30 Easy Halloween Dinner Ideas for Kids
- Halloween dinner ideas for kids include spooky supper options like mummy pizzas, Jack O'Lantern stuffed peppers, and creepy crawler punch.
Halloween dinner ideas for kidsmake the holiday even more fun! It may seem like a day that is all about the treats, but it's certainly not a trick to make sure you fuel up your little ghouls and goblins for their journey through the neighborhood—or even around the house this year. And it's even better when you serve a spooky supper like one of these fun Halloween food ideas for the main meal or even add an extra scary sweet treat after dinner!
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I'm just not good at getting creative with my food. Oh, flavors and ingredients, sure that I can do. But as far as making it look like something else—like those cute spider cookies or graveyard pudding cups—that's not my area of expertise. Now as a parent, I want to be able to celebrate holidays with extra-special meals. I guess I blame Pinterest for this inclination to dress up dinner. I mean, I think when I was a kid, for Halloween, my mom just cooked up some hot dogs or macaroni and cheese (and didn't try to make them look like fingers or brains ) because all I wanted to do was eat quickly and get to the candy. You have to admit though, there is something about trying to freak out your kids by telling them they are having rats and snakes for dinner!
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What to Make for Halloween Dinner:
Here are just some of the ideas we have for some ghoulishly good grub:
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Crescent rolls wrap up your dishes into mummies and snakes.
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Orange bell peppers can be carved into a Jack O'Lantern stuffed with Shepherd's Pie or chili .
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Olives are a great way to add eyeballs and spiders to pizza, dips , soups and more.
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Classics like snack mixes, popcorn balls, charcuterie boards and cereal treats are easy to make spooky and seasonal.
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Halloween cupcakes are easy to decorate to turn into bats, mummies and bubbly cauldrons.
Best Halloween Dinner Ideas for Kids
Teresa Blackburn
A retro treat you can make even more indulgent by dipping them in melted chocolate chips and your favorite candies.
Get the recipe: Halloween Popcorn Balls
Cali'flour
With a few shortcuts, you can make these as easy kid-friendly bite-sized meals before trick-or-treating.
Get the recipe: Mini Mummy Pizzas
Teresa Blackburn
Load it up with fruit, veggies, crackers or chips and a sweet-and-savory pumpkin spice hummus recipe, it's a frightfully festive snack board.
Get the recipe: Halloween Charcuterie Board
Apron Strings
The fun and healthy side dish uses rice which is cooked to a bright orange color with carrot juice and then shaped to form mini pumpkins and olives for eyes and a mouth.
Get the recipe: Carrot Rice Jack O' Lanterns
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This recipe is basically spaghetti and meatballs, but make it Halloween with pesto, cheese and olives.
Get the recipe: Spooky Spaghetti with Ghoul Eyes
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Cupcakes and Kale Chips
You'll have heads turning with this spooky twist on shepherd's pie.
Get the recipe: Jack O' Lantern Shepherd's Pie Stuffed Peppers
Katie Workman
These adorable cupcakes don't take much more time to make than a regular batch, but a few extra moments for the frosting makes them terrifically terrifying.
Get the recipe: Mummy Cupcakes
Moore or Less Cooking
This Halloween punch is a tasty and creepy drink that looks like it's bubbly toxic waste with slimy worms crawling out of it.
Get the recipe: Creepy Crawler Halloween Punch
Krista Marshall
A fun fall treat that is as simple as taking a bunch of favorite autumn treats and dumping them together in a bowl.
Get the recipe: Scarecrow Crunch
Cupcakes & Kale Chips
Stab a skewer into chunks of meat and drown it in an oozy red puddle.
Get the recipe: Steak Bites with Bloody Maria Dipping Sauce
Get the recipe: Worms In Dirt Dessert
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With chocolate pudding, Oreo dirt, and gummy worms, if you can get your kids to say "ewwww" when it comes to food, and still eat it, you're winning major mom points.
Get the recipe: Worms In Dirt Dessert
Recipe Runner
These pizzas are crawling with yumminess.
Get the recipe: Mini Spider Pizzas
Alan Richardson
Start with chocolate cupcakes and add a simple homemade cream cheese frosting and black pearl candies for a cute treat the kids might want even more than candy.
Get the recipe: Bat Cupcakes
Krista Marshall
The spooky snack you can feel good about feeding the kids because they are made with bananas and yogurt.
Get the recipe: Ghost Pops
George Duran
Hostess Twinkies are dipped in chocolate, then striped with white icing and two candy eyeballs to create a platter of fun mummies.
Get the recipe: Frozen Twinkie Pop Mummies
Cupcakes & Kale Chips
Just in time for Halloween, kids can make these easy chocolate cupcakes that look like a bubbling cauldron of witches' brew.
Get the recipe: Witches Cauldron Cupcakes
Fork and Beans
Scare up some dipping fun.
Get the recipe: Halloween GuacaMonsters
Cupcakes & Kale Chips
You'll have a monster of a good time when you spookify the traditional cereal treats with chocolate, peanut butter and marshmallows.
Get the recipe: Count Chocula Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats
Cupcakes & Kale Chips
This easy recipe starts with a store-bought sugar cookie dough with Oreo dirt, gummy worms and chocolate ganache to make a tasty but gross treat the kids will love.
Get the recipe: Worms and Dirt Cookie Cups
Big Bear's Wife
This is the only slithering creature I ever want to see on my dinner table.
Get the recipe: Rattlesnake Bite Hot Dogs
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Turn this Tex-Mex treat into something cute to eat.
Get the recipe: Pumpkin Mexican Pizza
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Neighborfood
Load those mashers with savory toppings and scary decorations.
Get the recipe: Loaded Mashed Potato Casserole
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Devilishly delicious for your dinner table.
Get the recipe: Deviled Egg Eyeballs
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Sumptuous Spoonfuls
Snack on these freaky fingers, skulls and more made from veggies.
Get the recipe: Halloween Veggie Tray
Shugary Sweets
Gross out the kiddos with these awesomely repulsive rodents.
Get the recipe: Bloody Rats Meatloaf and Bones Breadsticks
Peas and Crayons
I think someone is watching me.
Get the recipe: Spooky Halloween Monster Mash Soup
The Complete Savorist
Somebody was getting careless with the kitchen knife.
Get the recipe: Bandaged Fingers Halloween Hot Dogs
Pocket Change Gourmet
Creepy enough to make you want your mummy, umm, mommy.
Get the recipe: Mummy Calzone
Like Mother Like Daughter
Bite them before they bite you.
Get the recipe: Chicken Sandwich Monsters
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A monstrously good meatless meal.
Get the recipe: Scary Spicy Chili Stuffed Jack-O-Peppers
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