Build a healthy Halloween charcuterie board for kids this spooky season, to counter all those sweet treats they'll inevitably be snacking on! Fill your board with your favorite fruits, vegetables, meats and cheeses. Make your Halloween charcuterie extremely quick and easy by using pre-packaged and no bake ingredients!
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Snack boards are fantastic for any type of party. You can arrange foods in festive shapes, like a snowman or the Easter Bunny, and make them special for all occasions. Our favorite holiday charcuterie board is this turkey shaped board for Thanksgiving, and this Red, White, and Blue Kid-Friendly Charcuterie Board for summer barbecues or this s'mores snack board for kids' sleepovers and summer parties are 2 of my favorites.
We love making healthier Halloween charcuterie boards to oppose all those sweet candy treats the kids get while trick or treating or at school parties. Healthy snack boards take little time to prepare. It's never taken me more than 20 minutes to get the board put together since the foods are generally fruits and vegetables and prepackaged snacks that don't need to be cooked. This is a cute skeleton shaped board for something a little different, too.
If you're new to putting together charcuterie boards, this guide to making 15-minute kid-friendly charcuterie boards is a great place for helpful tips and ideas. And make sure to check out our red and green Christmas snack board and Easter candy dessert board too!
Supplies Needed
You'll need a charcuterie board and some small bowls to arrange the foods. This board on Amazon is one of my favorite circular boards. I love that it has handles for easy carrying! If you'd like a rectangular snack board, this one here is a great option. But you can also use a large wooden cutting board if you don't have time to go shopping or if you're on a really tight budget.
Ingredients Needed
There are a ton of different kid-friendly foods that you can choose for your Halloween snack board. For the Halloween-theme, I am sticking with yellow, orange, white, black, and green colored foods. I like to not only stick with fall and Halloween colors, but to make pumpkins out of the orange and yellow foods. You can see in the pictures below, pumpkins with cheddar cheese cubes, carrots, and cucumber stems!
Just remember to consider the ages of the kids.This particular kid-friendly Halloween charcuterie board is made for kids over 2, or kids who have teeth and are used to chewing different textures.
Orange: full clementines to resemble pumpkins, peeled clementine slices, baby carrots, cheddar cheese cubes, mini hot dogs
Yellow: candy corn (crackers and banana slices are a good idea too)
White: mozzarella cheese balls
Black: blackberries (olives are great too, but I forgot them!)
Green: bite-size cucumbers, apples and caramel
Sweets: candy corn, or any other Halloween candy!
Make your healthy Halloween snack board with your preferred veggies, fruit, cheeses, and meats. You can't do it wrong!
How To Put Together A Halloween Charcuterie Board
- Arrange the bowls on opposite corners of the charcuterie tray and fill them with the mini marshmallows and candy corn. Place the clementines around the board in opposite places.
- Arrange the green apple slices, pickles, mini hot dogs and baby carrots around the clementines and bowls of candy.
- Fill in the gaps with the blackberries and cheddar cheese cubes.
Chef's Tips
- Kids Ages. If small children who can choke easily on certain foods will enjoy your snack board, watch out for choking hazard foods like grapes or anything hard to chew.
- Allergies. Consider a nut-free snack board if you're serving to guests and you don't know if someone has an allergy. Although, I think it's pretty standard that parent's of kids with allergies alert a party host about allergies ahead of time.
- Weather/Temperature. If you're serving your snack board outside, consider leaving out items that can easily melt if you live in a hotter climate or foods that quickly attract flies and ants.
Recipe
Healthy Halloween Charcuterie Board For Kids
Equipment
- charcuterie board
Ingredients
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- 1 cup candy corn
- 4-5 clementines
- 2 green apples, sliced
- 2 cups mini pickles
- 1-2 cups baby carrots
- 1-2 cups mini hot dogs
- 1-2 cups cheddar cheese cubes
- 1 cup blackberries
Instructions
- Arrange the bowls on opposite corners of the charcuterie tray and fill them with the mini marshmallows and candy corn. Place the clementines around the board in opposite places.
- Arrange the green apple slices, pickles, mini hot dogs and baby carrots around the clementines and bowls of candy.
- Fill in the gaps with the blackberries and cheddar cheese cubes.
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