Thread: Gross things to put into water

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I'm having a party for a bunch of 6-year-olds. I have some fun jars that I'd like to put water in, then something gross... that looks like brains (or whatever). Obviously, it can't be TOO gross... but it can't be too fake, either. Is there any foods that looks creepy when drowned in water? Thanks!

PS This is my first Halloween party!

You could try cauliflower maybe? The grow snakes at dollar tree work great.

we use grow in water things of all types, hands, heads, an octopus, and full skeletons into our lab jars, the work year after year and are pretty gross looking...

I just put a bunch of webbing into a plastic jar filled with water and fake eyeballs. It is very slimy to the touch, and looks it!

Ohhhh! Great ideas. Thanks. I'll hit the dollar store to see if I can find some grow-in-water things! Are they hard to remove from small-necked bottles?

How about a jar of worms? (cooked linguine or spaghetti) Would feel pretty gross too.

they may be, I'd recommend dumping out all of the water and allowing them to shrink back to original size. I pack mine up after Halloween in the same containers and just add water the next year.

I ended up doing something really simple. I was carving pumpkins, so I just used the pumpkin pulp... and colored water. It looked really gross!

If they don't have to touch it, pink fiberglass insulation looks like some sort of general gross tissue when immersed. You can twist it into weird shapes, pull it apart into tendrils, etc. A drop or two of food color and some misc floaty things in the water will gross it up.