Between the parties, parades and costume contests, the Halloween season comes with its fair share of indulgent sugary treats. If you'd prefer to keep the candy confined to the trick-or-treat bags, you can still whip up some spooktacular snacks for your kids that are equally healthy, delicious and full of fun.
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All of these snacks are super simple to assemble, require minimal ingredients, and would be wickedly festive for Halloween parties, classroom potlucks, or lunchbox treats!
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Frankenstein Guacamole
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You'll need: guacamole, sour cream, black olives, blue corn tortilla chips
- Spread guacamole onto a plate and form it into a rectangular shape.
- Place two dollops of sour cream in the center of the rectangle and spread the dollops with the back of a spoon so they form two white eyes.
- Put a sliced black olive in the center of each eye.
- Place a whole black olive on each side of the rectangle to resemble Frankenstein's "bolts."
- Arrange sliced black olive segments into a "stitched" pattern beneath the eyes to resemble his mouth.
- Place blue corn tortilla chips along the top half of Frankenstein's face to resemble his hair.
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Witch's Broom Cheese Sticks
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You'll need: string cheese, pretzel sticks, chives
- Cut a string cheese stick into three equal pieces.
- Pull apart the bottom half of each cheese piece, leaving the top half intact, so that the cheese strings resemble the bristles of a broom.
- Insert a pretzel stick into the top part of each cheese piece.
- Tie a chive around each broom, just above where the "bristles" start.
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Apple Monsters
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You'll need: apples, nut butter, slivered almonds, strawberries, grapes, chocolate chips
- Cut an apple into quarters and remove the seeds/core from each slice.
- Cut a shallow wedge into the skin side of each apple slice.
- Spread any type of nut butter (ex: sunflower, almond, peanut) into the wedge.
- Place a strawberry slice in the center of the wedge to resemble a tongue.
- Stick slivered almonds (or sunflower seeds) into the top of the wedge to resemble teeth.
- Stick a chocolate chip into the center of a grape slice to resemble an eye, and use nut butter to secure two "eyes" to each apple slice.
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Jack O'Lantern Fruit Cups
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You'll need: oranges, assorted berries, grapes
- Slice the top off an orange.
- Hollow out the flesh of the orange (save to enjoy as a snack later).
- Carve a jack o' lantern face into the side of the orange.
- Fill the orange with assorted berries and grapes.
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