10 Halloween Treats For Toddlers To Help Make – But Wash Their Hands First Because Gross
Banana Ghosts
Doughnut Vampires
I feel like my life is pretty incomplete because I have never shoved plastic vampire teeth and chocolate chips into a doughnut. Via pinterest.
Goldfish Pumpkin Face
Also via Pinterest, I’m pretty sure letting a toddler art direct raisins, a carefully cut up banana and Goldfish crackers into a Jack ‘O Lantern face could keep them busy for at least 15 minutes.
Vegetable Monsters
Lightbulb Books has this cute tutorial about how you can use cut up vegetables and cream cheese “glue” and let your kids create these monsters.
Ghost Eggs
Also from Pinterest, get your kids some food grade markers, boil some eggs, cool them and let them draw spooky ghost faces on them.
Haystack Monsters
From Kathie Cooks, an adult should handle the chocolate melting but your kids can decorate these little guys.
Pudding Ghosts
From Brimful Curiosities, I’m sure letting your kid spray some whipped cream in a can to make a ghost and adding chocolate chips for eyes on top of a pudding cup would make you parent of the week. Yes, your kid will make a mess with the whipped cream so keep paper towels handy.
Spooky Hummus
I think when my kids were little they each went through a phase where basically all they would eat was hummus. Cooking By The Seat of Our Pants has an awesome recipe and you can let your little monsters use cookie cutters to cut out scary shapes from tortillas.
Mummy Dogs
Spoonful has the recipe but you almost don’t need one. Let your kids wrap up their hot dogs or vegan dogs and who cares if they look more like ghosts than mummies? The trick is letting your kids take part in the preparation. And if kids help make something, they are more likely to eat it.
Cookie Spiders
From ivillage, set your kids up with some Oreos or other sandwich cookie, some pretzel legs and some small candies or orange tiny M&Ms for eyes and show them how to create these little bugs.
Image: (Pinterest)