Halloween is an amazing day for kids. You don a costume and walk up to strangers’ houses, where they give you free candy. As an adult, you’ll want to have killer candy on hand to delight all the children who dressed up for the occasion. This list is filled with all the classic heavy hitters so you can easily decide which house you want to be on Halloween night. Here are our picks for the best Halloween candy favorites kids love.
If you wanted an offering that came in a neat serving vessel that’s ready for holiday festivities, opt for this candy-filled skull from Hershey’s. It’s filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup and Hershey’s chocolate miniatures. As an added bonus, the wrapping features imagery from the upcoming The Addams Family animated film.
While not Halloween-themed, the benefit of this box is that it comes with a wide variety of offerings to keep things interesting. For this price, you get 160 ounces (that’s 10 pounds) of the following treats: Skittles, Swedish Fish, Nerds, Haribo Gummy Bears, Sour Patch Kids, Twizzlers, Life Savers Gummies, Starburst, and Sweet Tarts. It’s quite a haul.
Want something a little stranger? Opt for this version instead.
This is kind of an off-beat pick for kids that prefer to blend sweet and sour flavors. This package offers a more varied mix compared to a lot of other options out there. This includes both original and chewy Lemonheads, Smarties, Warheads, Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers, Jaw Busters, Now & Later and just to round it all out, Super Bubble. I always appreciated these candies for giving me a break from the standards when I was a kid.
Mike & Ikes are a sleeper favorite for many folks. You could give just these, or mix them into a larger bowl with one of the other bags on our list. Flavors included in this Halloween-themed package are Tropical Typhoon, Zours and Original Fruits.
The last of our sweet and sour combo packs includes one of my all-time favorite candies, Sour Patch Kids. Here they pair them sensibly with Swedish Fish in a variety pack kids of all ages will love. A perfect size if you expect a small number of trick-or-treaters or if you want to mix a little sweet and sour into a bigger bowl of candy.
Our second Mars pick again includes Snickers and 3 Muskateers, since they’re evergreen. They’re joined in this very large pack of candy by Milky Way, M&Ms, and Twix. Of these, I have the fondest memories of Twix from childhood, but all of them are classics. At the time of this writing, there’s a $1 off coupon for this pack.
If you only want to give out small candy pieces or you just want to augment a larger bowl, it’s hard to go wrong with Jolly Ranchers. Nothing tastes quite like them. Even as an adult, I occasionally reach for an apple flavored Jolly Rancher. Easy to give out a handful of these for trick-or-treaters.
This is a great classic mix that will give you the chocolatey foundation of your Halloween bowl this year. Included in this pack of 250 are Hershey’s Milk Chocolate, Heath English Toffee Bars, Milk Duds Candy, Kit Kat Miniatures, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures, and Whoppers Malted Milk Balls.
Reese’s Peanut Buter Cups are the undisputed Halloween candy champion and the holy grail of many a household. I had to pay my mother a Reese’s tax every year for letting me go trick-or-treating at all.
If you want to up the ante a bit, go for this interesting variety pack of all things Reese’s. These boxes include 5 Reese’s Sticks, 5 Reese’s Pieces Candies, 5 Reese’s Big Cup Peanut Butter Cups, 5 Reese’s White Peanut Butter Cups, 5 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and 5 Reese’s Pieces Peanut Butter Cups.
Airheads make a great Halloween candy. I recall them being somewhat rare when I was young, so you might just be able to stand out on your street by offering these. This is a four pack of 80-piece bags, for a total of 320 pieces. Flavors include grape, cherry, watermelon, orange, blue raspberry, and White Mystery flavor. As a bonus, theses are free of all eight major allergens, if that’s a concern.
Do you need a lot of Airheads? Go with this box of 1,000 instead.
Did you dream of finding the house that gave out full-size candy bars? Did you co-conspire with other trick-or-treaters to figure out which neighborhood you might have to haunt to find them? I know I did. My brother and I trekked a great distance to the one neighborhood where two houses were giving them out.
Be the hero this year and go full-size. This variety pack includes eight Snickers bars, seven Twix bars, six M&M Peanut bags, five M&M Peanut Butter bags, and four 3 Musketeers bars. Other variations are available, as well, like this Skittles and Starburst box and a Hershey’s box. It may be pricey, but it lights kids up.
Not only is the bag dressed up for Halloween, each individual candy piece has a costume. I loved these as a kid. They really seemed unique and special and I looked forward to them every year. Go for the festive approach that will delight kids with these.
Here’s another classic that you should have on hand: the assorted M&Ms pack. This one includes about 50 packs each of classic, peanut, and peanut butter M&Ms to cover everyone’s preferences.
This mix contains a candy that until I was an adult, I wasn’t sure existed outside of Halloween. Bottle Caps are, in actuality, not that rare at all, but it was one of the candies I relished seeing handed out just because it’s a little off-beat. Also included in this mix are Nerds, Laffy Taffy, and SweeTarts. The last of these is a candy I still unapologetically love today.
Like the ones that come out at Christmas, these Halloween Hershey’s Kisses are done up especially for the holiday. Giving out a handful of these to trick-or-treaters will, like the Kit Kats on this list, seem just a little bit special. All three designs are pretty great, but I have to give the edge to the ghosts.
Really celebrate the season by handing out these Halloween-themed Pez dispensers. Each box contains an assortment of Ghost, Pumpkin, Vampire, and Witch dispensers. Give something a little different this year.
I recall from my youth that every year I’d end up with a handful of Dubble Bubble gum pieces. I don’t recall ever seeing anything like this. This pack of gum takes it to the next level with Slime Ball lime gum, Pumpkin Seedlings with candy seeded gum, Count Dracula cherry filled gum, and Horror Eyes gum. A cool twist on the expected candy.
