Cool party ideas with dry ice?!
Cool party ideas with dry ice?
i am looking for cool effects that dry ice can provide for a party that i am throwing. any ideas?
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DRY ICE
Dry ice is fun to use for different Halloween tricks or treats, but please remember to NEVER touch dry ice with your bare hands or any other place on your body.
If you need to work with it always use heavy gloves and/or tongs.
Dry is often hard to locate, but some bakery or ice cream specialty shops do carry it. Call around and see what you can find.
You can drop a few pieces into your punch or any other liquid to create a ghostly fog.
Do not allow any to be scooped up into a cup that you would drink from, nor let small children near it unsupervised.
Dry ice should not hurt you to drink anything that it has been in, you just don't want it to make contact with your skin or inhale too much of the fog. Always use in a well ventilated area.
When storing dry ice before your party, keep it in an insulated container. Do not make the container airtight. Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide and if kept in an airtight environment it could cause an explosion.
Dry ice will evaporate at the rate of about 5-10lbs per 24 hours depending on conditions, so make sure that you pick it up as close to the time that you need it as you can.
On your trip home, keep the windows of your car cracked as breathing in the fumes as it dissipates can cause medical problems.
Do not store dry ice in your freezer. If you place it in the freezer it will shut off the thermostat for your freezer and use itself up keeping everything else cold.
Do not place dry ice directly on top of a tiled countertop of solid surface as the extreme cold could crack it.
If you have any left over ice that you didn't use, just leave it unwrapped in a well ventilated area and it will dissipate on it's own.
If you do come in contact with the ice and you see a bit of red, treat as you would a burn, and it will heal as a burn would heal.
Now that you have read the precautions here are a few ideas. Assuming the party is not a halloween one you can still create the effect of fog for either a romantic effect or a scary effect. Place a large bowl in the center of your serving table and fill it with some colored water and drop the dry ice into it. If outside you can point some lights on it for a neat effect. Or scatter several bowls behind bushes to make it look like smoke or fog rising out of nowhere. You could also place a small fan behind it to cause the "fog" to drift into the party area. (If you use colored light bulbs you can get some neat effects)
Check out this site for some other neat ideas:
http://www.dryiceinfo.com/fog.htm...
Have fun. but use caution!
Source(s):
The book of Diana
pouring water on it will create a smoky effect
Swallow it whole, then go to the hospital. Eating frozen CO2 can't be good for you.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/lc_beverag...
well it's not an effect but making ice cream with dry ice is always fun
Hollowed out watermelons can be transformed into DRAGONS and Pumpkins and other Gourds are equally pliable for making odd creatures that fume - - - Create a pair of Gargoyles to Guard The Table - - - you need only drips of Hot water to generate Steam - - - so what you do is line a strainer with cheese cloth - - - suspend it over dry ice - - - you just need to refil water now and then - - - it will drip through cheesecloth gradually and produce a nice smoky effect . Have Fun
PS Diana D is correct - - - use DRY ICE with care, heavy gloves and tongs.