Ward, you make me blush!!!!
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Regurgitating Baby is pretty easy to make. You need:
An old baby doll; the bigger the better!(baby doll needs to have the hole in her lips or you'll have to drill one)
green Halloween face paint
small fish tank pump with flexible tubing
tube of silicone sealant
black plastic cauldron
food coloring
Okey Dokey. If your baby doll doesn't have a hole in her lips, then you will have to cut one or drill one. Be careful though! Sometimes the plastic doll faces are hard - you don't want to slice yourself!
If the doll has a hole in her mouth, skip to the next step....
Measure the baby doll from head to toe. Purchase flexible plastic tubing that is about twice the size of the baby doll. Make sure it's not too big - you need to have it fit into the dolls mouth. You also don't want it too small, just in case you want to use Orange Juice in lieu of plain water for a better effect!
Take the head off the baby doll and thread the plastic tubing into the baby dolls mouth. Pull from the outside to the inside. When you get it through the lips, pull it all the way through leaving about two inches outside the baby dolls' mouth.
Now we've got to get the tubing through the dolls body.
Make a hole at the front of one of the baby doll's toes. You might just have to cut one or two of the toes completely off. When you've done that, thread the flexible plastic tubing through the body, through the toe and then out.
To help me do this, I took wire, thinner than a clothes hanger, and snaked it through the front of the toe up into the body, wrapped it around the flexible tubing and pulled the wire out of the foot with the tubing attached. It makes it much easier. Kinda like a "snake" like when you've got to snake wires through the walls of your house. I hope you know what I mean.
Once the tubing is completely through the dolls mouth/body/toe, reattach baby dolls head to the body.
Make sure the tubing doesn't accidentally get pulled in through the mouth! I hope you remembered the two inch slack that should be sticking outside the dolls mouth. Don't trim that until the end!
Now for the cauldron. Place the baby doll up against the cauldron. Make it look like she's leaning in, like she's throwing up into the cauldron. Mark the spot where the toe comes into contact with the cauldron. When you've marked it, drill/cut a hole in there. That's where you're gonna snake the flexible tubing through.
You also need to cut a hole for the fish pump plug to be snaked out of. So you're gonna make two holes - one for the tubing and one for the plug.
Snake the tubing that comes out of the bottom of the doll into the cauldron. Place the fish pump into the bottom of the cauldron and then snake the plug out of the cauldron. Attach the flexible tubing to the fish pump.
Next, you're going to position the baby doll to lean against the cauldron. I had to take wire, punch a little hole in the cauldron, snake it through the hole, and then wrap it around the dolls wrists. That's the reason I put the pom pom's on her wrists - to cover the wire.
Because one toe butts up against the cauldron, it might make Baby unsteady. You're going to have to try to stabilize Baby as best you can. Once her hands are wired to the cauldron the only other appendage you can manipulate is the foot not attached to the cauldron. You can do it, though!
When everything seems in place, all measured out so there's enough slack in the lines, then it's time to seal the holes. You're going to seal the holes surrounding the tubing and the plug so nothing leaks out of the cauldron. Check out the instructions on the silicone sealant to see how long it needs to dry.
Next, tease Baby Doll's hair to make her look scary. I also took green face paint - white is good too- and rubbed her face with some.
When the silicone is all dried up, trim the tubing in front of baby dolls's mouth, but leave just a little sticking out ( just in case! )
Fill the cauldron halfway with water and add the green food coloring.
OR The site where I found these instructions had the option of using Pulpy Orange Juice with green food coloring in it to give it that chunky feeling! I decided not to use the OJ because I knew this would be a prop that I would keep year after year and I didn't want any mold or fungus or crapola forming inside the tubing, so I just stuck with plain water.
Make sure the water is not leaking out of the siliconed holes in the cauldron. When it's been determined that there are no leaks, plug the fish pump in and watch Regurgitating Baby throw up over and over and over again!
The kids LOVE this simple little prop - but the really little kids did not. They were a bit disturbed by it
If you have any questions, just ask!
P.S. In this photo, it looks like I didn't add the green food coloring yet - that's not the tubing, that's clear water.
(I already have a pot)
I'd report her for vandalism.
Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. (to me anyway, probably not your wife)
