It doesn't take much at all. You can do many,many,many books with a gallon.

Cementex sells out of date latex fairly cheap.

So how can you use latex to make a table cloth? I am useing 3 tables in my haunt this year and need to make some creepy looking table cloths. any help?

At $3.00 from Oriental trading, I bought several for long term use. It's the stuff you put on the table cloth that count

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those are cool for indoors but i need some hardcore ones for outdoors

Just a quick thought but you might be able to get some cheap drop cloth(plastic) and put the latex down a little at a time. You could try bunching up small sections for your taddered skin effect. Let dry and then stain and paint.

You could even add random body parts like eyes, teeth, ears etc.

Well i have 3 tables
Table 1 is gonna have 2 standing props (dr Death and Dr droom) and on the table is gonna be a torso and chainsaw and under the table a Strobe and Legs (that go to the body)

Table 2 is gonna have Heads up harry and on the table will be a body in a body bag with the mans head shakeing and of coarse the strobe at the bottom on the table

Table 3 is gonna have Dr Shivers and Donna the dead and the table is gonna have a plasma ball and Disk and other stuff (not sure yet) and under a strobe light.

So with all that table im not sure latex is the way to go here but the plastic looks to cheap for the outdoor use.

plastic would be perfect for outdoor use. They have thicker ones. It sounds like you don't need skin covered tables but more like intestines and blood. Party city has many colors of plastic table cloths that would be weather resistant.

First - my apologies for contributing to hi-jacking this thread. The book is great and I plan to give it a try.

I use plastic outside every year. This year I added the blood drip over 4mil black plastic from HD, then used 3M adhesive spray to attach the blood drip TC to the 4 Mil. The table is rectangular, so I wrapped the end around and tacked to the side, unseen.

I you are concerned about more severe weather where you are, HD also maks some 3 or 4 mil clear plastic that you could use over the top of the blood drip cloth. JAT


Note: We get VERY strong winds here at least once each H'ween season. The addition of a partial roof this year caused a wind vortex directly infront of the "lab table" that subjected that area to a lot of turmoil. The blood drip TC did pull away from the 4 mil and flapped a lot, but no rips.

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your first how to?! this was great AND disgusting...great job!

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wow that room is really cool . and yes sorry for stoping the book thread. The book is really really cool.