Monday, October 18, 2010

Healthy Halloween Treats

I love Halloween, all holidays really!  With kids I think I love the lead up to Halloween the best; decorating, reading Halloween stories, watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and of course Halloween treats!  In that vein I wanted to make some fun and spooky treats that were also healthy.  Here are the 3 favorite that we discovered:


Vampire Apples
 
Sliced Apples (reddish look especially realistic)
Slivered Almonds

Slice your apples
Cut out a "mouth" in the center
Make fangs with the slivered Almonds



Carrot Eyeballs
 
Sliced Carrots
Cream Cheese
Raisins (or black olives)
 
Slice your carrots (about 1/4 of an inch)
Spread cream cheese on the carrots
Add the raisins or olives for the pupil
 
 
Also fun to combine the two together!
 
 
Cracker Spiders

Large round crackers
Pretzel Sticks
Raisins
Sun/Peanut/Almond Butter
Spread the Peanut Butter on the cracker
Add 8 pretzel stick "legs" and 2 raisin "eyes