Celebrate Halloween!
Celebrate Halloween parties with a special effect this year. With little effort, you can easily create a party piece that will surprise and delight your guests.
The method is outlined below;
1. first you need to cut around the top of the pumpkin so you can scoop out the seeds and other pumpkin guts. If you are rushed for time, you can skip this step, but it's easier to carve a clean pumpkin.
2. Carve a face or design into the pumpkin. Keep in mind, carbon dioxide fog sinks, so more fog will flow out of the mouth of your jack-o-lantern than through its eyes. If you make the mouth relatively small, you usually can get fog to flow through the nose and eyes pretty well.
3. When you are ready for the display, set a tall container full of salted hot water inside the jack-o-lantern. Try to find a can or glass that is taller than the eyes of your jack-o-lantern, since that is the trick for getting fog to flow through the whole carving.
4. Drop a piece of dry ice into the water. Replace the top of the pumpkin. You want the lid to fit tightly so there won't be air currents dissipating the fog.
5. Remember to wear gloves when handling Dry Ice.
Happy Halloween! :-)
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Halloween has a checkered background, many of the customs that are introduced into the celebration originate from religious ceremony. "Trick or treat", is an example; druids would visit a house for a virgin to sacrifice, if you had the treat there would be no tricks. Otherwise a pentagram was painted on your door. If you had a treat, jack o' lantern made of human fat was placed in front of your door with a lit candle inside to ward off evil spirits. There is very little about Halloween that is good. That is why the Catholic church introduced "All Saints Day" as a counter to Halloween, they were aware of the evil of that celebration.
where do ya get the dry ice?
Looks nice!
And where do you get the dry ice from?