Here are some fun and easy recipes kids can make! [Kids, be sure to get an adult's help in the kitchen!]

Monster Brew
- 8 cups of cranberry juice
- 6 cups of apple cider
Mix cranberry and apple cider in a punch bowl. Add ice cubes and serve. Makes 14 cups.

Pumpkin Pops
Freeze orange juice in ice cube containers with wooden ice cream sticks.

Ants on a Log
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. *Yum!*

Beetle Brunch
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.

Stuffed Snails
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.

Centipede Surprise
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.

Trick or Treat Cereals
Place these combinations on your hot or cold cereal:

• Peachy Pumpkins: Place a peach half on your cereal, give it raisin eyes, nose, and stem. Then add an apple slice for a mouth
• Goofy Ghost: Use a pear half and place three raisins for the eyes and mouth.
• Black Cat: Use a big prune for the body and a small prune for the head, raisins for the tail and ears, and bits of apple for the face
• Witchy Witch: Use a prune for the body, banana slice head, coconut hair, raisin eyes, nose, mouth, hands, and feet. Top it off with a pineapple broom.

Lil Pumpkin Pizzas
First have a parent ready the broiler and toast 2 English muffin halves. Spread the English muffins with catsup (or pizza sauce) and then sprinkle with shredded cheddar. Slice a hot dog like coins (or use pepperoni) 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.

The following recipes are for adults but I am sure they will let you help!

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Recipe 1
You will need pumpkin seeds, a cookie sheet, aluminum foil, cooking oil, salt, a mixing bowl, a teaspoon, and a spatula or tablespoon.

1. Wash the seeds in lukewarm water
2. Fill a bowl with water. Soak the seeds for 1 hour
3. Spread the seeds on a piece of foil to dry. Let them dry for 1 or 2 days
4. Put the seeds in a bowl. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons of cooking oil. Stir the seeds and oil
5. Spread the seeds out on a cookie sheet. lightly salt them.
6. Bake the seeds at 300 for 30 minutes. (Ask an adult to turn the seeds every 5 minutes with the spatula or spoon.)
7. let the seeds cool completely before you munch em

Recipe 2
Wash and drain seeds. Pour 1/4 cup vegetable oil on a large cookie sheet. Spread seeds on the sheet, coating them well with oil. Bake in oven at 350 until seeds are lightly brown (8-10 minutes). Remove, drain on a paper towel and sprinkle with salt. Store seeds in an airtight container.

Yummy Pumpkin Cookies
  1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  1/2 cup shortening
  2 eggs
  1 lb. can pumpkin
  2 3/4 cups flour, sifted
  1 tablespoon baking powder
  1 teaspoon cinnamon
  1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  l/4 teaspoon ginger
  1 cup raisins
  1 cup pecans, chopped
Preheat oven to 400. Mix sugar, shortening, eggs, and pumpkin thoroughly In a large bowl. Sift dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture. Blend well, Add raisins and pecans. Drop batter by teapoonsful on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven. Makes about 6 dozen

Pumpkin Squares
  2 dozen graham crackers (crushed)
  l 1/2 cups sugar
  1/2 cup margarine
  5 eggs
  1 -- 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  2 teaspoons cinnamon
  1 envelope plain gelatin
  1/4 cup cold water
  2 cups fresh pumpkin
Mix graham cracker crumbs, margarine and 1/3 cup sugar together, and pack in a 9" by 13" pan. Combine 2 eggs, 2/3 cup sugar and cream cheese, and beat until light and fluffy. Pour mixture over graham crackers and bake for 20 minutes at 350". Remove and cool. Separate 3 eggs, combine the yolks, pumpkin, 1/2 cup sugar, salt and cinnamon in the top of a double boiler, and cook over boiling water for 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat. Sprinkle gelatine over water in a small pan and stir over low heat until dissolved. Add to mixture in double boiler, and let cool. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into mixture, and pour over baked layers. Refrigerate and serve with whipped cream.

Pumpkin Soup
  2 large onions, chopped
  1 teaspoon curry powder
  1 tablespoon salt
  5 cups chicken broth
  1/2 cup butter
  4 cups half-and-half
  4 cups fresh pumpkin
Saute onion in butter until tender. Sprinkle with curry powder and saute 2 more minutes. Remove and place in a large saucepan. Stir in pumpkin and salt. Add half-and-half, stirring constantly. Stir in broth. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally. Serves 16

Pumpkin Pie
  3/4 cup brown sugar
  1 1/2 cups fresh pumpkin
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  3 tablespoons melted margarine
  1 teaspoon cinnamon
  1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  3 eggs
  3/4 cup milk
Separate eggs and lay the whites aside. Combine the yolks and all other ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Fold in the egg whites and mix well. Spoon mixture into a 9" unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350" for one hour, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out cleanly.

Pumpkin Bread
  1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  1 1/2 cups sugar
  3/4 teaspoon salt
  1 teaspoon soda
  1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  1/2 cup vegetable oil
  2 large eggs
  1/3 cup water
  1 cup fresh pumpkin
  1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Combine pumpkin, water, eggs and oil and mix well. Add dry ingredients slowly and beat thoroughly. Stir in nuts and pour batter into greased loaf pan. Bake at 350" for 75-80 minutes. Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan.

Republished with permission from Geocity's Times Square Dungeon.