Since Halloween is one holiday that’s focused on food and fun, it’s easy to come up with great party activities for kids where everyone even gets something edible and adorable as a favor. There are endless variations on cookie and cupcake decorating with favorite Halloween candies, so don’t get scared the next time you have to host a group of little ghouls — just try one of the fun and easy activities below!

Turn simple sugar cookies into real Halloween treats by cutting them out into spooky shapes and bake as usual. When the cookies have cooled, prepare boldly-colored mixtures of powdered sugar, water and food coloring and let the kids (and grown-ups) go wild.

Recipe to try: Flower Sugar Cookies

Create your Own Creepy Chocolate Lollipops
Everyone gets a lump of with Play-Doh and a (kid-friendly) plastic knife to create their own mold for one-of-a-kind Halloween lollypops. You can buy or make modeling chocolate — a mixture of chocolate and corn syrup — at a baking shop to make it even easier to work with the melted chocolate and the molds.

Recipe to try: Chocolate Lollipops

Make a Haunted Halloween House
Create a spooky Halloween House using your favorite candies as a fun party or family activity and you’ll end up with a great centerpiece to use throughout the Halloween festivities. Make sure you have enough spooky visitors for your haunted house by picking up ghost-shaped marshmallows and bats, gummy worms, and other candies that haunt local shops in October.

Recipe to try: Haunted Candy House

Serve Crunchy Candy Sushi
Use fruit roll-ups and marshmallow treats with a variety of fillings for colorful and kid-friendly candy sushi. Kids can cut the fillings to size, roll their sushi, and create exotic names for their new creations — a real "rainbow roll" won’t have anything on these playful treats!

Recipe to try: Candy Sushi

Host a Cupcake Decoration Contest
Either make chocolate and vanilla cupcakes in advance or with the kids — there is lots of easy stirring, measuring, and egg-breaking to be done — before you get down to the serious business of decoration. Set out bowls of chocolate and vanilla frosting and lots of candies for decorating. Help kids add a drop at a time of food coloring to color their frosting and see where their imaginations lead them!

Recipe to try: Spider Cupcakes

Bake a Jack-O-Lantern Cake
Bake your favorite cake recipe in muffin top pans and frost the cooled cakes with orange-colored buttercream. Kids can design the faces first on a piece of paper and get help unrolling a fruit roll-up and cutting out eyes, nose, and mouth with a sharp paring knife. Gently peel the pieces off of the plastic backing and lay on the frosted cakes to get a jack-o-lantern grin out of all your guests!

Recipe to try: Yellow Cupcakes

Recipe to try: Cupcake Icing for a Crowd