Four children in tall pointed hats and long hooded capes walk in an evenly spaced line from left to right, drawn as simplified side-view silhouettes without detailed faces. Two carry small glowing orange pumpkin pails and two carry brown paper treat bags. Behind them run a weathered picket fence, a dark clapboard house in the upper left corner and a single bare tree at the right, beneath a large, calm cream sky.

The scene is lit by soft, overcast late-autumn dusk light with a gentle haze. Woven canvas grain, dry-brushed scumbles and a subtly cracked patina give the oil painting an aged, wistful quality that recalls early 20th-century American realism, with orange leaves scattered along the curb.