Harry Potter Potion Bottles!

Straight out of the Potions Class at Hogwarts – you can create your own Harry Potter potion bottles! It's SO easy and fun and if you are Harry Potter fans, planning a Hogwarts themed party or are just otherwise looking for something fun to do in the summer stretch, we've got you covered!

The Supplies

• Jars with Cork Lids
• DecoArt DecouPage
• Paint Brush
• Printable Potion Words (click here to download)
• Permanent Marker
• Crayons
• Liquids to Fill Jars
• Twine
• Optional:  Wax Seals

 

The Making

Start by printing potion words and draw randomly shaped boxes around them to replicate antique looking labels.
Cut around your shapes with either your scissors or a ScanNCut.

Color inside labels with crayons. This is where you can REALLY get the kids to spend some time. Challenge them to “match” their label to the effects of their potions, pick colors that will complement their potions, go for an aged look, go mod……. Here we just did some very basic scribbles.

Use Decou-Page to adhere labels to jars with a foam brush or a craft painting brush. Brush over the labels to “seal” them to the bottles.

Tie twine around jars for added touch and add wax seals to cork lids if desired. 

Fill jars with liquids. Here also is a great time user-upper (is that a word?) Now just imagine this – a Harry Potter party with beverage served in the potion bottles. Make regular lemonade and color it different colors for each potion. Or put “oddities” in the jars, like berries, herbs, slices of fruit. Add carbonated beverages so the bubbles around the top look like foam. Use food coloring to make something DELICIOUS look DISGUSTING and dare the kids to see who tastes it first.

There is no end to how much fun you could make happen with these simple Harry Potter potions bottles!  Give them a try!!

 

Creative Crafts

Don't forget, it's not just me sharing Harry Potter crafts this week. Laura, from Me and My Inklings, teamed up with Lindsey from Artsy Fartsy Momma, to bring you call kinds of Harry Potter crafts – AND we invited over a dozen of our friends to do the same.  See the projects here.

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