Rotten Skin
What You Will Need
- 1 egg
- Black food coloring (paste will work)
- 1/2 cup (120ml) of uncooked oatmeal
- 1/4 cup (60ml) Kayro® light and clear corn syrup
- Green face paint (may want to mix it with brown/yellow or something that will give a rotted skin - some blue with lots of white, etc.)
- 2 popsicle sticks
- 3 small bowls
- Water
What You Will Do
- Arrange the egg yolk and white by busting the egg in half. Then separate them by dumping the white and egg yolk in each until they're separated. Dump yolk in small dish, white in one of the other dishes.
Add 2 drops of food coloring with it.
With fork, stir.
- Dip brush in egg yolk mixture and paint your face red.
- Pour oatmeal into 3rd bowl.
- Stir corn syrup with oatmeal with fork.
- Stick to desired area. you might have to press stirred mix to shrink. Some egg yolk mix should show through.
- Wash hands and wait for corn syrup to dry.
- To make oats look like skin, put on alittle face paint until oats are covered, making sure color underneath shows through flows through.
What You Can Do
- Spaghetti could be used for worms, and white rice for maggots.
Whom to Credit
- Cox, Marcia Lynn. Makeup Monsters. New York: Tempo Books, 1976.