I'm always on the lookout for an easy (and cheap!) DIY project for costumes and decorations. I happened to stumble on this project on the Better Homes & Garden website and thought that it looked fairly simple and decided to give it a try. I ran out and got my supplies ready, a medium sized cauldron and can of foam spray. I'd never used foam spray before, but I had a general idea of what it did and knew it might get messy so I made sure to grab some newspapers and gloves from the garage before I got started.
First I grabbed some extra newspapers and balled them up loosely to fill the bottom of my cauldron. This will allow the foam spray to have a base to sit on and you won't have to buy extra cans to fill up the whole cauldron. Once you've filled the cauldron with newspapers, grab your can of foam spray and carefully start spraying it on. It shoots out of the nozzle pretty quickly (to my surprise), so be careful of your aim. If you wish to have some "drips" down the side, make sure you make contact with the cauldron while spraying, as you can see some of my drips made it all the way down. No worries, I can hot glue the "bubbles" back on once they've cured.
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| Double, Double, Toil and Trouble |
Once you're happy with your foam placement, allow for about 5-10 min for it to start setting. At this point you can poke in spiders, bats and other wee beasties to make your concoction especially frightening. I happened to have a pack of critters left over from last Halloween (this is a good time to use all those spider rings and such) so I randomly added them in.
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| Eek! |
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| Critter Soup |
You can definitely stop at this point if you're happy with the way it looks, or if you're like me, you can paint it with acrylic or glow in the dark paint. Voila! You know how your own bubbling and boiling cauldron full of icky creatures. The Sanderson Sisters would be so proud!
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| Not bad for an evening's worth of work and less than $10 |
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