Need ideas on Halloween snacks for school party!

[wahmof2]

It's my son's kindergarten class. I think fingers and eyeballs and all those kinds of goodies would be great! Anyone have any good recipes to share? Thanks! :D :snickers: :D

[Diane]

Chocolate Spiders

4 cups semisweet chocolate baking chips

Melt chocolate chips in top of double boiler. Let stand over the water until water is cool, about 10 minutes. Place wax paper on cookie sheet. Pour chocolate into a pastry bag that is fitted with a 1/8-inch or 1/4-inch tip. Squeeze chocolate onto wax paper in the shape of spiders. If chocolate is runny it needs to be cooled longer. Chill the spiders for about 10 minutes.

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Kitty Litter Cake
1 spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 white cake mix
1 large pkg vanilla instant pudding mix
1 pkg vanilla sandwich cookies
Green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls
1 new (and definitely unused) kitty litter pan
1 new plastic kitty litter pan liner
1 new Pooper Scooper

Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans). Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble. Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in food processor, scraping often. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix using 5. When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. (Mix in just enough of the pudding to moisten it. You don't want it soggy. Combine gently).

Line new, clean kitty litter box. Put mixture into litter box. Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls and bury in mixture. Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top.

Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top. (This is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter.) Heat 3 Tootsie Rolls in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake; sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Spread remaining Tootsie Rolls over the top; take one and heat until pliable, hang it over the side of the kitty litter box, sprinkling it lightly with cookie crumbs. Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around.

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Boogers on a Stick
8 ounce Jar cheez whiz
3 or 4 drops Green food coloring
3 dozen pretzel sticks

Melt cheeze whiz in the microwave according to jar directions. Allow the cheese to cool slightly in the jar. Carefully stir in food coloring using just enough to turn the cheese a pale snot green. To form boogers: Dip and twist the tip of each prtezel stick into the cheese, lift out, wait twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach a boogerish size, set pretzels boogerd on wax paper to cool.

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Day Old Bath Water
12 ounce Can frozen lemonade
2 liters 7-Up
1/2 gallon Rainbow sherbert

Thaw sherbert for approximately 15 minutes and place in a plastic tub. Add lemonade (prepared according to directions) and 7-up. Sherbert will melt and turn mixture day old bathwater grayish-brown. Float a handful of green, yellow and white tiny after dinner mints (tiny bars of soap) on top of the scummy punch.

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Strained Eyeballs
6 hard boiled eggs
6 oz Whipped cream cheese
7 oz Green olives -- with pimientos
Red food coloring

Peel eggs cut in half lengthwise. Remove the discard yolks. Fill the holes with cream cheese. Press an olive into each cream cheese eyeball, pimiento facing up, for an eerie green iris and startling red pupil! For a final touch, dip the tip of a toothpick in red food coloring and draw broken blood vessels in the cream cheese.

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Hairball Salad with Saliva Dressing
1 lg Ripe avocado
2 c Alfalfa sprouts
6 grated carrots
Italian dressing

Cut avocado in half and scoop out the pit. Scoop avocado out of the shell and put in the bowl. Add sprouts to the avocado meat. Mash with a fork. It is ok to leave some lumps. Set the mixture aside. Divide the grated carrots among the four salad bowls. Make walnut size hairballs from the avocado mixture and arrange them on top of the grated carrots. Pour Italian "saliva" dressing over hairballs and serve.

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Simple Pimples
1-2 dozen cherry tomatoes
Flavored soft cream cheese Spread

Core tomatoes with a carrot peeler or knife. Drain excess tomato juice. Using a butter knife, fill holes in tomatoes with cream cheese. Give each pimple a gentle squeeze and arrange on a platter.


I hope these help...

[kathleen]

My MIL saw this on Martha Stewart's halloween special the other night and has baked some, but I haven't seem them yet. using a sugar cookie dough (store bought would be fine -- and quick!) roll out dough and cut into strips about the size of a finger. I think martha shaped them a little to have knuckles and cut little creases in them at the knuckles. I don't know martha's exact instructions, but my MIL soaked whole almonds in red food coloring, then placed them on the cookies (before baking) for finger nails. You then have "lady fingers"

[KarlaB]

Originally posted by kathleen
My MIL saw this on Martha Stewart's halloween special the other night and has baked some, but I haven't seem them yet. using a sugar cookie dough (store bought would be fine -- and quick!) roll out dough and cut into strips about the size of a finger. I think martha shaped them a little to have knuckles and cut little creases in them at the knuckles. I don't know martha's exact instructions, but my MIL soaked whole almonds in red food coloring, then placed them on the cookies (before baking) for finger nails. You then have "lady fingers"

I saw those, too, the other night!! They looked so real! I want to make them with dks!! :)

[kacee]

We have fingers and brains every year for Halloween. I use pillsbury bread sticks. I bread sticks I break in half and bake as per directions. When I remove them from the oven I push a candy corn in to the end.

Brains are spaghetti!!


For a halloween snack, I think that I am going to try making faces. I have purchased Nabrisco Fun FRuits - Fruit Snacks called Wacky Faces.

Then I will get prebaked sugar cookies and frost with orange frosting. Give each student a fun fruit package and let them make their faces.

I haven't tried this yet, I hope it works out. I am working each day next week - hence the store bought stuff!!

[KarlaB]

Just remembered a cute idea I saw in October's Family Fun magazine. They made it as a scarecrow candy necklace, but I have seen them done as just little people.

Wrapped round taffy or caramel (head)
2 Tootsie Roll "midgets" (arms)
2 rolls of colorful candies ~Sprees or Smarties (legs)
1/2 oz box of raisins (body) could also use Junior Mints or Dots
raffia optional

Keep the wrappers on all of the candy and glue different body parts onto the box of raisins. You can glue a raffia bow by the "neck" of the person and another piece on the back to create a necklace, but they are also cute without. :)


They have lots of cute ideas, but I don't have time to type them out right now. Here's some on their website http://family.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/halloween_ms_food/

[Diane]

Wow... so many good idea's. I'm going to copy these and try some of these with my dck's... Thank for posting them. : )

Diane... :wave:

[MaryL]

Fill a plastic glove (not latex) with popcorn. (First though, put a piece of candy corn into each finger slot for a fingernail). Add a spider ring to one of the fingers....tie the top of the glove with Halloween colored ribbon. Makes a fun, creepy popcorn hand!!!

[angie r]

Originally posted by KarlaB
Just remembered a cute idea I saw in October's Family Fun magazine. They made it as a scarecrow candy necklace, but I have seen them done as just little people.

Wrapped round taffy or caramel (head)
2 Tootsie Roll "midgets" (arms)
2 rolls of colorful candies ~Sprees or Smarties (legs)
1/2 oz box of raisins (body) could also use Junior Mints or Dots
raffia optional

Keep the wrappers on all of the candy and glue different body parts onto the box of raisins. You can glue a raffia bow by the "neck" of the person and another piece on the back to create a necklace, but they are also cute without. :)


They have lots of cute ideas, but I don't have time to type them out right now. Here's some on their website http://family.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/halloween_ms_food/


I made these for my ds's class!! I just love Family Fun magazine!! They were really easy! My ds's school doesn't allow "home made" foods. Everything has to be prepackaged so these were perfect.

[wahmof2]

Diane...I had to laugh when reading your post :D ! Those are the grossest sounding things I have ever heard of! :\ I bet kids love them! I also saw the Martha Stewart show on the Lady Fingers. I love the chocolate spider idea! Thanks for all the ideas! My son's school dosen't mind homemade items so I am really going to try some of these recipes and get creative!! ;)