Top Halloween Chemistry Projects

You can avoid potential toxins and allergens by preparing your own Halloween face paint. This face paint recipe produces a creamy white face paint, which you can use as it is or color to suit your needs.

If dry ice is too tame for you (or you can't get any) light a smoke bomb inside of a Halloween jack-o-lantern. The effect doesn't last as long, but it's a lot of fun and you get a ton of smoke.

Chocolate-flavored fake organs, anyone? You can adjust the color and consistency of the edible fake flesh and organs to make shiny fresh-looking organs or dark crusty-looking fresh. This is any extremely easy way to make fake body parts.

• Flesh and Organs
• Edible Blood and Guts

If you're going to do chemistry projects for Halloween, maybe you should look like a chemist while doing them... or a mad scientist or evil genius:

• Chemist Halloween Costume
• Scientist Halloween Costume
• Mad Scientist Costume
• Evil Genius Costume

Perhaps your Halloween costume involves foaming at the mouth rather than blood. If so, here's a quick and non-toxic way to create that rabid look.

Halloween is the perfect occasion for flaming or glowing party drinks! Drinks you set on fire will contain alcohol, since that's the fuel for the flame. You can go either way with glowing drinks, making them for kids or for adult celebrations.