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Halloween: Recipes & Ideas for Kids

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ChildFun.com
Ghost Cookies
Using peanut shaped cookies, spread with white frosting or marshmallow fluff, add chocolate chips for eyes and nose. OR Dip Nutter Butter cookies in melted white chocolate and let completely dry. Then let the kids decorate the face with frosting and chocolate chips.

Have a Costume Swap Party
Save money and have fun by having a pre-Halloween costume making/costume swap party. Invite all the parents and kids in your circle. Have everyone bring old costumes, or costume elements. Encourage creativity by letting the kids play dress-up. It helps to separate costume elements into piles such as wigs, hats, masks, dresses, pants, shirts, jewelry, etc. This a fun a party idea where parents get to visit, the kids get to play and everyone goes home with a new Halloween costume. You can also have crafts set up so kids can make their own masks, costumes or accessories.

Graveyard Pudding
Put chocolate pudding in clear plastic containers and place a gummy worm or two in the pudding half submerged. Cover the top of the pudding with crushed chocolate Oreo® cookie crumbs.Have one of the worms peeking out of the dirt.

Potato Ghosts & Bat Shaped Meatloaf
Hand sculpt mashed potatoes to look like ghosts and place on an oiled baking sheet. Brush with melted butter, and put in the oven to heat and brown a little. Serve potato ghosts with bat shaped meat loaf, by using a bat shaped cookie cutter to form the individual portions before baking.

Boogers on a Stick


Take an 8 oz. jar of Cheese Whiz and melt in the microwave according to jar directions allow cheese to cool slightly. Carefully stir in 3 or 4 drops green food coloring, using just enough to turn the cheese a pale snot green. To form boogers, dip and twist the tips pretzel sticks into the cheese, lift out, wait twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach a boogerish size, set pretzels on wax paper to cool until you're ready to eat.

Spooky Sandwich Puzzles
Let the children make their own peanut butter sandwiches with two pieces of bread. Give each child a Halloween cookie cutter and let them press the shape out of the center of their sandwich. They will now have a "spooky sandwich puzzle."

Scrambled Brains
Scrambled eggs feel and look like brains -- add a few drops of green, red and blue food coloring as you're beating the eggs and the final product will come out delightfully drab, yet delicious gray.

"Hand" Snacks
You'll need some clear plastic food server gloves (one for each child), some popcorn, candy corn and a bit of yarn or ribbon. Take glove and place a candy corn in each of the fingers to represent a fingernail. Fill the rest of the glove with popcorn and tie the top of the glove with yarn or ribbon.

Swamp Slime
Prepare some green jello according to package directions, when it starts to solidify, divide it into two containers. Stir in various gummy bugs to the first containr. Beat the rest of the jello with some whipped cream or cool whip and add to the top of the slime. Let set.

Demonic Jello
Regular green food coloring does interesting things to orange Jello. Make a bowl and when it's semi-solid drip several drops of green coloring onto the surface and stir in gently. They'll swirl into dark funnel clouds.

Buggy Ice
freeze ice cubes with raisins in them to look like bugs.

Witch Hat Cookies (No bake)
Take Oreo® cookies and place them on wax paper. Place an unwrapped Hershey's kiss in the middle of the cookie attaching it with a dab of frosting. With orange colored frosting, pipe a ring around the candy kiss to look like a hat band.

----- Halloween Food & Drink Tips -----

Waiter there's a fly in my drink! -- Freeze ice cubes with faux insects inside by filling a tray half full and freezing, then adding a gummy critter or a couple of raisins, fill the rest of the way with liquid and re-freeze.

Fill a new plastic household glove with lemonade, limeade or other liquids to create an eerie floating hand in your punch bowl. Use heavy duty rubber bands to secure the top of the glove, leaving a little room for expansion. Use a small plastic dish to prop up the secured end of the glove in the freezer. Freeze until solid, peel away the glove and float the hand in the punchbowl.

For a realistic looking eye frozen in a cube, see our recipe for Bloody Eyeball Cocktails.

You can use a ring mold or bundt cake pan to freeze a creepy ice ring for you punch bowl. Fill 1/3 with liquid and freeze, arrange a layer of gummy worms on frozen ring, fill to 3/4 full and re-freeze. To un-mold, simply run hot water over ring for a second to two.

Consider using Mountain Dew soda in your drinks and punches, nothing else has quite the same green glow.
A wonderful tip we got from the fine folks at the House of Blues, is to use plastic light sticks as swizzle sticks, it gives the drinks an eerie, mysterious glow.

Make Halloween shaped tortilla chips by using cookies cutters to cut shapes out of tortillas, then deep fry until crisp. You can also make low fat tortilla chips by baking your cutouts in A 350° F oven. In either case, sprinkle with salt. Chips made of blue corn tortillas look especially spooky.

Use cookie cutters to cut out small sandwiches in Halloween shapes.