• Incorporate colors of the fall harvest or Halloween to decorate your trunk.halloween 1 image by Melanie Vollmert from Fotolia.com
  
  With Halloween history dating back to new year harvest celebrations of ancient Celts, the holiday is now rooted in traditions of costumes, pumpkins, ghosts and goblins. According to History.com, the Celts, who lived in what are now parts of Ireland, France and the United Kingdom, celebrated the new year on November 1. On October 31, the Celts celebrated Samhain when the ghosts of those that had passed returned to perform dastardly deeds.
  
  

Festive Fall Trunk

• Keep it natural by painting the trunk with traditional fall colors.Pumpkin image by PhotoVision from Fotolia.com
  
  Choose a natural colored wooden trunk or one that can be painted in a base color associated with a fall harvest. Choose rich reddish brown as a base color and paint or decoupage pumpkins, hay bales and gourds in a decorative pattern on the outside of the trunk. Tie natural colored raffia bows on the handles or around the center of the trunk to add some texture. Leave the trunk open and use it to serve a variety of fresh apples, homemade Halloween treats like popcorn balls or retro wrapped penny candies.
  
  

Traditional Halloween Trunk

• Decorate a trunk in traditional Halloween style.spooky jack-o-lantern image by Tracy Martinez from Fotolia.com
  
  Paint the trunk in a glossy black and cut out construction paper or felt jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, ghosts and goblins. Fix them onto the trunk using hot glue in any pattern that pleases the eye. Fill the trunk with tiny bags of wrapped Halloween candy. Hand them out to guests for a party favor or costumed children that arrive for trick or treat.
  
  

Ghoulish Trunk

• Use bright red satin fabric to line the inside of the trunk.red ribbon i image by Mykola Velychko from Fotolia.com
  
  Choose a wooden trunk or paint a standard trunk with high gloss black paint. Line the inside with red satin fabric that can be stapled or hot glued to the inside of the trunk. Brace the lid of the trunk so that it remains open about six inches. Using old large dolls or stuffed tubes of fabric or gloves, use red paint to make a bloody hand, arm and leg. As an alternative, wrap the appendages to look like those of a mummy. Hang a hand out of one side and arms and legs out of the other. Get as ghoulish as you want but keep the project age appropriate as to not frighten any small children.
  
  To make this project for small children, make a white ghost by draping fabric over a wire hanger that has been bent into shape. Leaving the lid open about six inches, brace several ghosts of various sizes as if it is rising from the trunk. Paint a smile on the ghosts so children will know they are friendly. Suspend light weight pails from the hands or ghosts to hold Halloween candy.