3 Healthy and fun recipes for the kids at Halloween

3 Healthy and fun recipes for the kids at Halloween

Are you looking for simple but healthy recipes to make with the kids at Halloween?

There is so much junk food around at Halloween, it’s nice to find a way to get some fruit and veggies into the kids!

It’s all go here at Halloween HQ, getting our Halloween food list together. Here are our 3 favourite spooky recipes that you can make with the kids or they can make themselves this Halloween!

  1. Spooky healthy mini pumpkins

    This is the simplest recipe of all. Your toddler could make this with you. In fact, it’s a perfect toddler recipe! And it’s a 2 ingredient recipe - who doesn’t love those eh? If you don’t have any celery knocking around, you could use cucumber instead.

    Per child 1 easy peel mandarin orange

    about an inch of celery stalk

    Peel the mandarin. Using the safe knife - chop a slim piece of celery longways.

    Stick the celery into the top of the mandarin and you’ve made a pumpkin!

pumpkins made from oranges and celery

Spooky healthy mini pumpkins

Safe Knife for Kids

Your little one will need a safe knife to help with all the chopping

2. Chocolate apple mummies

Your children will love making this easy but messy healthy Halloween recipe. And yes, it does have chocolate but the star of the show will be the crunchy, juicy apple.

Per child 1 apple

20-30g dark chocolate

Small handful white chocolate chips

To make the spooky chocolate eyes, melt a few white chocolate chips and using a teaspoon, drop small amounts of the white chocolate onto a piece of kitchen paper. This makes the whites of the eyes! Let these set while we do the rest of the apple. Watch how to make the spooky eyes here .

slices of apple dipped in chocolate

Chocolate Apple Mummies

An easy, healthy, tasty Halloween recipe the kids can make themselves!

3. Scary Sweet potatoes

These are a super way to offer sweet potatoes to your children. They are even suitable for weaning babies although you may have to take the skin off them first for very young babies.

They are the perfect savoury recipe for you kids Halloween party. And the kids will have great fun making this easy, healthy Halloween recipe themselves.

They are prefect served on a Pick Plate or for your weaning baby, on a silicone plate from Accessories for Baby - more here

Ingredients:

For 2 children - 1 sweet potato

1/2 tsp olive oil

Smoked paprika (optional)

Recipe taken from my children’s cookbook, Chop Cook, Yum

sliced sweet potato with faces

Scary Sweet Potatoes

An easy, savoury food idea for your child’s Halloween party!