Mix 8 cups of cranberry juice and 6 cups of apple cider in a punch bowl. Add ice cubes and serve. Makes 14 cups.
Freeze orange juice in ice cube containers with wooden ice cream sticks.
Rinse 1 or 2 celery stalks. Have an adult cut the stalks into halves or thirds. Fill the hollow of each celery piece with peanut butter then sprinkle raisins across the peanut butter.
Use a pear half for the beetle's body. Add orange or peach slices for wings and apple or carrot strips for antennae and legs.Use raisins and apple or carrot strips to add details, like eyes, spots, or stripes.
Have an adult boil and drain 1 cup of jumbo pasta shells.
Let the pasta shells cool completely. Stuff the shells with small pieces of your favorite cheese and cold cuts.
Place a pretzel stick into each end of a jumbo marshmallow (use the short, thin pretzel sticks.)Keep adding marshmallows in either direction to make your centipede as long as you like. Use pretzel stick halves for legs.
First have a parent ready the broiler and toast 2 english muffin halves. Spread the english muffins with catsup and then sprinkle with shredded cheddar. Slice a hot dog like coins and place a few on each muffin in a pumpkin face. Place the muffins on a broiler pan and have a parent broil them until the cheese melts.
Use your favorite recipe, but instead of shaping it into a log, shape it into a corpse. Legs together, arms folded across chest. Bake as usual, but before serving, stab the poor guy in the heart and dump ketchup on him.
Make a nice punch (cranberry juice, frozen orange juice WITH PULP, and gingerale, or even just plain ol' orange juice WITH PULP) and then add some green and blue food colouring until it turns a sort of yucky grey colour - mmmmmm....The PULP is very important 'cause it looks TOTALLY DISGUSTING when it's all gray and that stuff is floating around on top.
In the punch you can float A FROZEN HAND - take a plastic dishwashing glove and fill it with red koolaid or cranberry juice or red fruit punch. Then freeze it carefully, trying to keep all the fingers from bending too much. When frozen, carefully peel off or cut away the glove and place the frozen hand in the punch (one of the fingers broke off mine and it looked pretty cool floating around in there! Hah!) Float a little light plastic spider or two in the punch.
Get BLACK JELLO by mixing blue food coloring in red jello-- I'm sure you could come up with many disgusting jello colors by experimenting with food color and dairy products. Archie McPhee online has brain and heart shaped jello molds, too.
Cut each slice of bread into the shape of lips, with a slit in the middle. Cut the bologna into strips that look like tounges. Insert the bologna into the slits in the lips(so it looks like the tounges are hanging out of the mouths). Cover the bread with mustard and broil until the bread is golden brown.
