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Make A Halloween Cauldron
How to Make the Cauldron
I used a foam product to make this cauldron. It is an insulating foam called foamular and all home improvement stores sell it. Places like Home Depot and Lowes. It comes in sheets of varying thicknesses. I used the sheets that are two inches thick. One note about painting this cauldron. If you don't coat the whole thing with Plaster of Paris like I did you have to exercise some caution when painting it. Some spray on paints will actually eat right through the foam. I mean just put holes and craters right in it. A safe spray paint you can use is called H20 paint. It is a latex spray on paint made by Krylon and is available in most hardware or home improvement stores.
Cut all the squares into circles. You can use just about anything to cut it from a knife to a saw or a foam cutter.
Use various tools to sculpt it into a cauldron shape. You can use small saws, rasps or even a belt sander like I used. This picture shows it before I started sculpting it.
This step is optional but it does make the cauldron look a lot nicer! I mixed up some plaster of paris and brushed it on. This gives it a more uniform and metal look. I did this three times and it is easy with the plaster of paris because it dries in half an hour.
Some thoughts on how to make it spookier. You have plenty of options when it comes to working with this cauldron. You could get dry ice and put it inside so it gives off smoke. Or you could put a smoke generator in it. You could put a light inside and put a red cover over the light. Because it is foam it would be easy to poke a hole through the bottom so you could run a cord through it to power something up. A fan and red streamers would be kind of neat so the red streamers all stream upward as if there were a fire in the cauldron.
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