Materials needed: red food coloring (at least 1 bottle), a bottle or jar of caramel
ice-cream topping.
Buy an individual bottle of red food coloring (at least one).
Making blood this way takes much coloring, and you'll need more than one of the
tiny plastic squeeze bottles that come in the four-color sets of food coloring.
Mix the food coloring and the caramel sauce together in proportions of about
twice as much caramel as food coloring. You can vary the proportions according
to your own ideas of what fresh blood should look like. This "blood" will stain
fabric, furniture--everything except glass and porcelain, so use with care! It dries to a shiny gloss, and
will look fresh for days providing it remains untouched.
>Uncialle believes that Halloween can be best celebrated by
creating an eerie atmosphere, not by the use of buckets of gore. Still, a little
blood can be very eerie. This "blood" can be dripped along the edge of a
knife lying on the border of your sink, a few drops flowing down the white
porcelain basin, as if a criminal had left behind a murder weapon. "Bloody"
handprints on windows, mirrors, and glass shower enclosures are effective (it
washes cleanly from glass). Make a "dead body" of old clothes and "stab" it with
a "bloody" knife. Drizzle a few drops onto your Halloween mask a few days before
the magic night, so it will have time to harden. Or give yourself a nice
"wound." For a scream of a centerpiece, drip "blood" from the eye sockets of a
good plastic skull replica. Since this "blood" is edible, drip some scarlet
drops onto cookies, brownies, or gingerbread--or stab your cake with a knife in
its center, and puddle some of this blood on the top frosting, allowing a little
to run down the sides.
For glowing "blood," red snap-glow sticks are wonderful. Put a
red glow stick inside a mask, behind the eye-holes, and place the mask somewhere
dark. Tape a red glow stick into a cylinder of black paper that has
eye-holes cut into it, and hang it from a tree. Use one as a light source inside
a tiny jack o'lantern. You can buy red glow sticks from
Oriental Trading Company of Omaha, Nebraska (go there from the Halloween Sources Page).
Tips for Haunting with Blood
