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Spook up your home for Halloween with easy-to-make specimen jars, a creepy craft sure to bring out the mad scientist in you.Tools and MaterialsGlass cylinder vase or jarEncapso KPlastic paint bucketMixing toolHalloween teeth and eyesSil-Poxy Silicone Rubber AdhesiveChopsticks (optional)Specimen Jars How-To1....
Think twice before you toss those used jars; give them a second life as cute Halloween decorations. Display brains in jars or under glass cloches.. The specimens in these jars are so realistic, guests will be afraid to ask what they're made of.....
Peel off outer layers of a cabbage head for a brain specimen; use a fennel bulb with the fronds cut off for a heart. If a specimen is too large for the jar's opening, cut it in half and stick it back together with skewers once it's inside....
Display brains in jars or under glass cloches.. Vegetables sunk in clear jars of colored water create a haunting and eerie display.....
The master's pet raven overlooks jars of organs from the Westport Arboretum....
Fill old-style specimen jars with water, and add enough food coloring to produce a suitably supernatural tint....
Display brains in jars or under glass cloches....
Once the experiments are over, placing the brains, heart, appendix, and plenty of eyes in neatly labeled glass jars transforms things of science into unusual decorations -- a look you can re-create in your house. To heighten the macabre effect, make adhesive labels for the jars that describe their contents, ...
For a centerpiece, more plastic critters crawl over fake moss and inside jars (with holes punched in tops, naturally). As favors, guests get to take home collector's boxes with rubber insects and bug-shape pens.Spring FavorsLined specimen boxes are available at hobby stores....
Fill jar with water (water should cover top of cauliflower head).3....
