I have been making Mandarin pumpkins for our Halloween parties for over 7 years now! They are a hit and easy to make not to mention--healthy. Usually I just fill a huge vase with the mandarins and use it as decor for our party table and the kids get to grab one when they are needing a snack before the actual food is served. You can have so much fun with mandarins. We used some optional props this year for our silly pumpkins. These are so fun and goofy! We are working on orange, circle … [Read more...]
Fast & Fun Halloween Snacks
This may be coming early but I couldn't help myself since I was encouraged to write a Halloween post this past week by a client, they turned out so cute in the creepy cute way, see for yourself here. My only requirements for these Halloween snacks was that they be fast and simple but fun. So all of these were just that! What I love about these snacks is that they're versatile, I used them during our school lessons, for parties and just a fun snack for the kids lunch. 12+ Fast & Fun … [Read more...]
Halloween Finger Food
This is a compensated campaign in collaboration with Armour Vienna Sausage and Latina Bloggers Connect. These Halloween fingers are not your ordinary fingers because they come with an amazingly easy chipotle dipping sauce. One of the things about growing up in the U.S. as a third culture kid is that we had fun adopting certain American holidays and then adding our own spin to it. For example, for Thanksgiving our food spread included your typical turkey, pumpkin pie but we always served it … [Read more...]
Halloween Food: Mummy Pizza
Halloween Food: Mummy Pizza Have you read the book Where's My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi? It's a fun little book about a mummy who can't find his mama mummy. We read it as we started our M is for Monsters (& Mummies) week! We've also been studying Egypt with my older boys who've been fascinated by the mummies. So this fun lunch was perfect to wrap it all up! I actually call this type of pizza a "Tortizza." When I was in college there was a little cafe that served tortizza's it was … [Read more...]