Halloween is a fun time of year for both kids and adults. It’s a time when we can dress up in costumes, eat lots of candy, and enjoy lots of spooky festivities. If you are looking for some fun, easy, and scary but kid-friendly Halloween recipes to make for your family this year, look no further!
I’m sharing some of our favorite recipes that are so perfect for Halloween. From Monster Mash Muffins to Witch’s Brew Soup, we surely have something for everyone! You can make them ahead to surprise your kids and family members at Halloween party, or just have the best Halloween time by cooking with your kids!
Kid-Friendly Halloween Recipes for the Best Halloween Party
Halloween is such a great time for reuniting the whole family members! Whether it is making scary costumes, crafting various spooky crafts, or cooking fun and easy Halloween desserts, the magic of the holiday spirit is all around! Little kids love this Holiday, especially for the sweet treats.
Also, it’s a great way to have the kids participate in making delicious treats, snacks, or dinners. Make their childhood even more fun with cookie cutters and candy melts.
Check out these easy and kid-friendly spooky recipes! Grab some ingredients and supplies and get started!
Kid-Friendly Halloween Recipes
Kid-Friendly Halloween Recipes
If your kids are already excited about Halloween, try making these healthy and fun Sweet Potato Jack O’Lanterns. They’re easy to make and make a great side dish or snack.
These edible Halloween Houses are the perfect recipe for kids to make. Made with chocolate Graham Crackers and Halloween candy they will have so much fun!
This Halloween spinach dip is sure to be your new go-to for parties. It tastes great and the olive spiders make it extra spooky!
Teach your kids to make these fun Halloween Snowman Snacks. They are great for a kid friendly Halloween party snack food or just to enjoy around the holiday season!
Halloween themed sour cream sugar cookies are the perfect spooky Halloween party treat! The cream cheese frosting is fun to decorate.
There's nothing frightening about these monster cupcakes! They are as cute as can be an can be decorated in your favorite colors!
These Halloween Cake Popsicles, aka Halloween cakesicles are a combination of a cake pop and a popsicle! Need cakesicle filling ideas and cakesicle flavors to make a scary mummy, pumpkin, Frankenstein, ghoul or goblin? I got you!
Looking for easy Halloween food ideas? Look no further than this simple guide to Halloween party snacks. Make these edible mummies, spiders and bats for a spooky good time!
Whether you have a Harry Potter party coming up or need a quick and easy Halloween treat that kids can make for a class party this recipe is exactly what you're looking for! Kids can assemble these completely on their own! All you have to do is provide a few basic ingredients and a little plastic cauldron!
This Halloween Bark is the easiest sweet treat you’ll ever make. Adapt it for any holiday and use whatever toppings you like best.
Made from orange juice, this 3 ingredient gummy recipe for orange pumpkin treats are perfect for Halloween parties or just as a fun, healthier alternative to candy.
These Harry Potter inspired Pumpkin Pasties are perfect for fall. It’s a fun recipe that is easy to make and can be served as an appetizer or dessert!
A fun Halloween monster cookie recipe that’s both delicious and fun, topped with candy eyeballs that make them look like they are looking at you. Cute, yet creepy.
These Halloween cakesicles are a super fun and cute Halloween treat! Perfect for a spooktacular party or as wonderful home made trick or treat candy.
Do you have a kids halloween party coming up? This halloween cake was a big hit at our halloween party and I know it will be at yours as well!
These Halloween Marshmallows are super cute. Smothered in melted chocolate with fun faces, your kids are going to love them.
These Halloween Pudding Cups are the cutest snack! They’re topped with a fun “graveyard” that the kids can do themselves.
Costumes, haunted houses, pumpkins, and Halloween Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bites– just a few of my favorite ways to celebrate Halloween throughout the month of October. Made with homemade chocolate chip cookie dough, cheesecake, and candies, these delicious Cheesecake Bites are guaranteed to be the hit of any party.
A fun, kid-friendly Halloween recipe that you don’t want to miss! These Halloween chocolate spiders require only 2 ingredients and are made in minutes. No oven cooking required.
These easy Halloween treats are budget friendly and will help you save money. DIY 3 Halloween treats for kids (young and old) that you simply cannot live without. The best part is one treat costs less than 25 cents! Toddler-friendly and mom approved.
Your mummy hot dogs will be everyone’s favorite Halloween food! This idea is simple to make, requires only 2-ingredients, and is one of the best Halloween food ideas for kids and adults alike. Bring your Halloween food to life with this easy to make appetizer. Keep reading to start cooking.
These healthy Halloween snacks are perfect for lunch boxes, parties and more! They’re easy-to-make with simple ingredients!
These Vegan Mummy Cupcakes will be a hit at your spooky Halloween bash. They are fun to make, kid-friendly and completely adorable! The mummy wrapping is piped on with vegan
buttercream and the eyes are dotted with chocolate chips. It's so easy!
The last time I made candy bark was for Easter and the kids loved them so much I decided to turn it into a seasonal holiday tradition! This easy to make Halloween candy bark is a great recipe to get the kids involved in sorting the candy or adding the toppings! Scroll down for the easy recipe.
These spiderweb brownies are as much fun to make as they are to eat! Kids will love creating their own unique design with the simple (and healthy) peanut butter drizzle.
Scare up a tasty good time with these chocolatey Brownie Spiders! An easy Halloween treat idea that's perfect for making the best Halloween Brownie for parties and playdates!
These cute Monster Halloween Marshmallow Pops are easy Halloween treats that anyone can make. They require only 5
ingredients and come together in just a few minutes.
Mummy sugar cookies are soft homemade vanilla sugar cookies topped with royal icing and candy eyes.
Halloween sprinkle cookies are soft vanilla cookies topped with a generous coating of Halloween candy sprinkles. This easy
Halloween dessert recipe can be made from scratch in less than 30 minutes!
This easy to make Halloween fruit platter helps reduce the amount of candy the kids will eat, and is a fun and festive activity for the whole family!
Halloween Rice Krispie Treats - Scotcheroos with Iced Spider Web - Bloom
Here is a classic with a holiday twist; Halloween Rice Krispie Treats. This recipe would be perfect to add to a party dessert table if you are entertaining this season.
This Halloween Ghost Poop is simply White Chocolate Popcorn that looks and tastes great with a fun name! 5 minutes to make and a must have easy recipe for any Halloween Party!
Creepy Witches Fingers are a fun and easy cookie that both kids and adults will love. Green and bloody arthritic fingers make a perfect treat for any event or party!
It's spooky season! These fun Halloween Pancakes are a perfectly acceptable breakfast all throughout October. Make these easy ghost-shaped, spiderweb-shaped, and Jack-o-lantern pancakes for a fun Halloween breakfast idea. You kids will love it, and so will the kid inside you.
Want an easy Halloween treat to make with kids? Make these spooky Monster Donuts with just a few ingredients and enjoy a fun Halloween with your kids!
Monster popcorn is a fun Halloween treat to make with kids! Perfect for spooky movie night, Halloween parties, and goodie bags. This is a super easy Halloween recipe!
This Halloween charcuterie board is so full of eerie but fun eats and treats. Kids love the display and the goodies!
These Halloween Jack O’ Lantern Twinkies are a fun no-bake twist on one of your favorite packaged desserts! All dressed up for Halloween, everyone will love these adorable treats!
These No-Bake Owl Cookies are a fun no-bake treat that is perfect any time of year! Great for little fingers, these cute DIY cookies are both a craft and dessert!
You only need a handful of ingredients and a little imagination to make these fun little Halloween treats! These Halloween Bat Cake Pops are easy to make and will be a hit at any Halloween party or celebration.
These Ube Halloween Rice Krispie Treats are so easy to make and a fun and delicious treat for any Halloween celebration. Ube creates the best purple color that makes the perfect backdrop for fun Halloween sprinkles.
Hosting a kids Halloween party? We got you covered for the punch! This is an easy, three-ingredient Halloween punch for kids. It’s a bright orange Halloween punch and garnished with slimy gummy frogs and gummy worms! You can also make an organic version!
Try these fun and festive Ghost Halloween Rice Krispie Treats! Made with simple ingredients, they are great for kids and taste spooky and sweet. Perfect for Halloween parties!
These vegan Halloween cupcakes are perfect for spooky season. Chocolate cupcakes filled with blackberry coulis, and topped with buttercream and a chocolate skull.
These vegan peanut butter cups are so easy to make with just 4 ingredients. Perfect for Halloween treats!
These Halloween jelly eyeballs with whipped cream brains feature fruit and sugar free jelly for a healthier treat.
If you are looking for a spooky themed dinner or snack this Halloween season, then these Sausage Mummies couldn't be easier. Take your favourite sausages, wrap them in puff pastry, brush with egg and then bake before adding on some edible eyes for real character.
Spooky season means spiders and what could be cuter, and more delicious, than Oreo Spiders? They look really impressive, but they are quick and easy to make, with just a few ingredients. Oreos, pretzel sticks and edible eyes is all you need to make a Halloween snack that the kids will LOVE!
This is the ULTIMATE Halloween Platter, that kids and adults will love. All put together in under 45 minutes, it's easy to adapt and it's the perfect way to celebrate spooky season. Invite some people round and serve up a big platter of Halloween fun! Trick or treat? This is definitely a treat!
Healthy Halloween snacks can be fun and delicious, too! Just check out these adorable Halloween bat fruit skewers.
Make dinner super fun this Halloween by making these Halloween Pizzas that kids will LOVE. Get the kids involved in making their own spooky pizzas that even the fussiest ghosts and goblins will love. Quick and easy to make, with so many topping options that there is something for everyone.
Just 3 (hauntingly delicious) ingredients! A quick, easy, healthy fruit dip that’s absolutely perfect for Halloween parties and fall’s after-school snacks! So cute that it’s both a delicious appetizer dip AND a party decoration! Plus, we’ve got fun ideas for spook-tacular fruit to serve alongside!
These adorable Apple Mummies are such an easy, healthy Halloween treat! Your little ghosties will gobble them up! A perfect fruit snack for Halloween parties, spook-tacular fruit trays, or a fun October after-school nibble!
Monster sloppy joes turn a weeknight meal into a sloppy monster masterpiece. Easy to make for a crowd and budget friendly to boot.
These Spooky Spider Sandwiches are great for Halloween lunch boxes and simple finger food at parties. Make them with good jam like lingonberry and peanut butter.
Nice for breakfast or treat, Halloween donuts. They are quick and easy to make, taste great and look super scary. Perfect for Halloween!
These scary spider cakes seem laborious, but are so easy to make. And everyone will be impressed with them.
This halloween pasta recipe is spooky fun and a perfect meal to serve before Trick-or-Treating! Spooky black pasta is served with a quick beef ragu and pretend eyeballs made of mozzarella and olives.
This Witches Brew is a fun kid friendly halloween punch recipe that everyone will love! This easy to make holiday drink is made with soda, pineapple juice, and vanilla ice cream!
Your kids will go crazy for these Mummy Hot Dogs using only three simple ingredients and very easy to prepare. These are the perfect snack or addition to your Halloween or fall spread.
Mummy Cookies are the cutest Halloween cookies around! They use nutter butter cookies along with white chocolate chips and cookie frosting to create a fun treat for the kids and guests this
trick-or-treating season.
Graveyard brownies are the perfect spooky treat to make with the kids for Halloween. Brownies get dressed up with cookie tombstones, scary bone sprinkles and mounds of dirt for a bone
chilling treat
Easy spider cupcakes are the perfect fun Halloween dessert to do with the kids. Learn how to make these adorable creepy crawly cupcakes and celebrate Halloween from the comfort of your
own kitchen.
Halloween pizza mummy stromboli recipe is loaded with pepperoni, salami, ham, and cheese, an easy and tasty spooky treat for your Halloween festivities.
Purple Monster Cupcakes are the perfect Halloween-inspired treat! They are festive without being scary plus they are super simple to make. You don't need to be a professional baker to whip up these cute purple monster cupcakes!
These cute and easy no bake Halloween black cat cookies are perfect for a Hocus Pocus movie night, Halloween party, or
classroom treat!
These super cute ghosts are actually chocolate covered strawberries!! They are delicious and a lower-calorie option than typical Halloween candy!
These Halloween Cookie Dough Balls are an easy no-bake treat that everyone loves. They’re chunks of chocolate chip cookie
dough that are dipped in chocolate and decorated for Halloween.
Give dinner a fun Halloween twist with this Mummy Wrap Pizza Calzone recipe. It’s easy to make and ready to eat in 45 minutes.
These Halloween Chocolate Dipped Oreos are easy, festive, and delicious. Grab the kids because they are going to love making this fun Halloween treat with you!
Witches' Digits (or Witches' Fingers) Scary Halloween Cookies
Kids have an absolute blast making these witches' fingers! They can make them as real or funny as they like, and the best part is that they are delicious!
Mummy cupcakes are a cute and easy treat for Halloween! Plus, they're egg-free and easy to make dairy free for allergy sensitive kids.
Halloween Meatloaf is a fun Halloween dinner recipe that is both spooky and tasty! Kids love that it looks like a zombie!
You can quickly whip of a batch of these NO BAKE, Vampire Fang Cookies last minute for parties and get togethers. With just a few inexpensive ingredients from your local grocery store you'll have a fun dessert for kids and adults alike!
This quick and easy orange sherbet punch recipe is perfect for your little pumpkin party! Just a few inexpensive ingredients come together to make this pumpkin themed party drink.
This EASY version of the candy corn cupcake comes together quickly and looks impressive! From the three colored frosting, to the layered cake surprise inside…your Halloween guests will
love these moist and flavorful treats!
Kids LOVE hot cocoa bombs! And you’ll love how easy they are to make…we just a few simple ingredients you can whip up a Halloween show stopper. These candy corn hot cocoa bombs are
a fun and easy food craft to try with kids!
These NO BAKE ding dong bats are easy to make, last minute crowd pleasers. With just a few simple ingredients you can whip up a batch in no time.
Easy Halloween carved pumpkins with wholesome wild rice stuffing. Serve these spooky kid-friendly stuffed pumpkins for a healthy holiday treat!
Happy Halloween! Make these fun Rice Krispie Pumpkins and stuff them with your favorite candy in the middle.
These spooky Halloween pizzas are quick and easy to make with my no-yeast Greek yogurt pizza crust! Kids and adults with love this fun twist on pizza night!
Wonderfully sweet, delightfully gooey, this is without question the best chocolate fudge recipe made without condensed milk (and sugar!) you’re ever going to have! Feel free to indulge yourself with this vegan fudge without any guilt or second guessing.
These semi-sweet chocolate covered apple slices with white chocolate drizzle are delicious and easy to make! You can be
creative as much as you want and make any design you like for your next Halloween party.
This Spooky Halloween Chili is a ghoulishly delicious way to fill those hungry bellies before heading out to collect candy. Hearty chili is mixed with worm-like noodles, hot dog fingers and toes, and creepy egg eyeballs for a Halloween themed dinner to remember!
This Toxic Waste Mac and Cheese is disgustingly delicious and actually quite healthy. It’s perfect meal during the Halloween season, and the kids will love eating it!
Monster Mash Popcorn is a sweet, Halloween popcorn topped with slime green chocolate, ghoulish sprinkles and M&Ms, candy eyes, and purple chocolate covered pretzels. This fun and easy to make popcorn is crazy delicious and loved by everyone!
This fun and spooky Halloween Feet Loaf recipe is disgustingly delicious and easy to make! I used my favorite meatloaf recipe and added some onion ring stumps, celery toe nails, and barbecue sauce blood to create the spookiest Halloween meal ever!!
These white chocolate ghost pretzels are the Halloween treat everyone loves. Easy to make and so festive.
This spooky Halloween popcorn is a class party fave and the perfect everyday festive snack. Make it in just minutes to enjoy warm or cover for later.
If you're in the mood for a little Halloween magic, look no further than these Hocus Pocus Cookies. Made with colorful sugar cookie dough, white chocolate chips and sweet sprinkles, these cookies irresistibly yum!
This year, mix things up with this creamy Hocus Pocus Milkshake! The bright green color is perfect for Halloween and it's topped with whipped cream, purple and green sprinkles, and candy eyes. This shake is sure to be a hit with all the kids!
Red Velvet Halloween Spider Cookies are soft, chewy and spooky! A fun Halloween dessert with extra sweetness. Turn the chocolate chips into little spiders and add a spider web with vanilla frosting to make a treat the kids can't wait to eat.
Take your easy peasy avocado toast to spooky new heights with this fun Frankenstein avocado toast!
These bright green Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats are fun Halloween snacks that the kids can help decorate! Make them spooky, scary, or silly, they are always delicious and enjoyed by all.
You only need three ingredients to make these yummy Nutter Butter Ghost Cookies! So fun and festive for Halloween.
Learn how to make delicious Halloween bat cookies with this simple shortbread recipe! Features mini Reese’s cups and cute edible eyes. The whole family can participate in the baking of this treat recipe.
Use multiple colors of melting chocolate to make this spooky Halloween bark! Kids love to get involved with this candy recipe too. It’s easy, fun, and so tasty!
Add some ghoulish fun to your Halloween table this season with a Halloween Monster Popcorn Candy Corn Recipe!
Looking for a fun, delicious Halloween Cake that isn’t spooky? Colorful and festive Halloween Bundt Cake!
Halloween mummies can be put together with just 3 ingredients so the kids can make them on their own!
Monster Cookies are very fun to make, look colorful and are perfect for Halloween! Delicious and festive-looking, these are certified to become a crowd favorite!
Pumpkin Spice Hot Cocoa Bombs are made with just 5 ingredients and are the perfect treat for the fall holidays. Add them to a hot cup of milk while sitting on the porch and watching the leaves begin to fall on a nice crisp morning.
Halloween Keto Spider Web Deviled Eggs are a great scary Halloween Low Carb Recipe for your monster party. Spooky little spiders made from Olives and scary colored eggs with
blueberries gives you a great healthy Halloween finger Food.
Maple Flavored together with Brown Sugar Sweetener, those Keto Candied Bacon Twists are the perfect Sugar-Free Bacon Candy with 0 Carb per slice for whenever you need that little sweet Keto Treat. Fully Low Carb, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, and Diabetic Friendly Bacon Candy, you can serve during Breakfast, Brunch, or even Halloween night without raising your Blood Sugar.
This Monster Meatloaf is so ridiculously weird looking - it's scary! The kids will love helping to decorate for a family monster meatloaf dinner on Halloween.
These Zombie Cupcakes are so stinkin' cute, they're the perfect Halloween cupcake for any get together and they're super easy to make, by using ready made items as much as possible.
If you’re looking for a cute little dessert for a Halloween or Thanksgiving event, have I got a recipe for you! You can turn a simple cake mix into tiny bundt pumpkins that will delight your
holiday guests!
Fall is just around the corner and you know what that means... holidays! In this post I’m going to offer five of my favorite recipes to share with the children in your life during the Halloween season. These are simple enough to involve the kiddos but yummy enough to impress your guests.
These cute Halloween Monster Cookies are made with easy sugar cookie dough. You can color them any color you want, add some Halloween M&Ms and candy eyeballs.
Kids will loves these easy vanilla cupcakes that are dyed to look like Candy Corn with white, orange and yellow coloring. They're topped with a vanilla buttercream.
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Other Halloween crafts ideas:
Halloween printables for kids: