I found this idea on line. Go to the dollar store or family dollar and buy a kitty litter box and scooper. Then add grapenuts cereal (kitty litter), you then add unwrapped tootsie rolls and mix it. Set it on the table and let your guests draw their own conclusions.

Here's my plan for this years party:

Finger sandwiches - using a bat cookie cutter and dark bread and a ghost cookie cutter and white bread

Brain dip - crab dip shaped with my brain mold

Mummy fingers - slices of flour tortillas rolled around assorted fillings

Ghost eggs - like stuffed egges except the yoke is removed from a small hold leaving most of the egg intacted, Then refilled with the mixed stuffing and stood on big end with black olive slices for eyes and mouths.

Cookies - witch finger cookies and Merangue Bones

assorted chips/crackers and assorted dips

I used the brain mold for a shirmp spread, the hand mold for a tomato and crab spread, the heart mold for a cherry jello dish, sugar cookies for the witches fingers, covered pretzels with white choc. for bones and of course bat/chicken wings. This year I am thinking about adding a small wedding style cake with rats, spiders and webs.

alot of great idea'a!!We did lil'smokies last year and cooked them in Famous Daves BBQ sauce.they were fingers of lil' children.My halloween party is a pot luck and the guests bring a spooky dish.I provide all of the beverages and several dishes my self but it gives us variety and the guests have fun seeing what so and so is going to come up with this year.I need ideas for a food that isn't treat like.The chili is a fab idea and so is the Bat sandwiches and mummy fingers,any other ideas.The meat head is terrific!!!I love the nasty kitty litter box idea!!!Thanks

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Oops when i wrote the work Idea'a(I ment Idea's)I just woke up.

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llondra....if you would be so kind as to share your Vampire Punch receipe - I would most appreciate it

I am looking for something scary....but not TOO scary for this years party. The last party I made vampire martinis....it was vodka, a drop of grenadine, and a spoonful of cherry jello shooter....looked just like congealed blood, it was absolutely disgusting, but people loved it...and the people dressed as vampired of course, had to usually be cut off....[:0]

Hi spooks! I like your ideas, except the kitty litter cake, just can't warm up to that : )
I remember the night I turned 21, many moons ago, I drank gin & tonics in a nightclub...they GLOWED IN THE BLACKLIGHTS! I found a recipe somewhere online using this effect with a drink of gin & midori liqour. They used Mt. Dew tho, and i find that unappealing...thinking of trying some pre-party mixes (strictly quality control, of course) with pellegrino, 7-up, or maybe even margerita mix. They called these Toxic Waste, btw.
I'm shooting for more elegant foods this year, with over-the-top decorations, maybe also a little nod to Halloweens of my youth with some kind of cool retro-type decorations.
Making my own corn chips in the shape of bones to go with an incredible Butternut-chipotle dip I tweaked from an allrecipes.com quesadilla recipe-
The tradtional pot of vegetarian chile, which most carnivores find scary until the try it.
Maybe Martha Stewarts fried egg rolls...apart from that it's still up in the air. seems all the ideas are in the drinks this year: hot apple cider with Cap'n Morgan's, Sangria, which I believe means bloody anyway, right? (Please, pardon my crummy spanish if I'm wrong) Certainly going to try the vampire martinis!

Here's a fun idea if you are a pumpkin freak like me...I buy a bunch of the really small pumpkins (not the gourds) then hollow them out and use them to serve any dipping sauces or salsa in them.

i love that idea!

another idea using pumpkins...
take an average size pumpkin, and carve a face with a puking mouth (a big O works good)
put the pumpkin on a tray..
make some chunky gaucamole...
and place the guac coming out of the mouth and onto the tray. spread tortilla chips around it.

Both of the pumpkin idea's are great!!!Halloween is going to be so much fun this year!!![]Since my hubby is going to be a Pirate and Iam the Tavern Wench ,I just happen to have 2 fabulous small treasure chests(hand craften by my grandpa)Iam going to open them up and fill them with chips or use them in some way.
Does any one have any idea's for my Pirate them.
I think Iam going to use small pumpkins as dip dishes.Cool idea!!

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