In the Kitchen with Hadley and Lizzy: Halloween Treats

We are excited to launch our fall series: In the Kitchen with Hadley and Lizzy! At Pediatrics Plus, we are committed to promoting and encouraging healthy child development tips and activities that you and your family can try at home.

Cooking with your child is one of the best ways to make connections across and amongst many disciplines. Children learn by touching, tasting, seeing, feeling, and listening. By spending time in the kitchen with your child, you are teaching science in action; helping to lay down basic math skills, reading and time-telling skills; encouraging healthy food choices; building confidence and creativity; enhancing communication and deepening connections with your child.

Hadley and Lizzy have a fun video that you can watch with your child to learn how to make Popcorn Monster Hands and Spider Cookies. We’ve also provided a list below of fun Halloween treats that you and your family can make to enjoy together or share with your friends!

When starting on your cooking adventure, remember these helpful tips:

• Children have short attention spans so give them quick, simple jobs
• Give instructions one at a time
• Expect children to spill things and make a mess; it’s part of the fun!
• Include cleaning-up as part of the activity

Kid-friendly halloween recipe ideas:

Crescent Mummy Dogs

Prep time: 30 min

Total time: 50 min

Ingredients: 5

Ingredients

• 1  can (8 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
• 2 ½ slices American cheese, quartered (2.5 oz)
• 10 large hot dogs
• Cooking spray
• Mustard or ketchup, if desired

Steps

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees (parent)
2. Unroll dough and separate at perforation to create 4 rectangles (child)
3. With kitchen scissors, cut each rectangle into 10 long pieces (parent or older child)
4. Cut cheese into 4 long pieces (parent or older child)
5. Wrap 4 pieces of dough and 1 piece of cheese around hot dog to look like mummy bandages (child)
6. Place wrapped hot dogs (cheese side down) on cookie sheet and spray with cooking spray (child)
7. Place in oven and bake 13 to 17 minutes until dough is golden brown (parent)
8. With mustard, draw on “face” (child)

Pillsbury Halloween Snack Recipes

Jack O’Lantern Quesadillas

Prep time: 20 min

Total time: 30 min

Ingredients: 4

Ingredients

• 16 (8-inch) flour tortillas
• 8 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 4 cups grated cheddar cheese (12 oz.) 
• Grilled chicken (optional)

Steps

1. Heat skillet on medium high-heat and add vegetable oil (parent)
2. Use kitchen scissors or knife to cut pumpkin shape out of quesadillas (children should only do this under parent supervision)
3. Sprinkle cheese and chicken (optional) onto pumpkin-shaped tortilla. Top with another pumpkin-shaped tortilla (child)
4. Cook in skillet 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until browned (parent)

AllYou Halloween Recipes for Kids

Ghastly Goblin Grins

Prep time: 20 min

Total time: 20 min

Ingredients: 5

Ingredients

• 1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened 
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla 
• 2 large apples, cut into quarters 
• 1/4 cup PLANTERS Slivered Almonds

Steps

1. Beat cream cheese with mixer until creamy (child with adult supervision)
2. Add sugar and vanilla; mix well (child)
3. Cut apples into quarters (parent)
4. Cut thin wedge in peel side of each apple piece (parent)
5. Fill with 1 tsp. cream cheese mixture (child)
6. Insert 4 to 6 almonds in cream cheese mixture in each apple to resemble teeth (child)

Kraft Halloween Recipes for Kids