How Do You Shrink Apples

Combine lemon juice and salt in bowl. Soak the apple for 30 seconds. Pat dry. Set the apple in a warm, dry spot; after several days, the apple will shrink, and the features will distort.

How do you make a applehead?

1. Peel the apple with the potato peeler. …
2. After you peel it, take the spoon and press two places for the eyes with the bowl of the spoon turned upside down. …
3. Double the wire and force the ends through the doll’s head all the way through the core.

How do they shrink shrunken heads?

The head is then dried with hot rocks and sand while molding it to retain its human features. The skin is then rubbed down with charcoal ash. Decorative beads may be added to the head. In the head shrinking tradition, it is believed that coating the skin in ash keeps the muisak, or avenging soul, from seeping out.