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At last! a pimple you can squeeze. “Don’t touch it! Don’t pick at it!

Leave it alone and it will go away.” Nag, nag, nag. Real pimples are never fun, but this exploding zit will spew forth all sorts of nasty stuff. And you can pick at it as much as you want. Best to do this in the kitchen sink or in the bathtub. If you do, you won’t need the cookie sheet for eruption protection.

What you’ll need:• Toothpick

• Green and yellow food coloring

• 1 small paper cup

• Funnel

• Empty plastic bottle (a 1-liter soda bottle works well)

• 1 box of baking soda

• 1 squirt of whipped cream in a can

• Pot deep enough to fit the plastic bottle

• Cookie sheet or tray

• Enough dirt or fine gravel to make a mound around your bottle

• 2 cups of sand

• 1 cup of white vinegar

THE AMAZING EXPLODING ZIT

What to do:Use a toothpick to mix a drop of green food

coloring with two or three drops of the yellow in the paper cup and set aside. You’re aiming for that perfect pus color. Using the funnel, fill the plastic bottle halfway with the baking soda. Add the food coloring and a tiny squirt of whipped cream. Place the pot on the cookie sheet and place the bottle in the middle of the pot. Pour the dirt or gravel into the bowl and mound it up around the bottle, shaping it into well . . . a . . . big pimple. Leave the top of the bottle peeking out. Now top the whole thing with sand. (Pretend that’s the top layer of skin.)

You are now ready to witness the eruption of Mount Zit. Quickly pour the vinegar into the bottle and stand back ’cause thar she blows!

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MAKE A MOUND OF MAKE-BELIEVE MUCUSSince it’s not polite to play with all that

neat stuff that drips from your nose, this is the next best thing. And if you really want to gross your buddies out, you can always stick a glob ’neath your schnozz for that truly sicko effect.

What you’ll need:• Newspapers (So you don’t get creamed for making a mess

in the kitchen.)

• 2 Popsicle sticks

• 1/2 teaspoon borax powder (You can find this in the deter-gent section of your supermarket.)

• 2 cups of distilled water (You can buy this in the super-market, too.)

• 1 bottle (4 ounces) of white school glue

• Drop of green food coloring

• 2 empty 8-ounce jars, washed and dried

• 1 empty 8-ounce yogurt container,

• washed and dried

• Ziploc plastic bag

What to do: Spread the newspapers out over the table. Use a Popsicle stick to mix the borax and 1 cup of distilled water in one of the jars. Place the glue, the food coloring, and the rest of the water in the second jar and stir with a Popsicle stick until thor-oughly blended. Pour about a quarter of the mixture of each bottle into the empty yogurt container and mix well with the stick until it has a nice gooey, gluey feel to it. Drape in an appropriate spot un-der your nose. You now have a fluid that’s not quite a liq-uid and not quite a solid. You can store your newly made slime in a Ziploc plastic bag for further fun. Tightly cap the remaining borax/water and glue/food coloring/water jars and save for a rainy day.

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Would you like to create your own hoax—but not end up in jail?

Here’s a grand way to gross someone out on April Fool’s Day. Start about 10 days ahead of time, since it takes some time to dry. You’ll need:

1. Mix the glue with the puff paint in the plastic cup.

2. Add the bits of food. Stir. Pour the mixture on the piece of wax paper. Try to craft an interesting blob-like shape.

3. Let dry. This will take about a week, so keep your pretend upchuck hidden in a safe place.

4. When it is dry, peel off the wax paper. Place your porta-puke in an appropriate place . . . the cafeteria, the kitchen counter, or next to your brother’s or sister’s homework. Fun, huh?

• 112-oz.plasticcup

• 18-oz.bottleofwhiteglue

• 14-oz.bottleofpuffpaint(availableinmostcraftstores;selectanicegreen-yellow-beigebarfycolor)

• 1/2cupofcornflakecereal,12choppedraisins,andotherassortedfoodbits,ifdesired

• Waxpaper—a12"x12"squarewilldonicely

• Stirrerorplasticstraw

PORTABLE PUKE

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WORKMAN • workman.comSlogging salt. These workers are harvesting salt

extracted from the super-salty Great Salt Lake.

Think it’s easy to get the salt out of saltwater? Desalinization (de-sal-in-

uh-zay-shun) plants are expensive to build and run. Here’s how to make a mini one! You’ll need:

Get a grown-up to help you spray one of the two-liter bottles black. Mix the salt with the water. Pour the saltwater into the black bottle. Attach one end of the clear tubing to the opening of one bottle with duct tape, and attach the other end of the tubing to the other bottle. Set both bottles in a sunny window. Place the black bottle higher than the clear bottle. After several days, water will have moved from the black bottle into the clear bottle, and will no longer be salty.

• 2two-literplasticsodabottles,empty

• Blackspraypaint

• 1⁄2cupsalt

• 4cupswater

• 12inchesofclearplastictubing,atleast

• 1⁄2"wide(youcanfinditinanypetstorethatsellsfishproducts)

• Ducttape

HOW TO TAKE SALT OUT OF SALTWATER