🕷️ Spider Crackers

Spider Crackers for kids: the whole recipe

Let's build crunchy spiders with eight pretzel legs! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 15 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.

Ingredients

• 4 round crackers (or gluten-free crackers)
• 2 tablespoons cream cheese (or sunflower seed butter)
• 8 pretzel sticks (or gluten-free pretzel sticks)
• 1 tablespoon raisins

Tools

A butter knife, Measuring spoons, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Snap 8 pretzel sticks in half: spider legs!
3. Lay out 4 round crackers and spread 2 tablespoons of cream cheese on half of them.
4. Press 4 legs into the spread on each side: 4 + 4 = 8 legs!
5. Put another cracker on top, like a lid.
6. Dab on a bit more spread and stick on two raisin eyes.
7. Count the legs: 8? Then crunch your spider!

Safety notes

• Contains milk, wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

Spiders have 8 legs, not 6 like insects, so every spider cracker needs 4 legs on each side: 4 + 4 = 8.

Make it your own

• Use candy eyes for googly spider eyes.
• Make a giant spider with two big rice cakes and long pretzel legs.
• Make one white spider and one brown: two different spreads.

More Halloween treats for kids

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• 🍊 Clementine Pumpkins (snacks, 10 minutes)
• 🍎 Apple Monster Mouths (snacks, 15 minutes)
• 🧹 Witch's Broomsticks (snacks, 10 minutes)
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