14 Halloween Popcorn Recipe Ideas for an Easy Halloween Treat

My favorite part of the Halloween season and month of October are the endless tasty Halloween treats. Take plain popcorn and turn it into a Halloween party food that is a perfect treat.  These fun Halloween popcorn mix ideas are a big hit and great for Halloween night trick or treating or for fun Halloween treats all month long!

14 Halloween Popcorn Recipe Ideas for an Easy Halloween Treat

1. Cute Ghost Marshmallow Popcorn balls

   Not only are these ghost popcorn Halloween inspired treats adorable, but they are a easy no bake treat.  These are great for a big batch Halloween treat. It’s not a Halloween party unless there are some themed treats to pass around! These are perfect for kids’ parties, or to send to school for the occasion.  This recipe is simple for kids to help with as well, dipping the marshmallow mixture into the melted white chocolate! I don’t think I’ve seen a cuter ghost than these!

2. Chocolate Halloween Popcorn Balls

   These 3-ingredient Chocolate Halloween Popcorn Balls are a fun and easy Halloween treat that both kids and adults will love! This is essentially chocolate popcorn! So… what’s not to love? These are perfect for Halloween parties to make or give out as treats / gifts!  Add googly eyes and pop them in a cellophane bag for a yummy treat.  This is a fun Halloween party food idea, cute treat for the kids or the perfect Halloween movie night snack. 

3. Ghoulish Goosebumps Popcorn

Take microwave popcorn up a notch and make it a Halloween treat with gummy worms and green gel food coloring to make it just a little bit spooky and a lot of fun!  This is the absolute perfect blend to make for a Halloween movie night with Ghostbusters!!

4. Monster Halloween Popcorn

This Monster Halloween Popcorn combines fun colorful popcorn, packed full with crunchy sprinkles, candy and monster eyesthat kids, big and small, love. It is highly adaptable and you can add as many ghoulish Halloween treats as you can find.This 5 ingredients Halloween party popcorn is so easy that anyone including the kiddoes can make it unsupervised. Pull this fun Halloween snack out for Halloween movie night, trick or treating, parties, school gifts and more.

5. Halloween Candy Drizzled Popcorn

Simple is the name of this favorite treat!  Grab orange candy melts and black candy melts and drizzle over the top of the popcorn mixture before topping with fun Halloween sprinkles and you are done!  This is such an easy recipe and impossible to mess up!  

6. Slimer Popcorn

If you love watching Ghostbusters or want a spooky Halloween popcorn idea, grab some green food coloring (or green candy melt!) and combine sugar, corn syrup, water and butter on parchment paper after heating and mixing with popcorn on medium heat.  Use air-popped popcorn and make a big batch and have a Halloween movie night at your house with friends.  Make ahead of time and store in an airtight container.

7. Halloween Adorable Popcorn Balls

Halloween popcorn balls are the easy festive holiday fun treat that all ages will love.   Both are sticky with gooey melted marshmallows and packed with M&M candies and other favorite Halloween candies and sprinkles.  For a Halloween theme, I recommend candy corn, M&Ms in Fall colors like brown, yellow, and orange, Reese's pieces, white chocolate candies, sprinkles, and eyeball candies for the monster ones. Say goodbye to boring popcorn balls after making these!  

8. Monster Halloween Snack Mix

This easy Monster Halloween Snack Mix features mini salted pretzels, original Chex mix, muddy buddies, salty popcorn, Halloween-themed M&M candies, caramel Rolos, candy corn, candy eyes, and melted white chocolate to look like a spider web!  With its salty, sweet, and crunchy flavors, this mix is the ultimate Halloween snack. You will love all the flavors, colors, and textures that go into this spooky popular popcorn snack mix. The colors match the Halloween theme. 

9. Spooky Popcorn Spider Web

Serve up some spooky treats this Halloween with a fun Popcorn Spider Web – perfect sweet treat for your little goblins or Halloween party. Get a 5 star rating from guests with this spooky treat.  Grab a baking sheet and line your cups of popcorn and melt remaining marshmallows about 20 seconds, or until melted. Using spatula, string strands of melted marshmallow over popcorn spider web to create cobweb effect.

10. Apples and Honey Caramel Popcorn

Crunchy, buttery honey caramel and tiny bits of apple chips coat every piece of Apples and Honey Caramel Popcorn for a mouthwatering snack that is positively addicting, one handful after another!

11. Zombie Halloween Popcorn

Zombie Halloween Popcorn treats adds in some spooky flare to your Halloween celebrations – from movie night at home to the neighborhood party.  These zombie face themed creations for Halloween are a great addition to a themed Halloween night for kids or adults.  Using various candy coating to make the zombie face, these are a huge hit!

12. Witchy Popcorn Balls for Halloween

These Halloween popcorn balls are the best witch themed Halloween dessert I have ever seen.  You cannot go wrong with these candy-coated witch faces and hats and are a perfect activity at a Halloween party that gives guests something delicious and adorable to take home! 

13. Halloween Monster Popcorn Candy Corn

All you need is some popped corn popcorn kernels, colored melted chocolate for drizzling, candy corn and candy eyes to create this Halloween inspired popcorn recipe.  

14. Fall Popcorn

This fall-themed popcorn dessert to celebrate the arrival. Candy popcorn is the perfect treat to enjoy while enjoying the Halloween fall season. 

All of these Halloween popcorn ideas make a easy Halloween snack to make at home but also for others!  The great things about this Halloween popcorn mix are that it makes an easy Halloween snack for kids to take home afterwards too. Just make a little bit extra party popcorn ahead of time and wrap up in paper or cellophane bags and hand them out as your little monsters leave.  Another alternative for any of these fun Halloween popcorn recipes is swapping traditional salty popcorn with kettle corn too!

As you are taste testing and putting together these delicious Halloween themed popcorn mixtures, you will want some delicious pumpkin beverages all fall season long. Be sure to print out and save this 31 bucket list ideas for Halloween activities. If you decide Halloween themed popcorn isnt enough to satifsy your sweet tooth this fall season, these Halloween Mummy inspired cakesicles are the perfect addition. This list has amazing ideas for families and educators, like Halloween Color by Number printables, Halloween crafts and Halloween I Spy games.  Halloween Bingo is such a hit at our house and Halloween Scavenger Hunts are so much fun.

Halloween themed reading is such a fun way to expand on the fall season with children of all ages like Halloween board books, Halloween picture books, and for independent readers Halloween chapter books.