Healthy Halloween Treats

Halloween is a notorious celebration of sweets, but that doesn’t mean healthy snacks need to be spooked out of your child’s holiday assortment. Check out these fun, delicious, DIY snacks; options like these are guaranteed to be helpful, and these pictures pretty accurately demonstrate how no-fuss your snack-assembly projects can be!

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Apple Monster Mouths: All you need to create this festive snack are sliced apples, yogurt-covered raisins and peanut butter! The process is as simple as the ingredients – just hollow out your apple slices, fill them with peanut butter and top them off with the raisins Not a fan of the latter? Almonds make for an excellent substitute.

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Snack-o’-Lantern Fruit Cups : Struggle when it comes to pumpkin carving? Good news; hollowing out these cut-out oranges is easy! Give your oranges some fun jack-o-lantern faces, and then fill them with an assortment of fruit or tasty trail mix!

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Spooky Spider Crackers : To concoct these Spooky Spider Crackers, you'll need circular whole wheat crackers, peanut butter or cream cheese, pretzels and raisins. Smooth your topping of choice over one side of the cracker, add your pretzel legs, and sandwich it all together with more spread and another cracker. Finally, give your spiders their eyes with a dollop of spread and a pair of raisins!

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Cheese Broom Sticks : If your child loves string cheese, this snack is likely to be a smash hit. Using string cheese and fresh chives, you can assemble these broomsticks in under 20 minutes!

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BOO-nana Ghost Pops : Who knew bananas could easily shape-shift into terrifying ghosts? You'll start with frozen bananas, and dip them into orange juice, followed by shredded coconut. Go heavy on the shredded coconut. Then, using mini chocolate chips and raisins, design their ghostly faces! For less of a mess, cut your bananas in half and stick them onto Popsicle sticks!

So, hopefully our ideas will kick start your DIY creativity. Candy and other sweets will inevitably sneak into their diets whether you like it or not, so consider these easy, healthy treats as a way to offset the classic Halloween sugar binge!

For more DIY food ideas and crafts for the entire family, follow us on Pinterest and check out our ‘Healthy Halloween’ board.

Happy snacking!