Creepy aren’t they? To make your very own genuinely unnerving jars o’ ick you’ll need
- a
good (gross) imagination. According to their creator “the most
important thing is to think of a story behind each creation, once you
have a concept in mind the jar will pretty much make itself”. - jars or bottles
- Plastic
skeletons, enormous plastic spiders, expandable foam toys. Use your
imagination, pretty much anything will look yuckier when it it’s jammed
into a jar of murky water - a spot of food dye or some instant coffee granules to make your water murky
- labels
, getting your labels right is the key to making these work. An
appropriate font is important, as is the wording. The bottle with the
tentacle-y thing in it reads ‘ RECOVERED FROM CHEST CAVITY OF DECAYED
ANIMATED CORPSE. ANIMATION OF CORPSE CEASED UPON REMOVAL. SPECIMEN
BEGAN TO DISSOLVE WITHIN MOMENTS OF REMOVAL FROM HOST. DISSOLUTION
CEASED WITH FORMALDEHYDE AND ACETONE. HAITI, 1894’ Which frankly gives
me the wiggins. Awesome. To give the label that crusty aged look it was
coated in contact adhesive, allowed to dry and the stuck to the bottle
with more contact adhesive.
Head over for more about them and some other seriously gross Halloween crafts (bleeding edible heart anyone?)
