Pumpkins? Check. Friendly ghosts? Check. Fall candy dish filled with your favorite Hershey’s Halloween candy? Double check! Halloween candy is everyone’s favorite part of the season, and we’ve got a few ways you can turn your Halloween candy dish into a bewitching centerpiece. Whether you’re arranging the candy as fun entertainment for the family or setting out an impressive spread of sweets for an event, these DIY Halloween candy bowl ideas add just the right amount of whimsy and sweetly scary fun to invite your Halloween party guests to grab a treat.
Decide Your Theme
Picking a theme for your candy dish is where the magic begins and sets the tone for the whole project. You can choose a design-focused theme and use some eye-catching options or go with a flavor-focused theme based on the candy you have laying around. Whether you lean creepy or cute, it’s sure to be a unique centerpiece that will get everyone into the Halloween spirit.
Pro Tip: Levitate your treats above the countertop by adding a little height to your display. You can support your candy tray with candlesticks or hot glue two bowls together, bottom to bottom, for easy elevation.
Design Focused
Candy Corn
For a cute candy corn themed arrangement, simply grab a bowl and make a triangular candy corn shape using REESE’S Halloween Milk Chocolate Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups with orange, black and purple foils. Use all 3 to make a unique candy corn color combination or take the black foils to outline your candy corn shape and switch off orange foils with white foil wrapped candies for the inside.
Ghosts
For this ghoulish candy bowl design, get a round or oval dish and add in white foil candies like WHOPPERS or PAYDAY as the base of the dish. Add in dark foil wrapped candies like HERSHEY’S KISSES or REESE’S Miniatures for the eyes and mouth. For an extra festive touch, add in green or orange candies as the border.
Pumpkin
If you are going for a pumpkin theme, use an orange or black bowl and add REESE’S Pumpkins or any of your favorite orange wrapped REESE’S candies and arrange them to fill the bowl. To achieve a jack-o-lantern face, take HERSHEY’S KISSES with purple foils and add in 2-3 as the eyes and a handful as the mouth.
Flavor Focused
Fruity Witch Cauldron
Brew up a burst of flavor with a witch cauldron-themed candy dish. Take a black cauldron and add in your favorite fruit-flavored candies like TWIZZLERS Twists or JOLLY RANCHER Gummies that will transform it into a bubbling cauldron overflowing with sweets. This DIY project will be a centerpiece that’s sure to cast a spell on your guests.
Shapes Variety
For this flavor focused theme, use a regular bowl and divide it into sections based on shape. Each section will have its own shape like ghosts, bats, and pumpkins. Mix in REESE’S Shapes and KIT KAT Milk Chocolate shapes to give your guests a little taste of everything.
Salty Bowls
Balance your spellbinding sweets with a selection of salty snacks like SKINNYPOP Butter Flavored Popcorn, DOT’S HOMESTYLE PRETZELS, and PIRATE’S BOOTY Aged White Cheddar Rice & Corn Puffs. For a grab-and-go feel, add in the snack pack sizes!
How To Use Extra Candy
Got extra sweets? Here are some fun and creative ways to not let any candy go to waste this Halloween season:
Treat Bags
Great for party favors, class treats, or giving out to the neighborhood kids on Halloween, treat bags are a sweet way to share any extra candy. All you’ll need is plastic or paper bags, ribbons or stickers to seal, and leftover assorted candy. We’ve got you covered with plenty of ideas in this treat bags blog. Prepping these treat bags can even serve as a great DIY project to keep the kids entertained.
Halloween Charcuterie Board
All you’ll need is a large tray, some small bowls or ramekins, and some leftover candy to turn a classic charcuterie board into a char-boo-terie board. Get creative with themes and lay out the candy based on category. You can try out a graveyard theme with a coffin shaped tray, a pumpkin patch board, or even a witch’s apothecary. The options are endless, and these boards are a perfect addition to a scary movie marathon, Halloween party, or a family game night.
