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How to Make Cookies Scary: The Halloween Cookie
Kid’s Halloween Party Tip
The best way to get your kids in the mood for their Trick or Treat endeavors is of course, to dress them up first in their costumes and send them off properly. In this article we will discuss, how to create a theme for your little one’s costume and how to get him in the mood for some scary Halloween fun!
The Scary Cookie
Is your child going as a ghoul, count dracula or a heart-eating monster? Start their adventure at home by serving some special Halloween cookies. Grab some cookie recipes and create cookies as instructed. For the bloody look, you may add this ’sauce’
The Sweetened ‘bloody’ Cookie Sauce: You will need karo syrup, red food coloring, a small amount of water and strawberry jam. Simply mix he food coloring and a small amount of water, then combine this with Karo syrup. Dip the cookie in this mixture and spread strawberry on top.
Wrap these cookies in foil or wax paper. These could serve as snacks for your kids while they go around scaring people and getting rewarded. Candies won’t nourish them much, but your special halloween cookies will!
Some Frugal Trick or Treat Accessories
Some Frugal Trick or Treat Accessories you can craft for your kids. Just take a smple hat or wristwatch and turn it into something special!
Toddlers and Halloween Trick or Treat: Scary or Fun?
If you opted to stay home for the holidays instead of going on those fabulous Mediterranean cruises, you probably have some plans to go trick or treating with your little ones during Halloween. Trick or treat is traditionally a house to house affair, whether the home owner’s are strangers or friends. There are some risks involved with exposing your toddler to the Halloween tradition too early, but you cannot simply let them miiss all the fun!
The Halloween Party Option
Besides trick or treat, there is the option to take your young one to a halloween party instead. This way, she will only need to “trick or treat” in one house, while she’s still getting used to seeing her siblings and their friends in scarier attires (if she even recognizes them). Whether you are attending a halloween party with your family or out in the streets braving the scary homes, there are a few things you should consider.
What costume should she wear?
These toddlers still don’t grasp the concept enough to decide what costume they want. You will have to choose for her. A cost effective way of going about this costume buying thing is to borrow one from a friend whose toddler has outgrown a halloween costume. When you have an idea what she’s gong to wear, you can buy matching accessories like umbrellas that are in the same color (for her and for you), just in case it rains.
Costume Idea: If she’s a fan of Blue’s Clues, you can make her look like “Blue” for the night, while your husband will dress as Steve. Looking at her reaction in front of the mirror should tell you that she recognizes the costume already and thus graps the concept of Halloween costumes faster.
Don’t make her wear masks
Masks can be very scary, particularly when your face is still too small for proper fittin. These masks may also slip and cover her eyes completely. Face painting is the rage among kids nowadays and will be much more comfortable for your young one.
Consider their shyness and don’t pressure them into saying “trick or treat”
Toddlers have barely learned how to talk and hearing how others say “trick or treat” could make them shy away from saying it. Just teach her to smile when given candy.
More Halloween Ideas for the Family to Enjoy
We (my sister and I) have been discussing a lot about some scary Halloween ideas to expose little tykes to during Halloween, and so far we came up with a few.
A Nature Walk
Taking a walk together through a hiking trail, park or the cemetery during Halloween could be pretty scary. However, most families will be around sharing the scares and the tricks so it could be fun! During your walk, he leaves, twigs, rocks, pine needles and bones (!) you collect could be used to spice up the Halloween scrap books. Nature tripping during Halloween brings back memories of our childhood, and we remember the tiny details of pretending to be princesses and frogs (I, in particular, wanted to be the frog that turns into a… princess. Hey, it’s our story!). These items may also be used as centerpieces during your Halloween dinner (oh yeah, the nature walk should always be in broad daylight).
Paint Pumpkins and other Cucurbits (why discriminate among the cucurbit family right?)
Pumpkin painting will soon replace carving as far as families are concerned. Carving our own pumpkins could be tedious and dangerous. The best compromise would be to buy carved pumpkins and paint them. You can hold Halloween Cucurbit painting contests and be the talk of the town for weeks after.
Have a Wonderful and Scary Halloween Dinner
Halloween is the time for pigging out, so make sure you have a few plans to carry out in terms of losing the “Halloween Treats” Weight (see Tonalin article). Nonetheless, here are a few Halloween Foodstuffs you can consume at will:
Rice Cereal Treats
Drop orange food coloring into the marshmallow or butter mixture as it melts to turn ordinary rice cereal treats into delicious Halloween consumables. Adding one candy to the top of each square will increase the fun and child appeal.
Marshmallow Haystacks
If the above rice cereal treat recipe doesn’t appeal to you you can replace the rice cereal with corn flake cereal. Haystacks can be built from these cereal mixtures, and like the previous recipe, can be spruced up by adding candy as accent.
