Halloween Muffin Tin Meal

 Kick­ing off Hal­loween week with a spooky muf­fin tin meal!   

Big Brother is much more inter­ested in and excited about Hal­loween this year–he’s lov­ing all the fun crafts, dec­o­ra­tions, and foods.  He thinks it’s all pretty fun and was super excited about his Hal­loween muf­fin tin lunch!  

 

So, here’s what our Hal­loween tin con­sisted of (clock­wise start­ing upper left):

Cheese pump­kin, fruity bat, ghost banana, worms in the mud, mon­ster eye­balls, and witch fin­gers! 
Here’s what I did:

• pump­kin: sliced a piece of cheese a lit­tle thick; then carved a pump­kin from the slice
• bat: took a grape fruit leather (any dark color would work) and carved out the shape of a bat; used a cou­ple of large cir­cle sprin­kles for eyes
• ghost:  see direc­tions in this post (this one turned out much bet­ter than the first go ’round)
• worms in mud: one hot dog cut into long strips; then boiled in a lit­tle water in the microwave until the strips started to curl; placed in baked beans (mud) 
• mon­ster eye­balls: green olives
• witch fin­gers: use a lit­tle cream cheese to stick an almond slice to a baby carrot 

The lunch was such a hit and I was quite pleased with how it turned out!  Usu­ally when I think of fun Hal­loween foods, only sug­ary ones come to mind.  So, I was espe­cially pleased that I man­aged it with no candy or desserty treats, as I think there will be plenty of those this week any­way! 


What fun foods do you make for Hal­loween?

Linked to: *Wickedly Cre­ative Hal­loween Party