Expert Mad Scientist Bar Tips

A mad scientist themed bar for your Halloween party needn't be a challenge to make. Here's a quick list of easy-to-find party supplies that will make it a cinch to pull together.

Lab Table – use a rectangular counter height bar with industrial look and feel or drape a dining table with layered gauze.

Lab Equipment – replace pitchers and squirt bottles with beakers and glass jars.

Frozen Specimens – Freeze faux body parts and plastic tubing in blocks of ice to pour drinks through to give them a real chill!

Hollywood-style special effects – gelatin covers for drinks that look like skin, dry ice and/or smoke machines create a spooky mood, battery operated lights give containers an ominous glow.

Goolish Garnishes – replace standard garnishes with gross-out alternatives (ie onion eyeballs and finger sticks).

Secret Potions – mystery mixtures of juices and mixers squirted into drinks by guests from squeeze bottles.

Creepy Concoctions – Tru Blood Vampire 75, Chemical Cooler & Alien Secretion.

"Finger" Foods – Chicken Fingers, Worm Salad, Eyeball soup, Brain Cheese.