Small ghosts and skeletons, princesses and heroes will cross the school on a quest for sweets this Thursday and Friday.

The costumed preschool classes will travel around during third period to sing a scary pumpkin song and receive candy from teachers. Thursday will feature about 24 four- and five-year-olds, and Friday will have 24 three-year-olds, exploring the first floor in the search for candy.

“The teenagers in Child Development will be assigned to a small child,” Rosemary Caparelli, preschool coordinator, said. “I’ve already asked some of the faculty if they’d like us to be in their room, so I have a list of faculty that invited us to sing to them. The preschoolers go in, they sing a little pumpkin song, [and] we hope everybody gets really scared because we tried to scare everyone. And then they line up and the teachers give them candy.”

After the children finish trick-or-treating, the students return to their classroom for a Halloween party.

“After they’ve gone trick-or-treating,we have normal class stuff and try to just calm them down,” Daniel Goodman, sophomore, said. “The fours can get pretty excited, and so can the threes, but the fours tend to get a little more out of control.”

But the party is also fun for the little ones, of course.

“They do the mummy wrap, they have a haunted nature trail this year,” Caparelli said. “They’re going to find the pieces of a skeleton. They’re going to do haunted bingo.”

The children always enjoy the parade, said Caparelli. She has been doing this parade for the past eighteen years.