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Welcome to October!

It’s Halloween season – and our Kids Fun Corner is packed with spooky crafts, colourful creations, and tasty recipes to try at home. From pumpkin decorating to ghostly snacks, there’s something for every little ghoul and goblin.

Halloween Arts & Crafts

Pebble Pets
Adopt a new friend!
What you’ll need: Smooth rocks, paint, googly eyes.
How to make it: Paint your rock bright colours, glue on eyes, and give your pet a name. Line them up for a whole pebble family!

Sprout Heads

Grow a funny hairstyle!
What you’ll need: Empty eggshells, markers, cotton wool, cress or grass seeds.
How to make it: Draw a silly face on the shell, place damp cotton inside, sprinkle with seeds, and watch the “hair” sprout and grow in just a few days.

Painted Pot Plants
Grow your own spooky or spring garden!
What you’ll need: Small terracotta pots, paint, markers, potting mix, and easy-to-grow
seeds (like lettuce, cress, or flowers).
How to make it: Paint the pot with bright spring colours or Halloween faces, let it dry, then fill with soil and plant your seeds. Watch your little garden grow!

Paper Cup Bats
Cute, spooky friends to hang around.
What you’ll need: Paper cups, black paint, black card, googly eyes.
How to make it:

Paint the cup black and let it dry.
Cut bat wings from the black card and glue to the sides.
Stick on eyes and hang upside down with string.

Lollipop Spiders - Creepy but cute.
What you’ll need: Lollipops, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes.
How to make it: Wrap 4 pipe cleaners around the stick for 8 legs, bend them
out, and stick on the eyes. Eat the treat when you’re done!

Leaf Printing Art
Turn nature into stamps.
What you’ll need: Fresh leaves, paint, paper.
How to make it: Brush paint onto the back of a leaf, press it onto paper, and lift off to reveal a cool pattern. Mix colours for a whole leaf collage!

Show us your creations! Bring them into Fresh On Kendal, or send us a picture – we’d love to share your Halloween masterpieces.

Kids Recipe - Monster Apple Bites

Ingredients

2 green apples
Peanut butter (or any nut/seed butter)
Sunflower seeds (or pumpkin seeds)
1–2 strawberries
A few edible eyes (or chocolate chips)

Instructions:

Slice apples into quarters, then carefully cut a wedge out of each quarter to form a “mouth.”
Spread peanut butter inside the cut.
Place sunflower seeds along the top edge to look like “teeth.”
Slice strawberries into thin strips and tuck one inside for a “tongue.”
Add edible eyes on top with a dab of peanut butter.

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Fresh On Kids

Welcome to October!

Halloween Arts & Crafts

Pebble Pets Adopt a new friend! What you’ll need: Smooth rocks, paint, googly eyes. How to make it: Paint your rock bright colours, glue on eyes, and give your pet a name. Line them up for a whole pebble family!

Sprout Heads

Paper Cup Bats Cute, spooky friends to hang around. What you’ll need: Paper cups, black paint, black card, googly eyes. How to make it:

Paint the cup black and let it dry.

Cut bat wings from the black card and glue to the sides.

Stick on eyes and hang upside down with string.

Lollipop Spiders - Creepy but cute. What you’ll need: Lollipops, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes. How to make it: Wrap 4 pipe cleaners around the stick for 8 legs, bend them out, and stick on the eyes. Eat the treat when you’re done!

Leaf Printing Art Turn nature into stamps. What you’ll need: Fresh leaves, paint, paper. How to make it: Brush paint onto the back of a leaf, press it onto paper, and lift off to reveal a cool pattern. Mix colours for a whole leaf collage!