Are you thinking about making scary Halloween treats with your kids?

Well, most parents experience mixed feelings about exposing their little kids to Halloween traditions. 

This is because for young kids, Halloween rituals can be quite scary, and even confusing.

However, exploring spooky Halloween treats with your kids can be beneficial in more than one way.

Keep reading to discover the benefits of encouraging your kids to make scary treats during Halloween.

Prepare Scary Halloween Treats With Your Kids

The various benefits of enlisting your children to make Halloween treats with you include, but are not limited to:

1 – Encouraging Language Development

When you prepare scary and yummy Halloween treats with your kids, you name the different ingredients and describe the step by step process of making the snack.

Kids are able to associate new words with actions and food. This will help them to learn new words and understand their meaning.

You can also ask your child to tell you what he or she needs to do for the scary Halloween treats. This will provide extra practice with the new vocabulary words.

2 – Helping to deal with their fears

During Halloween, children may not be able to differentiate between real and imaginary stuff.

Therefore, it is important that you help your kids understand that the things they see during Halloween are not real.

One great way of teaching them is by preparing scary Halloween treats with them.

In addition, exposing them to numerous spooky Halloween treats teaches them to handle their fear in a healthier way.

3 – Strengthening your bond

Spending quality time with your kids while engaging in some spooky Halloween activities can make them feel loved and understood.

Therefore, you can deepen the relationship with your kids by inviting them to make scary Halloween treats with you.

In addition, you will get to laugh and learn together, as you answer your kids most pressing Halloween questions.

4 – Boosting Creativity

While creating scary snacks your little one combines food in new ways.

Two apple slices can become the mouth of a monster and marshmallows turn into the scary teeth of a giant.

Seeing food in a different way will create new neural connections in your child’s brain and thus developing your child’s creativity further.

5 – Increasing Fine Motor Skills

Measuring, adding, pouring, mixing, decorating, and cutting can enhance a child’s hand eye coordination and control of their motor abilities.

Kids are working on these important life skills without even knowing it.

Halloween is such a fun time.

Let’s start enjoying some scary and delicious treats.

Among these 15 treats there are some healthy and some sugary treats.

Have fun with your kids preparing these Halloween treats to celebrate this scary tradition.

1 – Monster Eyeballs Rice Krispie Bites

Whether you like your Halloween treats to be “creepy” or “cute”, these Monster Eye Ball Rice Krispie Bites are for you.  

And did we mention how easy they are to make?  

What about how yummy they taste? 

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2 – Dark Chocolate Halloween Chip Cookies

Dark Chocolate Halloween Chip Cookies have a super soft and black-as-night dark chocolate cookie base that is studded with sweet white chocolate chips and creamy peanut butter chips for a frighteningly delicious treat!

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3 – Halloweeno Jalapeno Popper Mummies

These little mummies will win over your heart and your stomach! They are just so darned cute you don’t want to eat them but trust me, once you have one you will be heading back for more! 

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4 – Halloween Peanut Butter Spider Cookies

These Peanut Butter Spider Cookies are adorable and delicious! They are the perfect combo for a fun Halloween treat that everyone will enjoy. Whether you make them for a party or just to eat these, Halloween cookies, are bound to be a hit!

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5 – Pumpkin Patch Dirt Cups

I love dirt. And by dirt, I mean the delicious dessert comprised of layering Oreo crumbs and chocolate pudding.  

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6 – Hocus Pocus Rice Krispies Treats

How to make Halloween treats inspired by the Disney movie Hocus Pocus.

These Hocus rice krispies treats are dipped in chocolate and decorated with a candy eyeball and black icing.

The spell book treats are easy to make and great for Halloween parties and movie nights.

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7 – Monster Teeth

I love to make sure that my kids eat healthy and nutritious food.

Look at these fun and healthy monster teeth made with apples, peanut butter, yogurt covered berries, and lemon juice.

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8 – Candy Corn Marshmallow Pops

Candy Corn Marshmallow Pops are a delicious and unique Halloween treat.

They are made from marshmallows, candy melts and lollipop sticks.

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9 – Monster Avocado

Halloween recipes don’t have to mean candy apples, witches hat cupcakes, and piles of sausage “fingers”.

It’s great to start your day with some scary and yummy avocado toast faces.

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10 – Halloween Ghost Fruit Kabobs

We love food on a stick, so here is spooky twist to these Halloween ghost fruit kabobs. 

Aren’t those ghostly marshmallows wonderfully spooky?  If you are making this snack for toddlers or preschoolers, you could make them friendly ghosts. 

I am sure the kids would be just as excited.

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11 – Tangerine Pumpkins & Banana Ghosts

This looks so easy and cute. You only need tangerines or cuties, celery, bananas and mini chocolate chips. 

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12 – Apple Mummies

These adorable Apple Mummies are such an easy, healthy Halloween treat! Your little ghosties will gobble them up! A perfect fruit snack for Halloween parties, spook-tacular fruit trays, or a fun October after-school nibble!

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13 – Witches’ Broom Snack

These witches’ brooms are ‘sweeping’ the nation!  Not really, but they should be.  Crunchy veggies combined with smooth, salty cheese? 

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14 – Zucchini Eyeballs

These zucchini pizzas are perfect for Halloween. They look like eyeball and are full of flavor. Zucchini has vitamin C, manganese and vitamin A.

Kids can also help to make them.

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15 – Scary Sunkist Floats

These make such fun and easy treats for a Halloween party!  You only need ice cream, Sunkist, whipped topping and scary decorations.

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Bonus Recipe:

16 – Mummy Pigs in a Blanket

They are easy to make, super yummy, and my kids love them.

You only need beef hot dogs and crescent dough.

Make rectangles with the dough and long strips with a knife of pizza cutter.

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Which one is your favorite treat? Let me know in the comments below.

If you don’t have time right now, you might want to save this pin below to your Halloween Ideas board to try some of the recipes later.