100 Easy Halloween Food Ideas

Directions

1. Peel 4 bananas and cut each in half crosswise (ask an adult to help with cutting).
2. Insert a popsicle stick into the flat end of each banana piece.
3. Dip each banana pop into 1 cup vanilla yogurt so it's coated like a ghost sheet.
4. Press two mini chocolate chips for eyes (and 3 chips for a mouth if you want).
5. Freeze 30–60 minutes until firm, then serve.
6. Cut each of 10 sticks string cheese into 3 short pieces.
7. With adult help, make shallow 'fringe cuts' on one end of each cheese piece to look like broom bristles.
8. Push one pretzel stick into the uncut end of the cheese.
9. Tie a chive around the top of the bristles to make it look like a broom.
10. Arrange on a plate like a witch's broom parking lot.
11. Open 8 chocolate pudding cups and sprinkle a spoonful of crushed chocolate cookies on top for 'soil'.
12. Press an orange gumdrop into the center as the pumpkin.
13. Add a tiny square of green fruit leather on top as the stem.
14. Optional: use a toothpick to add gentle ridges to the gumdrop like pumpkin lines.
15. Adult slices 2 apples into wedges (8 wedges per apple is perfect).
16. Spread a thin line of peanut butter along the cut edge of one wedge.
17. Press mini marshmallows into the peanut butter as teeth.
18. Add a thin strawberry slice inside as a tongue.
19. Top with a second apple wedge to make a chompy monster mouth.
20. Line a tray with parchment paper.
21. Dip each of 2 cups green grapes halfway into 1 cup vanilla yogurt and place on the tray.
22. Press a small blueberry piece (or a whole small blueberry) into the center as the pupil.
23. Freeze 45–60 minutes until firm.
24. Cut 3 flour tortillas into thin strips (adult can cut; kids can use kitchen scissors).
25. Slice 3 bananas into thick rounds.
26. Spread a tiny dab of cream cheese on the banana round so the 'bandages' stick.
27. Wrap 2–3 tortilla strips around each banana round like a mummy.
28. Press in two mini chocolate chips for eyes.
29. Dip the top of each of 24 donut holes into 1 cup chocolate frosting.
30. Press on two candy eyes.
31. Break 1 cup pretzel sticks into short leg pieces and press 4 on each side.
32. Let set 10 minutes before moving.
33. Place 20 chocolate sandwich cookies flat-side up.
34. Pipe a dollop of chocolate frosting in the center.
35. Set a mini ice cream cone upside down on the frosting as a witch hat.
36. Roll the cone base edge in orange sprinkles to make a hat band.
37. Wash and dry 10 mandarin oranges.
38. Adult supervises kids drawing jack-o'-lantern faces on the peel using edible food markers.
39. Press a tiny celery leaf into the top as a stem.
40. Kids peel and eat their 'pumpkins'.
41. Add 1 cup pineapple chunks to the bottom of each of 10 clear cups (yellow base).
42. Add 1 cup mandarin segments as the orange middle layer.
43. Spoon 1 cup vanilla yogurt on top for the white tip.
44. Serve immediately or chill up to 2 hours.
45. Cut 2 flour tortillas into very thin strips (kitchen scissors work great).
46. Wrap strips around each of 12 sticks string cheese like bandages.
47. Use a tiny dab of cream cheese to attach candy eyes near the top.
48. Chill 10 minutes so they hold their shape.
49. Melt 1 cup chocolate melting wafers (adult helps with hot bowl).
50. Dip one side of an Oreo in chocolate and set on parchment.
51. Press two mini Oreos into the wet chocolate on each side as wings.
52. Let set 15 minutes.
53. Fill 12 clear cups halfway with 2 cups grape juice.
54. Top with 4 cups lemon-lime soda so it bubbles and looks like a potion.
55. Optional: sprinkle a tiny pinch of Pop Rocks in right before drinking for extra fizz (taste is loud and fun).
56. Toast 4 slices sandwich bread lightly and cool.
57. Spread 1 cup guacamole evenly.
58. Adult cuts into squares; kids decorate with olive eyes and two olive 'bolts' on the sides.
59. Cut a thin strip from 1 red bell pepper and place as a zigzag mouth.
60. Mix 16 ounces cream cheese, 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, and ½ teaspoon garlic powder until smooth.
61. Kids roll into 1-inch balls and then gently press grooves with a butter knife to look like pumpkin lines.
62. Roll each ball in ½ cup cracker crumbs to turn it pumpkin-orange.
63. Stick a small pretzel piece into the top as the stem.
64. Break 1 box graham crackers into rectangles (adult can cut triangles for roofs).
65. Kids spread 1 tub vanilla frosting on one cracker and top with another to make a 'house wall'.
66. Use frosting to attach ½ cup chocolate chips as windows/doors.
67. Finish with ½ cup Halloween sprinkles for spooky detail.
68. Pour 3 cups Chex cereal, 2 cups mini pretzels, 1 cup candy corn, and 1 cup chocolate candies into a big bowl.
69. Kids stir gently with a big spoon until mixed.
70. Scoop into 12 snack cups for a party-ready treat.