It is formally potion season! With Halloween across the nook, now could be the right time to brew up spooky witches’ potions. Potions are a a lot liked exercise in our home at any time of 12 months, particularly at Halloween! Have a look by means of this assortment of fizzing, slimy, colour-changing, and even dry ice potions and tell us for those who strive any.
Instructing with Potions
Potion making is a good exercise only for enjoyable, however it may possibly additionally embody a number of studying alternatives.
The BEST Witches Potions
Fizzy Witch Laboratory
Fizzy potions are straightforward to make with baking soda and vinegar, and look superb. I arrange a fizzy witches’ lab for my daughter, and he or she liked it.
I used check tubes as a substitute of bigger containers, because it meant she might experiment simply with completely different colors and allowed her to make a number of eruptions with solely a small quantity of baking soda and vinegar.
What you should make fizzy potions
Baking Soda ( Bicarbonate of Soda )
Meals colouring
Vinegar
Check tubes or different containers
Pipette
Water
Easy methods to make a fizzy witch potion
Place a teaspoon of baking soda, a bit water and some drops of meals colouring into every check tube.
Use the pipette so as to add vinegar to every tube. The combination ought to fizz up out of the check tube.
TOP TIP – to make an additional foamy potion, add a bit dish cleaning soap ( washing up liquid ) earlier than including the vinegar.
Experiment with completely different quantities of baking soda, washing-up liquid and vinegar to search out the right fizz!
Spider Slime
This stretchy slime has a terrific texture and may be very straightforward to make. It may be squished, stretched and poured and feels deliciously gloopy and slimy!
What you want
Chia seeds
PVA glue
Cornflour
Water
Easy methods to make spider slime
Soak the chia seeds in water for a couple of hours.
When the chia seeds look thick and slimy, add a dollop of PVA glue and sufficient cornflour to make the combination thick and gloopy. For a drier slime, add extra cornflour.
If you happen to’re apprehensive about kids attempting to eat the slime, you possibly can miss out on the PVA glue. It simply will not stretch as effectively.
Magic Color Altering Potions
Color altering potions utilizing purple cabbage indicator are a terrific first introduction to acids and alkalis. Kids can experiment to learn the way many various colors they’ll make!
To make the purple cabbage indicator, boil purple cabbage in water for about 5 minutes. Enable the combination to chill and save the liquid.
The purple cabbage water is the indicator. It adjustments color relying on whether or not an acid or an alkali is added.
I used vinegar, lemon juice and baking soda to create the colors beneath.
Edible Magic Potion
I actually love the look of this steamy potion, on Enjoyable Crafts Children. Nevertheless, bear in mind to take a look at the security warnings first.
Goblin Snot Juice
We shared some straightforward potion concepts with Day Out With The Children some time in the past. Together with creepy Goblin Snot Juice and colour-changing bat broth!
This potion is a inexperienced liquid with a layer of oil on high. If the container is shaken, the combination separates into oil and water once more! This can be a nice potion for studying about density.
The oil is much less dense than the water, so it floats on the floor!
Witchy Density Jar
This witchy density jar is made in an analogous approach. Simply pour colored water right into a jar with a layer of oil on the highest, then attempt to discover completely different creepy objects to drift on the layers.
We discovered a bouncy ball eyeball floated on the highest, and a coin sank to the underside.
Extra Potion Concepts for Children
Print my FREE fizzy potion recipe and create your personal potion with the clean recipe web page.
Extra potion concepts for Halloween
The Creativeness Tree has a lovely Fairy Potion that you can flip right into a Halloween potion.
We love the look of this polyjuice potion from This Grandma is Enjoyable, too.
If you happen to’re on the lookout for a simple Halloween costume concept, Pink Ted Artwork is stuffed with inspiration!
Extra Halloween Science Concepts
Strive our Halloween get together science concepts, together with faux blood, pumpkin lava lamps and spider decorations.
My ebook Gross Science, is jam packed stuffed with grotesque, sticky and slimy science experiments for youths! Make jelly scabs, chocolate poo, slimy slugs, a blood mannequin and plenty extra experiments, positive to creep out your family and friends!
I even have an thrilling assortment of Halloween STEM Challenges you would possibly like. Together with spider drawing robots, blowing up pumpkin balloons and extra!
Final Up to date on September 22, 2025 by Emma Vanstone
