Kids' Corner Fun and Healthy Halloween Treats

Kids’ Corner

Fun and Healthy Halloween Treats

Today's Chefs: Baileejo and KyleeJo

Our family loves Halloween.  It is hands down one of our favorite holidays.  We love to decorate the house, carve pumpkins, and pick out what costumes the kids will be wearing for Halloween.  The only part that I dread is all of the candy!   Between all of the parties, trunk or treats, and trick or treating, the candy seems to be endless.  So, the kids and I have found some fun ways to enjoy Halloween treats without all of the candy.

Apple Bats

  The girls are all about bats this year, so we bought a cookie cutter in the shape of a bat, cut an apple, and decorated them with peanut butter, blueberries, and white chocolate chips.  You can see that they added toothpicks.  For some reason they really liked the toothpicks! 

Witches Broomsticks

Witches Broomsticks are very easy.  All you need is string cheese and pretzels sticks.  I cut the string cheese in thirds then the girls stuck a pretzel stick in the top of the cheese stick.  Lastly, they pulled apart the cheese at the bottom. 

Orange Monsters

For orange monsters, we used clementine oranges, blueberries, peanut butter, raisins, and toothpicks.  They stuck the toothpicks in the oranges and placed blueberries on the toothpicks so they looked like arms and legs.  For the faces they put peanut butter on the oranges and stuck on raisins and white chocolate chips. 

Apple Monsters

 The girls used gala and granny smith apples, peanut butter, chocolate chips, blueberries, raisins, and toothpicks.   I cut the apples and then the girls spread on the peanut butter and used white chocolate chips for teeth.  They added raisins and blueberries for eyes and toothpicks as antennas.  

Worms

Worms are really easy.  Since the girls like purple grapes, we went with purple worms.  They stuck grapes and blueberries on long toothpicks.  With one of the worms, they put peanut butter on the grapes so that they could place white chocolate chips on them. 

Nutrition Facts

Apples: a medium size apple is almost 20% of the daily recommended amount of fiber.

Cheese: Have many nutrients such as calcium, protein, phosphorus, zinc, vitamin A and vitamin B12

Blueberries: new studies are coming out that blueberries can actually improve memory.

Raisins: have a high level of potassium which helps with hypertension.  Meaning they help to lower blood pressure.

Peanut butter: high in healthy fats, protein, and is cholesterol free. 

Where I got some of these fun ideas!

Witches Broomstick: Mom Foodie @http://blommi.com/ 

Apple Monster: Mom foodie @ http://blommi.com/

Worms:  buzzfeed.com