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Don’t you love no bake party food - especially when it is this cute (or should that be creepy)??  My sister-in-law made these for Skye’s Spooky party.  To make them you will need:

• Black licorice, cut into 10cm narrow strips -  (apparently Pull-n-Peel Twizzlers work well)
• Oreos or other cream-filled biscuits
• White Icing Tube
• Black Icing Tube

Put the Oreo in the microwave for 10-20 seconds, then take the top off of the biscuit.  Place 4 of the licorice strips across the cream of the biscuit, pushing them in slightly before replacing the top biscuit.  Use the Icing tubes to add the eyes.

Tip:  If you are having trouble getting the licorice to stick to the Oreo, put the Oreo back into the microwave for a few seconds to let the cream in the centre melt a little more (or use a dab of icing or melted chocolate).

My sister-in-law made these cute and tasty pumpkin heads for her daughter’s spooky party.  She simply melted some white chocolate, dunked in one side of the marshmallow and then dunked it in some orange sprinkles before drawing on faces with a black gel pen.

They were a great hit at the party.  You could even use them as party favours and wrap them up in cellophane bags.

Sack races are an oldie but a goodie!  And don’t despair if you don’t have a pile of hessian sacks lying around - you can use the eco fabric shopping bags as an alternative.  The kids can climb into the bags and hold onto the handles, or you can cut the base off of a bag and sew it to the top of another.  Much cheaper than making them from scratch.

Hold sack races as a stand alone game, or use the sacks to tie in with other games.  For example, at the dinosaur party, I read a letter to the kids telling them we needed to go on a dinosaur hunt, but the only way to get there was with “dino” sacks.  The kids were only too keen to climb into the sacks and jump their way to the imaginary destination!  This is a good way to eliminate the winning/losing scenario that younger kids don’t always deal with too well!

Sacks can even become cocoons for a butterfly party or mermaid tails for a mermaid party!

These jelly cups are great for a spooky or halloween party.  All you have to do is cut a flat surface on the bottom of your orange so that the orange stops rolling around.  Then cut off the top so that you can scoop out the orange inside - make sure you don’t make any holes.  Fill the orange with jelly (I halved the water to make sure it was pretty solid) and allow to set.  Once it has set use a sharp knife to cut out your scary eyes, nose and mouth.

The kids will love it!

Note:  Keep the orange pulp to use to make fresh orange juice.

These chocolate spiders are so easy and being chocolate are, of course, delicious!

All you need to do is melt 200g milk chocolate with 2 tbsp crunchy peanut butter.  Once melted, add 100g of plain fried noodles and mix well together.  Place 8 pieces of licorice strap or cut licorice pieces in the form of spider legs on baking paper.  Drop a teaspoon of the chocolate noodle mix on top of the licorice.  Repeat until you have used all the ingredients, then place your spiders into the fridge for 30 minutes.  Before serving, you can add icing eyes to complete the effect.

Cute and tasty little spider treats!

These witch biscuits make a nice addition to your spooky party or halloween celebrations.  Find yourself a witch-shaped cookie cutter and follow our instructions for gingerbread characters.

You can either have these already made for the party, or let the children do the decorating.  Keep them in the colours of your theme.

Note: You will need to buy powdered black colouring in order to get the icing true black.