Ghoulish, Family-Friendly Drinks

Looking for an eerie non-alcoholic drink to serve to guests of all ages during your Halloween party? These drinks are sure to spark your creativity and have your guests commenting on your ability to host a festive party, complete with satisfying their thirst for all things scary!

The following drink recipes can be adapted to your tastes and are all both affordable and simple to make.

1. Ghostly Hot Chocolate: Chilly autumn nights are bound to leave your guests craving a little something warm in their bellies. Replace the traditional hot chocolate and tiny marshmallows and replace those marshmallows with the ghost Peeps brand marshmallows instead! You'll have little floating ghosts in the dark-of-night hot chocolate!

2. Orange and Black Punch: Ingredients needed are orange Kool-aid, blackberries, and ice trays. In each ice tray, fill it will one blackberry, then fill with water and freeze. After the orange Kool-aid is made, drop in the ice cubes of frozen blackberries!

3. Monster Soup: Ingredients needed to make monster soup are simply Sprite and green sherbet. Fill a punch bowl with Sprite and drop in half a carton (or more) of green sherbet. To ask an extra scream of delight to the mix, throw in some gummy worms!

4. Vampire Candy: Once in awhile the living dead crave a little sweet, too! Concoct this drink by blending together a variety of red-colored fruits and juices. Suggestions are: Seeded watermelon, cranberry juice, red raspberries and culled strawberries. These fruits tend to be a little tart, so be sure to add some Splenda to sweeten it up!

5. Ghost Soup: This one is so simple! Kool-aid has a line of "invisible" Kool-aids that, even after mixed are crystal clear! If you want to add a touch of personality to the ghost soup, place a light colored fruit, like green grapes or pineapple into ice cube trays, add water and freeze. Add the cubes to the ghost soup!

6. Hairy Tea: Whip up a batch of your favorite iced tea. Cut slices of kiwi (leaving the "hairy" skin on top) and cut a slit half way through the slice to be placed on the rims of the iced tea glasses.

7. Eye of Newt: Remember the age old trick parents loved to pull by peeling off the skin off grapes, placing it in a bowl and telling kids they're actually EYEBALLS?! That's the key here. Blend up a smoothie containing banana, strawberry, frozen yogurt and milk. After blended, add in peeled (or unpeeled if you want to save time) grapes to the smoothie (do not blend). Serve to kids and tell them to be careful of the eyeballs floating inside!

8. Caramel Apple Shake: Halloween isn't complete without the juiciness of biting into an apple grown in a local orchard, topped with warm caramel and topped with chopped peanuts! The only problem is the mess! Eliminate that mess by blending together fresh apple slices, caramel swirled-vanilla icecream and Splenda. Top with a drizzle of caramel and chopped peanuts!