This spooky snack is salty and sweet and inspired by a Halloween classic: Beetlejuice!

Make this easy treat for your next movie night and have a spooky good time!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Welcome to 2025’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event!

This is our 8th year doing #HalloweenTreatsWeek … has it really been 8 years? Wow!

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife every October. This event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween-loving bloggers!

Make sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes that we’re sharing this week.

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Beetlejuice Halloween Snack Mix

Ingredients

• 6-8 cups popped popcorn slightly salted
• 6 oz green yogurt covered pretzels
• gummy eyeballs and body parts
• 2 bars Halloween themed chocolate like Snickers and Twix roughly chopped
• 1 cup candy corn
• 1 cup Halloween themed M&Ms candy

Instructions

• Pop the popcorn and pour into a large bowl.
• Gently mix in remaining candy and pretzels and stir to combine.
• Scoop into small individual bowls and serve during movie night.

For this Beetlejuice inspired snack mix I used a variety of Halloween candies.

My favorite movie night combo is salty popcorn and sweet M&Ms. 

Start by adding fresh popcorn to a large bowl.

Gently mix in remaining candy and pretzels and stir to combine.

Scoop into individual bowls and serve at movie night.  

Halloween Treats Week Bloggers’ Recipes: 

• Mummy Chicken Pot Pies from Big Bear’s Wife

• Marshmallow Ghost Dip from Semi-Homemade Recipes

• Mozzarella and Tomato Eyeball Skewers from Southern Halloween Queen

• Halloween Margarita Mocktail from Jen Around the World

• Black Cocoa Raven Cookies from Savory Moments

• Mummy Meatballs from Karen’s Kitchen Stories

• Eyeball Cookies from Jolene’s Recipe Journal

• Skull Gnocchi from The Spiffy Cookie

• Witch’s Brew Cocktail from Art of Natural Living

• Beetlejuice Bramble from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures

• Franken Berry Crumb Cake from Sweet ReciPEAs

• Beetlejuice Movie Night Snack Mix from For the Love of Food

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It’s Christmas break and we’re planning a movie night to celebrate! 

Christmas movie night’s are a family favorite and tonight’s choice is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. 

The animated classic is based on the book by Dr Suess that we read every year during the holidays. 

To add a fun activity to our screening, I planned a game of Grinch themed bingo to play during the movie. Our snack menu included

Green Grinch Hot Chocolate and Grinch Snack Mix, served in festive Grinch themed popcorn boxes. 

Scroll down to print out Grinch bingo and two sizes of popcorn boxes!

Tonight’s menu:

Green Grinch Hot Chocolate

Grinch Snack Mix

These popcorn boxes come in two sizes: small and large. They are easy to print, cut out, and tape together.

Then fill with popcorn or your favorite snack!

More Movie Night Printables:

Merry Grinchmas Sign

Movie Night Sign and Tickets

Print the bingo and popcorn boxes here!

Click here to download page 1 of bingo cards.

Click here to download page 2 of bingo cards.

Click here to download the small Grinch popcorn boxes.

Click here to download page 1 of the large Grinch popcorn boxes.

Click here to download page 2 of the large Grinch popcorn boxes.

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It’s Hocus Pocus movie night and this sweet and crunchy popcorn treat is my go to for jazzing up regular ol’ popcorn!

I made mine the colors of the Sanderson Sisters in the movie but you can make it themed in any color and flavor.

Enjoy and Happy Halloween!

This super easy way to jazz up and make themed popcorn is one of our favorite party snacks!

Believe it or not this is her excited face! She loves popcorn (espeically when it is sweet and colorful).

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Magical Movie Night Popcorn

Makes 3 big bowls of popcorn to share

Ingredients

• 3 pkg microwave popcorn {about 8 cups each}
• 3 {14oz} cans Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 {3oz} package red Jell-O gelatin
• 1 {3oz} package purple Jell-O gelatin
• 1 {3oz} package green Jell-O gelatin

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• In a medium saucepan mix together 1 can sweetened condensed milk and 1 pack dry Jell-O mix.
• Heat and stir over low heat until mixture is slightly thickened and bubbly, about five minutes.
• Add 1 bag of popcorn to a large bowl and pour Jell-O mixture over popcorn.
• Stir gently to coat.
• Spread out onto a lined and greased baking sheet.
• Bake 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from oven and let cool then break apart into pieces.
• Repeat with the remaining 2 bags of popcorn, 2 cans of condensed milk, and 2 boxes of Jell-O mix.

Notes

You can mix the colored popcorn all together like I did or serve separately in big bowls for sharing. 

I used 3 different flavors and colors of Jell-O to match the colors of the Sanderson Sisters.

Red and green turned out bright but the purple was pretty muted so next time I would add purple food coloring too.

In a medium saucepan mix together 1 can sweetened condensed milk and 1 pack dry Jell-O mix.

Heat and stir over low heat until mixture is slightly thickened and bubbly, about five minutes.

I popped one package of microwave popcorn for each color of Jell-O. They make about 6-8 cups each.

Like I mentioned above, if your color is not bright enough you can add food coloring. 

Add 1 bag of popcorn to a large bowl and pour Jell-O mixture over popcorn.

Stir gently to coat.

Spread out onto a lined and greased baking sheet.

Bake at 300 degrees for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Remove from oven and let cool.

Then break apart into pieces.

Repeat with the remaining 2 bags of popcorn, 2 cans of condensed milk, and 2 boxes of Jell-O mix.

You can mix the colored popcorn all together like I did or serve separately in big bowls for sharing. 

Check out this recipe and many more in this roundup: Hocus Pocus Movie Night Fun !

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It’s Valentine’s weekend and we have a fun food themed gift idea to share today!

These popcorn gift tags and cards can be printed and attached to bags of popcorn as an easy Valentine’s idea that is perfect for teachers, friends, neighbors, and themed gift boxes.

There are three different cards and sayings below for you to chose from. I can’t choose a favorite, they are all adorable!

These cards are perfect for attaching to any popcorn container.

We used unpopped bagged popcorn for a movie night gift basket, individual bags of snack popcorn, and packaged popcorn balls with small gift tags taped on.

Which is your favorite?

Simple print out the cards and tags, cut them out, and tape on to your popcorn.

Ava made a gift box with her sister for her grandparents and included a Valentine’s popcorn for them to enjoy.

Painted pots for my Mom. So pretty and special!

We love sending gift boxes to our family!

Download and print your cards below!

Just Another Corny Valentine

Just Poppin’ By To Say

Valentine, You Make My Heart Pop

Happy Valentine’s Day !

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We decided to fill gloves with popcorn, complete with a few Halloween sprinkles and candy corn fingernails, and then for a final touch we taped on glitter spiders and a lollipop {because it is Halloween and you have to give them candy }. They turned out great and Ava enjoyed helping me and her friends loved them, of course! 

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Spider Popcorn and Candy Hands

Makes 12 hands

Ingredients

• 3 bags of microwave popcorn {I used kettle corn}
• 12 lollipops
• 60 pieces of candy corn
• Halloween sprinkles or candy pieces optional
• Non latex foodsafe disposable gloves
• plastic spiders
• ribbon

Instructions

• Pop all the popcorn and place in a large bowl or two to cool down.
• Drop a piece of candy corn, white part first, into each of the five fingers of each glove. These are the nails.
• Fill all the gloves with popcorn, making sure to fill the fingers and hand all the way.
• Tie securely with ribbon.
• Use tape to attach a plastic spider to the front of each glove.
• Use tape to attach a lollipop to each thumb.
• Give to all your friends and enjoy your spooky treat!

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Yes, it is still minion madness in our house! We took our little minion lovin’ Ava to Alexandria last week to see the minion movie and the Grand Theater there had a huge event for the kids with face painting, balloon animals, games, crafts, and even puppies to adopt! It was such a fun surprise and even better Ava wore herself out with all the festivities before the movie that she sat quietly {even though I did distract her with popcorn} and watched the whole movie! Baby Stella sat on my lap and didn’t make a peep either! Woohoo our first movie with our two babes with no crying or leaving early!
 
I am a huge Despicable Me fan {how can you not love Gru?} but The Minions movie was a blast!
It takes place in the 60s and there are plenty of fun references and cool music throughout.
Since Ava loves to snack like her Daddy I thought making her some Minion Munchies to take to the movies would be fun {and cost saving}. I used low fat kettle corn because we love the flavor but use any popcorn you like. Then simply add any minion themed treats you like. Store in baggies or a covered container and enjoy over the next couple days.
 
Comment and let me know what you think of the new The Minions movie below.

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Minion Munchies Snack Mix

Ingredients

• 4-5 cups kettle corn popcorn about 1/2 a pkg
• 1 cup Minion cereal
• 1/2 cup Minion Fruit snacks 4 single pkgs
• 1 cup Minion Cheese Nips
• 1/4 cup yellow and/or blue chocolate candies I used Reese's Pieces

Instructions

• Mix all the items together in a popcorn bucket or bowl and dig in!
• Perfect for packing together in baggies and taking to the movies.

 

We have gone a little Minion overboard at home {obviously…}.

I love the individual bags on Smart Pop Kettle Corn. 

Each bag makes about 8 cups popped so I use half for 

Ava’s Minion Munchies and half for Ashton and I to snack on.

I buy individual snack packs {usually at Sam’s Club} whenever I can.
They are so convenient to keep in the diaper bag and car.
These Minion Cheese Nips are adorable and perfect for this snack mix.

These Minion fruit snacks are Ava’s favorite. Cute colors and fun shapes make
 them an obvious toddler favorite!

Minion cereal in Banana Berry flavor
{tastes like Cinnamon Toast Crunch to me with a slight berry flavor}
is another favorite for an on the go treat.

Finally, I had to add some chocolate and this is optional of course.
I added 1/4 cup Reese’s Pieces {or try M&M’s} in yellow only.

Mix everything together in a bowl or bucket
{deal alert: we got a collectible Minion popcorn bucket at the movies!}.

Now scoop into baggies or serve to the kiddos right in the bowl.

How cute and fun is this snack mix?
 I have to admit Ashton and I liked it as much as Ava!

Perfect for a snack at home, at the movies, or on the go!

 

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"Lucky To Have You" St Patrick's Day Popcorn Mix

Makes 2 Large Mason Jars

Ingredients

• 1 bag of microwave kettle corn
• 1 cup white chocolate chips separated
• food coloring of choice I used neon green and traditional green
• 1 cup of Lucky Charms marshmallows save the cereal for breakfast!
• 1 bag 1.75oz of Sixlets green candies (or similar)

Instructions

• Microwave bag of popcorn according to package directions, usually about 2 - 2 1/2 minutes.
• Spread out popped popcorn to cool on a parchment or wax paper lined baking sheet.
• Meanwhile, add 1/2 cup of melt chocolate chips to two bowls (1 cup total).
• Melt white chocolate chips in the microwave. I heated for 1 minute at 70% power then stirred and heated again for 15 seconds until it was smooth and melted.
• Add different shades food coloring to the melted chocolate and stir until you get your desired shade. I used neon green (3-4 drops) and traditional dark green (4 drops).
• Using a spoon, drizzle both colors of white chocolate over popcorn.
• Sprinkle on marshmallows and sixlets green candies.
• Allow chocolate to harden then scoop into the jars.
• Seal jars, add labels, and tie with a ribbon.
• Present to your friends as a sweet (literally!) thank you!
• Bonus! There's about a 1/2 cup or so left over for you to enjoy too!

 

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