Spooky Halloween Foods

We are celebrating Halloween this year with some all new spooky foods. We are trying to have themed food that is actually not too bad for you. I mean after all, I am paid in chocolate for trick-or-treating...which I will never complain about, but my kiddos really need to have something a little more nutritious for their little bellies. I love having fun and creating new things for the season for our family to enjoy and have fun with. With all of these foods, you know you will have leftovers...if you are not having a party. Speaking of parties, this would be a fantastic set of snacks for a Halloween party you may be getting together.

Eyeball Eggs

Make deviled eggs as you normally do and just add sliced olives on top.

I like the ones with the drawing but no one would have eaten them, so I omitted it.

I made the regular ones with pickles for me and my kids and I made Jalapeno ones with hot sauce in the middle of the eyes for my hubby. I made cute little faces in the middle out of the food I was using.

Grave Digger Dip

o 2 cans of chicken breast

o 1 1/2 cup sour cream

o 8 oz softened cream cheese

o 1 1/2 cup cheese in mix

o 1 1/2 cups sprinkled on top

Blend all of those ingredients

Mix in about 1 cup of your favorite hot sauce...Franks is pretty good if you don't like much heat.

You can always add more or less to your liking.

Bake until bubbly @ 350.

Make your Grave hand

I took the left over pizza crust dough from the mummies to make it. (see below)

I cut 2 cheese straws(4 pieces 1 and 1 small on the other) to size and wrapped them in the dough with the ends wrapped around to a finger shape. I took the last bit of the 2nd cheese straw to use for the hand.

Shape the dough and press fingers, top of hand and back part for wrist all together.  Cut 1 pepperoni into 8's and use for fingernails- Bake at 350.

Sprinkle on top layer of cheese and place back in oven to melt. Take out and place hand on dip and push the wrist part into dip.

Mummy Dogs

o 1 pack of hot dogs

o Cut pizza dough into strips and wrap around hot dogs

Bake until done at 350. Dot with mustard for eyes or other condiment you enjoy.

Witch Brooms

o 4 cheese straws cut in half

o Shred up a little leaving about an inch at the top.

o Push in a short pretzel stick

o Dip the end of a tooth pick in food coloring and poke cheese for eyes.

Spider Crackers

o 16 crackers

o 8 bottoms with PB on them

o 8 tops with 2 dots of pb on them to stick on eyes

o Chocolate covered raisins for eyes

o Place 4 broken in half short pretzels for legs

Jello Worms

o Lime Jello

o 1/2 set and push in worms.

-We put them in Halloween themed cupcake liners for easy transport.

Munchy Monster Apples

o 1 apple cut with a apple corer

o Cut each section in half

o PB on bottom

o Candy Corn for teeth

o Tooth picks through the top

o Chocolate covered raisins on top for the eyes

Ghosts in the Graveyard

o Crushed up Oreos

o Chocolate Pudding

o Vienna Finger Cookies

o Whipped Topping (Fridge Temp not frozen)

o Food Coloring Pens

o Plastic Spiders

o Candy Dots

Open each Vienna Cookie and design your tombstones on the creme side.

Make your pudding according to the pie instructions(it will help the cookies stay put).

Crumble and Smash your Oreos.

Pour your pudding into your dish and smooth the top.

Sprinkle Oreos on top.

Stick your Tombstones in.

Decorate with your spiders.

Spoon some Whipped Topping in a baggie & cut off the tip. Cut enough off to have a good squeeze size for your ghosts.  Squish a dollop out and then do a smaller one on top of it and stick your candies in for the face. You could use any candy that makes a face and is not too heavy.

We had fun making this and tasting as we went.  My kids love making this every year for Halloween. We did it when I was a kid and now I do it with my kids. It has become sort of a tradition.

Hope you had a Safe and Happy Halloween!

18 Songs for Halloween~ Kid Friendly

We made our own Halloween cd. Our kids listen to this cd all year long because they love it so much. You will never have to stress over finding the perfect Halloween songs, when you can just make your own. I hope you enjoy some of our favorite Halloween songs. Any songs you love and do not see here? Let us know! We are working on a new set of songs.

I hope you enjoyed!

Have a very Happy and Safe Halloween.



DIY Spooky Fun & Crafts for the Kids

Have you been searching for something fun, easy and budget friendly to do with the kiddos for Halloween? Have you scoured Pinterest and came out with having more ideas than plans? I love Pinterest for inspiration, but they do not always have what I am looking for which inspires me to create our own inspirational creations. My kids never get tired of playing games and having fun. Arts, crafts, games and other activities are at their peak at our home during the holidays. Hopefully, these fun crafts will give you something new to do. Feel free to pin to Pinterest and share with your friends. If you make some, by all means leave the link so I can check it out.  

This is a few things we have been up to lately: Polka Dot Bowling pins with a pumpkin as the bowling pin.

Wash your empty soda bottles out and fill to a easily tipable level.

There are so many creations you can come up with paper plates, styrofoam plates and even the recycled plates. Depending on what your crafting needs are...that is they kind of plate you want.  We wanted sturdy plates that would last, so for the activity plates below, we went with styrofoam.  

Spooky Halloween streamer/hanging plates

Grab a empty toilet paper roll and some string.

 Cut 4 slits in each side.

Tie a knot on each end of the string and pull through the slits for legs.

Paper Towel tube cut in half.

 Paint your roll and the string black.

Let dry.

Cut a circle out of black construction paper.

Glue around the toilet paper ends and attach around the top.

Cut some eyes out or attach googly eyes.

I cut mine out of last years door cover.

Draw a little smile on and you can hang them from whatever you like.

Attach a string to the back end. You are all done!

Questions?

Apple Cider Shots with Tequila

Autumn has some of the best beverages and aside from hot chocolate, I would say that it is definitely apple cider. Not everyone loves it and I have not always been a big fan of it either, but I have come to like certain kinds. I love the kind that is all cloudy with lots of settle spices at the bottom...most of the time we grab some at a local venue like the Farmers Market or other produce store. One thing about living in the Carolina Foothills is that we aren't far from the mountains and all of the beautiful colors and tasty cider.

Spiced Apple Cider Tequila shots

We grabbed some cider while on an out of town trip and it was among the best cider we have tasted.

Now enjoy your tasty Fall Apple Cider Shots and share some with your friends. Do you have a spot to grab some fresh hot apple cider? Do you make your own?

Grab a cute glass, add some Tequila and you are good to go! I wouldn't say a specific amount, because everyones taste for liquor is different. I for one have super sensitive taste buds for liquor and I like the lesser of a shot in a mixed drink. I am more of a shot glass lady...no mixed drinks for me. That is why I like these Spiced Apple Cider shots so much because I altered it to how I liked it and I added a bit more liquor for my hubby...to fit his taste.

  

    

 Just because it says alcohol free doesn't mean it is a bad thing to add some...

               I hope you enjoy

Make your own Halloween Tree Bags

Do you want to buy or create your own unique festive little creations? We love making our own decorations for Halloween. We made the cutest tree bags last year for Halloween instead of buying them from the store. I got the idea when looking through the Halloween stuff from the prior year and finding sheets of face stickers we got at a pumpkin patch. It seems like is is getting harder to find say the themed leaf bags and treat bags that are generic. We grabbed some inexpensive treat bags and our sheet of stickers and went to work crafting and creating.

Grab you a pack of orange and black snack bags.

Grab some string tie through the top, stuff in some newspaper and add pumpkin face stickers. 

 

DIY Tree Decorations

My decorated Camillia Tree

This is what they look like a year later- still going strong.

They just needed to be squished around a bit to make them roundish again.

Since we are talking about trees, I just have to share that my Camellia tree is blooming nicely. I love this tree and they are so beautiful. It has vibrant green leaves all year long and they bloom when Autumn comes and even stay for the snow.

1st flowers:

What kind of crafts are you making this year?



It's a Halloween Movie Marathon

Each year we watch the tons of movies that come on just for the season. I love that they show all of the movies during this time even the old ones. Some you can not find, but you can always buy it at a nice price on ebay or even at a pawn shop. We wanted to share with you our favorites and the even the throwback ones. We watch a few of these movies throughout the year but some are specifically just for this time.

Ones I watch with the kids:

                                                      

      

One of my absolute favorite movies as a child. Okay I still like it.

 

 

  

 

 

Plus any other Halloween show that the t.v. is playing.

The One Day list for the kids:

This is the list of other movies....its there but we don't really watch it.  My brother used to watch this movie over and over when we were younger.

 

We used to watch Beetlejuice when I was kid, but it is inappropriate for my kids to see yet.  They have watched some parts, but thats it.

 

Adult list:

 

 

Van Helsing and Underworld are among my favorites!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My husband also likes to watch the zombie movies, Scream movies and the funny Scary movie ones too, but I don't care for them.

Here are a few that I like and would watch by myself if I had to:

 

Movies I just don't watch, but are good Halloween movies:

 

Here are few of the movies I watched as a kid that I have see but don't really watch now but are worth mentioning:

 

 

 

 

And lastly I loved these as a kid:

 

 So what are some movies your family like to watch during the Halloween month?