This Halloween pasta is so colourful and fun! Make this spaghetti, dyed in creepy Halloween colours, for a spooky family dinner or as a fun addition to a Halloween party.

Add a sauce for a delicious and hearty meal before trick or treating, or use these colourful noodles for spooky sensory play! There’s so many pasta-bilities (haha)!

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How to Make Halloween Pasta

Use food colouring to make this spooky Halloween pasta! This Halloween spaghetti is perfect for eating or sensory play.

Prep Time10 minutesmins

Cook Time10 minutesmins

Total Time20 minutesmins

Author: Debbie Chapman

Cost: $2

Equipment

• Large pot
• 3 Ziploc bags
• Strainer
• Fork

Ingredients

• 8ouncesSpaghetti
• Water
• Food colouring(orange, purple, green)

Instructions

• Bring water to a boil in a large pot. Add the pasta and cook according to package directions, or until it’s done to your liking.
  
• While the pasta is cooking, pour 2 Tablespoons of water into a plastic Ziploc bag. Then add 20 drops of orange food colouring.
  
• Seal the bag and swirl the contents together to combine.
  
• Repeat with purple and green food colouring in two other separate bags.
  
• Once the pasta is done to your liking, drain out the water using a strainer.
  
• Return the pasta to the pot and then divide it equally into each bag.
  
• Seal the bags and shake/squish the pasta around to spread the colour over the pasta.
  
• Let the pasta sit in the bags for 5 minutes to absorb the colour.
  
• Empty the bags, one at a time, into the strainer and rinse off any extra colour.
  
• Add the pasta back into the pot then add butter or margarine to keep the pasta from sticking together. Stir until the colours are mixed.
  
• Your Halloween pasta is ready!Add to a plate, serve with parmesan cheese or the sauce of your choice (read some options below!), and enjoy!
  

Notes

1. We made 1/2 a package of pasta, but you can make whatever amount you need. If you make more or less pasta, adjust the amount of food colouring as well.
2. Want to make only one colour of pasta? You can add the food colouring right into the pot of water.

What sauce can I serve with this Halloween pasta?

You can leave the pasta plain and serve it with butter and garlic and/or parmesan cheese. Or add a tomato sauce, with or without meat. Pasta sauce adds a perfect “bloody” touch to this Halloween pasta recipe.

You can also add a homemade alfredo sauce, or make a creamy avocado sauce. The avocado sauce tastes delicious, and it adds another green colour to this spooky pasta!

Are those plastic spiders?

Yes! We love how totally CREEPY the Halloween spaghetti looks with plastic spiders on the side of the bowl! These spiders aren’t edible, of course, but they add such a fun element to the dinner plate.

Wash the spiders with soap and water before adding them to your plate of pasta. Make sure everyone understands that the plastic spiders aren’t edible, and do not give them to children under 3.

How can I make orange, green, and purple food colouring?

You can buy packs of food colouring with all kinds of different shades, including, orange, green, and purple. If you only have the basic colours, though, you can combine them to make your coloured Halloween spaghetti.

Orange: 15 drops yellow, 5 drops red

Green: 15 drops yellow, 5 drops blue

Purple: 10 drops blue, 10 drops red

Play around with the number of drops to reach the exact colour you’re looking for. Keep in mind that the food colouring in the bag will be darker than what your pasta turns out as.

Can I make this Halloween pasta without food colouring?

If you don’t want to add food colouring to your pasta, there are a lot of ways you can still have fun Halloween coloured pasta. Tricolour pasta is a fun way to add colour to your meal, and the pasta is made with natural food dyes. You can even have spooky black pasta if you purchase pasta made with squid ink!

You can also make an orange pasta dish by adding a pureed pumpkin or squash sauce to your regular pasta. For a green pasta, add a different type of sauce, like pesto.

Or you can make regular pasta and add Halloween colours with your veggie choices. For example, orange peppers or squash, green peppers or spinach, purple eggplant or beets, and black olives.

Do I have to use spaghetti to make these Halloween noodles?

We love the look of spaghetti for making Halloween pasta. The long noodles perfectly resemble worms, brains, or guts (yuck, I know…).

But you can definitely use whichever different pasta you’d like. Try making bow tie pasta for Halloween — the shapes look like little bats!

How can I use this Halloween spaghetti for sensory play?

This Halloween pasta recipe is also perfect for a fall sensory bin. Pasta is an edible, taste safe way to explore squishy texture and the Halloween colours are great for sorting or colour matching.

Add plastic spiders, bugs, and/or eyeballs for creepy Halloween fun. Be sure to add water or oil so the spaghetti doesn’t stick together. It’s such a fun, hands-on sensory activity!

This spooky Halloween pasta is super easy to make, and it looks so cool! Use the same technique to make pasta in a whole rainbow of colours — or even make red and green pasta for Christmas.

Here’s even more Halloween recipe ideas:

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Halloween Harvest Hash Chex Mix

Candy Melt Pumpkin Bowls

Our book Low-Mess Crafts for Kids is loaded with 72 fun and simple craft ideas for kids! The projects are fun, easy and most importantly low-mess, so the clean up is simple!