white-striped popcorn bags for storing your candy and go a step beyond by coming dressed as a ringmaster or other circus performers.

3. Cookie Monster

Get a lot of blue crafting material that looks like fur when bunched up and several large circles. Use two of these circles as the eyes, drawing a black circle within a large white space; the rest can be colored tan with brown specks giving you chocolate chip cookies.

4. Superhero Set

Superheroes are hugely popular so why not give all of the kids dressed up as Spider-Man or Wonder Woman a backdrop for Halloween. Place cutouts of onomatopoeia bubbles, put up some large cardboard skyscrapers and feel free to decorate some pumpkins as heroes and villains.

5. The Great Pumpkin

Reference the "Peanuts" Halloween special by getting some standees or blankets of the costumed Peanuts characters, a handful of pumpkins with something like green rope to resemble a patch and consider having someone dress up as The Great Pumpkin to pop out and award the best costume an extra treat.

6. Witch's Sweet Shop

The kids are already basically going stall to stall for treats, so why not go the next level. Set things up so you have a confectionery, while dressing as a witch or warlock and offering themed treats.

While you may have found these suggestions inspiring, they are only the tip of the iceberg of creative possibilities. Consider them as guidelines to do something of your own that is either adjacent to, or the complete contrast of, any of these notions.