With Halloween on the horizon, ramp up the excitement in your household with these 5 Fun and Easy Halloween Treats Using String Cheese. It only takes a few minutes to turn an everyday snack into a special holiday delight. Your child will be thrilled to have a joyful surprise in the lunch bag. All of these goodies listed below use string cheese and include spooky creativity.
Halloween Treats:
- String Cheese Ghosts
- String Cheese Mummy
- String Cheese Fingers
- String Cheese Broom
- String Cheese Spiders
Ingredients/Supplies:
String cheese
Black Sharpie
Cheese cloth
Scissors
Tape
Peanut butter
Sliced almonds
Pretzel sticks
Chives
Bread
Toothpicks
Black beans or capers
- 6 String Cheeses still in Wrapper
- Black Sharpie
- Using a black Sharpie, just add two dots for “eyes” and an oval for a “mouth” on the plastic packaging of a cheese stick. The ghost will look like it’s saying “Booo!”
- To ensure that your design sticks onto the packaging, wait a few minutes for the string cheese to come to room temperature.
- 6 String Cheeses still in Wrapper
- Cheesecloth
- Scotch Tape
- Black Sharpie
- Cut a few inches of cheesecloth.
- Ensure that enough cheesecloth is cut to wrap around a cheese stick at least two or three times. Wrap the cheesecloth around a piece of string cheese.
- Seal the wrap with tape.
- To finish off the design, draw two “eyes” with a black Sharpie.
- 3 String Cheeses
- Peanut Butter
- 6 Almond Slices
- Unwrap a piece of string cheese. Cut in half.
- Dab a tiny amount of peanut butter, or any other sticky binding agent, on one end of the cheese stick.
- Place an almond slice on top of the binder to form a “fingernail.”
- If desired, enhance the life-like quality of this treat by slicing slits in the center of each cheese stick to imitate knuckle creases.
- 2 String Cheeses
- 6 Pretzel Sticks
- 6 Chives
- Unwrap a piece of string cheese. Cut into thirds.
- Snip the bottom of each piece into strings to resemble the frayed ends of a broom.
- Insert a pretzel stick at the top of each piece to resemble a broomstick.
- For a decorative touch, tie each “broom” with a piece of chive.
- 6 String Cheese
- 2-3 Slices of Bread
- 6 Toothpicks
- Peanut Butter
- 12 Capers or Black Beans
- Unwrap a piece of string cheese.
- Cut each end into fourths to resemble the 8 legs of a spider. Leave approximately a 1-inch area in the center for the bread to wrap around.
- Remove the crust from the bread.
- Cut 1-inch slices of soft bread.
- Wrap the bread slices around the bare center of each string cheese.
- Use a toothpick to bind the bread with the string cheese.
- Dab a tiny amount of peanut butter, or any other sticky binding agent, onto the area of the bread where you will place the “eyes.”
- Top the sticky binder with either a black bean or caper.
There are no tricks here. These 5 Fun and Easy Halloween Treats Using String Cheese are simple to make and extremely festive. Have a frightfully fun Halloween and enjoy the candy in moderation.
Check out previous Halloween Posts:
Jack-O-Lantern Fruit Cups and Spooky Spider Halloween Recipes
3 Spooky Halloween Apple Recipes
Spooky Halloween Meal Ideas
5 Fun Halloween Treats
Jack-O-Lantern Pita and Date Bugs
Alexa Tiletile, Dietetic Intern
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