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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:36:34 EDT
From: WAHowland@AOL.COM
Subject: First Aid training
To: SCOUTS-L@LISTSERV.TCU.EDU
My favorite blood recipe:
Karo syrup, 1 cup
few drops red food coloring
small squirt of Hershey's chocolate syrup (for opacity and realistic
color)
I store this in a small plastic bottle with a flip--up squirt nozzle
for ease
in application. You'd be amazed how far 1 cup will go-- mine is about
four
years old (and hasn't gotten scuzzy, either). The bottle is labeled
prominently
"Blood," and for fun I bring it to dessert and offer it as an ice cream
topping.
This is realistic enough that when I annoint an entire patrol just
above the
hairline on one temple, mothers feel faint when they come into the
parking
lot. The kids love it.
For wounds, go to the MallWart and get some cheap lipsticks (call them
"wound
sticks" if you mention them to the boys) in dark brown, purple, dark
red,
grey-white, and black. You can dribble "blood" out of the centers to
make
pretty good looking wounds. The lipsticks last forever too. If you want
to get
really fancy, get your local FD or hospital to donate small expired
plastic IV
bags and tubing, and you can make a good arterial pumping wound with
the bag
rhythmically squeezed in the armpit and the tubing snaking down the
sleeve. This
is a lot messier and requires thinner "blood."
For burns, take some wood ashes and mix with some Elmer's-or-equivalent
white
glue, spread thinly in the center of a nasty-looking red/brown/purple
splotch. I got some cheap jackets at the Goodwill, scorched holes in
the sleeves, and
applied the "burns" under the holes. The "rescuers" had to find them.
have a ball
AB
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