Instead of bobbing for apples, watching scary movies, and wearing spooky costumes, a group of friends from Sylvania’s Southview High School have celebrated Halloween by building props used to hand out candy.

Kenshin Kim, 17, and his buddies started out building an ice cream truck out of cardboard a few years ago.

They had so much fun getting inside and using their feet to move down the street giving away candy, they decided to do it again. The following year, they built a pirate ship, with a 20-foot mast and a fog machine, to roll down the street and distribute “pirates’ booty.” This year, they built a train.

The locomotive consists of a lead engine, complete with a cow catcher at the front, pulling a car labeled “coal cart,” which will contain candy. Wrapped around the frame, made of P

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