Halloween Snack Board for Kids

Let your creativity flow and wow the kids with a spooky board, full of cute Halloween friends that your kids will just love. And if an entire snack board is more than you can handle - no problem, choose your favourite Halloween themed snack or two from the board and just go with that. I WITCH you a Happy Halloween!

What’s in the Halloween Snack Board for Kids?

There are six different snacks we are going to make for this board. I recommend making most of the snack elements in advance and then chilling until ready to compile your board. However, I don’t recommend making the banana ghosts and the zombie apple mouths until just before you are ready to serve because they will slowly start to go brown.

Mini Sweet Pepper Ghosts

For these super sweet and crunchy ghosts you will need a pack of sweet mini peppers, a little icing sugar and water, plus some sugar eyeballs. We’ll need to mix up a little icing to pipe onto the peppers so you’ll need a piping bag or tube. This will act like glue to stick the sugar eyes on with. It’s also important to make the icing nice and thick or the eyes will slip off if it’s runny. Also, we will chill the peppers once we have added the icing, just briefly so the icing starts to set before we add on the eyeballs. 

Another important note, when handling the sugar eyes, make sure your hands are dry and try to not touch the black pupils while you add them to the peppers. You don’t want the black dye to smudge or run, it will ruin the look.

Clementine Pumpkins

Just two ingredients for this one, clementines and celery! I recommend making these first, then wrap in clingfilm (saran wrap) and chill until you are ready to serve.

Sandwich Ghosts

Keep the filling of these simple like ham or cheese so the sandwiches stay relatively flat and so that the bread sticks to the filling. Then use a ghost cutter to cut them out, pressing down hard and wiggling the cutter around so you get a neat shape.

Then slice up some black olives to add on once you add the sandwiches to the board. If you are using jarred olives you’ll need to sit them on some paper towel to dry off. If you use olives not in liquid from a packet, you can skip this step. Once sliced, add the olives to a small bowl, cover and chill. Once you’ve done your sandwich cutting, put the sandwiches in a resealable food bag or air-tight container and chill under ready to use.

If you don’t have a ghost cutter but have another Halloween shape cutter you’d like to use, by all means do that.

Fruit & Marshmallow Skewers

For these you will need skewers, a cantaloupe melon, black grapes, white marshmallows, some dark chocolate chips and a cake writing pen or piping bag. Just melt the chocolate chips in a bowl in the microwave and pour it into the cake pen or icing bag, and snip off just the very tip.

When you prepare the melon, you’ll need to dice it into roughly 1 inch cubes as best you can. Then you will just alternate the melon, grapes and marshmallows as you thread everything onto the skewers. Then carefully draw faces onto the marshmallows with the chocolate pen. I went for scream-style ghost faces but you can do any face you like. Then the best thing to do is lay them to a baking tray or small chopping board and allow the chocolate to set. At this point, if you aren’t ready to compile your board, you can then lie over some clingfilm (saran wrap) and carefully transfer them.

Bananas Ghosts

All you need to make these are bananas, some dark chocolate chips and a cake writing pen or piping bag. Just melt some chocolate chips in a bowl in the microwave and pour it into the cake pen or the icing bag, snipping off just the very tip.

You will want to make these Banana Ghosts close to serving time so they don’t go brown, but allow some time for the chocolate to set - if you do these before the apple mouths then that will be enough time.

Zombie Apple Mouths

For these zombie mouths you will need 1-2 apples, white mini marshmallows and some thick, smooth thick peanut butter like Sun-Pat. If you use an oily runnier peanut butter the apple and teeth combo just won’t hold and the peanut butter will run down the teeth and ruin the look. And because apple will start to turn to brown once cut, make these apple mouths last.

Other Extras for my Halloween Snack Board for Kids

Then we are going to add on some shop-bought snacks:

• Orange cheesy crisps, I’ve gone for cheese balls
• A dark berry, I went for blackberries but blueberries would work too
• A Halloween-themed chocolate or sweet, I went for gummy snakes

Kids Help Too

You can either put this together for the kids as a surprise, or let them help you create it which I’m sure they will have a lot of fun doing.

Sharing my Halloween Snack Board with Babies

If you want your little one to share in the snack board, especially if you are creating it for older siblings, ensure you serve anything you give them cut appropriately for their age. Solid Starts is a great website where you can search for each type of relevant food and see how to serve it for each baby stage and age.

Storing my Halloween Snack Board Leftovers

Of the snacks you’ve made, really the only leftovers that will be good to keep for a longer period of time are the mini sweet peppers. The fruit and marshmallow skewers will be fine the next day if stored in a resealable food bag or air-tight container in the fridge.

For more on safe food storage and reheating read here >

Diet Details

This Halloween Snack Board is egg-free. You can of course, pick and choose snack elements that suit your preference and diet.

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