how do i decorate a sandwich platter for my son's second grade halloween party?

Question

i'm cutting sandwiches into halloween shapes what else?

Answer 1

Get the largest Halloween cookie cutters you can find ( such as a pumpkin or bat ) and cut the sandwiches out with them.
The sandwiches would be decorations themselves. Don't put anything like plastic spiders on the tray.

Answer 2

Chicken is a good bet. Very few people don't like chicken; it's a staple diet item. (Vegetarians won't, of course; in those cases, vegetarians typically see to their child's own food. A salad and fruit slices would work.) Buy a rotisserrie chicken from a good local place the evening before. You want to go with quality, cause the price will be under $10 in most markets. In my town, Publix has great ones. Pull the chicken, removing the skin and fat, and tear it into thin strips of white and dark meat. Get a loaf of small white bread, like Sunbeam, and cut an 'x' across each slice so it yields 4 triangle-shaped pieces (bonus points if you decrust the bread). Do the same with cheese slices. You could go with some variety here, but the kids would probably prefer the taste they know: American, sliced. if you're in a place where cheese is king, Cheddar and Monterey Jack would be good, but Pepper Jack may be to spicy for some palettes. They should probably have a little lettuce to go with it. Please don't buy the pre-packaged kind. Just get a head of lettuce, and thoroughly wash it. Take off the leaves, one at a time, until a stack forms. Put down one piece of uncut bread. Cut the crusts off the bread, cutting through the lettuce, until you have a shape the same as your bread. Then just X cut it and you have little fresh lettuce leaves to put on the sandwiches. Don't need Mayo, some may have allergies. From a chicken ($8), 25 slices of bread ($2), 50 slices of cheese ($4), and a head of lettuce ($2), you can make 100 tasty little finger sandwiches.

Answer 3

Make the platter look like a graveyard:

Cut the sandwiches into ghosts and then use olives to make the mouth and eyes. Decorate the plate with cardboard tombstones that are decorated with funny sayings, put pumpkin shaped candies around etc.

Answer 4

Get out the construction paper and cut out pumpkin shapes or use fall colors and cut out leaf shapes. Or if you are in an area with fall leaves, get some good color leaves and place them between two sheets of waxed paper ( big engouht to line the platter). Take a tea towel and lay it over the waxed paper layers. Get a warm iron and iron the egdes to seal the leaves inside to keep them away from the food and then place the sandwiches on top of your artwork.

Or you can use Stretch and Seal and do the same thing. Make sure the leaves are ncie and flat.

If you haven't tried this- it's fun too.

Take fall color crayons and get a vegetable peeler. Take the paper off the crayons an using long strokes, peel curls of crayon and drop them onto a big piece of waxed paper. Make sure they are spread out a bit and then place another sheet of waxed paper over the top of the crayon shavings. With a warm iron, seal and melt the crayon shavings making a "stained glass window" you can use to put sandwiches on.

Answer 5

Gummy worms in a mixture of chocolate pudding and crumbled up oreo cookies is always good. Also a punch made with 1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream and pour a 2 liter bottle of orange pop and a 2 liter bottle of grape pop on top of the ice cream, pour both bottles at the same time. Makes a pretty gross looking punch but is rather tastey.

Answer 6

get the spider rings and other things like that and put around the platter.

Answer 7

How about sliced olives? The green w/pimiento sort of look like eyes.

Answer 8

Ring the edge with sliced egg, tomato, cucumber etc.

Answer 9

Take those plastic spiders and lay them on the tray as it they were crawling.

Answer 10

The graveyard idea is cool, also you could try making other shapes like this:...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alantrotter/82494470/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadmanjones/58016419/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorothysh/284152219/

Good luck!!!