Five thousand black and orange plastic eggs are a lot to fill.

Longtime Wiscasset Parks and Recreation employee Bonnie Blagdon has help putting candy and prizes into the eggs that will go outside the Wiscasset Community Center on Gardiner Road on Oct. 24, for the Halloween Raven Egg Hunt.

But, as with other seasonal events the department puts on, all the preparations also take a lot of thinking. In fact, when she’s stuffing those eggs, or filling bags for the Halloween Ghosts and Goblins Parade on Oct. 31, she said her mind will already be on plans for the next event on the calendar.

After about 20 years with the department, Blagdon, of Wiscasset, still enjoys the event work, especially when it comes to fruition and she sees all the families enjoying it. Some parents are ones she used to see attending events as children. That’s part of what she likes about an annual event.

“It’s tradition,” she said.

This fall’s events start with the popular Scarecrow Festival on the town office lawn. The event, on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., will again yield scarecrows for a display along Route 1, or scarecrows to take home if a participant chooses.

A scarecrow costs $5 to make for the display, or $10 to take home. The cost covers all the materials needed, from clothes to hay for stuffing and the scarecrow’s stake.

As always, people are also welcome to bring clothes and other decorations to individualize their scarecrows, Parks and Recreation Director Todd Souza said. Face painting and cart rides led by a miniature horse are also planned. Ames Supply and Sarah’s Cafe are sponsoring the festival.

The Halloween Raven Egg Hunt and Magic Show night was a smash in its inaugural year in 2013, drawing 180 children and the adults accompanying them. Event-goers watched and in some cases helped with the magic tricks “Conjuring Carroll” performed in the community center gym; then attendees walked a highly decorated path to a field where the hunt went on by flashlight. Last year, there were 4,000 eggs to find; this year, 5,000.

Some were left at last year’s event after participants had emptied them of the treasures, Blagdon said. “Conjuring Carroll” will be back for this year’s magic show that precedes the hunt.

The two-part event runs from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24. Entry is $5 per child in advance, or $6 at the door.

The department is seeking volunteers to help. Wiscasset resident Mat O’Donnell agreed to be one. Blagdon asked him Oct. 2, when he stopped by the community center for an afternoon swim.

Blagdon also anticipates help from Wiscasset High School students, who get credit toward their community service time when they volunteer for the department.

She and Souza were not sure how long the Halloween Ghosts and Goblins Parade has being going on, but it’s been decades, they said. This year’s is Oct. 31. Lineup at Wiscasset Middle School is at 4 p.m. The first 200 children get a trick-or-treat bag, Souza said. The parade down Federal Street starts at 4:30 p.m.

A community dance is set for 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Oct. 31.

For more information on any of this fall’s events, or to ask about volunteering to help at them, call the center at 207-882-8230.