Our annual Halloween party is this coming friday night. We host a party to invite the neighbors and the kids friends and have a fun time. For the past three years I've done a scavenger hunt through our yard with clues hidden in different Halloween decorations resulting always in finding the loot of candy. After three years it's seeming that it's time for something new. So, we are putting together a spooky tunnel and having snacks. I came here though to talk about the food ideas. Since I tend to go overboard I'm making myself keep it to a few food things. The kids invited are supposed to bring something to share also.
I'll be serving a few of these, watermelon brains (google image). You can make the white thin but it looks too bloody for me that way. There is another google image showing that. Most kids like watermelon and this is a healthy food for a change at a party! Yes, we will be slicing into the brain...
Going to make these I saw on Pinterest. Bloody fingers. Ew!!!!!!!Love nice and easy stuff.
Finally dirt and worm cups. We will be serving ours in little white cups with ghost faces. These are so easy to make and the kids have fun making them too. We just get simple tiny dixie cups. (all google images. I'll take pics of mine at the party). I personally like the pudding to be green but the kids prefer the chocolate.
The green can be used as "slime".
I like to serve carrot sticks and olives (black and orange) and sometimes celery too. This above is a cute dip bowl idea. I've seen other ones where the hand looks more like it's coming out of the dip palm up too.
Some other black and orange simple snacks are:
- Take a plastic black bowl or cauldron and fill it with any orange snack. Nacho Doritos BBQ chips, Cheetos or cheese balls.
- I do have a plastic black cauldron but I like to put ice in it and some really orange pumpkin beers for the adults. Especially from Shock Top since they have good orange color.
- You can do orange slices on a black plate.
- Last year I put blue (hey close) corn chips in an orange bowl.
- Black bean dip in a pumpkin bowl for chips
- Orange cheese bites with raisins on toothpicks
- Black bean and orange cheese nachos (throw some green in there with jalapenos)
So, those are some ideas and some things we are doing. Feel free to share some more ideas in comments! (oh, and for some reason the comments are not showing up as a link option at times. Every post should have a comment link. If this happens and you want to comment go back to the main blog and open this post title in a new window).
