👻 Banana Ghosts

Banana Ghosts for kids: the whole recipe

Let's turn bananas into friendly little ghosts that say BOO! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes about 10 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along.

Ingredients

• 2 bananas
• 2 tablespoons chocolate chips (or raisins)

Tools

A cutting board, A butter knife, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Peel 2 bananas and lay them on a board.
3. Cut each banana in half across the middle with a butter knife.
4. Stand the halves up on a plate, flat end down: those are your ghosts!
5. Use 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips to give each ghost two eyes and an O mouth.
6. Count your ghosts, then say BOO and gobble one up!

Safety notes

• Contains milk, soy. 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

A banana goes brown where air touches the inside, so ghosts are whitest when you eat them right away.

Make it your own

• Dip the ghosts in yogurt and freeze them for frozen ghosts.
• Give one ghost a surprised face and one a sleepy face.
• Make a ghost family: big ones from whole bananas, little ones from halves.

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