30 Easy Halloween Treats for Kids
Halloween is the perfect excuse to make something a little playful for the kids. This collection of Halloween treats for kids includes easy desserts, party snacks, and fun treats made using simple methods. From spooky cookies to cute Halloween treats, there are plenty of ideas for school parties, family gatherings, or Halloween night without making things too complicated.
Easy No Bake Halloween Treats
I gathered this group of recipes for the moms who inevitably receive last-minute requests for Halloween treats. That happened to me at least once every year. These easy no bake Halloween treats are quick to make, simple to decorate, and can be ready in plenty of time for the party.
1. Mummy Rice Krispie Treats
Recipe and Image: Crayons and Cravings
3-Ingredient Spooky Mummy Rice Krispie Treats are the perfect quick and easy-to-make Halloween treat. Time to go pumpkin picking, carve your jack-o-lantern, buy the kids’ Halloween costumes, and bake some fun Halloween treats.
2. Two Ingredient Halloween Monster Ice Scream
Recipe and Image: Pam’s Daily Dish
This 2 Ingredient Halloween Ice Scream is the coolest easiest recipe for a yummy treat the kids will love. Those candy googly eyes make it so fun to serve for Halloween or any theme party. Enjoy the creamy deliciousness! It looks great and tastes sweet and luscious.
3. Sweet and Salty Halloween Snack Board
Recipe and Image: Tasty Oven
This Sweet and Salty Halloween Snack Board for Kids complements the healthy Halloween snack board. It’s easy to put together in about 20 minutes and involves no cooking – favorite part! Let the kids help pick out and arrange the foods to get them involved and make it a family fun event.
4. Oreo Cookie Spiders
Recipe and Image: Moms Who Save
This easy no-bake Halloween treat is made with Oreo cookies, candy eyes, and pretzel legs for a spooky snack kids and adults will love. These are the sweetest little cookie spider cookie for kids, Perfect for Halloween parties, classroom treats, dessert tables, or a fun afternoon activity.
5. Halloween Bark
Recipe and Image: Noshing with the Nolands
This Halloween Bark has decadent dark and white chocolate, tasty candy, and mini Oreo Cookies. It is easy to make, so you can make it with little ones and customize it as you prefer. Leftover Halloween candy can also be transformed into this great bark, as any chocolate bar cut-up would also work.
6. Chocolate Covered Halloween Pretzel Rods
Recipe and Image: This Silly Girls Kitchen
Fun and easy treats, these Halloween Chocolate Pretzel Rods are easy to make, take minimal ingredients, and are fun for kids and adults alike. If you are looking for an easy and fun Halloween snack that everyone will love, then try these Halloween Chocolate Pretzel Rods.
7. Poison Apple Fudge
Recipe and Image: The Soccer Mom Blog
Poison Apple Fudge is a fun and spooky Halloween treat that combines rich, creamy fudge with a vibrant green color and a sweet candy apple-inspired flavor. Perfect for Halloween parties, dessert tables, and festive gifting, this easy no-bake recipe is sure to impress both kids and adults.
8. Bat Truffles for Halloween
Recipe and Image: On My Kids Plate
Chocolate Oreo bat truffles make the cutest dessert for Halloween! Make these adorable, chocolaty treats for a Halloween party for a treat everyone will love. These little Oreo bats are super adorable, and fun to make as a Halloween treat.
9. Halloween Nutter Butters
Recipe and Image: In the Kids Kitchen
A fun No-Bake Halloween Cookie recipe, these Halloween Nutter Butter Ghosts and Bats are super cute and easy for kids to help make! These Halloween Nutter Butters are the perfect low-prep, no-bake, 10-minute, Spook-tacular Treat!
10. Boo-tiful Popcorn Ghosts
Recipe and Image: Pretty DIY Home
These pretty Popcorn Ghosts are made with sweet marshmallow popcorn and finished with simple candy eyes. They are easy to shape, fun for kids, and make an adorable addition to a Halloween party table.
11. No-Bake Mini Donut Spiders Halloween Treat
Recipe and Image: Organized Island
If you’re looking for spooky treats that are just the right mix of fun and creepy-cute, these mini donut spiders are perfect for Halloween parties. Made with chocolate donuts, pretzel legs, and candy eyes, they come together quickly. Great for kids, classrooms, or as a fun Halloween snack at home.
12. Candy-Coated Pumpkin Pretzels
Recipe and Image: The Purple Pumpkin Blog
Why not make these Candy-Coated Pumpkin Pretzels to hand out to Trick or Treaters this Halloween? They’re so easy to make, and you need just 3 ingredients! They’re the perfect sweet and salty snack for your next party or get-together. Plus, they’re so simple to make that even kids can help out.
13. Easy Halloween Snacks
Recipe and Image: Delicious Table
These savory, salty-sweet Easy Halloween snacks are loved by kids and adults. Build a fun snack board tray with your favorite chips, crackers, sweet treats, and spooky candy eyes! The idea here is to use what you have: grab a tray or a large cheeseboard, some small bowls, or glasses.
14. Wormy Popcorn Balls
Recipe and Image: Pretty DIY Home
These Wormy Caramel Popcorn Balls are a fun Halloween treat made with gooey caramel popcorn and colourful gummy worms. Wrap them individually for parties, school treats, or Halloween night, and add the printable labels for an extra festive touch.
15. Halloween Candy Skewers
Recipe and Image: Dinner then Dessert
These Halloween Candy Skewers are a simple no-bake treat made by threading colourful gummy candies and wrapped chocolates onto wooden skewers. Choose a mix of spooky eyeballs, worms, and pumpkins for an easy party treat that looks festive with very little effort.
16. Monster Halloween Truffles
Recipe and Image: Homemade Hooplah
These Monster Halloween Truffles are rich, chocolatey little treats decorated with colourful candy melts and candy eyes. They are a cute no-bake dessert for Halloween parties and can be customized with different monster colours.
Halloween Cookies, Brownies, and Cupcakes
Cookies, brownies, and cupcakes are always popular with little ones. Add a few fun, simple decorations and, like magic, they are ready for Halloween.
17. Trick Or Treat Candy Overload Halloween Brownies
Recipe and Image: On My Kid’s Plate
These delicious brownies are stuffed full of gooey Trick or Treat candy and a spooky cream cheese swirl all on top of a super chocolaty brownie. These decadent brownies are made for sharing! Completely fun to bring to Halloween parties. Little monsters love them!
18. Mummy Cake Pops (Easy Halloween Cake Pops Recipe)
Recipe and Image: Rose Bakes
Spooky Season is almost here, and these Easy Halloween Cake Pops will surely be a hit at all your Halloween celebrations. Mummy Cake Pops are easy to make and are so much fun for kids and adults alike! Use cake mix to make these shortcut Halloween Pops; they come together quickly. Perfect for a Halloween party or gift!
19. Simply Spooky Halloween Cookies
Recipe and Image: Dish in the Kitchen
These spooky Halloween Sugar Cookies are made with rich chocolate cookie dough and a simple gingerbread man cutter. Decorate them with white royal icing and candy eyes to create playful mummies and skeletons for school lunches or Halloween parties.
20. Halloween Snack Mix
Recipe and Image: I Heart Eating
Best Halloween snack mix recipe! This blend of Chex, Cheerios, nuts, and candy makes an easy Halloween snack, treat, or dessert. This Halloween snack mix is perfect for when you want to have a fun holiday treat but don’t feel like going crazy decorating.
21. Candy Bar Blondies
Recipe and Image: Dinner at the Zoo
These candy bar blondies are a chewy brown sugar cookie base topped with rich chocolate frosting and your favorite candy. A fun and decadent treat! These blondies are also perfect to bring to Halloween parties and to share with friends.
22. Halloween Brownies with Chocolate Cat Silhouette
Recipe and Image: Pretty DIY Home
These Halloween Brownies are rich and chocolatey, with a white chocolate moon and dark chocolate cat silhouette on top. They look impressive on a party table, but the simple chocolate decorations make them easier to create than they appear.
23. Witches Cupcakes
Recipe and Image: A Beautiful Mess
These Witch Cupcakes turn simple cupcakes into silly green witches with candy eyes, licorice hair, and chocolate covered sugar cone hats. They are playful, colourful, and certain to stand out on a Halloween dessert table.
24. Mini Halloween Pudding Pies
Recipe and Image: Kara Creates
These Mini Halloween Pudding Pies are easy individual desserts topped with playful Halloween ghosts. Their small size makes them simple to serve at parties, and kids can help add candy eyes, sprinkles, or other spooky toppings.
25. Halloween Snickers Mummy Treats
Recipe and Image: xoxo Bella
These Halloween treats wrap mini Snickers in crescent dough for a fun, spooky twist. They’re quick, easy and guaranteed to vanish fast. Perfect for kids and grownups alike, these bite-sized desserts will disappear faster than you can say “boo!”
Healthier Halloween Treats for Kids
26. Halloween Banana Ghosts
Recipe and Image: Stress Less Be Healthy
Your kids are going to have so much fun making these Halloween Banana Ghosts! This is also a great Halloween craft snack for toddlers, as it’ll help them with fine motor skills of cutting (with a butter knife!) and placing chocolate chips on the bananas as eyes and mouths.
27. Silly Halloween Apple Monsters
Recipe and Image: Stress Less Be Healthy
Your kids will think you’re the best when you pull out all of the ingredients to make these adorable Halloween Apple Monster Mouths! You’ll be glad to know that these little goofy apple monster mouths aren’t only cute, but relatively easy to make!
Halloween Drinks and Pudding Treats
I like Halloween drinks and pudding treats because they are easy to make, simple to serve in individual portions, and a little more unique than the usual Halloween desserts. Here are a few recipes and ideas to try.
28. Pumpkin Patch Dirt Cups
Recipe and Image: Simply Stacey
These fun dirt pudding cups are dressed up spooky for your Halloween parties or a sweet fall treat. Pumpkin Patch Dirt Cups are so simple to make that even the kids can help! You can serve it in clear plastic cups so it’s easily transported or in parfait dishes. The perfect fall treat!
29. Melted Witch Pudding Parfaits
Recipe and Image: The First Year Blog
Melted Witch Pudding Parfaits are a fun and spooky Halloween dessert that’s as easy to make as it is impressive to serve. Layers of creamy pudding, colorful toppings, and a playful melted witch design make these parfaits perfect for Halloween parties, classroom treats, and festive family gatherings.
30. Halloween Punch for Kids
Recipe and Image: Walking on Sunshine Recipes
Serve up something colorful, festive, and just a little bit spooky with this Halloween Punch for Kids! This non-alcoholic drink is quick to put together, budget-friendly, and guaranteed to bring plenty of smiles to the celebration.
31. Spooky Oreo Milkshake
Recipe and Image: Country Hill Cottage
This Spooky Oreo Milkshake is made with vanilla ice cream, milk, and plenty of Oreo cookies. Finish the glasses with melted chocolate, sprinkles, and the free printable bat wrappers for a fun Halloween drink kids will love.
Save these Halloween treats for kids to your favourite Halloween Pinterest board so you can find them when party planning begins. This collection of easy Halloween treats includes cookies, brownies, no bake desserts, snacks, drinks, and healthier ideas for children.
Halloween seems so much more fun than I remember it being eons ago. Children today are lucky to have so much creativity, attention, and energy poured into making the holiday special. I hope this collection of Halloween treats for kids helps you choose a few playful recipes and create some happy memories of your own.