Parenting Tips: Halloween Treats to Eat

In the spirit of keeping older kiddos happy on Halloween, we tend to try new crazy recipes for Halloween themed goodies.  I found some really fun ones online on other people's blogs this year so decided to share them with you.  If you click not on the picture, but the name of the treat it will link you to the site of origin.

Mummy cookies... The full recipe is on this site, but I made them with regular sugar cookie mix and they worked fine. Mini chocolate chips for eyes, and drizzled white frosting for the "wrapping." Full directions and pictures of the process are on the link.
This blog site is a great one for clever, simple ideas to do with kids and families even on a tight budget.

On another site I saw green frosting covered "nutter butter" cookies with black licorice "toenails" to make ghoulish looking ogre toes.  The ideas are endless... go crazy!

Spirited Spooky Jugs...
I got this idea based on a decoration tip in Disney's online Family Fun article. [check the link!] and on the same blog as the mummy cookies.  Since I wanted food ideas not decorations I started with the same jug idea but instead of putting lights inside.. I filled each with bright orange punch.  They both decorated the table and served the beverage! Since we use a ton of milk, all I needed to do was remember not to recycle them yet, and have the kids go to it with the black markers!

Witch's Hands: These are also from the Making Memories blog. You really do have to check it out! I warn you that the food ideas will make you gain weight just reading them they look sooooo good! The link gets you to the directions for making these gloves, but they are really easy and inexpensive to do. The bright spot with these is that they are mostly healthy [What's a few candy corn fingernails between ghosts, right??]