Fun & Easy Halloween Crafts and Treats

Pumpkin Candy Jars

Orange Construction

Green Construction paper

Craft Glue

Candy Corn

Brach's Mellocreme Pumpkin Shaped Candy

Jars with lids

Scissors

Black magic marker

Halloween Stickers

Trace and then cut out pumpkin shapes from the construction paper small enough to fit on to the jars. Glue pumpkins on to one side of the jars. Fill each jar with candy corn, pumpkin shaped candy. Screw lid on to the top. Trace a pumpkin stem using the green construction paper and cut it and place it on the top of the lid with glue. Use the black magic marker so kids can write their names on their own jars that they create. Glue the Halloween stickers all over the jar.

Bucket of Bugs

Fill a plastic witches cauldron with gummy worms and gummy spiders and crumble up oreo cookies on top of the bugs to look like dirt. Mix this all together.

Caramel Apples

8 small Granny Smith apples

2 Packages Caramels

Bar of Bakers Chocolate

Halloween colored sprinkles

Gummy worms

Melt the caramels over a double boiler and stir often. Mix ½ teaspoon milk with the baker's chocolate and melt over a double boiler.

Once the caramel and chocolate has melted, carefully remove from stove and place on the countertop. Place a piece of parchment paper on to a baking sheet. Remove the stems from the apples and wash and then dry the apples. Place a Popsicle stick in to center of each apple where the stem was. Dip the apples in the caramel and chocolate sauce, and then in to the sprinkles. Put a few gummy worms on the apples too. Set the apples on to the parchment paper and let dry for about 20 minutes.

Graveyard Cupcakes

Prepare cupcakes using an orange flavored cake mix and then once all of the cupcakes have cooled, place each cupcake onto a piece of cardboard and then frost each cupcake with your choice of frosting flavor. Crush up Oreo Cookies and then sprinkle the crumbs on top of the cupcakes and be sure to cover the cupcakes enough where none of the frosting shows if you use white frosting. Next take a piece of a graham cracker and stick down into each cupcake. These will be the tombstones. You can use a tube of black icing and write R.I.P. on each tombstone before you insert them into the cupcake. Next, take a pastry bag that does not have a tip on it and put a blob of cool whip on top of each cupcake and then put two raisins in each blob of cool whip to be the eyes of all the ghosts.

Spider Crackers

For each spider you make you will need 2 round Town House Crackers and 2 teaspoons of peanut butter. After you smooth the peanut onto one cracker place the other cracker on top and then insert small sticks of pretzels for the legs. You will need eight pretzel sticks for each spider. Place the eyes on top of each cracker with a dab of peanut butter. Use two Halloween M&M's for the spider's eyes.

Halloweenies

1 package Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs

1 Package Hot Dog Buns

Cheddar Cheese Slices

Halloween Shaped Cookie Cutters

Place one weenie inside of a bun and then use a cookie cutter and cut the slices of cheese into different shapes and place them on top of the weenie. Garnish with two olives and leave the pimento stuffed inside the olive so that the pimento looks like eyes.

Witches Brew

1-Liter Ginger Ale

1 Pint Orange Sherbet Ice Cream

Pour the ginger ale in a punch bowl and add the ice cream and stir. Set the punch bowl down in to wooden box and then toss in some dry ice and let the smoke begin.

Spider Balls

Orange Hostess Snow-Balls

Black Licorice Laces

Halloween Colored M&M's

Take one of the snowballs and then add a dab of icing to two M&M's and place them on the front of one of the snowballs to use as the eyes of the spiders and then cut eight 4 inch strips of the black lace licorice and place four on each side of the snowball to use for the spider's legs.

Edible Halloween Necklace & Bracelet

Black yarn or Black Licorice Laces

Halloween Lifesavers

Halloween Candy Beads

Cut the yarn or licorice into various sizes to fit each child can string their choice of candies on to the yarn. Tie the ends off and let the children enjoy wearing and showing off their creations just before they gobble them down.

Spider Ornament

Round Styrofoam balls

Black Licorice Laces

Plastic Spiders

Paperclips

Wrap the black licorice strips around the styrofaom ball until the ball is covered. Glue a few of the spiders on the licorice. Straighten out a paperclip and leave a hook in one end to use for hanging.

Happy Halloween!