Halloween Recipes for Kids

Halloween Recipes for Kids Parties & Classroom Halloween Parties

Halloween has become the most popular holiday, next to Christmas.
Family and friends having fun together--which is what these Halloween recipes are all about.

Dress up your table, as well as your children, with these recipes ranging from simple tips to more advanced Halloween creations.

Select a recipe from the list below:
Marshmallow Pumpkin Pops
Halloween Face Paint
Witch's Brew Pasta Salad
Jack-o-lantern Pizzas
Witch or Monster Hands
Skeleton Bones Sandwiches
Meringue Skeleton Bones
Halloween Spiders
Spider Cookies
Ghoulish Punch
Witch's Brew
Graveyard Cake
Halloween Spider Cake
Haunted Candy House

Quick Halloween Recipe Ideas
Cut orange JELL-O Jigglers with a pumpkin cookie
   cutter and lime "jigglers" with a Bat or Witch.

Turn any punch into Witch's brew with Dry Ice -
   Using tongs, place the ice in an empty ,margarine
   container. Punch holes in the lid add a little water
   & close. NEVER touch the dry ice!-
   Always place it in a separate container.

Cut sandwiches with Halloween cookie cutters.
   Wilton's make some great ones!

Mix cooled popcorn, chocolate chips and gummy worms.
   In a bowl. "We call this Bugs in a Bowl!"

Halloween Spider Cookies
Easy

Oreo cookies
frosting mix
red licorice ropes
chocolate chips
or red hots

Split the cookies and put three lengths of red rope licorice across the frosting, letting about 2 inches hang out both sides for legs. Add a little canned frosting and put the cookies back together. Put two small dollops of frosting on edge of cookie and add two chips or red hots for eyes.

Halloween Ghoul Punch
Easy
surgical glove or
rubber glove
Juice or Colored water

Pour juice or colored water into the glove, tie shut and freeze.
Place into the punch bowl at serving time... watch the kids eyes when they see a hand floating in the punch!

Witch's Brew
Easy

3 pints purple grape juice
1 1/2 pints club soda
grapes
apples

Mix the grape juice and soda in a pitcher. Cut the apple into small chunks. Float the fruit in the brew just before serving. Like magic, the grapes and apples will look just like eyes and teeth. Make a swizzle broomsticks for each cup, with a straw and black paper cut into a fringe.

Monster or Witch's Hands
Surprise party guests or classmates with a spooky snack!
You'll need:
Clear disposable plastic gloves,
popped popcorn,
red or green small gum drops and
spider rings (optional).

Place a gumdrop into each finger of the glove
(these are the fingernails) fill glove with pop corn.
Tie off the end with rubber band or ribbons.
Add a spider ring for fun.

Grave Yard Dessert
Moderately Easy

CRUST ~
2 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup margarine, melted
FILLING
8-oz package fat-free cream cheese
12-oz tub Cool Whip Free?, thawed
2 cups boiling water
2 (4-servings) packages orange gelatin
1/2 cup cold water
Ice cubes
DECORATIONS
1/4 cup chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
7 rectangular shaped sandwich cookies
7 oval shaped sandwich cookies
Decorator icing brown, green, orange, and white
Candy corn
Candy pumpkins
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F.
Prepare a 9 x 13 x 2" pan with cooking spray and flour.
To prepare crust, combine 2 cups cookie crumbs,
1/4 cup sugar, and margarine in a small mixing bowl.
Press firmly into prepared pan. Bake for 10 minutes
and then chill.

To prepare filling, combine cream cheese and 1/2 cup
Cool Whip in a mixing bowl.
In another mixing bowl, combine boiling water into gelatin until completely dissolved. Mix cold water and ice cubes together to make 1 1/2 cups.
Stir ice water into gelatin until thickened. Remove any remaining ice
cubes. Spoon gelatin over cream cheese layer.
Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm.
Spread remaining Cool Whip over gelatin layer.

Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup cookie crumbs.
Decorate as a "grave yard" by poking sandwich
cookies on end into dessert. Decorate the cookies
as tombstones with the decorator icing.
Scatter candy and pumpkins around the surface.

Halloween Spider Cake
advanced
Spurts green goop when you cut it!

BATTER
18 1/4 oz box white cake mix
4-serving package green gelatin
BLACK FROSTING
Blue food coloring
Chocolate frosting
DECORATIONS
4 black licorice whips
2 big green gumballs
6 little gumballs

Prepare cake using two 9-inch round cake pans. Cool.
Prepare the gelatin according to package directions. It works best if it is just a little on the soft side. On a foil-covered cookie-sheet, place one cake layer for the body. Cut a smaller circle out of the center of the layer. Place this smaller round of cake as the spider's head. Fill the hole left in the body layer with gelatin. Place the other cake layer on top of the body and trim cake slightly to shape , if desired.
To prepare frosting, in a mixing bowl, add blue food coloring to the chocolate frosting until black in color. Frost the entire cake black. Cut the black licorice whips in half and insert for the eight legs. Position the gumballs as eyes.