During the last several weeks we have been talking about decorating your toy trains and your toy train tables for the holidays of October. Well today is Halloween and tonight you will undoubtedly have little tricker-or-treaters coming to your door. This year incorporate your toy trains into your Halloween spirit. After decorating your toy trains, set them up so that they can help you deliver candy and treats to your visitors or to entertain them as they wait for their treats.
A window display using your toy trains is a fun and easy way to incorporate your love for toy trains with your love for Halloween. To come up with a window display you will want to lay down a base, then the track and then the decorations. This step by step process will help you keep your tracks level and clear so that the train will be able to go around the track without getting hung up on decorations and candy. After you add your decorations run your train around the track a couple of times as you watch it so you can make sure it is not hitting or rubbing up against any of your decorations.
If you are throwing a Halloween party, or if you have young kids at home, then connect open box cars or cargo cars to your toy trains. You can them fill these cars with small candies. Your little ones or party guests can snag a snack as the train goes by them. You can also create a graveyard backdrop for your Halloween toy train by using chocolate cookie crumbs for the dirt and gummi worms. You can also use skeleton cookies or candies to haunt your toy train graveyard.
Parents that are trying to make their child’s toy train experience more fun need to visit the Train Dad blog. This blog was set up by a dad who is trying to enhance his kids’ experience with toy trains.
For those who have toy trains lying around in a closet, this idea makes them very useful during Halloween. Kids will truly enjoy the site of a train carrying loads of candies and goodies.