What if snack time got a little spooky this October?
We created 16 ridiculously easy Halloween snack ideas that kids can help make (tested by my kids!)...from banana ghosts and mummy dogs to monster apples and spider crackers.
No complicated recipes. No professional decorating skills. Just simple ingredients and a whole lot of silly Halloween fun.
Grab our FREE 16 Spooky Snacks Recipe Book and see how many your family can make before Halloween!
Ready? Let's get spooky!
1. Banana Ghosts 👻
Cut bananas in half and add chocolate chips for two eyes and a spooky little mouth.
You'll need: Bananas + chocolate chips
2. Clementine Pumpkins 🎃
Peel a clementine and stick a tiny piece of celery into the center for a stem. Instant mini pumpkin!
You'll need: Clementines + celery
3. Witch Broomsticks 🧹
Cut cheese sticks into smaller pieces, carefully fringe the bottoms, and add a pretzel stick for the broom handle.
You'll need: Cheese sticks + pretzel sticks
4. Spider Crackers 🕷️
Make cracker sandwiches with your favorite spread and stick pretzel pieces around the edges for eight creepy-crawly legs.
You'll need: Round crackers + spread + pretzels
5. Mummy Dogs
Wrap hot dogs in thin strips of refrigerated crescent dough, leaving a little opening for the face. Bake according to the dough package directions and add tiny mustard eyes.
You'll need: Hot dogs + crescent dough + mustard
6. Monster Apples 🍎
Cut apple wedges into monster mouths and fill them with a nut or seed butter. Add mini marshmallow teeth, a strawberry tongue, or edible eyes.
The sillier, the better!
You'll need: Apples + favorite spread + your choice of monster decorations
7. Monster Pizzas 🍕
Let everyone decorate their own mini pizza with a monster face. Pepperoni eyes? Olive spiders? Cheese fangs?
Anything goes.
You'll need: Mini pizza crusts + sauce + cheese + favorite toppings
8. Monster Popcorn 👀
Start with popcorn and let the kids add their own spooky mix-ins.
Try pretzels, cereal, marshmallows, Halloween candy, sprinkles, or edible eyes.
You'll need: Popcorn + your favorite mix-ins
9. Graveyard Pudding Cups 🪦
Add crushed chocolate cookies to the top of a chocolate pudding cup to make "dirt." Stick in a cookie tombstone and add a gummy worm crawling out of the grave.
You'll need: Chocolate pudding + chocolate cookies + gummy worms
10. Jack-o'-Lantern Quesadillas 🎃
Cut a jack-o'-lantern face into one tortilla. Add cheese between it and a whole tortilla, then cook until the cheese melts and your pumpkin "glows."
You'll need: Tortillas + shredded cheese
11. Strawberry Ghosts 👻
Dip strawberries in melted white chocolate and add mini chocolate-chip eyes and mouths.
Cute, spooky, and gone approximately five seconds after you put them on the table.
You'll need: Strawberries + white chocolate + mini chocolate chips
12. Chocolate Spiders 🕸️
Place eight sticks on a plate or wax paper and drip chocolate in the center to create the spider body.
You'll need: Pretzel sticks + melting chocolate
13. Monster Crispy Treats 🧟
Start with crispy rice treats and let the kids transform them into monsters with frosting, sprinkles, melted chocolate, and edible eyes.
Remember: monsters don't need to be pretty!
You'll need: Crispy rice treats + frosting + decorations
14. Tombstone Cookies
Dip oval shaped cookies into melted chocolate. Then write RIP on the cookies. A few options for writing include, melting white chocolate and dipping a toothpick in it and then using to write. Or, buy a cake decorating frosting with fine tip.
You'll need: Oval shaped cookies + melting chocolate.
15. Build-a-Monster Cookie 🍪
Start with plain sugar cookies and use frosting, sprinkles, candy, and edible eyes to create the silliest monster possible.
Give your monster a name before you eat it!
You'll need: Sugar cookies + frosting + decorations
16. Halloween Veggie Tray Pumpkin
Start by chopping cucumbers into thin slices and place them in a banana shape on a plate or tray. Place olives in the center, then two small cups of dip above for the pumpkins eyes. Then, fill around these items with carrots to make your pumpkin. Finish off with a celery stick stem.
You'll need: Carrots + black olives + dip of choice + cucumbers
Make it a 16 Spooky Snacks Recipe Book Challenge!
You don't have to make all 16. You don't even have to make them in order.
The point is simply to find little ways to create, laugh, and spend time together this Halloween season.
Print our FREE 16 Spooky Snacks Recipe Book , hang it on the fridge, and check off each spooky creation your family makes.
For even more fun, kids can rate each snack and choose their favorite at the end.
Make It a Halloween Family Night
Want to turn one of your spooky snacks into a whole family night?
Pick a snack from the challenge and let the kids help make it. Then pull out a Kanga Toys Aqua Brush, Painting with Stickers book, giant coloring sheet, or another favorite activity while your treats bake, cool, or set.
Finish with pajamas and a favorite Halloween movie.
Nothing elaborate required.
Sometimes the traditions kids remember most are the really simple ones, making a ridiculous seven-eyed monster cookie, laughing together at the kitchen table, and asking:
"Can we do this again tomorrow?"
Happy Halloween from Kanga Toys! 🎃