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    Halloween Party Punch Ideas

    Published: September 4, 2022 | Last Updated: October 31, 2022 | Lisa 3 Comments
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    An ad for Halloween punch with a black cauldron and a ice skull peering out at you.

    Last Updated October 31st, 2022 at 11:04 pm by Lisa

    Boo! Whether you are trick-or-treating on Halloween night with the whole family or having Halloween parties, this holiday is all about the sweet treats, creepy food, and fun Halloween recipes!

    There are over a dozen of the best Halloween punch ideas here from making different colors, sherbet punches, creative garnishes, ice rings, and even how to use dry ice for punch.

    Pour it in a spooky black cauldron with a wooden witches brew spoon, and smoke, with a skull hiding inside...

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    Easy Halloween Punch Recipe

    There are so many options for this classic Halloween celebration recipe. This is a simple quick punch recipe. Halloween punch recipes are so easy to make for a non-alcoholic drink for holidays, take a look at my Christmas Punch for another no booze festive drink!

    Non-Alcoholic Halloween Punch

    • 2 - 64 oz bottles cranberry juice cocktail (chilled)
    • 1 - 12 oz can of frozen lemonade concentrate (thawed)
    • 1 large - 64 oz bottle 7up (chilled)
    • regular ice cubes or large ice skull ice-ring mold

    In a large cauldron or punch bowl, mix the cranberry juice and lemonade concentrate. Slowly add the 7up.

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    How To Make Halloween Punch Smoke?

    Party Tip: Add the punch, and skull ice ring into a black plastic cauldron with a wooden ladle. Then just after your guests arrive add the dry ice, it melts within about 10-15 minutes!

    Ideas To Serve Halloween Punch

    • Freeze your skull ice mold at least a couple of days before your party.
    • Fruity Halloween Punch: Some people like non alcoholic punch sweet and add pineapple juice, orange juice, or different fruit juices. These work well for a kid's punch for a sweeter Halloween witches brew.
    • Simple Ingredients: to reduce added sugar, try sparkling water to lower the sugar content.
    • Magic Potion Punch or Hocus Potion Punch looks so cool, serve blue, red, or green punch from science beakers and add a little magic with some small magic wands as stirrers.
    • Frozen Hands: freeze water in clean plastic gloves, remove the gloves, and float "hands" on top of a simple punch, this looks great on a bloody red punch!
    • Sherbet Punch: add any kind of sherbet to this non-alcoholic punch for kids and make it a sherbet punch for a delicious drink.  Try rainbow sherbet, lime sherbet, or orange sherbet. Then add a bottle of ginger ale or 7up. Ice cream also works great in a Halloween punch with dry ice.
    • Create a spooky Halloween punch by adding dry ice just as guests arrive.
    • Scary & Spooky Drink Garnishes: try different garnishes like gummy body parts, oozing eyeballs candy, big candy eyeballs, or gummy worms in your cups of delicious punch. You can also use plastic spiders and spooky drink stir sticks.
    5 stars

    The hardest part about this was finding the dry ice in the grocery store. Tip: Ask at the front. The effect was super cool and the punch is so tasty. ~Annabelle

    So many ideas for making a Halloween punch! ~Sue

    We wanted a Halloween punch non alcoholic version, and there are so many fun ideas to try for kids! ~Julie

    How To Make Colorful Halloween Punches

    Design the perfect Halloween punch your way, and make the color just the way you want for your party theme! These Halloween punch recipe non alcoholic versions are fun for adults and kids.

    • Dark Red Color: pour in cherry juice and or cranberry juice cocktail, lemon lime soda, pineapple juice, frozen lemonade, ginger ale, or lemon-lime soda, and some drops of red food coloring.
    • Green Color Punch: lemon-lime soda, lemonade, lime sherbert, and for the green color use blue raspberry kool aid mix. Optional, you can add drops of green food coloring.
    • Orange Color Punch: use an orange soda and orange food coloring.
    • Dark Purple Color: make a purple punch or purple people eater punch using grape juice, blue Gatorade, lemon-lime soda, lemon or lime juice, and violet food coloring.

    What can I use for a Halloween punch bowl?

    You can find the black cauldron at any party store or online, it works great for a large punch bowl or to serve candy. These are some other festive ways to serve party punch...

    • large plastic pumpkin Jack-O-Lantern
    • large pitcher
    • use a beverage drink server with a tap
    • trifle bowls work great
    • large cauldron punch bowl
    • hollow out a real pumpkin and put an inexpensive tap in it
    • borrow a punch bowl from a friend or neighbor
    • buy a cute inexpensive one at a thrift store or home store

    What can you use for an ice ring?

    Ice rings are so easy to make, you can use a round bundt pan, a small bowl, or buy a mold. Ice skull mold kits are easy to find at local craft stores and online. Freeze plain water with spiders, ghosts, and eyeballs, frozen inside. 

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    Halloween Dry Ice Tips

    Can you put dry ice in punch?


    Yes, you can put dry ice in plastic cauldrons and you can put it in a large plastic bowl.

    How do you use dry ice in drinks safely?


    Dry ice is fun to use, but you must follow a few important safety rules if you want to use it in drinks or punch.

    -Do not use it in individual drinks. Use only in large punch bowls for effect. Under no circumstances should it be placed in the mouth, keep it away from kids.
    -Do not touch dry ice directly, if you must handle it, use gloves or newspaper. It has a temperature of -79°C and direct contact can cause freeze burns.
    -Keep in its package at all times. Do not place in airtight containers such as stoppered glass jars, bottles, or other sealed containers as they could explode.
    -Do not store dry ice in refrigerators or freezers. Store in the best-insulated cooler possible.

    Where is dry ice sold?


    You can find it sold in most local grocery stores, it does sell out around Halloween so plan ahead.

    How long does dry ice last?


    In a non-airtight well-insulated cooler, it will last 18-24 hours. Normal freezers cannot keep dry ice frozen.

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    More Halloween Party Food Ideas

    If spooky movies are a big hit in your home, try some of these Halloween party punch recipes, appetizers, Halloween drinks, easy Halloween snacks, and dinner ideas for a movie night or special occasion dinner.

    Then take a look at over 200+ Halloween Party Food Ideas for the spooky season 🎃 for all of you who live and breathe this holiday, check out my collection of 100+ Halloween Party Food Ideas from food bloggers all over the country! It is full of adult party Halloween drink ideas, Halloween drinks for kids, creepy scary food, and easy cute food for kids.

    200+ Halloween Recipes ~ Plus Halloween Pizzas
    200+ of the best Halloween party foods whether you are having a spectacular costume bash or cooking up spooktacular recipes for a creepy food dinner for the family. Browse easy recipes including snacks, spooky treats and appetizers, wicked adult cocktails and shots, main course dinner ideas, easy desserts, and fun snacks!
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    Halloween parties are all about serving haunted food and creepy drinks like mini Halloween Pizzas. Decorate with one of the six ideas here, choose a Jack-O-Lantern, Dracula, Frankenstein, Monster, Mummy, or Ghost!

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    Serve a "pumpkin-shaped" Everything Bagel Cheese Ball appetizer for your next Fall party, it's always a hit! Easy to make ahead in 15 minutes, chill, and take to a gathering. Build a fun Easy Halloween Snack Board with your favorite chips, crackers, sweet treats, and spooky candy eyes!

    Bake a spooky Halloween Cake for your party with orange and chocolate marbled cake inside, and a cemetery all made in chocolate! 

    Halloween Bark is an adorable dessert treat to make with candy, Halloween sprinkles, cute candy eyeballs, licorice, and chocolates, and would be great to put out on a Halloween theme snack board.

    For a spooky graveyard Halloween Dip, make this tombstone in a graveyard and serve it with crackers. Kids and adults love this savory cream cheese dip recipe!

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    Halloween Punch Recipe Ideas (Non Alcoholic)

    There are over a dozen of the best Halloween punch ideas here from making different colors, sherbet punches, creative garnishes, ice rings, and even how to use dry ice for punch. Pour it in a spooky black cauldron with a wooden witches brew spoon, and smoke thanks to dry ice, with a skull hiding inside.
    Prep Time 10 minutes minutes
    Total Time 10 minutes minutes
    Servings 30 servings
    Calories 79kcal
    Author Lisa Hatfield

    Equipment

    Skull Ice Mold Tray
    Black Halloween Cauldron

    Ingredients

    • 2 - 64 oz cranberry juice cocktail chilled
    • 12 oz can frozen lemonade concentrate thawed
    • 1 liter 7up (64 oz) chilled or lemon-lime soda or ginger ale
    • optional food color: green or red
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    Instructions

    • In a large cauldron or punch bowl, mix the cranberry juice and lemonade concentrate. Slowly add the 7up.
    • Garnish with a skull ice mold and dry ice. Add just as guests arrive, or during the party, as it melts fast!
    • This recipe can be doubled or tripled.

    Notes

    Skull Ice mold kit and cauldron can be found online and craft or in grocery stores.

    Dry Ice Safety Tips

    1) Do not use it for individual drinks. Use only in a large cauldron or punch bowls for an effect. Under no circumstances should dry ice be placed in the mouth.
    2) Do not touch dry ice directly, use gloves or newspaper to handle it. Keep in its package at all times. It has a temperature of -79°C and direct contact can cause freeze burns.
    3) Do not place in airtight containers such as stoppered glass jars, bottles, or other sealed containers as they could explode.
    4) Do not store dry ice in refrigerators or freezers. Store in the best-insulated cooler possible.

    Variations: How Can I Make Green Punch?

    If you want to make a green punch, you can add drops of green food coloring until it reaches your desired green shade. Or, if you want an orange Halloween punch, use orange food coloring. Some people also like to add scoops of orange or green sherbet into the punch.
    Substitute any lemon-lime soda or use ginger ale in place of 7up.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 79kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Sodium: 8mg | Potassium: 16mg | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 5IU | Vitamin C: 27.1mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.1mg
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    1. Brittany Hunt says

      October 03, 2019 at 6:41 am

      How long does the dry ice "smoke"?

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      • Lisa says

        October 03, 2019 at 1:05 pm

        Hey Brittany! A small piece of dry ice only lasts a few minutes in a drink. Be careful to use tongs/gloves when handling, and never, of course, consume it. It is safe in a drink, but not to chew on or eat as it is so cold. Dry ice lasts in the freezer for about 18 hours, I buy mine the day of the party!

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    2. Annabelle says

      March 10, 2018 at 8:44 pm

      5 stars
      The hardest part about this was finding the dry ice in the grocery store. Tip: Ask. The effect was super cool and the punch tasty. We left it non-alcoholic because it was a family party, but the more adventurous of us added a shot of vodka, as suggested. Sneaky!

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