Yesterday, I wrote about Darlas’ fun BookWorm Wednesday activity she did for Halloween. Today, I’ll tell you how she made her potion. It was based on science experiments we did last year during our Homeschool Experiment.
She raided our spice cabinet and found anything that looked like something else: Whole black peppers became “fly eyeballs”, a bay leaf became “witch plant”, garlic powder became “ground dragon claws”. These innocuous ingredients were just fun items to pour into the “potion”. Any spices would do.The important ingredients were baking soda (”unicorn dandruff”) and vinegar she’d dyed with red food coloring (”ogre blood”).
After the children had added all the other ingredients, Darla added the one that would make the potion bubble - the vinegar. We remembered afterward that dish soap (”werewolf snot”) would have made it bubble even more. Worked for us!
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9:57 pm
Hey, has anyone told you lately how great your kids are!? You are doing a great job! I hope Flicka and Pojke turn out so good!
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9:58 pm
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7:22 am
Happy WW and have a nice day. Many greetings from Germany.
7:28 am
Looks SO fun! We homeschool too
8:21 am
what a great series of pictures–that looks like fun.
1:51 pm
How creative! Looks like fun.
8:21 pm
How grossly fun! I wish I’d stopped by before Halloween and left you some recipes we used for ours. I can’t wait to try this one out with my kids!
11:31 am
I giggled on this one…fly eyeballs? I had no idea that’s what I was harboring in my spice drawer!
Gosh, I wish I could keep this imagination! How do we preserve that as our children grow up and older?
12:09 pm
lol.i never thought of my spices being fly eyeballs,and unicorn dandruff etc.I wish adults didn’t lose their kid like thoughts..thanks for posting the pictures.have agreat day.
1:38 pm
Potion Recipe
Fun “potion” science experiment to do with your kids!
10:34 am
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8:32 am
It was a lot of fun to do this!
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