Eat Yer Face Gelatin Mold Day

Also known as:

"A dismal failure" - Erin

"Proof of concept "- Tim

"The most fun I've ever had at work" - Michael

"The day Timmy tried to kill Erin" - Jim

The most anticipated day in the history of Toy Day finally arrived. The idea was to make a Jello mold of Erins face, using the Eat Yer Face Gelatin mold kit, which was basically instructions and a baggie of Silica powder. The idea was simple. Stick her face thru a hole in cardboard, give her straws to breathe thru, pour the goop on her face, it sets in two minutes, remove, let harder and tah-dah...the next day you can make Jello in it that looks like her face! If you were listening, you know what happened! To help you visualize....

Tim stands ready to mix and pour.

He carefully helps Erin protect her hair from seeping goo with plastic wrap

Erin checks the fit of the cardboard and the breathing straws

The batter is briskly mixed...Tim thinks "I wish I had a whisk"

Testing and mixing continue..everything is a GO!

The batter begins to pour

More and more....

 

Soon, Erin realizes that she's lost a breathing straw and her nose is filling with goo. Without being able to see or breathe, survival becomes the priority and Tim hastily helps her up (while hardly even laughing) to help her to the sink.

Where the already setting up mask is removed, as extra, un-set goop oozes all over the place

OK, so it ain't no Jello mold, but it IS a rather startling likeness, don't you think?

Cleaning up the goop spots from the carpet.

This could actually work. If Erin hadn't lost a nostril straw (that sounds gross, doesn't it) the rest of the goop could have been applied, and it was setting up quickly and we would have had a Jello mold. We may try again, only this time, we'll make a mold of her hand! If you wanna try it yourself visit the Special Effects Cookbook people.