Halloween Food Crafts for Kids
Traditionally, Halloween is a time when kids get to dress up however they like in costumes. Halloween is also a time for kids to be inundated with candies and the opportunity to get into mischief. You can teach older kids that Halloween can be healthy, fun and safe with easy halloween food crafts that involves simple items.

These ideas can be as simple as Monster Rice Crispy Treats to String Cheese fingers to Halloween Bread Mice and Ants on a Log with scary eyes – so much fun to make!
Candy Eyeballs
And you should go ahead and order some of these or grab at the store now because they sell out closer to Halloween! They make everything a little more spooky!
Check out a bunch of fun, festive and favorites in our Halloween Food Crafts for Kids post today!
Bread Mice For The Halloween Spirit
Stores get overrun with creepy-crawly creatures every October in preparation for the spooky season. Instead of spending money on the plastic mice these stores sell, pick up a container or two of premade, refrigerated dough. You can make your own dough if you know how and have the time.
How to make Halloween Bread Mice
Have your child roll out some dough into an oval at least 1/2 inch thick. Tell your little kids to pinch the dough in toward the center of the oval about one-quarter of the way from one end. This forms the head and body of your “mouse.”
Next, roll out a length of dough and stick it to the end of the body for a tail. Bake the mouse. When the dough is cooked, have your younger kids use a knife or toothpick to make slits in the head for raisins and chives, which will be the ears, eyes and whiskers. You can coat the bread with melted butter, garlic and herbs prior to baking if desired.
Spider Web Cupcake Platter For Some Sweet Treats
To make the web, you and your child bake your favorite cupcakes. Any flavor will do, but carrot cake will be a little healthier than other cakes. Frost the cupcakes as normal.
Place a plastic mini spider–or spider-shaped halloween candy, if possible–on top of each cupcake. Attach each cupcake to the other cupcakes with pieces of black licorice to form the actual web.
Hard-Boiled Egg Eyes For The Halloween Season
Hard-boiled egg eyes are an easy diy halloween craft. Hard boil the eggs, peel them and cut them in half. Discard the yolks or save them for another fun recipe. Have your child fill the egg halves with whipped cream cheese. Have them place a green olive, pimiento facing up, in the center of the whipped cream.
Your child can use a toothpick dipped in red food coloring or a very fine, new paint brush to draw broken blood vessels on the “eyes.”
And speaking of hard bowls eggs, we love making Deviled Eggs for Halloween. Add some avocado to the egg yolks for a green tint. Then add black olive slices for eyes. Or use the black olives to make little spiders (see the first image in post). So cute!
Candy Apples Are Easy Halloween Treats With Simple Supplies
Candy apples are a traditional fall and Halloween treat. Melt some caramel in a saucepan, or purchase a caramel apples wrap kit. Stick a wooden skewer in the end of the apple.
Let your child dip the apple in the caramel or wrap the caramel piece from the kit around the apple. Have your child help you roll the apple in ground peanuts or other toppings of your choice. Set the apple on wax paper and chill it in the fridge to set the caramel.
Monster Rice Crispy Treats
Make a pan of homemade rice crispy treats. Melt candy melts in a few different colors. Dip the top third of rice crispy treat (cut in a rectangle) for the top of monster. Then add any eyes to make a monster face.
Open Face Spooky Sandwiches
These mights be some of the most fun Halloween Food Crafts to make. The kids will have an absolute blast with these.
what you need:
- sliced bread
- sliced cheese
- olives
- cucumbers
- cream cheese
- avocado
- salami
- hummus
Use some cookie cutters or just a knife to make eyes, mouth and more. Let the kids decorate the bread with all of the fixings to make some crazy fun monster faces.
Edible Halloween Crafts For Kids And Other Fun Halloween Food Ideas
Creating edible Halloween crafts and treats is always a fun project for kids of all ages that can be hours of fun, and the scarier the better. Telling spooky stories in the dark accompanied by a handful of cold cooked spaghetti noodles for intestines, or mushy jello for brains, is part of the special thrill of a Halloween party.
Body Parts Are Fun Halloween Treats
“Body parts” are popular and easy Halloween desserts. Use baby carrots as fingers and sliced almonds for fingernails. We also love to use cheese sticks for fingers. Simply carve some knuckles into the middle of cheese stick and add a sliced almond for the finger tip.
You can also make fingers from a basic shortbread cookie dough, carving “wrinkles” in them with a knife and using sliced almonds as fingernails. Glue fingernails on with melted chocolate or cream cheese dip.
Make a whole hand using clear plastic gloves filled with popcorn and use candy corn for fingernails. Cocktail sausages can be toes, with a scraped-off section on one end for a bloody ketchup toenail.
A quartered apple with a wedge cut in the skin side can be a mouth. Use sliced almonds poked in the wedge for teeth.
Halloween Fruit Snacks
We love to keep things on the healthier side when possible. Using clementines, celery, etc is a great way to add some healthy choices into such a sugary holiday.
- Clementine pumpkins – peel clementine and add a small piece of celery for the pumpkin stalk
- Apple slice monsters – use two slices of green apple, peanut or almond butter, strawberries for a tongue. Then add some candy eyes!
- Ghost bananas – we either use candy eyes or a little Nutella for the eyes and mouth.
Creepy Crawlers Creepy Crafts
Make the bodies of bugs or spiders by using a cube of cheese, a ball of cookie dough, a round cracker or sandwich cookie, a doughnut hole, large marshmallow, bite-sized candy bars or 2-inch long banana pieces. For legs, use pretzel sticks, crunchy chow mein noodles or licorice strings. Make eyes from red candies, mini chocolate chips, small pieces of olive, bell pepper or nuts.
If “gluing” parts is necessary, use frosting, peanut butter, melted chocolate, marshmallow cream or cream cheese dip.
Creatures For The Entire Family
Make mummies using hot dogs wrapped with strips of biscuit dough, or mummy heads from cookies and strips of fondant. Create monsters with wild hair made of colored shredded coconut, string licorice or gummy worms.
Witch hats can be chocolate-coated ice cream cones and round flat chocolate cookies. Frosted marshmallows rolled in crushed chocolate cookies, with black string licorice as whiskers, can look like spooky faces of black cats.
Halloween food crafts for kids are a perfect way to engage their creativity and have great fun during the spooky season.
These fun halloween craft ideas provide a wonderful opportunity for kids to explore their artistic skills while also creating delicious treats. From DIY projects to cute Halloween crafts, there is a wide variety of options to choose from.
By engaging in these easy halloween activities, kids not only get to enjoy the process of making their own Halloween-themed snacks, but they also develop fine motor skills, learn about different food ingredients, and work on their ability to follow instructions.
These activities can be a great way for parents, teachers, or caregivers to spend quality time with children, fostering their imagination and encouraging their culinary interests.
Halloween Ideas for Kids
Check out some of our favorite Halloween Ideas for Kids! From printable bingo and tic tac toe games to decorations and more!
This is an all time favorite Halloween tradtion in our families. Simply print and cut out these Halloween Hunt printables. It is so much fun for the entire family.
What little kid doesn't love to play an I Spy game?! This is fun for a school party or at home.
Another fun and festive Halloween free printable game for you! Use candy corn for game pieces on our Tic Tac Toe game.
Little hands will love to help you make this darling Boo Banner!
We love using these printables for Halloween. Perfect for a party at home or at school.
Out go-to Halloween craft are these super cute marbled pumpkins! Can you guess what we use to marble them?
Your little ones will love helping make this DIY Spider headband!
How cute are these ghost cupcakes?! Who remembers making these as a little kid!
Halloween bingo is a favorite of ours. This hand drawn bingo game is darling!
How sweet and spooky are these hand made Halloween Shadow Puppets?! So cool!
We adore these emoji masks! Too cute and fun for a photo shoot too!
The countdown is on? Grab our free printable Halloween Countdown for your kiddos!
Your littles will love helping make this ghost shirt! You just need fabric paint, butcher paper and a brush!
So fun! Thank you for sharing!