Fabulous, Creative & Easy Kid Friendly Halloween Party Food
This has to be one of the most creative articles I’ve ever seen on Halloween Party Food. Absolutely awesome ideas for fun home-made snacks and desserts you can make with your kids.
We would like to thank: Our Best Bites Blog for this awesome article and photos.
Feast your eyes below on some of the best Halloween party snacks and dessers we’ve seen in a LONG time!
Witch Hats made out of Hershey’s Kisses placed on top of a Keebler Fudge Strip Cookies. Some easy frosting decorating, and you have yourself an adorable witch’s hat. Click on the photo to see full instructions on how to make these.
Mummy Hot Dogs! This has to be one of my favorites. Made with crescent roll dough cut into thin strips and wrapped around hot dogs. Genius! Click on the photo to see full instructions on how to make these.
Dirt and Worms! What kid doesnt love dirt cake and gummy worms? Use chocolate pudding for your mud and put some crushed oreos on top for dirt. Hide those gummy worms in there for eeek factor! Click on the photo to see full instructions on how to make these.
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Cherry Mice! Yum yum! These are more fun than scary! Click on the photo to see full instructions on how to make these.
Cheesy Fingers! Ok…I have to admit… I looked at these a few times and they really do look like real fingers! HA! All they are is string cheese with slivered almonds with a dab of cream cheese for the nails. Super scary and gross but so delicious! Click on the photo to see full instructions on how to make these.
Monster Jaws! A healthy and scary halloween snack! What more can you ask for. Cut your apples into quarters and use slivered almonds for teeth. Fabulous!
There you have it! I wish I had the time to make these for my daughter! Hopefully, by the time she really gets into Halloween and understands the concept, I will be dishing these adorably creative snacks like a pro.
What are some of your favorite creative kid snacks that you love?
Essential Pumkin Carving Tools Unveiled!
Ok…so, you’ve made up your mind, you bought the pumpkins, you’ve got the templates and now you are sitting down trying to figure out how to make a Picaso Pumpkin Masterpiece using nothing but your hands and your archaic kitchen knife?
No worries! We have you covered. Check out our essential pumpkin carving tools must haves!
Dremel Cordless Pumpkin Carving Kit
This baby will have you carving pumpkins you can be proud of!
For those of you over-achievers looking to carve more advanced pumpkins than the traditional jack o’lantern, this awesome tool kit allows fast, easy carving of spectacularly sculpted pumpkins. It even comes with included templates. It’ll cost you about $30.00
Alright, so Picaso or Michaelangelo have nothing on you!
You are the ultimate pumpkin carver in your neighborhood. What do you have hiding in your toolbox? Flex Shaft Attachment. This baby will get into tight spots, nooks, and corners with ease. Professional carvers depend on it because it’s much lighter than a rotary tool, there’s less hand strain when carving detailed designs. The attachment works with any of the corded Dremel models and allows users to grip the output shaft like a pencil for added precision and control. It’ll cost you about $30.00
Pumpkin Masters Power Poker and Saw Have a need to do some intricate carving details? This is the perfect tool.
Make clean and quick cuts with this battery-operated pumpkin jigsaw.
Replaceable saw blades snap into place, and the clear saw guard doesn’t obstruct your view of the pattern.
This will make even the most complicated Halloween template seem like child’s play to you. Go wild and crazy with your pumpkin carving! There are no limits with this handy little tool.
You’ll be designing and creating your own styles pretty soon and won’t even need a template with this baby.
It’ll cost you about $10.00 at Pumpkin Masters.
These Speedball Linoleum Cutters are usually used for printmaking, however, they would work perfectly for shaving away parts of your masterpiece pumpkin and creating cool visual effects.
You can create interesting shadowing and detailing to enhance your design and make it seem like it’s illuminated from within without actually cutting out parts of the pumpkin. For come very cool ideas, click here to go to Martha Stewart. Love the raccoon and the graveyard pumpkins. Perfect examples of this little handy dandy tool can do for ya!
You can find this particular kit at Dick Blick Art Materials for around $9.00
Ok….soooo…you’ve spent the money on the tools, you’ve spent 15 hours researching the most unique carving template, you bought the pumpkins and are ready to carve. But all you can think of is the amount of time it will take you to create your masterpiece only to have it turn to mush in a day! We have your solution!
Funkins: The Original Artificial Carvable Pumpkins
You can now carve away to your heart’s content and your master piece will be safe and sound! This is fantastic pumpkin will cost you about $30.00 and maybe save you some time again next year. 
Now, go carve away you crazy pumpkin carving people! And let us know if we missed any must-have, can’t live without pumpkin carving tools and we’ll list them for ya!
Are You Ready for the Monster Mash?
Someone recently (Hi Jen!) sent me this adorable Monster Mash Video with the kid’s faces embedded in the characters. I thought I would share! It’s adorable!
