How to Thicken Fake Blood for Halloween

Video Transcript

"Hello I'm Matt Cail on behalf of Expert Village I'm here today to show you how to make fake blood and other horror props. The next step in making sure that our blood is ready for production is to check the consistency blood you can have a blood can be great color. But if it's to thin or runny then it's still not going to show up very well on any of your costumes. So take your brush for the first time and dip it in the jar your going to get some blood out and this is good for two things. Spreading it on plastic your going to be able to see both of the pigments and the consistency of the blood. Now here this blood still a little purplish means you probably need a couple of more drops of red which is not always apparent from what you see in the jar. This is really good at simulating and how it's going to look on an article of clothing or a person. Secondly it's a little thin even if you got the color a little more red you can see it's very transparent there a couple of things to do to decrease the transparency of corn syrup blood. The first is by adding cocoa powder maybe one, two teaspoons of the absolutes of maximum I actually like to put in about a 1/2 of teaspoon for say the amount of the blood like this. You can also try by adding milk but a word of warning will milk is good for thickening it up and sort of clouding the blood more like human blood is. You have to make sure that your actually using that blood relatively soon cause milk can spoil and while corn syrup has a lot of preservatives in it, if you have milk running throughout it you can have actually have a very spoily stinking batch of blood if you leave it for sitting to long. "