Over on my Instagram account, I posted a lot of pictures of goofy ice projects for Halloween. I realized I should also share them here on the blog for posterity. This is one of several posts. All my 10+ years of ice posts are here.
I bought a bunch of silly junk at the Halloween store and froze it into ice blocks. On this post there are pics of a magic wand and a plastic rat that I froze.
Over on my Instagram account, I posted a lot of pictures of goofy ice projects for Halloween. I realized I should also share them here on the blog for posterity. This is one of several posts. All my 10+ years of ice posts are here.
I bought some small plastic skeletons and spiders at the Halloween store and frozen them into cubes, mostly using the Ghost Ice system or the Clearly Frozen tray (see recommended trays by following link above). Oh and it's hard to tell but the last spider pic is of a giant plastic spider I froze into an ice block using a cooler.
Over on my Instagram account, I posted a lot of pictures of goofy ice projects for Halloween. I realized I should also share them here on the blog for posterity. This is one of several posts. All my 10+ years of ice posts are here.
These pictures are of various eyes I scored from a few stores. There are eyes on ping pong balls (that float), rubber ball eyes (that sink), and some flat googly eyes.
Over on my Instagram account, I posted a lot of pictures of goofy ice projects for Halloween. I realized I should also share them here on the blog for posterity. This is one of several posts. All my 10+ years of ice posts are here.
I bought a few masks at the Halloween store, including a plague doctor mask. I then frozen them in an ice block and let them melt.
Over on my Instagram account, I posted a lot of pictures of goofy ice projects for Halloween. I realized I should also share them here on the blog for posterity. This is one of several posts.
I bought this plastic severed hand at the Halloween store. To get the fingers to freeze in side the ice block, I raised the handle on the cooler and held the hand in place using tape. The hand floats otherwise.
Over on my Instagram account, I posted a lot of pictures of goofy ice projects for Halloween. I realized I should also share them here on the blog for posterity. This is one of several posts.
This is a plastic skull I bought at the Halloween store and froze in an ice block in my cooler. It looked pretty amazing as it melted.
I covered it on my Instagram account, but I made some simple cranberry ice cubes.
For the spheres, I simply added cranberries to clear ice molds. [list of recommended products here]
For the spears/sheets, I floated some cranberries in a cooler and let it freeze for about a day. I then broke up the slab into spears. These look cool but the cranberries don't stay stuck into the ice for very long.
I made some fun ice, as I tend to do.
For the grid ice, I first made ice using the Ghost Ice tray, then I just set it on a cookie drying rack that I heated up on the stove burner. I think it looks like the tardis from Dr. Who.
For these cubes, I used the Dexas trays (purchase links here). For the cherry, I used a binder clip and clipped the stem sticking out of the top hole in the tray.
The blueberries – some floated and some sunk, so it turned out great with no effort.
I bought some collins-sized ice cube trays (these ones) and decided to make an ice spear version of Jenga. I mean, why not?
I didn't expect it would actually work. I mean, it didn't work all that well but I was able to get three out! Probably the second two on the bottom only came out because those ones had melted the most, but I'll take it.
Here are some pictures. Your mileage may vary.
I made striped ice cubes.
The first time I made striped ice was just before I figured out directional freezing to make clear ice. Having realized that the cloudiness in ice was caused by trapped air and not minerals, I tried to pour very thin layers of water in a tray so that the air might fizz off when the layer froze. It did not work, but it did make cool stripey ice.
So just for fun I decided to make some striped ice cubes. Using the Dexas IceOlogy tray (my recommendations for ice tools are all here) I filled the water up to the bottom of the tray, let it freeze, then added another layer, let it freeze, then repeated this a couple more times. You should be able to accomplish this more or less with a conventional ice cube tray.
So each layer is a clear part and a cloudy part. I still like the taste of clear ice better, but these cubes are fun. There are three cubes in the glass.
The index of ice experiment on Alcademics is here.
