What are some creative (food) idea's for a school Halloween party?!
What are some creative (food) idea's for a school Halloween party?
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!
Additional Details9 months ago
Sorry, this will be for 8-9 year olds.
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9 months ago
Sorry, this will be for 8-9 year olds.
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.
make cupcakes...frost some orange and give the kids different candies to decorate them like pumpkins..candy corn , choc chips gumdrops etc. Also frost some whiite and use black licorice and black gumdrops to make spiders on top. ghost shaped cookies and frosting are good too. individul=al worms and dirt cups. ladyfinger cookies frosted flesh color and red gel for blood...endless possibilities...how about tombstone shaped cookies..good housekeeping and womens day magazine usually have good ideas as well as Martha Stewart.
My favorite is whiches brew.
Sherbert, sprite, and a chunk of dried ice. Spooky yet so yummy.
You would need to add the dry ice peice by peice. As the smoke clears and another peiece
I guess a no-brainer would be to make cookies in holloween shapes as well as jello cut out with the same cokie cutters to start with. Or maybe some crumbled up oreo cookies with gummy worms in it, like worms in dirt.
A very nice page full of ideas using M&M's can be found to help liven up your party. Consider using food "art" as well for those who cannot or shouldn't eat candy/sweets. Best of luck!
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.
You got to make finger food. Little sandwiches shaped like severed fingers with various "red bloody" toppings. Some of the supplies you will need are plain white or brown bread with an ample supply of food colouring, grated white cheese or peeled cheese strings can look like maggots etc.... Then let your imagination run wild. Have fun.
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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.
The following are a few sites to check out. I like sticking with the basic and ask parents to send in their child's favorites.
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?...
Great site from Martha Stewart for Halloween ideas!
HAlloween Rice Crispy Treats
When blending the cripies, add orange food coloring. Stir marshmallows in with black food coloring. Hope this helps!
If permitted, find some dry ice (solid carbon-dioxide) and place a small block in the punch bowl. This will keep the punch cold, cause it to bubble and fizz, and create a rolling fog over the punch bowl.
You didn't share with us their age group!
So try these!
Black/Orange Popcorn!
Apples in Black/Orange dyed water tubs!
Black Cherry and Orange Crush Pop!
Black Twizzlers and Orange Slices!
Have fun but be safe!
I have seen the light of 1000 stars,
but none so bright as the light within!
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.
I have one good suggestion here... for the rather gross but tasty treat i would suggest sesame mixed with all kinds of nuts and green tea leaves with added sugar of course in my country it's called lei cha... you can pour some rice in to go with it... crush the peanuts too... looks weird but good.... next pumpkim rice... halloween eh
there should be plenty of pumpkim... you can stir fry the pumpkim untill slightly soft then add in dried shrimps, stir fry till fragrant, add rice.... and simmer for 30 mins... place it on baking tin and add cheese to the top of the rice and send to bake for 5 mins and 250 degrees celcius, you may want to go with some fish... works well
one of the simplest ideas me and my grandma used to do that i thought was cool was eyeball punch fill up you ice tray and put a blue berry in each section when they freeze the will look really coool try it...its cool looking and cheap$$$$$
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!
Dirt Cake
You could put it in a clean flower pot, or in a metal roasting pan and make headstones... The ones I have eaten also have gummy worms mixed in and coming out of the top.
http://cake.allrecipes.com/az/dirtcake.a...
ants on a log celery peanut butter and raisins on top of the peanut butter, spaghetti salad call it worms
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!
Check out www.brightideas.com for some great halloween recipes. That's where I get my ideas and recipes for my kids. Also try www.foodnetwork.com and google what you are looking for as well. Good luck!
Moster Coffin Cake
1/3 cup KOOL-AID Grape Flavor Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drink Mix
2 Tbsp. hot water
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping
4 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, divided
1 pkg. (10.75 oz.) frozen pound cake, thawed
10 JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
1 JET-PUFFED Marshmallow
Black decorating gel
3 worm-shaped chewy fruit snacks
PLACE drink mix in large bowl. Add hot water; stir until drink mix is completely dissolved. Add cream cheese; beat with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Gently stir in whipped topping with wire whisk. Remove 1/2 tsp. of the cream cheese mixture for later use; set remaining cream cheese mixture aside.
CRUSH 3 of the cookies; place cookie crumbs in shallow dish. Set aside. Cut cake lengthwise in half. Frost cake top with some of the remaining cream cheese mixture. Dip in cookie crumbs until evenly coated; set aside. Place cake bottom on serving platter; frost top and sides with some of the remaining cream cheese mixture. Place cake top next to cake bottom to resemble coffin lid. Frost sides and cut side of cake top with remaining cream cheese mixture.
PLACE remaining cookie in center of cake bottom to resemble a body. Line up two rows of 3 mini marshmallows each at bottom of "body" to resemble legs. Place 2 miniature marshmallows on sides of "body" to resemble arms. Place large marshmallow at top of "body" to resemble head. Using reserved 1/2 tsp. cream cheese mixture, attach 2 miniature marshmallows to sides of "head" to resemble ears. Use decorating gel to draw mouth and eyes. Top cake with fruit snacks.
The kids love this. Go to Kraftfoods & Bettycrocker and type in halloween in the search an there are a lot of cute ideas.
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.
Bake cupcakes and decorate them with Halloween candies.
Go to http://www.familyfun.com and find the link for snacks. They have some VERY cute and very simple snacks, such as a cupcake topped w/a laptop computer! (2 chocolate-dipped graham cracker cookies, an M&M for the mouse, and icing for the mouse cord and dots for keys.)
how about making sandwich's with Halloween cookie cutters use food coloring to make crazy colors in mayo, you can also make jello molds of Halloween ghost, witches, etc. the molds can be brought at party city, you can make all kinds of different punches with weird colors once again food coloring . check with better homes and gardens recipes for Halloween they also have great and exciting ideas lol
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.
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.