Using washable art paints - you could paint the thing up to look like a
haunted house - Spiders, bats, ghosts, goblins, skeletons, all over. the
windows could be painted with mullions so they look like house windows,
and have spider webs painted in them. On the body panels have some
tombstones, and a ghost or two or skeletons emerging and sitting on a
tombstone. If all that fails - use the water paint and paper mache and
make the whole thing into a gigantic skull with the hatch being the back
of the skull. It would be cool for hatch - back of skull - to open up
and to be the spot to get the treats from.!

Good luck!

John

On 10/1/2013 11:38 AM, T Collins wrote:
> Totally vanagon related!!
>
> So I need the help of the collective....My youngest daughter's schools does
> this trunk an treat thing for Halloween, those of you with little ones may
> know what I'm talking about. For those of you that do not: it is when you
> bring your car and disguise it as something else and give candy out of the
> vehicle in question.
>
> Lets face this with fact, the shape of the vanagon has always made me think
> of the things that it resembles: Toaster, Tissue box, brick, anything boxy!
> But that seems maybe too simple, no? Here is where you come in. Supply me
> with an idea and I may choose this as the motif of the blubrik. You get
> extra special points for being pretty cheap and resourceful in the
> materials department. If you provide illustrative information you get a
> virtual cookie.
>
> The winner will get an autograph picture of the vanagon to frame as you
> please and do the happy dance for helping me make the other parents know
> who is bringing their A++ game.
>
> It is our first year at this school and I think that the vanagon already
> intimidates many of the parents with the land rovers and Mercedes minivans.
>
> This could be the start of How to create a disguise for you vanagon during
> Halloween.
>
> I'll let you to it. Discuss...
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
> .
>