If you’re looking for the best Halloween party foods for kids, you are sure to love these easy Halloween recipes. Deliciously spooky, these savory Halloween party foods are sure to be a hit with kids and adults alike. And if you want some grownup beverages to serve your guests while the kids go trick or treating, check out these amazing Halloween cocktails.
From little sausage mummies and Frankenstein corn dogs to creepy-crawly chicken strips and a spooky graveyard guacamole dip, all of these festive kids’ Halloween party food ideas will make your Halloween party a complete success. What I love the most about these easy kid-friendly Halloween recipes is that they can all be made in minutes.
The Best Halloween Party Foods For Kids
Halloween is just around the corner and we are counting the days for October 31st to arrive as it is one of our favorite holidays. We throw a little Halloween party every year and this year I’m excited about showing off these frightfully delicious Halloween party foods!
All of these savory Halloween snacks are fun to make and fun to eat too. Follow them with some yummy halloween desserts, and make sure to check out my post for easy Halloween cupcakes that you came make in minutes or make a delicious halloween snack board as dessert!
The best part is that these Halloween recipes are all so easy to make and incorporate products my family already loves like chicken strips and chicken nuggets, frozen corn dogs, and mini sausages. My kids don’t only have fun eating these, but we also have lots of fun making them. So this can also become a fun Halloween activity for the kids.
Frankenstein Monsters made with frozen corn dogs
These deliciously spooky Frankensteins on a stick are painted green with egg wash and have a little added crunch thanks to the black tortilla chip hair. Made with frozen corn dogs these Fankenwinnies are so much fun as a snack and make for great Halloween party foods!
Corn Dog Frankenstein Monsters
Ingredients
- State Fair® Corn Dogs
- Green food coloring
- 1 egg + 2 tablespoons of water for egg wash
- Black olives
- Peanut butter
- Pretzel sticks
- Candy googly eyes
- Black tortilla chips
Instructions
- Mix the egg and water to make egg wash.
- Add a few drops of green food coloring to the egg wash until you achieve a deep green. Brush egg wash on corn dogs.
- Bake corn dogs according to instructions.
- Cut thin strips of black olives and crush the tortilla chips.
- Once the corn dogs have cooled put some peanut butter on the top of each corn dog using a spatula and dip in crushed black tortilla chips to create Frankenstein’s hair.
- Put a small dab of peanut butter behind each candy googly eye and attach the eyes to your green corn dog.
- Gently press a pretzel stick into each side of Frankenstein’s head.
- Using a toothpick trace Frankenstein’s mouth and scar with peanut butter. Gently press your black olive strips onto the peanut butter to make the mouth and scar.
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Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 corn dogAmount Per Serving: Calories: 150
Creepy Crawlies Made with Crispy Chicken Strips
These frightfully creepy bugs can be put together in just minutes. I love that by using different sizes and shapes of chicken strips you can create different types of creepy crawly critters which look extra spooky. Add some personality by giving some of them a forked cheese tongue!
Creepy Crawlies Made with Crispy Chicken Strips
Ingredients
- Tyson® Crispy Chicken Strips
- Candy googly eyes
- Peanut butter
- Pretzels
Instructions
- Prepare the Tyson® Crispy Chicken Strips as instructed.
- Break the pretzels to make the legs.
- Insert the legs into the chicken strips.
- Put a small dab of peanut butter behind each candy googly eye and attach the eyes to your chicken strips.
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Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 (3oz)Amount Per Serving: Calories: 200
Nugget Monsters made with Tyson® Chicken Nuggets
These spooky and deliciously cute monsters can be put together in minutes. And my kids loved helping out giving these chicken nugget monsters different personalities by changing their mouths and putting one, two, or even three eyes on them.
Chicken Nugget Monsters
Ingredients
- Tyson® Chicken Nuggets
- Candy googly eyes in different sizes
- Black olives
- Peanut butter
- 1 white cheese slices
Instructions
- Prepare the Tyson® Chicken Nuggets as instructed.
- Cut thin strips of black olives.
- Put a small dab of peanut butter behind each candy googly eye and attach the eyes to your chicken nuggets. Play around and use eyes of different sizes or use one, two or more eyes for each monster.
- Using a toothpick trace a mouth with peanut butter onto each of your monsters.
- Gently press your black olive strips onto the peanut butter to make each monster’s mouth.
- Cut pointed teeth out of the cheese slice and stick to the chicken nuggets using peanut butter.
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Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 5 chicken nuggersAmount Per Serving: Calories: 330
Mummies made with little smoked sausages
Little sausages wrapped in warm dough, a ghoulish Halloween finger food to die for! Although we used candy eyes for these little sausage mummies you can also use sliced olives for the eyes if you want to.
Sausage Little Mummies
Ingredients
- Hillshire Farm® Lit’l Smokies® Smoked Sausage
- Refrigerated croissant dough
- Candy Eyeballs
- Peanut butter
Instructions
- Wrap the Hillshire Farm® Lit’l Smokies® Smoked Sausage in thin strips of dough.
- Place the little mummies in the oven and bake at 350F for about 10 minutes or until the dough is golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and cool.
- Add ketchup candy eyeballs using peanut butter to attach them and serve.
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Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 5 linksAmount Per Serving: Calories: 285
Nugget Graveyard made with Tyson® Chicken Nuggets
Made with chicken nuggets, freshly made guacamole dip, and tortillas this is a spookily delicious and nutritious Halloween snack kids will really dig into!
Everyone grabbed some scissors and made their own version of their guacamole graveyard. We had so much fun making the trees and ghosts from tortillas. This is not just delicious but a great Halloween activity to do with kids.
Guacamole and Chicken Nugget Graveyard
Ingredients
- Tyson® Chicken Nuggets
- Guacamole
- Tortillas
- Black olives
- Black food marker
- Peanut butter
Instructions
- Prepare the Tyson® Chicken Nuggets as instructed.
- Cut out a spooky tree silhouette and a ghost silhouette from your tortillas.
- Place your ghost and tree in the oven and bake at 350F for 3-5 minutes or until the tortillas are toasted.
- Let your tortilla tree and ghost cool off.
- Using a black food marker make the ghost’s eyes and mouth.
- Fill a small plate with the guacamole.
- Cut some thin strips from the black olives.
- Using the black olive strips write RIP on the chicken nuggets, attach the olive strips to the nugget using peanut butter. You can apply the peanut butter using a toothpick.
- Carefully insert your tree, ghost and chicken nugget.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 1 Serving Size: 1 graveyardAmount Per Serving: Calories: 325
My kids devoured all of these spooky Halloween party snacks and I loved that they were not complicated and were made with products we eat all the time.
Along with all of the fun Halloween snacks you can also decorate the house with a fun spooky theme. One of our favorite easy Halloween decorations is to make cutout bats and hang them on the walls. To make them in just minutes and to create lots of other fun Halloween decorations I highly recommend investing in a silhouette machine. There are lots of options when it comes to Silhouette Machines and you’re sure to find one that fits your budget.
More kid-friendly Halloween recipes
If you’re looking for more kid-friendly Halloween recipes be sure to check these out these other posts. From Halloween snack boards and Halloween dessert boards to super easy to make Halloween cupcakes and Halloween charcuterie board inspiration there are lots of Halloween food ideas here that are spooky and easy to make!
Easy Halloween snack board: If you’re looking for a Halloween snack board that works well for both kids and adults this Halloween charcuterie board is it. With a combination of cheese and meats this Halloween grazing board is easy to make and it makes for the perfect appetizer for a Halloween party.
Halloween charcuterie board ideas: There are lots of Halloween cheeseboard and spooktacular Halloween cheese boards including some amazing Halloween dessert boards here to get inspired and create your own Halloween grazing board this spooky season!
Halloween dessert board: this spooktacular and super easy Halloween dessert board is perfect for hosting little ghouls and ideal as a Halloween dessert! This sweet Halloween charcuterie board makes for the perfect Halloween party snack for kids. It’s filled with Halloween treats that take only minutes to make.
Super easy Halloween Cupcakes you can make in under 10 minutes: Weather you’re using your favorite cake recipe or cake mix there’s lots of easy Halloween cupcake decorating ideas here that take just minutes to make! From ghost cupcakes and graveyard cupcakes to cute Oreo spider cupcakes, these treats make the spookiest night of the year even more spectacular!
These delicious white chocolate covered sugar skulls are sure to be a hit at your Halloween or Day of the Dead party. These Halloween inspired savory cheese crackers are so easy to make. This cookie and fruit Day of the Dead inspired dessert pizza is sure to be a huge hit at your Halloween or Day of the Dead party.Kid-Friendly Halloween Party Recipes
Paula studied architecture and now makes a living as a freelance writer,traveler and amateur photographer.She started her writing & publishing career as the editor of Bebé y Mamá, the first parenting magazine in Guatemala.She is the founder of www.GrowingUpBilingual.com and www.365thingsswfl.com and writes articles in Spanish and English for both magazines and the web on travel,food and bicultural and bilingual parenting .
When she is not on a plane or road trip she likes to create recipes inspired in the flavors of her native Guatemala.
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So many fun ideas, I love the corn dogs.
These look really fun to make! I’ll have t try some of these recipes!
Oh my gosh, I love all of these! I am so going to make them. They’ll amuse my kids, even my cranky teen!
I love these ideas! Party food should always be fun and these look amazing for a Halloween party.
Oh my goodness! These are something unique and looks so much fun to do. Kids would definitely die for these. Amazing!
Oh yes! I was thinking about this the other day for this years Halloween party food. I had some ideas but they were getting a bit old and I’m going to use your ideas. BTW, I know they are going to be so tasty. Super thanks!
These are so unique and amazing ideas for Halloween party. They must be a good in taste too. I love these Crawlies. They are so cute. Very well explained post with pictures.
These are super cool and any kid would love them, I mean even I am wanting that corn dog right about now.
These look so cool! Not celebrating Halloween this year, though. Kids will be in Spain with their grandparents 🙂
These areall.fum to eat snacks for kids..They would definitely eat without hesitation.
How fun are these! My daughter would love these fun and festive food items. I love the creativity
Forget kids dying for it. Being a 27 year old guy even I’d die for such freaky looking food items!!
I am totally surprising my son with the creepy crawlies!! How cool!
A great fun and interesting way to get your kids attention to eat the food. But would they eat it if they looks scary?
Those green corn dogs look super gross, which means my kids would absolutely love them for Halloween! Those chicken nugget monsters are adorable.
I love it! I need to prepare some Halloween food with my son so thanks for those inspirations
Very creative Halloween snacks. I know little kids will love all these.
These are so much fun!