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Baked Skeleton Bones (pretzel sticks)
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Bat Brains (popcorn)
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Bloated Ants (raisins) |
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Boiled Lady Bugs (red jelly beans) |
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Braised Beetles (Milk Duds) |
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Candied Spider Eggs (gumdrops) |
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Cheesy Owl Eyes (puffed cheese balls) |
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Chocolate-Dipped Houseflies (chocolate-covered raisins) |
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Compressed Cobwebs (Chex brand or similar cereal) |
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Crumbled Bat Wings (blue corn chips) |
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Deep-Fried Fingernails (Bugles) |
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Dehydrated Dragon’s Wings (Doritos) |
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Dirty Shoelaces (black shoestring licorice) |
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Dried Seaweed (chow mein noodles) |
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Earthworm Knots (miniature pretzel twists) |
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Flattened Slugs (corn chips) |
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Freeze-Dried Drops of Blood (Red Hots) |
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Ghost Guts (mini marshmallows) |
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Goblin’s Belly Button Lint Balls (M&M’s, any style) |
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Plops of Pigeon Poop (yogurt-covered raisins) |
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Rat Claws (shelled sunflower seeds) |
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Roasted Snack Eyes (peanuts) |
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Shredded Lizard Gizzards (coconut) |
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Splintered Turkey Bones (shoestring potato chips) |
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Toasted Cats’ Eyes (blanched almonds) |
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Vulture Toenails (candy corn) |
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Witches’ Warts (chocolate chips) |
| Bat Wing |
Take 1 dozen chicken wings, create a marinade using 1 cup of soy sauce, 1/3 cup of honey and 1 teaspoon of ginger. Marinate overnight and grill or barbecue. |
| Chocolate Spiders |
Melt some chocolate chips in the microwave. Add dry chow mein noodles to the melted chocolate and mix together. Spoon onto greaseproof paper as little blobs and add two mini M&M’s for eyes. Place in the fridge to cool. |
| Halloween Wand |
Dip pretzel rods into chocolate and roll in orange and black sprinkles. |
| Rice Krispie Pumpkins |
Add orange food coloring to the Rice Krispies and make a batch. When cool, roll into balls and decorate faces on them. Use shoelace licorice for a mouth, a green gumdrop for the stem, mini M&M’s for the eyes and a Red Hot for the nose. |
| Edible Swamp |
Make a bowl of Jell-O, and before it sets, add in gummy worms, bugs and fish for a swampy treat. |
| Jack-o’-Lanterns |
Toast English muffins and add orange food coloring to cream cheese to make a pumpkin spread. Spread the cream cheese on the English muffin and have the kids take raisins and make pumpkin faces on them. |
| Jell-O Jigglers |
Make a batch of Jell-O Jigglers using orange and lime flavors. Use pumpkin, witch and bat cookie-cutters for a quick festive treat.
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| Scary Sugar Cookies |
Use these same cookie-cutters to make a batch of sugar cookies. A party activity can include having the kids decorate these Halloween characters. |
| Spooky Sandwiches |
Halloween cookie-cutters can also be used to cut out spooky sandwiches. Fill them with blackberry jam and cream cheese. Add chocolate chips for eyes! |
| Creepy Cup |
Take a plastic goblet (you can even have the kids decorate it by gluing on gems). Pour a colorful soda into the goblet; cherry or orange are great choices. Plop in a grape juice ice cube. Sprinkle in Pop Rocks (kids will love to hear the pop, fizzle and fizz!) and, finally, throw in a gummy snake or a marshmallow eyeball. |
| Ghostly Slime Juice |
Berry Blue Kool-Aid packet, 12-ounce can of orange juice concentrate and spring water. Mix together and watch it turn green. |
| Seasonal Cider |
Serve chilled apple cider with cinnamon sticks. |
| Ghoul-Aid |
Mix one packet of orange Kool-Aid with one packet of grape Kool-Aid, add the sugar and water. Right before serving, add one bottle of Sprite. |
| Warm Witch’s Blood |
Bring to a boil in a saucepan: 4 cups of apple-cranberry juice, 2 cups of orange juice, 1 teaspoon of whole cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, 3 to 4 allspice berries, sugar to taste. Simmer gently for 15 minutes. Make sure it is not too hot for the goblins. Add an orange slice for an additional decoration. |
Dear Peppers and Pollywogs…What Parents Want to Know About Planning Their Kids' Parties
