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1 Carrot Rice Ball Mini Jack O’Lanterns

Carrot Rice Ball Mini Jack O’Lanterns (via Apron Strings)

2 Mini Batty Cheese Balls

Mini Batty Cheese Balls: Visit Joann.com for more inspiration and details. (via JoAnn)

3 Olive Spiders

Olive Spiders: Dress up your spooky Halloween table (or your drink) with this fun garnish. (via My Recipes)

4 Poison Toffee Apples

Poison Toffee Apples: Wicked black “Poison” toffee apples. Perfect for Halloween. (via Simply Delicious Food)

5 Candy Corn Cheese Wedges

Candy Corn Cheese Wedges: My goal this Halloween is to simplify. I’m going to try my best to reduce the amount I have to do for our party by keeping our decorations uncomplicated. Well see if I can stick to this plan. I’m also going to do my best to come up with at least a handful of really…Read More (via Hungry Happenings)

6 Jack-o’-Lantern Hummus Plate

Jack-o’-Lantern Hummus Plate: Partying down on Halloween isn’t just for the kiddos! Adults dig ghostly decorations, clever costumes, and spookily inspired munchies, too. And the party doesn’t need to be all about candy, either! If you’re hosting a Halloween gathering, here are some (via Popsugar)

7 Creepy Monster Eyeball Eggs

Creepy Monster Eyeball Eggs (via The Gourmet Mama)

8 Eye Popping Soup

Eye Popping Soup (via Martha Stewart)

9 Stuffed Peppers Jack O Lantern

Stuffed Peppers Jack O Lantern: One of my all time favorite dinners is stuffed peppers. These cuties are carved out to look like Jack O Lanterns! Stuffed Peppers: 3-6 bell peppers, color of your … (via For the love of food and photography)

10 Caterpillar Grape Kabobs

Caterpillar Grape Kabobs (via A Spotted Pony)

11 Cheese Pumpkins, Orange Cats and Pepitas

Cheese Pumpkins, Orange Cats and Pepitas (via Susiej)

12 Breakfast Ghost

Breakfast Ghost: Halloween is arriving in a mere 12 days and it is all my kids can talk about. We are decorating the house and getting ready for the festivities…. (via Snack Girl)

13 Pumpkin Veggie Tray

Pumpkin Veggie Tray: These super simple spook-tacular Halloween snack ideas will be fun for all your party guests. (via Taste of Home)

14 Skull and Crossbones Mozzarella Cheese

Skull and Crossbones Mozzarella Cheese: Can you believe this is cheese? I know it looks like white chocolate, but indeed it is Mozzarella cheese that I melted and pressed into a skull and cross bones silicone mold. Over the summer I exchanged many e-mails with our exchange student and I told her of my love of Halloween. The…Read More (via Hungry Happenings)

15 Clementine and Celery Pumpkins

Clementine and Celery Pumpkins: Delicious Halloween themed kid’s party food ideas. (via Spaceships and Laser Beams)

16 Halloween Spider Sandwiches

Halloween Spider Sandwiches (via Autism Learning Felt)

17 Witches Hands

Witches Hands: DIY Halloween crafts and treats like Witches Hands and Sucker Pumpkin are fun and simple (via Toni Spilsbury)

18 Apple Monster

Apple Monster (via Cute Food For Kids?)

19 Mummy Toast

Mummy Toast: Delicious Halloween themed kid’s party food ideas. (via Spaceships and Laser Beams)

20 Arrange cauliflower, carrots, and yellow peppers in the shape of a candy corn

Arrange cauliflower, carrots, and yellow peppers in the shape of a candy corn: Before you take your little ones trick-or-treating, throw them a frightful backyard Halloween party with our fun and spooky ideas for eats, treats, and games! (via Parents)

21 Spooky Spider Snack

Spooky Spider Snack: Fun Food Ideas and Recipes for Kids (via Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons)

22 Spider Web Pizza

Spider Web Pizza: Well, if you know me on twitter and facebook, you know I got a bit ballsy yesterday and decided to make a video. Not sure why… I think I wanted to see if I could do it. It was something I was sc… (via The Domestic Mama)

23 Cheese Witch brooms

Cheese Witch brooms (via Cocinando con CatMan)

24 Spider Cracker Snacks

Spider Cracker Snacks: These Halloween Spider Cracker Snacks are an easy kids recipe that they can make themselves for a somewhat healthy snack. (via La Jolla Mom)

25 Five Layer Nacho Dip

Five Layer Nacho Dip (via Stylishly Ever After)

26 Cheese Pumpkins

Cheese Pumpkins: Partying down on Halloween isn’t just for the kiddos! Adults dig ghostly decorations, clever costumes, and spookily inspired munchies, too. And the party doesn’t need to be all about candy, either! If you’re hosting a Halloween gathering, here are some (via Popsugar)

27 Eyeball Cookies

Eyeball Cookies: All eyes will definitely be on these adorable cookies when they’re set on any buffet table. I created them for my son’s kindergarten class for Halloween. Sherry Lee, Columbus, Ohio (via Taste of Home)

28 Bat Bites

Bat Bites: Partying down on Halloween isn’t just for the kiddos! Adults dig ghostly decorations, clever costumes, and spookily inspired munchies, too. And the party doesn’t need to be all about candy, either! If you’re hosting a Halloween gathering, here are some (via Popsugar)

29 Olive Snake

Olive Snake (via Cute Food For Kids?)

30 Cottage Cheese Ghost

Cottage Cheese Ghost: I have seen SO MANY adorable Halloween treats out there on the web, but how about a healthy Halloween Snack? Create a friendly ghost for your child’s snack by spooning some cottage cheese into shap… (via Creative Kid Snacks)

31 Ghost Toast

Ghost Toast: Partying down on Halloween isn’t just for the kiddos! Adults dig ghostly decorations, clever costumes, and spookily inspired munchies, too. And the party doesn’t need to be all about candy, either! If you’re hosting a Halloween gathering, here are some (via Popsugar)

32 Hot Dog Fingers

Hot Dog Fingers (via jojoebi designs)

33 Veggie Skeleton

Veggie Skeleton (via Feeding Frenzy…)

34 Coffin Dip

Coffin Dip: Operation In Touch offers special savings, coupons, recipes, health and beauty tips and support to active troops and their families. (via Operation In Touch)

35 Stuffed Pizza Skulls

Stuffed Pizza Skulls: Pizza, stuffed inside a skull is easier to make than you’d ever imagine. I remember about 5 years ago asking a local bakery if they could make some skull shaped bread for our Halloween party. Sadly, they couldn’t. Now, thanks to Wiltons 3-D Mini Skull Pan, I don’t need the help of a…Read More (via Hungry Happenings)

36 Jack-O’-Lantern Mandarin Orange Cups

Jack-O’-Lantern Mandarin Orange Cups (via Becoming a Bentoholic)

37 Crunchy Halloween Mummies

Crunchy Halloween Mummies: Wrap up Halloween spirit with these crisp celery snacks, with deli ham slices doubling as edible mummy rags. (via Betty Crocker)

38 Snack Cheese Eyeballs

Snack Cheese Eyeballs (via Cute Food For Kids?)

39 Ghost Cheese and Apricot Fruit Bugs

Ghost Cheese and Apricot Fruit Bugs (via Natural Noshing)

40 Earwax Appetizers

Earwax Appetizers: These disgusting finger foods will get your kids into the Halloween mood, shock your guests and grossify your party! (via Tablespoon)

41 Cheesy Spider Web Snack

Cheesy Spider Web Snack: Healthy Halloween Snacks are hard to come by sometimes. For those of us who are into providing healthy Halloween Snacks, here are two to try. Create a spooky spider in his web! Peel string cheese … (via Creative Kid Snacks)

42 Jack O’ Lantern Fruit Cups

Jack O’ Lantern Fruit Cups: Looking for a fabulous fall wedding treat to serve your guests? Make these DIY Jack O’ Lantern Orange Fruit Cups. (via Intimate Weddings)

43 Cheesy Monsters

Cheesy Monsters: We made these cute little Cheese Monsters for my nephews 5th birthday party last weekend. Healthy party food ftw! A sharp knife (a filleting knife is perfect), a few googly eyes in different sizes, some non-toxic kids PVA glue, a tiny bit of wool for hair and a couple of packets of mini Babybel cheeses all come together to make a plate of monsterlicious treats. This was a team effort. JJ (3 years and 9 months) unwrapped all the cheeses (via Danya Banya)

44 Guacamole From a Pumpkin

Guacamole From a Pumpkin (via Amee’s Savory Dish)

45 Tombstone Sandwiches

Tombstone Sandwiches: For a ghoulish treat, these small sandwiches stand upright on a bed of cream cheese. The chicken salad snacks are hauntingly delicious. (via Better Homes and Gardens)

46 Cheese Sugar Skull

Cheese Sugar Skull: Celebrate the Day of the Dead by serving a decorated sugar skull made from cheese. See how to color cheese to make the festive decorations for your skulls. (via Hungry Happenings)

47 Frankenstein Boo-ritos

Frankenstein Boo-ritos: Chicken makes these burritos super kid-friendly, and it doesn’t get a lot simpler than putting them together. Clara Coulson Minney, Washington Court House, Ohio (via Taste of Home)

48 Tombstone Sandwiches

Tombstone Sandwiches (via Family Corner)

49 Edible Popcorn Bowl Jack-O-Lantern

Edible Popcorn Bowl Jack-O-Lantern: Amaze your Halloween party guests with this Jack-O-Lantern Popcorn Bowl that is not only filled with white chocolate popcorn but is made of it too. (via Hungry Happenings)

50 Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats

Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats: Make the fun pumpkin rice krispie treats for your Halloween party or a fun harvest party at school! Easy enough for the kids to help put together! (via 365ish Days of Pinterest)