39+ Cool Halloween Food Ideas for Kids

Halloween is all about spooky costumes and fun, but let's be honest — the treats are the real highlight! From party dishes to creative snacks for family time, there are plenty of ideas that are both on-theme and easy. 

Looking for inspiration? Check out these 40 creative Halloween food ideas for kids.

Table of Contents:

• Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids
• Savory Halloween snacks for kids
• Sweet Halloween treats for kids
• Spooky food to make with kids
• No-bake Halloween treats
• Halloween drinks for kids

1. Scary banana ghosts

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

Cut a peeled banana in half and push a lollipop stick inside. Dip the banana in melted white chocolate, roll it in shredded coconut, then use mini chocolate chips to add a spooky face.

2. Monster mouths 

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

To make these fun and healthy treats, cut green apples into thick slices and add a spoonful of peanut butter inside. Then add some yogurt-covered raisins between two slices to look like teeth.

3. Mandarin pumpkins 

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

It doesn’t get any easier than this! Just pick up some mandarin oranges and use a permanent marker to draw pumpkin faces on them. These are perfect for slipping into a child’s lunchbox or snack bag.

4. Monster smoothie bowls 

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

To make your green smoothie, blend a green apple, spinach, half a frozen banana, honey and lemon juice. Make sure it’s fairly thick. Then, pour the smoothie into a bowl, and use pieces of fruit and nuts to make a face.

5. Minion gelatin cups 

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

This is another super easy option! Use a permanent marker to draw faces on mini gelatin cups and add googly eyes to make mini-Minions.

6. Monster fruit squeezers

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

This is the perfect way to add some fun to your kid’s lunchbox! Wrap a fruit squeezer in gauze so the top sticks out, and add some googly eyes. Or, add a paper face to a juice bottle.

7. Bloodshot deviled eggs 

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

Bloodshot deviled eggs are a hair-raising Halloween party food for kids. To make your deviled eggs bloodshot, use a toothpick to trace thin lines of tomato sauce on the egg white portion.

8. Eyeball pasta

Category: Healthy Halloween food ideas for kids

Eyeballs go well with pasta, too. Cut out small rounds of mozzarella cheese for the eye whites and slice up olives for the iris. Place a cheese round and an olive slice on each meatball and scatter the balls on your pasta dish.

9. Bat bites

Category: Savory Halloween snacks for kids

These treats are fun for adults and kids alike. To start, roll balls of cream cheese or your favorite cheese ball base in black poppy seeds or sesame seeds. Next, use carrots, capers or olive pieces for eyes, then stick two corn chips in the top to make bat wings.

10. Batty grilled cheese sandwiches

Category: Savory Halloween snacks for kids

Savory grilled cheese sandwiches can turn eerie on Halloween. Use Batman sandwich cutters to create bat-shaped bread pieces. Slather on the butter and cheddar cheese before grilling the sandwiches.

11. Severed breadstick fingers

Category: Savory Halloween snacks for kids

Transform plain ol’ breadsticks into severed fingers as a witchy Halloween snack for kids. Place a whole almond at one end of the breadstick for deadened fingernails. Before baking, cut small creases into the dough to mimic human knuckles.

12. Mac and cheese jack-o’-lanterns 

Category: Savory Halloween snacks for kids

This savory and healthy Halloween snack will be a hit with the kids. Hollow out mini pumpkins or bell peppers, then carve cute or scary-looking grins on the front of each. Spoon cooked mac and cheese into each pumpkin or pepper and watch your little guests howl in delight.

13. Burger mummies

Category: Savory Halloween snacks for kids

To make this fun snack, make burger sliders, then wrap strips of crescent rolls around each one so it looks like a mummy’s face. Use dollops of ketchup to add two eyes.

14. Mummy kebabs 

Category: Savory Halloween snacks for kids

Start by making a sandwich with turkey, cheese and mayo. Cut it into six pieces, then layer them on a skewer to make a tall stack. Use two dollops of mayo to attach some edible candy eyeballs to one side.

15. Strawberry ghosts

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

To make these adorable strawberry ghosts, dip strawberries in melted white dipping chocolate and add candy eyeballs. Once the chocolate hardens, they’re ready to enjoy!

16. Cookie witch hats

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

This kid food idea for Halloween is one of the easiest recipes. Spread a thin layer of pumpkin puree on a chocolate cookie. Then, stick a chocolate kiss on top to make a pointed witch hat.

17. Halloween donuts

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

There are several ways to add some Halloween spookiness to plain donuts:

• Drench glazed donut rings in melted dark chocolate and stick half a chocolate cookie on opposite sides for the bat wings. Use two mini chocolate kisses as the bat ears and two candy eyeballs for a cute-looking bat.
• Top a mini powdered donut with strips of orange frosting, so it looks like a pumpkin, then poke a green chocolate candy in the top to make your stem.
• Use colored icing to dress up your donut like Frankenstein’s monster, a mummy, or any other favorite monster!

18. Crispy rice treat brains 

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

To make this fun treat, start by mixing crisped rice cereal, melted butter, marshmallows and red food coloring. Shape the mixture into the shape of a brain, then use a frosting tube to apply frosting to the outside so it looks like a brain. Add some red sprinkles down the middle frosting line and serve.

19. Crispy rice pumpkins

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

Add orange food coloring and mold your crispy rice cereal treats into the shape of pumpkins. This Halloween treat for kids will have them ooh-ing and ahh-ing.

20. Tombstone pudding cups

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

Tombstone pudding cups are one of many fuss-free Halloween lunch ideas for kids. Use crumbled chocolate cookies as the dirt and stick an oval-shaped sandwich cookie into the pudding cup as the tombstone. You might even add some gummy worms to up the creepy factor!

21. Casper cookies

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

For a sweet treat, Casper-shaped cookies are the perfect Halloween dessert for kids — no cooking required. All you need to do is use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter on a large sheet of sugar cookie dough. Then, pipe a spooky expression on each cookie with chocolate frosting.

22. Mummified double chocolate muffins

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

Dress up double chocolate muffins with lashes of melted marshmallow frosting to create mummified rags. Top off each muffin with a pair of candy eyeballs.

23. Spidery cake pops

Category: Sweet Halloween treats for kids

For an easy-to-make Halloween food idea, dip red velvet cake pops in melted milk chocolate. Before they cool completely, stick two candy eyeballs on top. Cut black licorice into thin strips and attach eight spidery black legs to opposite sides of each cookie.

24. Spooky pizza rounds

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

For a fun DIY Halloween lunch idea, give each kid mini pizza rounds or bagels and ask them to get creative. Supply them with spider-shaped olives, mummified cheese rags and other creepy pizza toppings.

25. Pumpkin dirt cups

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

Layer chocolate pudding and crushed chocolate cookies in a clear plastic cup to make “dirt.” Let your kids place pumpkin candies on top to create their very own edible pumpkin patches.

26. Halloween cookies 

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

Bake up some simple sugar cookies and use cutouts to make fun Halloween shapes. Then, give the kids a selection of frosting, icing and sprinkles and let them decorate to their heart’s content.

27. Spider pops 

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

This is a fun craft that kids can take with them to school and give to friends. Wrap black pipe cleaners around a lollipop, so the round part looks like its backside. Add some googly eyes on the front and watch how excited the kids get!

28. Gelatin dessert brain

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

A gelatin dessert brain may make your young guests feel queasy before the feasting begins. For this gory Halloween lunch idea, use strawberry-flavored gelatin dessert for a bloody appearance. Prepare the gelatin mixture, then pour it into a brain mold to set till it’s ready to serve.

29. One-eyed monster cookies

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

Create a cookie sandwich with melted milk chocolate in between two red velvet cookies. Place a giant candy eyeball on top to create one-eyed monster cookies.

30. Worm-filled candy apples

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

Decorate candied apples with creepy-crawly gummy worms. Scoop out a few holes in strategic places to make it seem like the worms are wriggling out of the apples. 

31. Skull-like apple pops

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

Put a fun twist on the classic candy apples and turn them into skeleton apple pops. Coat each candied apple with a layer of white chocolate frosting. Next, draw on skeleton faces with a piping bag of melted dark chocolate. Drizzle with red icing for a bloody effect.

32. Ghostified pancakes

Category: Spooky food to make with kids

Pancakes are a kid-friendly option for Halloween fun. Try chocolate-flavored pancakes for a yummy treat, or fill them with blueberries for a healthy twist. Spread cream cheese frosting on top for a ghostly white look.

33. Spectral pretzels

Category: No-bake Halloween treats

For a healthy Halloween snack, coat gluten-free pretzels with a no-sugar white yogurt frosting. Place two blueberries for the eyes on each spectral pretzel

34. Witch’s hat with a surprise inside

Category: No-bake Halloween treats

This one is sure to excite the kids! Start by filling chocolate ice cream cones with small candy treats like chocolate candies and candy corn. Place some melted chocolate on a chocolate wafer cookie and press it on the opening of the ice cream cone so it seals the opening. Then, add a ribbon of green icing and draw a buckle with gold icing. You’ll love seeing the little ones’ faces when they take a bite and find the surprise inside!

35. Cookie spiders 

Category: No-bake Halloween treats

Turn regular chocolate cookies into a spooky treat by adding spider legs made out of pretzel sticks. Use a bit of frosting to attach green M&M’s to the top to make eyes.

36. Peanut butter haystacks

Category: No-bake Halloween treats

Peanut butter haystacks make for a tasty protein-rich treat. Break up pretzel sticks and mix them thoroughly with peanut butter in a mixing bowl. Mold the mix into mini haystacks on a baking tray and let them set until serving time.

37. Candy corn popcorn 

Category: No-bake Halloween treats

The perfect party mix consists of candy corn tossed in popcorn. Mix cooked popcorn with candy corn kernels and melted white chocolate in a large mixing bowl, then let the mixture set. Feel free to add other Halloween goodies like chocolate candies, salted almonds and more.

38. Eyeball punch

Category: Halloween drinks for kids

The eyeball punch is a refreshing Halloween treat for kids. To make the eyeballs, stuff lychees with blueberries, then freeze them in an ice tray. Pop the frozen “eyeballs” into the punch bowl (any flavor works) for a scary-looking drink.

39. Melting witch hot chocolate

Category: Halloween drinks for kids

Start by making homemade hot chocolate using whole milk, heavy cream, white chocolate, vanilla extract and green food coloring. Add some green food coloring to whipped cream and put a large dollop on top. Then, make a witches’ hat by placing a circle of orange-colored frosting in the middle of a fudge cookie and using it to hold an unwrapped chocolate kiss in place. Put the hat on top of the whipped cream and serve.

40. Wormy ice

Category: Halloween drinks for kids

Add a touch of fun to your child’s drink by filling ice trays halfway and adding gummy worms so they’re partially sticking out. Freeze the trays, then serve them in glasses of punch or cups of water.

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