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There’s no fun and fascination in something until it doesn’t have any evil or kind of darkened site to it. Be it our daily life or any theater shows, like Shakespearean plays. The best examples include; Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Tempest, and Hamlet; we see how the entire plot has been amazingly designed with witchcraft and supernatural to create curiosity in readers and audience to wait for other coming scenes.
In these plays, witchcraft has been used as another-worldly and background character to tell the protagonist what’s destiny might be holding up. Since I’ve been greatly influenced by these stories and plays with a bit of gothic and supernatural effect, so I thought, why not embrace a dark theme for the Halloween party?
This suggestion is not to opt for Halloween 2021 but for any time of year when you think of something out of the box.
While scrolling Pinterest a week ago, I came across fantastic guidelines for making a DIY witch cauldron, but I tried in my own way, and it turned really awesome. So I am sharing it with you guys to make your party theme a unique one.
Imagine, you can make your entire set up reflecting Shakespearean play touch, with costumes, a decor, and your whole clan disguised in various characters using mysterious witchy names.
So, first I’ll be sharing how to decorate your witch cauldron giving it a typical theater type look. You can also decorate it from any Shakespeare play like Macbeth, if you’ve seen the movie, or in any other way.
The second DIY guide would create an easy cauldron fog effect to make your theme a lively look.
Make DIY Witch Cauldron
Okay, so the first thing you need is a plastic witch’s cauldron; you can quickly get it via Party City, or Amazon. Get it in jumbo size, or any size to make it look a bit used, and crusty.
When I made it with my friends last Halloween, we added oatmeal with mod podge and make it kind of out all over a cauldron. Put some lip of it and put them in little pointed trails coming out of the cauldron, so it’ll look like kind of something, an old potion boiling over edges.
But, try doing this by putting it on the side first, then letting it completely dry for a day. Once it gets dry and the mixture gets stick to the cauldron, then add another coat of mod podge on top to make sure it was sealed in there really well.
I bet you won’t face any trouble doing it; in fact, it’s a joyful task to do with friends – sort of pre – Halloween party stuff. This is how the cauldron will look after sticking oatmeal, and mod podge.
The next step you need to do is, paint over the oatmeal. I’ll suggest you take a charcoal-colored chalk paint to give it a kind of matte color, as it’s not too glossy. Now start painting it, and begin with handles. When I decorated the witch cauldron with my friends, I used a coppery metallic color to make the cauldron look coppery, rusty, and old. Give it black paint, brown paint, and then make big splotches of each color.
In case you mess up, don’t worry! You can paint over it. Now, it’s time to give your boiled potion – which you did use oatmeal before – some more color. Go for a green mix with some black. Water it down just a bit.
How your antique cauldron will look, you’ll love it. The green color adds a character and storytelling effect to your cauldron. I shared with you the way I created, and this is how it finally looked, don’t you think it’s giving a natural, and old, crusty look for pure dramatic effect?
Filling Cauldron Tray with Water & Misters
Time to fill water, and misters inside the cauldron, so our second step is to decide how you want to have the water inside the cauldron tray. Don’t fill the entire thing with water, which would be too much unless you have a smaller cauldron. The best way is to make a shallow tray along the top of the cauldron to put water and misters inside.
Get a planter tray from any hardware store; it’s like what you put underneath your pots. Flip it upside down, place it inside the bottom of the cauldron, and put the tray on top. Also, you can put the entire tray but paint it first with pure black using the plastic bag approach. Make sure your bag can lay completely loose and flat on the bottom of your tray.
When you put water over the bag, you just wrap it around the tray, so if it weighs down, pull your tape off the sides of the cauldron. Make sure you’re taping all the way around as there’s a lot of slack in the bag inside your tray so that it doesn’t pull when it’s full of water. If it ends up getting pulled excessively tight, this is where you screwed up.
Now, finally, put misters inside the cauldron, and enjoy your witchy act. People often recommend using dry ice, but I believe you have to keep feeding it with dry ice. We only have to turn it on and off whenever we want. Never replenish your misters with anything except water.
You have to get your misters in your bucket and know where your cords are going.
Let’s move to the second tutorial, creating fog effect for cauldron.
DIY Guide to Make Witch Cauldron Fog Effect
Spending hours decorating a witch cauldron is useless if it didn’t have that impressive and mind-boggling fog effect. After all, how will a witch perform and call others with a witchy name if there is no fog effect to create an atmosphere?
Here, I am sharing a really simple tip that has been thoroughly used on screen from long time.
Take one liter of warm water, not boiling warm water, and around 100 grams of dry ice cubes and a min fog machine to create a fog effect on the cauldron.
Place the DIY witch cauldron almost near a window to get some ventilation in the room. Use around 1/2 gallon of water for each pound of dry ice for the best result. Adding excessively or too little water doesn’t make as much cool smoke or make the ideal hazy impact.
Measure the thickness of the aggregate sum of dry ice you intend to utilize, and choose a cauldron with a profundity multiple times of that range. This permits the smoke to puddle in the cauldron prior to gushing out over its edges.
The smoke or mist made by a dry ice cauldron or a mist machine vanishes in only a couple of feet. To convey the impact all through the room, set a little fan behind the cauldron – where it will not be seen – to assist with spreading the smoke along the floor.
So this was a bit less time consuming, and reasonable way to make your witch cauldron yourself with an impressive fog effect. To get more such stuff on witchcraft, stay tuned with Moody Moons, a platform that aims to share what any gothic lover or spiritual folk will look for. Subscribe today, and be a part of us.
