Hallows Eve Pocket Candy

A tradition from Willowmoor's childlike celebration that takes place every year on the 31st day of the Month of Preparation.

The story of the Hallows Eve pocket candy tradition...

Children all over Willowmoor wake up with smiles on the morning of Hallows Eve, and they immediately dress in whatever homemade costume their parents or caregiver helped them put together. After a hurried breakfast with the family, they run or skip off to the town square that's been set up just for them. They'll make little baskets to hold their candy, they'll get their faces painted, they'll bob for apples and do mad libs to turn scary stories into hilarious ones, and they'll have crafts to make and games to play. There's more to do outside the square, like the haunted house that gets built inside Gulliver Hall every year or the quickly constructed petting zoo where there's chicken feeding and pig riding.

By the time the day is drawing to a close, many a Willowmoor child has already added plenty of treats to their handmade bag, and yet they will still go out together in groups to knock on doors and cry "Trick or treat!" The adults of Willowmoor have returned home by this point to hand out whatever candy and sweet goodies they have. The children visit every house before returning home to empty their bags, showing off their haul to their parents or caregivers before diving happily in, another successful Hallows Eve in the books.

After the kids have gone to bed for the night, the parents will always find the extra candy they stuffed into their pockets, and it's common for them to tuck those pieces away for themselves. The kids don't know the difference when they wake up the next day to go straight for their bag of plunder, and that way the parents get their own little Hallows Eve tradition as they sneakily nibble away on the pocket candy they stole from their offspring.