During the Halloween season, children look forward to finding the best costume, getting their faces painted and consuming large amounts of Halloween candy. Believe it or not, trick-or-treating doesn’t have to involve candy to be fun! Don’t get stuck handing out just candy to trick-or-treaters. Prevent the sugar overload with these easy Halloween treats that are healthy but still fun for kids.
Fruit Cup Scary Pumpkin & Ghost String Cheese
What you’ll need
-Fruit cups
-Packaged string cheese
-Black Sharpie
Steps: Fruit cups and cheese sticks are both healthy and sweet treats kids already love…All you need to dress them up for Halloween is a black sharpie! Simply pick your favorite sugar-free fruit cups and string cheese and draw spooky faces on the top side of the cup and the back side of the string cheese packaging to look like spooky jack o lanterns and ghosts!
Popcorn & Kettle Corn Candy Witches Hands
What you’ll need:
-Popped popcorn
-Kettle corn candy
-Clear Food handler’s gloves
-Spooky Halloween plastic rings
Steps: Insert one kettle corn candy, pointy side first, into each one of the gloves finger slots, fill the rest of the glove with popcorn and tie a knot at the end of it. To finish it off, slide a plastic Halloween ring onto one of its fingers and you’ll have some great Witches’-hand treats to give out!
Friendly Pumpkin Mini Oranges
What you’ll need:
-Mini oranges or mandarins
-Black Sharpie
Steps: Simply buy some mini-oranges or mandarins from your local food market and draw some spooky faces on one side of them to create festive orange jack o lantern. Repeat and hand out as needed!
Mummy Juice or Milk Boxes
What you’ll need:
-Juice or milk boxes
-White tape
-Googly sticker eyes
-Scissors
-Glue
Steps: Remove the straws in their wrappers from each juice or milk box; wrap each box with white tape a few times around to create the mummy wrapping pattern. Glue or stick some googly eyes on one side of the boxes, and using a small piece of tape or drop of glue, glue the straw in its wrapper to the back side of the box.
Ghost Sugar-free Pudding Cups
What you’ll need:
-White sugar-free pudding cups
-Black Sharpie
-Sticker googly eyes
Steps: Simply flip over your sugar-free pudding cups and draw on some big black eyes and screaming mouths, or for extra fun, stick on some googly eyes to the cups and draw the ghost’s mouth to create cute and spooky Halloween pudding cups!