For quick and easy, buy refrigerated breadsticks and cut each end a bit and twist ends to look like bones, season as you wish and bake - serve with warm spag or pizza sauce and you have bones with blood, cut up hot dogs lengthwise in 4-6 slices and put in crock pot with bbq sauce and serve on bun - bloody worm sandwiches - spider crackers, use ritz or other round cracker, and pb or cheese spread, straight pretzels, put pb on one cracker, stick 4 pretzels on each side for legs, put top on, then attach 2 raisin eyes on front w/ pb or cheese. You can make jello jiggler cut outs. Cut tortillas or pita with cookie cutter in bat shape and serve with "blood" sauce or veggie dip - take carrot sticks and make a little groove on end and shape a "fingernail" out of radish or red pepper and adhere with dip or cream cheese for witches fingers - another way is to use pretzel rods and melt white or dark chocolate on half of stick and add cut almond on end for fingernail. Have fun!

Blue Iris, great ideas...I think I'll borrow one for tomorrow's 3rd grade "party".
I'm already doing Pumpkin muffins. (That's the healthy, we have a junkfood policy at our school.) However, on certain times we (parent volunteers) get away with a little junk treats..LOL

How about some strawberry ghosts? Just dip strawberries into melted white chocolate and put dots of black icing or mini choc chips for eyes.

You can also dip Nutter Butter cookies into white chocolate, add eyes and make mummies or ghosts. My grandkids' favorite last year was peanut butter balls dipped into white chocolate and decorated with an M&M and some red icing squiggles for a bloodshot eyeball.

Canned breadsticks can be baked into finger shapes too, with a slice of almond for a fingernail and pizza sauce sa "bloody" dip.

For a drink, green slime is easy, fast, and not completely disgusting in taste. Some of the soft drink and juice mixture can be tinted green with food coloring and frozen inside a rubber glove with gummy worms, spiders or other candy "bugs" and floated in the punch bowl.

Ingredients
2 quarts lime sherbet
2 liters ginger ale
1 (46-ounce) can pineapple juice

Directions
In a punch bowl, add 2 quarts of lime sherbet. Then add ginger ale and pineapple juice. Decorate as desired.

Annie

Somebody else over here suggested mummy hotdogs. I'm dying to see what my little guy will think. They're cute as a button!

Here is a link that might be useful: mummy hotdogs

Halloween is my very favorite holiday! Now that my son is graduating from college this year, I am alone in my celebrations. DH is a grinch about Halloween-oh, I'm confusing holidays ;p I was looking at Halloween treats on RecipeZaar yesterday and thought the Tombstone Treats were really cute. Maybe cute is not what high school kids are looking for. They could assemble their own graveyard at the party!

Judy

Here is a link that might be useful: Tombstone Treats

You guys definitely came through!!! Thanks. Off to the GS to get breadstick dough, hotdogs, strawberries and sherbet. I think those will round out the menu very nicely.

I know, I know. Spinach dip with a pumpkin carved so it looks like it is throwing it up. It's gross but it's Halloween.

How about roast pork tenderloin, covered with an apricot-onion sauce. Add a few chicken wings as decoration and voilà : Deep fried zombie arms. Yummy.

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ewww ewww ewwwwwww! those zombie arms look great!

And cookie, I love that idea of the dip. I however have had to swear that I will not adorn our table again this year with the meathead. so I will never get away with those ideas as much as I love them - LOL!

You guys are killing me - great ideas. I'm copying the thread to my hard drive in case. I'll definitely be using these ideas in the future.

I just have to post that I've seen the threads about the caramel covered cheetos and have been horrified by the thought -- I finally made them this year because I decided I must be missing something --sorry, am I the only one who didn't become addicted to them? I didn't like them. . . .