PB and J Spiders
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PB and J Spiders are the perfect way to celebrate the spooky season. Serve these Halloween sandwiches for Halloween parties. Pack one of these peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in your child’s lunch. These PB&J snacks bring plenty of fun. Make one in less than 5 minutes.
🛒 Ingredients
Here’s what you’ll need to make these fun Halloween sandwiches:
- Slider Buns or Hawaiian Rolls
- Smooth Peanut Butter
- Jelly or Jam (grape, blueberry, raspberry)
- Thin Pretzel Sticks
- Candy Eyeballs
📖 Recipe Steps
It’s super easy to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Halloween! Follow these easy step-by-step instructions for making PB and J Spiders.
- Use a serrated knife to slice the bread rolls in half.
- Spread an even layer of peanut butter across the bottom half of the dinner roll.
- Add a layer of jelly over the peanut butter. The place the top half of the bread roll on top.
- Use thin pretzel sticks to create 8 spider legs. Place 4 sticks on each side of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Using small dabs of peanut butter, attach candy eyes to the front of the spider. Serve on a plate with napkins.
Make PB&J Spiders Part of a Healthy Meal
Serve them with fresh vegetables or fruit, and a delicious beverage. Here are some great ideas.
- Baby Carrots
- Green or Red Seedless Grapes
- Banana
- Mandarin Oranges
- Apple Slices
- Celery Sticks
- Dairy Milk or Almond Milk
- Orange Juice or Apple Juice
Serve PB&J Spiders at a Halloween Party
Serve these spooky peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on a black serving tray next to a Halloween skeleton. For added visual effect, place a black candelabra with LED flameless lights on your serving table behind the tray of PB and J spiders.
Here are more spidery ideas for a Halloween party with a spider theme:
- Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
- Spiderweb Halloween Cupcakes
- Spiderweb Halloween Bark
- DIY Spider Pinata
👩🏻🍳 Expert Tips
- Best Type of Bread Rolls for Spider Sandwiches: For best results, use freshly-baked and cooled yeast dinner rolls. Find them in the freezer section of your grocery store. You can also use slider buns, or small Brioche rolls.
- Allergy Alert: When planning food or treats for a children’s party always check with the parents ahead of time about any nut, dairy or gluten allergies!
- More ideas for Halloween sandwiches: Instead of peanut butter and jelly, use American cheese and sliced ham. Or make them as egg salad sandwiches or tuna sandwiches.
👻 More Halloween Eats
Craving more Halloween treats, snacks and fun? These spooky Halloween recipes are perfect for celebrating the spirit of the season.
- Halloween Sugar Cookies
- Halloween Muddy Buddies
- Halloween Rice Krispie Treats
- Spooky Halloween Snack Mix
- Guacamole Halloween Appetizers
- Mummy Hot Dogs
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PB and J Spiders
- Total Time: 5 Minutes
- Yield: 4 Sandwiches 1x
Description
Spooky PB and J Spiders are perfect Halloween snacks. Make these easy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in 5 minutes or less. Serve them for lunch. Take them to a Halloween party.
Ingredients
- 4 slider buns or dinner rolls
- 6 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
- 6 tablespoons grape jelly
- 32 slender pretzel sticks
- 8 candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Use a serrated knife to slice the bread rolls in half.
- Spread an even layer of peanut butter across the bottom half of the dinner roll.
- Add a layer of jelly over the peanut butter. The place the top half of the bread roll on top.
- Use thin pretzel sticks to create 8 spider legs. Place 4 sticks on each side of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Using small dabs of peanut butter, attach candy eyes to the front of the spider. Serve on a plate with napkins.
Equipment
Buy Now → Notes
Best type of rolls to use: For best results, use freshly-baked and cooled yeast dinner rolls. Look for these in the freezer section of your grocery store.
How to make this a healthy lunch: Serve peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as part of a healthy lunch that includes fruit and/or vegetables: apple slices, grapes, celery sticks, or baby carrots.
Allergy Alert: When planning food or treats for a children’s party always check with the parents ahead of time about any nut, dairy or gluten allergies!
More Halloween sandwich ideas: Instead of peanut butter and jelly, use American cheese and sliced ham!
- Prep Time: 5 Minutes
- Cook Time: 0 Minutes
- Category: Snacks
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Inspiration for this Halloween recipe came from Rhodes Bake N Serv.
PB&J Spiders 👉🏻 Join the Convo
Are you excited to make and serve these fun PB and J spiders? What are some of your favorite Halloween snacks? Join the conversation below. I’d love to hear from you.
These look so cute – I know my daughter will absolutely love them!
Fun looking food for the kids always makes them excited to eat! Plus they eat more than usual as well. I think these spider peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a great idea for Halloween!
I absolutely love the idea of these! They are so much fun and a great way to get the kiddos in all of the Halloween festivities!
This is such a fun recipe to make. Especially, with Halloween right around the corner.
These are so cute!!! Would love to serve these to the grandkids.
This is so creative! The idea is uniqe for me and I really would do this!
So cute!! My niece is always looking for new ideas for Halloween treats I’m passing this right along to her. She’ll love it.
What a cute idea for Halloween! My kids used to love themed meals and desserts for different holidays.
Too cute! This is such an adorable Halloween treat idea. Definitely sharing this one with the kiddos in our afternoon program. They’ll love it!
THESE SPIDERS are the CUTEST! And so easy to make – huge wow effect with only a little bit of effort, that’s how I like it! Thanks for sharing this!
These are so cute and fun! My son and I really enjoyed making them together.
Haha, love this! It is so creative and original. The theme is spot on. PB and J – any day of the week for me!!
These are so cute!! I can’t wait to make these for our work potluck!
My son loves PB and J so these spiders are a fun way to have the snack. If I have a Halloween party these would be so much fun.
Oh my goodness that looks like such an amazing idea of something to do for a Halloween treat. I think I’m going to have to add this to my list!
These are adorable!! I love how easy they are and my grandchildren are going to love them!
How fun! I need to make these for my kids. They’d get a kick out of them.