Just take a black sharpie and draw triangle eyes and a mouth on unpeeled clementines. Stick Halloween stickers on unpeeled bananas if you must. I’m on my 4th preschooler and no one has ever done themed food at Halloween parties

I agree with everyone else that these snacks are too much, but also, bananas will absolutely turn brown and mushy of you freeze them. Just do clementine with a pumpkin sticker or something.

Use a sharpie to decorate those little plastic cups of mandarin oranges or peaches in juice. Make them look like jack o lanterns or whatever. Our preschool didn’t allow anything prepared at home because of risk of cross contamination for allergies. Wrapping a bunch of bananas in plastic seems like a ton of work for preschool snacks!

I would do clementines with peel still on and put a pumpkin sticker on each one. Way easier and more sanitary too!

With lids

Our preschool but not our public school allows homemade treats.
I bought those little 4oz cups wit kids and prepped fruit.

Stop there.

Or if you are set on a themed item, practice some little art on a few extra cups. Can you make a google eyed mummy, monster or something?

Just stick some googly eyes on bananas and be done with it. Or even some Halloween stickers on the bananas would be easier.

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate dipped strawberries with orange sprinkles.

No.

Chocolate dipped strawberries with orange sprinkles.

Precut apple slices

I know the other ideas are cute but at that age they just don’t care. Sure the teacher and parents will oh and ah but it’s not worth your effort.

Just take normal fruit, not all of this cutesy stuff. It will be a lot of work, probably gross by the time you get it there, and the kids won't appreciate it. You're not winning any Pinterest awards for taking in snack.

^CUT strawberries

Serve cup strawberries in Halloween-themed cupcake liners. I bring strawberries to everything and they are always eaten up. What you are describing sounds like a lot of work, and if it doesn’t look perfectly appealing, preschoolers might not eat it.

My preschool wouldn’t allow homemade fruit snacks, so you might want to check. When we sign up to bring fruit, they mean a package of precut fruit from the store.

I'm in charge of bringing fruit for the Halloween celebration for DD's class of 15.

I was going to try to make it simple by doing the peeled tangerine with the celery top to look like a pumpkin. And, I was also going to do the peeled 1/2 banana "ghost" with chocolate chips for eyes.

I know that the banana will start to oxidize immediately. So I should wrap them individually and store in the fridge, right? Do I do that the morning of or should I freeze overnight? Will that (freezing) make them turn brown when they defrost?

Also, I'm assuming I should also wrap the tangerines individually once peeled, correct? I'm unsure on timing.