As Halloween draws closer, Daytime is on location at Food City, featuring all sorts of holiday fun. Here’s the ideas displayed on my segment, with the youngest trick-or-treaters in mind.
As you can see, there is so much you can do with veggies, sandwich cookies, candy, and even olives, to put a smile on your kids’ face, without having to knock yourself out in the process. Besides, it will make easier to talk them into giving you some of their candy stash later!
The simplest idea is a dirt cup, using pudding cups with crushed sandwich cookies on top, with a little candy pumpkin and gummy worms to make a tasty pumpkin patch. The owl cupcakes have to be my favorite and super simple, using a double stuff cookie, candy corn, and cut cookies for the eyebrows. Kids will love making their crazy monsters using piping gel, or their own spider creations using more sandwich cookies and pretzels.
White candy melts on pretzel rods with sprinkles is colorful and easy and the spider pizzas are just creepy enough to eat. Kids might eat their veggies if they enjoy taking a vibrant “skeleton” apart and even young kids can have fun putting pipe cleaners on suckers to make spiders. Little mandarin oranges look like little pumpkins when peeled, especially when you add a sprig of celery leaves in the center. Packaged fruit to go is fun when you draw a festive face on the seal.
For bigger kids and adults, almost anything can be carved on a pumpkin. I printed logos out to scale on my printer, taped them on the pumpkin, and used a small punch to transfer the design. I used a simple pumpkin cutter that looks a jigsaw blade, an Exacto knife, and a drill to do the rest. It takes a little patience, but the results are worth it.
