100% Pure Fake: Gross Out Your Friends and Family with 25 Great Special Effects!

by Lyn Thomas

Parents, beware of this book. With 100% Pure Fake, the art of scaring the pants off friends and family reaches new levels of ease and sophistication. Pranksters can now amaze, alarm and totally disgust everyone with these easy-to-make Pure Fakes. These 25 safe, kid-tested recipes that can be made with ingredients found in most households, including corn syrup, rolled oats, makeup and pasta. Other ingredients, such as school glue, food coloring, tempera paint and gelatin, are widely available in grocery or craft stores. Each project is presented with step-by-step instructions and includes warnings for allergy and mess alerts, non-edible and edible projects, and when kids should get adult help. A few 100% Pure Rotting Skin * Eggs, oats and other ingredients give kids a putridly convincing case of rotting skin. S'not Snot * Gelatin, food coloring and other ingredients create slimy matter dripping from noses? 100% pure disgusting. Chocolate Milk Spill * White school glue, brown tempera paint and other ingredients make a life-like spill that will deceive and annoy to the max!

48 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2009

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Book is Great To Creep your Friends Out and it is The 2011 Silver Birch Nominees

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

100% Pure Fake is 100% Pure Disgusting and 100% Pure Perfection! It is the perfect book for practical jokers, Halloween parties and reluctant readers who love anything with a huge gross factor. You will learn how to make everything from fake blood to fake (and edible) poop. Many more lovely things can be made right in your own kitchen with just a little help from a grown-up.Warning: Do not read this while you are eating, just before you are going to eat, or right after eating. Some of the photos are that realistic!

[Michele · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recipe book for creating fake blood, snot, road kill guts, veggie vomit and other delightful concoctions. Each recipe includes ingredients list, instructions, suggestions on sharing the final product and large, colorful photos. As an adult I appreciate the frequent warnings about cleaning up messes and practicing safety. It's one thing to read about gross stuff, I wonder how many kids will follow through and actually make edible poo?

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for professional review.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sooo gross, and so kid-friendly! This would make a great Halloween program, mixing up fake blood and fake scars for kids to wear.

[Silas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Levi and I did some good experiments from this book, like fake dog poop and a fake brain.

[Esha]

This book is good. I mean if you want to gross someone out especially. It actually has good ideas. I used some of them on my sister but they didn't work. She doesn't get scared of anything!! grr