This year my eldest plans on taking part in the local zombie walk and of course that means blood and lots of it. Luckily I found a site that had 13 recipes (how to make fake blood) and we tried a few, both edible and non-edible. We discovered that the first recipe is great for edible but instead of using the fool coloring drops we used Wilson red-red icing color and chocolate sauce and the color is perfect – no need for blue or green.We also added some corn starch to thicken it up a little bit. My son says it tastes like bland chocolate; I think it has just a hint of chocolate flavor but it isn’t bad and it is perfect for vampires and zombies and other beasties. I am doing a test right now to see if it stains the skin if it is left on for an extended period of time, which will be interesting when we have dinner tonight….

And then the awesome blood that is non-edible – the tenth recipe: Movie blood for splatter and smear, but instead of motor lubricant I used castor oil, which works wonderfully.

3/4 parts hair gel (we’ll say 3/4 cup)

1/4 parts water (1/4 cup)

Wilson’s Red-Red Icing color (use a toothpick – it’s more of a visual thing.  A little bit goes pretty far)

mix together- it looks like strawberry gel t this point.

mix in a little chocolate sauce – again a little bit goes far. I used maybe 3/4 teaspoon? It was a visual thing, too.

I didn’t use the hand sanitizer at all and the blood is awesome. The texture, the consistency, the color (oh, dear lord the color!) is fantastic.

This is my son. This is just the first stage of his costume. Since the picture was taken last night he has dragged the shirt through dirt and mud and tore it up some more. When he dresses up he will be splattering more blood onto the shirt, his skin and edible blood will dribble from his mouth. A couple of girls will be doing his zombie make up. I hope he remembers to take pictures.

*** It does not stain!! Also, do not eat the non-edible blood. 🙂