I am in a play and need to know how to make realistic dust. Talcum powder is too white. Does anyone know if there are any household items we can use.
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Use cocoa powder.  To stretch it mix it with your talcum powder.
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I'm sure they love play dough! Make your own (2 c. flour, 2 TBSP cream of tartar, 1c. salt--mix well, add 2 c. water and 2 TBSP baby oil, stir well, microwave in 1 minute increments stirring between each until the consistency of mashed potatoes, cool until you can handle it, divide and add food colorings) My son just built an entire mountain/river/floodplain/ocean/etc... scene with this. It will dry overnight. Let them use their imagination and build a city! Explore what combining different colors produces. They can make their creations in a soda flat (like 4 6 packs would come in) and after they dry, paint with glue to seal. Even my 2 year old loves to play with it.
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Put powder on them.  After you get out of the shower.  When you shower make sure you clean and dry them thoroughly and then apply powder, talc, etc.   You shouldn't need any medication.  I'm a registered nurse.
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Paint your whole body in liquid latex (pick a colour you like.....maybe a bright purple). I'd love to see a mosquito get through that. ;)
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here check this out.  http://www.playcornhole.org/  i used the specs in there and built my own set.  it was very easy and cheap!  also if you know how to sew, just make your own beanbags.  i used navy beans inside the bags.  have fun!
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Aliminum foil and toilet bowl cleaner.  Shake it up and throw it.  We made one once that killed all the grass on a volley ball court, and another one that didn't go off for like 30 minutes, but destroyed the trash can it was in!
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There are various sites that explain how to build a paper blimp, just scale them up, as far as material goes you need an airtight flexible material that isnt subject to uv attack, mylar is the favorite.
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You could try lots of things, like:\nbeads\nfoam balls with pieces of wood to hold the sides together\npaper mache \nclay \n\nReally anything that you can mold or put together would work.
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Use feather dusters lots of ppl have them. lol
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Use talc and cotton underwear, lose a bit of weight make sure your not too near the heating....etc etc  :o)
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All you need is vaseline, some special gauzes called gypsum - gauzes, water and the head of a doll. Gypsum - gauzes, look like white, rigid leafs and I think that you can buy them also from the drugstore.\nNow, let me describe you the procedure:\n \n1. You will put some vaseline in the face of the doll,just a small amount.We need this, because when you will finish your artistic work, it will be easier for you to separate the mask from the doll.\n\n2. Then you will put the first gauze in the water just for a second; now place this gauze in the face of the doll and continue doing the same thing with the other gauzes.\nYou have to create at least 4 or 5 layers of these special gauzes. \n\n3. Then let them dry in the room. \n\n4. After that you can paint it as you prefer and separate it from the doll's face.\n\nGood luck!\n\nKaterina
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I copied some material from the page listed below.  I'm not sure I could make one from the information but I think it is what you want.\n\nNonelectric incandescent lamps include the gas-mantle lamp. The mantle is a mesh bag of fabric impregnated with a solution of nitrates of cerium and one or more of the following metals:\nthorium, beryllium, aluminum, or magnesium. \nThe process of making gas mantles originally involved several steps, beginning with the knitting of the cotton/silk fabric. The saturation step the fabric was saturated in lighting fluid. This fluid contains the thorium and cerium salts. The fabric was then dried on wood or glass forms and then carefully plaited together. An asbestos cord was drawn through to form a loop. The fabric was then shaped to fit a mantle by fitting it over a wooden form. It was estimated that American consumers used 40,00,000 mantles per year when gas lighting was commonly used. \n\nThe mantle is fixed over an orifice carrying a flammable gas such as natural gas, coal gas, propane, or vaporized benzene or other fuel. When the gas is ignited, the mantle fabric burns away, leaving a brittle residual lattice of metal oxides. Light is produced when this lattice is heated to glowing by the gas combustion, although the mantle itself does not burn.\nGas lamps may operate without mantles. \n\nCerium nitrate has been used in the manufacture of incandescent-gas mantles. The metal serves as an ingredient in the carbon-impregnated arc lamps that have been used for illumination in the motion-picture, television, and related industries. Cerium is iron gray in color and about as soft and ductile as tin. It oxidizes slowly in air, rapidly reacts with water to yield hydrogen, and burns brilliantly when heated. \n\nDr. Carl Auer von Welsbach was an Austrian chemist and engineer who invented the gas mantle, thus allowing the greatly increased output of light by gas lamps. In 1885 Welsbach discovered and isolated the elements neodymium and praseodymium from a mixture called didymium, which was previously considered an element. His interest in rare-earth elements continued, and he found that a fabric impregnated with a mixture of thorium nitrate and cerium nitrate could be made into a mantle that glowed brightly when heated by a gas flame. Patented in 1885, the Welsbach mantle greatly improved gas lighting and, although largely supplanted by the incandescent lamp, is still widely used in kerosene and other lanterns. In 1898 Welsbach introduced the first metallic filament for incandescent lamps. Although the osmium he used was too rare for general use, his improvement paved the way for the tungsten filament and the modern light bulb. Welsbach also developed misch metal, a mixture of cerium and other rare earths, which he combined with iron to make Auer's metal, the first improvement over flint and steel for making sparks since ancient times. It is used in cigarette lighters and in strikers for lighting gas jets.
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What is in wood stains? Would this make pine,fir darker?\nWould it tan and stain leather?\nJust to get rid of it, is it compostable? good for acid loving plants?\nSorry not to really know.
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Not all aerosols are flammable, however most of them are by the very expedient of small droplets. As a product is cut into smaller pieces, the less heat is required to ignite it. Try it with wood. Take a 2x4 and try to light it on fire with a lighter. It takes some time. Take the same wood from the 2x4 and shave it with a planer. The shavings become much easier to light with the same lighter. Take the same wood and cut it with a saw. The sawdust is extremely flammable. Unless the contents of the aerosol can are using helium or CO2 as a propellant, you'll most likely get a small blowtorch effect. It's especially nice with insect repellent sprays. Gets rid of those insects real good!
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lol I've had the same problem, there aren't many MUDs but an atrocious amount of MUCKs if you're into the whole role-play only thing, wikifur lists a few Muds along with other Mu*s. http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Multiplayer_worlds\n\ntry to sift through the links if you've got time.
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Here's how u can do it:\n\n(Step 1): Take an asbestos sheet of any diameter you like depending upon the size u want to make.\n\n(Step 2): Take a long jar and build a mountain with modelling clay with a hollow(but not very deep) pit.\n\n(Step 3): Leave it in the sun for drying.\n\n(Step 4): Get Ammonium Dichromate (NH4)2Cr2O7 from a chemical shop.\n\n(Step 5): Place a small amount of Ammonium Dichromate into the pit and drop a lighted camphor in the pit. You will see that Ammonium Dichromate increases in its volume, sparks are evolved and a green coloured lava flows out of the pit.\nThis is Chromium Oxide and the reaction can be represented like this:\n(NH4)2Cr2O7 --> Cr2O3 + 4 H2O + N2\n\nNote: Ammonium Dichromate and camphor are both toxic chemicals. Have a teacher around you to help u and keep a bucket of water near u.
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There is something called ecofetti that dissolves instantly with water - it is fairly cheap and you can mix it with flower petals like lavender and it smells so good!!\n\nYou can blow whistles - that was fun - loud but fun!\n\nI have also seen paper airplanes being thrown AROUND the bride and groom.  That was cool as well.