October is almost here, which means Halloween! It’s the day kids love and you love more when you’re a parent. If your kids are having a Halloween party, you’ll want food more interesting than candy bars and chips and dip. To make you food more fun and get a kick out of hearing kids laugh and yell, try some of these festive foods.
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Trick your kids into eating fruit at a Halloween party with this scary melon brain. You’ll feel like a mad scientist creating it, too.
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Make these creepy fingers by cutting string cheese in half at an angle and adding slices almonds at the end with some cream cheese. For the ribbed knuckle look, use the blunt side of the knife to make some wrinkles.
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Use your gingerbread man cookie stencil to make some mummies! See? It’s not just for Christmas.
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Make pizza come alive with some strategic placement of mozzarella and olives and create this mummy pizza.
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These creepy crawlers are sure to unnerve anyone, child or adult. All you do is slice hot dogs and then boil them. This will give them a nice little curl. Then, dip them in some BBQ sauce and these slithery worms are ready to eat.
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These corny cookies are fun for kids to peel and even more fun for them to eat. Find the complete recipe here.
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Give your kids some glowing witches’ brew simply by using tonic water. Tonic water glows in black light.
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This might make the kids think twice before taking a bite. This is all made with some simple piping and food coloring. Have fun with it, make a few different eye colors.
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Kids won’t be able to put these things in their mouths, to play with or to eat. Slice up apples and glue the marshmallow teeth tothe apples using beanut butter. If you aren’t going to serve them right away, lightly sprinkle some lemon juice over the outer edges of the apples to keep them from turning brown.
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This is simple and delicious. Just make add a cheddar lining the outside and mozzarella on the inside for candy corn pizza. Voila!
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To make these scary spiders, put a truffle in the middle of the cupcake. Then, use melted chocolate stick red M&M’s as eyes and to glue legs together and attch them to the spider.
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Put a fun twist on caramel apples by laying out a bar of goodies for kids to dip their apples into.
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These are simple to make. Just bake pumpkin bread in these molds and add a Hershey kiss for the stem.
This is just a cute and funny way to display your guacamole on Halloween.
Enjoy these foods with your kids. Let us know how your party goes and how your kids like the treats. Happy Hallows Eve, everyone!
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Those are awesome! I am going ot use one of them for a halloween potluck we have coming up.
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It is an amazing idea for representing dishes, kids will definitely enjoy it. Your ideas always attracts me towards Halloween activities…fun4kids