All The Halloween-y Snack Ideas You Could Possibly Want

I cannot take credit for inventing this one – I found it on Pinterest – but I wish I could, because it’s genius, costs next-to-nothing, and takes about five seconds (not counting the twenty minutes I spent hunting for a box of Band-Aids to add the all-important finishing touch).

Ew. I know. But Bloody Brains score extremely high on the effort/impact scale: they take just a few minutes to make, and everybody will have something to say about them. (That something will probably be “ew.”)

Obviously you need to make a puking pumpkin this Halloween. If you click through to the post, you’ll find a whole bunch of ideas ranging from the basic to the utterly horrifying.

Now THIS is the kind of dessert I could have gotten on board with as a kid: Oreos that have been decimated to the point where total potential cookie intake is maximized like whoa.

The hardest part of making these was keeping my children from eating all of the lollipops quicker than I could wrap them up.

Bonus: These work both as party favors and as decor.

Draw on the little faces in advance, and whip up the (boxed, please) macaroni day-of, and you have a perfectly portable mini-meal.