What are some creative (food) idea's for a school Halloween party?

Question

I am in charge of food and am usually very good at doing creative things for my daughter's school parties, but she has most the same kids in her class year after year and I want something new and interesting! Thanks!

Sorry, this will be for 8-9 year olds.

Answer 1

I went to a Halloween party and saw some of the cutest things, like a Calderon filled with punch and dry ice ( for smoke effects). There were also spider cupcakes and the cake was a mummy. There is also many different candies shaped as eye balls and stuff. Have you ever seen the plastic clear gloves, try filling some with popcorn.

Answer 2

You could always go with the good ol'carmel Apples. Caramel apples are perfect to make as a party activity or do them at home with your daughter.You can put different toppings on them. Chopped nuts, crushed cookies, black and orange sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, or make faces on them with candy. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar to make an 'apple pie on a stick'. Melt chocolate, white chocolate, butterscotch or peanut butter chips in the microwave (stir every 30 seconds) and drizzle onto the finished apples. Also try carving small holes into the apples and sticking in halved gummy worms! Flat wooden craft sticks or pairs of disposable chopsticks that are still attached to each other work better than skewers for caramel apples. If you want to get fancy, use long cinnamon sticks instead! Have fun and hope it helps.

Answer 3

For candy treats I made dirty Q-tips and armpit hair. The Q-ti[s were mini marshmallows dipped on each end in caramel. They are attached by a cit piece of straw. For the armpit hair, get shredded coconut and coat in chocolate. Clump them into clusters and allow the melted chocolate to cool. Lastly, for the cupcakes. Paint the icing black and cut a 1/2 dollar size hole out. Keep the icing lid intact as it will be put back on. Hollow out the cupcake a little an insert a spider or gummi worms so they look like they are crawling out of the desert. Replace the lid on the cupcake and serve.

Answer 4

We always have a big Halloween party every year, it's also my daughters birthday and she loves it. Here are some of the favorites.

Take cherries or grapes and freeze them with water in ice cube trays to serve with your drinks.

Hollow out cherry tomatoes and fill with guacomole and top with a black olive, monster eyes.

Serve dried cherries and raisens and call them scabs.

Slice apples, coat one side with peanut butter and mash two slices together, put nuts or raisens on the large side and you have monster mouths.

Have melted chocolate and marshmellows, and they can drown the ghosts.

Wrap hot dogs in breadstick dough leaving just a little open at the top and have mummy dogs.

Get refigerated sugar or butter cookies and form to look like fingers, make lines for the knuckle wringles, put sliced almonds with red food coloring on one end to look like a fingernail and have Finger cookies.

Take sugar cookie dough and bake, when cool coat with white frosting place a M&M in the middle and use red gel frosting coming from the center of the eye to the edge and have blood shot eyeball cookies.

Use any kind of a dip in a bread bowl and have monster inards dip.

We always make a huge pot of chilie and have Road Kill Chilie with corpse cornbread.

Get small egg rolls stick two carrot shavings on the end for antennae and have Grubs.

Serve chicken strips and call them Monster Claws.

Take halloween shaped cookie cutters and cut out cheese and meats for crackers.

Hard boil eggs untill done, remove from the water and crack the shells without removing them, reboil them in soy sauce. The sauce will seep through the cracks and stain the eggs, for Monster eggs.

Make jello jigglers in the shape of eggs and call them Bat eggs.

Make up your favorite meatloaf recipe then shape it to look like a foot, make some circles for the toes and stick big nuts in the end for toe nails put one in for an ankle bone with lots of ketchup and have Feet of Meat.

There are so many things you can do, hope this helps give you a few ideas. There are several web sites with food ideas as well.

Have Fun!

Answer 5

Many school teachers like the parties to be healthy, they do turn a blind eye during this time. how about lady fingers sandwiches?? I made these for my kids school parties. They are great.
Buy some; canned bread sticks
sliced pepperoni cut in quarters
sliced American cheese
sliced green and black olives
Open can and separate the bread sticks, cut each in half, at one end of each bread stick, press a piece of pepperoni finger nail, cover with 1/2 slice cheese and add a olive ring. Bake following direction on can. When done slice lengthwise and fill with tuna, ham, turkey, chicken, or whatever kids like. They be singing your praises.

Answer 6

Halloween Crisp Candy Corn Treats

1/2 cup butter
10 cups crispy rice cereal
9 cups miniature marshmallows
2 cups mixture of candy corn and Indian candy corn
3/4 cup miniature chocolate chips
candy pumpkins
Orange food coloring (can be bought at cake decorating suppliers

Melt butter and marshmallows; stir until smooth.

In a large bowl, mix rice cereal, candy corn and miniature chips together.

Add orange food coloring to marshmallow mixture, or squirt over cereal in bowl.

Add marshmallow mixture to cereal mixture; stir quickly to combine.

Spread on a large buttered jelly roll pan; press with buttered hands.

While warm, press on candy pumpkins spaced 1 to 1/2-2 inches apart.

Refrigerate and cut into squares.

Answer 7

I have a jello mold that is in the shape of a hand. Peach jello is made with some milk and mold comes out looking like a real hand.. I found the mold at a halloween store in my area. Try looking at bhg.com for party treat ideas.

Answer 8

I'll never forget when I was a little girl I went to a party where they had a table set up with bows of various things, and you would wear a blindfold and stick your hands in them. There was peeled grapes for eyeballs, vienna sausages for severed fingers, spaghetti was maggots I guess, there was also a jello brain, or maybe it was a cauliflower... I think they had other things, too. You didn't eat the stuff, of course!

Answer 9

umm let's clarify to the post that said she saw punch with dry ice, make sure it's food grade dry ice. It is OK to put Dry Ice into beverages for drinking as long as the dry ice is food grade.
now to answer the question....cupcakes with black frosting (food coloring mixed in white frosting) with black licorce cut up and coming out of the cupcakes making them look like black spiders. and the eyes can be the red hots. i also make over the top caramal apples. i made the for the first time last year. after dipping the apples in the caramal, roll them in crushed up candies, like butterfinger, snickers, reeses pieces, any kind really. and then top that with a drizzle of more caramel. i saw this on the food network.

Answer 10

HAlloween Rice Crispy Treats
When blending the cripies, add orange food coloring. Stir marshmallows in with black food coloring. Hope this helps!