Cruft Manor has Halloween traditions every year:
1. We give out full size candies
2. Make a listing of all costumes
3. Make a timelapse movie
This year marks the 21st year of keeping stats on the children’s costumes.
After recent back surgery and having a bad cold this year’s report will be brief.
I let the kids choose their candy themselves. This can sometimes lead to a prolonged choosing process and debate. The moments of “OMG” and “wow” are wonderful as they realize the candies are full size.
When people come to the door, I ask every person what they were dressed as and wrote down their answers. I am careful to ask what they are, accepting their answers rather than interpreting what I see.
You can see the clipboard I use to write down what the kids tell me they are dressed as.
The time-lapse takes place over about three hours that is reduced to under two minutes for your viewing pleasure.
This Halloween makes it 21 years of data to compare, though 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, & 2025.
This year was a bit of change up from last year, with more generic costumes taking up the top slots. Some of the kids were specific on what they wanted written down.
Here are the top 10 this year.
8 Zombie
5 Dinosaur
3 Fairy
3 Frog
3 Ghostface
3 Patrick Star
3 Pirate
3 Skeleton
3 Wednesday
2 Cactus
Here are the top costumes over the last 21 years.
This year’s complete costume list of 163 people:
| Number | Costume |
| 1 | Alcoholic |
| 1 | Anakin Skywalker |
| 1 | Astrid from How to Train a Dragon |
| 1 | Astronaut |
| 1 | Avatar |
| 1 | Banana |
| 1 | Batgirl |
| 1 | Black Cat |
| 2 | Buzz Lightyear |
| 2 | Cactus |
| 1 | Cakey Cat from Gabby’s Dollhouse |
| 1 | Cat |
| 1 | Cheese Balls |
| 1 | Chromi |
| 1 | Classic Ghost |
| 1 | Clown |
| 1 | Cookie |
| 1 | Dave Strider from Homestruck |
| 1 | Devil |
| 5 | Dinosaur |
| 1 | DJ |
| 1 | Dora |
| 1 | Dressed in black |
| 2 | Electric Mask |
| 1 | Emily |
| 1 | Evil Chloe |
| 1 | Ewok |
| 3 | Fairy |
| 1 | Fall Guy |
| 1 | Fancy Nancy |
| 1 | Freddy Krueger |
| 3 | Frog |
| 1 | George Washington |
| 1 | Ghost |
| 1 | Ghost Skeleton |
| 2 | Ghostbuster |
| 3 | Ghostface |
| 1 | Gladiator |
| 1 | Grim Reaper |
| 2 | Hannibal Lecter |
| 2 | Harry Potter |
| 2 | Haunted Doll |
| 1 | Hermoine Granger |
| 1 | Hiccup from How to Train a Dragon |
| 2 | Hogwarts Student |
| 1 | Hot Cheetos |
| 1 | Hot Dog |
| 1 | Hungry Caterpillar |
| 1 | Jin Mei |
| 1 | Ladybug |
| 1 | Lightning McQueen |
| 1 | Loofah |
| 1 | Luffy from One Piece |
| 1 | Luna Lovegood |
| 2 | Michael Jackson |
| 2 | Michael Meyers |
| 1 | Minnie Mouse |
| 1 | Mob Psycho 100 |
| 1 | Mushroom from Mario |
| 1 | Nightwing |
| 1 | Ninja |
| 1 | Nova from Zombies 4 |
| 1 | Padme |
| 1 | Parrot |
| 3 | Patrick Star |
| 1 | Paw Patrol |
| 1 | Pete the Cat |
| 1 | Pickle |
| 3 | Pirate |
| 1 | Plague Doctor |
| 1 | Pochacco |
| 1 | Pochita |
| 1 | Rapunzel |
| 1 | Regina George from Mean Girls |
| 1 | Roderick from Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| 1 | Sailor |
| 1 | Sally |
| 1 | Scooby Do |
| 2 | Scream |
| 1 | Shark |
| 1 | Shohei Otani |
| 3 | Skeleton |
| 1 | Snow White |
| 1 | Soap |
| 2 | Spiderman |
| 1 | Spiderwoman |
| 1 | Spongebob Squarepants |
| 1 | Starfire |
| 1 | Tiffany |
| 1 | Tigger |
| 1 | Toothless from How to Train a Dragon |
| 1 | Totoro |
| 1 | Traffic Cone |
| 1 | Venom |
| 1 | Waldo |
| 3 | Wednesday |
| 1 | Witch |
| 1 | Wizard |
| 5 | Zombie |
| 3 | Zombie |
| 1 | Zookeeper |
| 137 | Costumed Visitors |
