I LOVE a festive board. They’re fun, easy to create and instantly make you the hostess with the mostess at your next gathering. I like to think of them as a form of creative expression as I roam the grocery aisles trying to decide what I want to pile on. Here’s how you can get into the spirit of the season with just a quick trip to the store! In fact, I found all of these ingredients in one trip to Target. The orange pumpkin spice pretzels are gone from my local store, but the pumpkin spice cookies are a delicious fill-in. If your Target is missing black Concord grapes, blueberries can also work in their absence 🙂 

How To Make a Halloween Board

Creating Your Own Pumpkin Board

1. Search for your biggest round serving board or platter in your cupboard. If you don’t have one, this is a great option that I just picked up from Target.
2. Secure your goodies with a variety of orange and black-colored snacks.
3. Place the triangle eyes on the board first. This allows you to get the face started before working around them.
4. Get your center. I placed a row of Cheeze-Its down the middle so that I could then work the two sides afterwards.
5. Line the left side of the board with apricots, pretzels, popcorn and carrots – going around the eye. Then line the right side with whisps, puffs, goldfish, and crackers – going around the eye – until the board is completely covered. 
6. Add more black or orange foods to fill in any gaps – I used tictacs.
7. Add black concord grapes for the pumpkin’s smile being careful not to shift the snacks below.
8. Add slices of cucumber at the top of the board for the pumpkin’s stem.
9. Serve ranch dressing or hummus on the side if need be for the carrots and cucumber slices.

Ingredients

1 large bunch of black Concord grapes

1 handful of blackberries 

1/4 of a large cucumber

1 package of dried apricots

1 package pumpkin spice pretzels

1 bag cheddar cheese popcorn

1 bag baby carrots

1 box Cheeze-Its

1 bag Whisps cheese crisps

1 bag Cheeto Puffs 

1 carton tictacs

1 bag goldfish

1 box Mary’s Gone Crackers

Ranch dressing or hummus to serve on the side

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Note that there will be a lot of snacks left over after making just 1 pumpkin, depending on how big your board is! If you have a few smaller boards, think about making a couple of pumpkins or save the rest of the snacks for you or the kids 🙂 

Additional foods that would also make for great snacks: peeled clementines, cheese slices, BBQ chips, blueberries, sliced orange bell pepper, cheese balls, cheddar rice crisps, peach candy, pumpkin spice anything.

Happy Halloween, y’all!