How to Make Halloween Fake Blood with Things in Your Kitchen

Making Fake Blood is Cheap and Easy, with Ordinary Kitchen Items!

Fake blood costs a small fortune for the good stuff when you buy it in the squeezable tubes at the store. While you can buy Halloween fake blood for cheaper, it tends to be thin and watery and it won't last the night. If you're looking for some good Halloween fake blood, the best choice is to make your own! Making fake blood is actually very easy, takes very little time, and you probably have the ingredients you need right in your kitchen.

Just in case you don't have the right ingredients for one Halloween fake blood recipe though, I've decided to offer a choice of recipes for making fake blood. I'm sure you're bound to have the ingredients for at least one of these recipes to make your own fake blood!

Halloween Fake Blood Recipe #1

Fake Blood Ingredients:

~ White corn syrup

~ Blue food coloring

~ Red food coloring

~ Cornstarch

~ Water

Place approximately one tablespoon of cornstarch into a bowl or large glass. Add half a cup of white corn syrup to the same container and mix thoroughly. This mixture will be very thick, so you want to add about 1/4 to 1/8 of a cup of water to the mixture, to make it thick but still thin enough it can drip (about the consistency of blood!)

Next, add about 15 drops of red food coloring to the mixture and stir it in until it's blended. This is the red base for the fake blood. We all know blood really isn't bright red though, so that's where the blue food coloring comes in. Start by adding one drop of blue food coloring and stir. Observe the color, and if it doesn't look like blood color, then add a second drop.

Depending on how much water you used, it could take anywhere from one to five drops of blue food coloring to achieve the desired level. If the mixture becomes too purplish, you can always add a drop or two more of the red to bring the color back to blood colored.

The mixture will be thin at first, but once the corn syrup dries, with the help of the cornstarch, it will become stiffer, and will stick to just about anything. The good news is, it's mostly sugar and water, so it's very easy to wash the fake blood off when Halloween is over.

Variation: one drop of green food coloring instead of blue makes a really rich blood color too.