We had our Halloween Party for 2009, it was a great success. This year's theme was mad scientist, I dressed as a Mad Scientist and my Wife dressed as a dead nurse that was sewn together from "spare" body parts. My sister made both of our costumes.
We used scence setters from Party City for the kitchen. The skull is from a bag of bones we bought a couple years back, Wal Mart had them in 2007 for 14$, you can only get them at Spirit or Party City this year and they are around 24$. It includes a skull and several other bones. The test tubes were candy test tubes, new for wal mart this year. The old timey radio was my grandma's, it doesn't work, it used to have an orange light in it, I wish it would have worked to add some more color. The severed head is from Party City for 24$, the jars were various types of jars I cleaned up and pasted some labels onto, I got some labels off the internet and printed them, and pasted them with a gluestick. I put some plastic fingers in one jar, some candy eyeballs in another, some food coloring and water in a couple, the green jar is a yagermeister bottle. The glowing blue was a jar with tonic water that glows blue in black light. The bright green was some of the atomic glow stuff that I got from Steve Spangler Science, it worked really well and the little black lights that came with it were a lifesaver for the whole setup. I have three other blacklights on this display, however, the atomic glow and tonic water really glowed better with the small blacklights that came with the atomic glow concentrate.
I researched several real life mad scientist, like the Russian who tried to graft extra heads onto dogs, and re-animate tissue using a device known as the autojecktor that pumps oxygenated blood into a drained corpse to "re-animate" the body.
Here is a guy in the graveyard, I wish our graveyard was a lot larger than it is.
I tried the fog machine chiller that I built earlier, the wind was not cooperating and blew the fog out of the casket and away from the graveyard, I wanted fog that rolled over the ground. I put some rope lights inside the casket, I also put one of those shop lights out in front of the graveyard to light it up.
These foam gravestones are really hard to keep standing up, they are cheaply made but not necessarily cheap. I think this one was around 24$, I bought it on sale last year in November, it is so hard to get these things to stay up, the wind knocks them down even when you use somekind of metal stake in to the ground and in them.
