Halloween Gift Ideas and Fruit Baskets
Every year myself and the other mothers in our neighborhood get together to host a little Halloween party for all the kids after we’ve all gone trick-or-treating and the sun is starting to set. The adults get dressed up too and we all have a joyously silly time. It’s a great way to bond in a time when people seem to just be distancing themselves from each other more and more. Last year, our family hosted the event and I decided to do something a little different. Aside from the usual Halloween party arrangements like streamers and hanging cardboard skeletons, I opted for some edible halloween decorations and put a little station to make edible halloween crafts. Really breaking out of the box right? Well where the difference came was that this time around the themed edible halloween food was fruit. Yes, halloween fruit!
Most Halloween gift baskets are stocked with enough sugar to stock a refinery; why not mix things up a little bit with some Edible Halloween Gifts that don’t have the tendency to guide one towards diabetes? There are plenty of halloween fruit ideas that you can play around with on the internet and plenty of halloween fruit treats to be made. Last year, I made my own halloween fruit tray that I filled up with different sliced fruits cut into different ‘spooky’ shapes like ghosts and pumpkins. It was a very nice change of pace that all the parents enjoyed and even some of the kids were excited about (after all, they already had bags full of candy from trick-or-treating). This year after browsing the web for some other ideas I think I’ve got something that will make the adults and the kids equally content, Halloween Edible arrangements. To be frank, they put my halloween fruit platter to shame; the ghosts in their arrangements are dipped in chocolate and look pretty cool. I don’t think ‘fruit platter’ is actually the best word to use to describe them; I’d probably go with their own terminology of a halloween fruit bouquet. Nonetheless, be it a homemade fruit platter or a professionally made fruit bouquet, maybe this year you should send your friends home carrying mini Halloween fruit baskets with the leftover fruit from your bouquet rather than the leftover candy from that jumbo bag of mixed candy you’d all probably be better off without.



