Tarantula Treats for Halloween

Halloween parties for children can be fun and exciting. However, sometimes preparing treats for the guests can be stressful or tedious. This year your Halloween party will be both fun and exciting, with little stress involved in the preparation of the children's treats, because you will have a new activity and sweet treat on the menu: Tarantula Treats! Preparing these Tarantula Treats are so simple that you can occupy the children by having them prepare these new sweet treats and satisfying their taste buds at the same time. The ingredients are easy to find in the grocery store, and the utensils needed for preparation are scissors, paper plates, and plastic butter/spreading knives. The following recipe feeds up to 20 guests.

Tarantula Treats Ingredients

40 sticks of black licorice

40 black, green or orange jelly beans

20 sugar cookies

1 can of chocolate cake frosting

Setting up the table and getting the children involved
The first step in making these Tarantula Treats is to get the children involved. Let the children help you put the table cover or place mats on the table, as well as distribute the plates and ingredients. Each child will need a plate, a pair of blunt scissors, a plastic butter knife, two sticks of black licorice, two colored jelly beans, 1 sugar cookie and a table spoon serving worth of chocolate cake frosting. Have all of the children gather around the table to watch you make the first Tarantula Treat, so that they will have an example to go by.

Making the Tarantula legs and connecting them
Once the children are all situated around the table with their ingredients, you can begin by showing them how to make the Tarantula's legs. Cut one stick of licorice three times, this will make the licorice into four pieces. Repeat this step again with the second piece of licorice. When you are finished, you should have eight pieces of licorice. These pieces are the Tarantula's legs. Set the legs to one side of the plate. Now that you've made the legs, it is time to connect them to the Tarantula's body. Put the sugar cookie in the center of the plate. Take the table spoon serving amount of chocolate cake frosting, and spread it over the cookie using the plastic knife. Make sure that you spread the frosting evenly around only one side of the cookie. Next, take and press the eight Tarantula's legs (licorice pieces) to the frosting side of the cookie; four on the left side and four on the right side, like a spider.

Giving the Tarantula some eyes and then letting the kids have fun
The final step in making a Tarantula treat is to give the tarantula some eyes. Take two jelly beans of whatever colors you prefer, and press them into the frosting onto the upper part of the cookie, in between the legs. At this point, your new recipe has completely transformed a cookie, some candy, and chocolate frosting into a Tarantula Treat. Step back and let the kids have fun making these sweet treats.

This year your Halloween party for the children will be exciting and less stressful because you will have the recipe for Tarantula Treats, which is a recipe for fun! Tarantula Treats will occupy the children and satisfy their taste buds at the same time.