Have you ever played a video game where you could take a potion or elixir and get extra stamina, health or healing? Check out our potion recipes for kids below!
Do you wish you could get instant calm or sleep with your child? Do they need help sometimes with emotional regulation? Check out our potion recipes. The sensory, hands-on, calming nature of mixing potions can help with emotional regulation and become a favourite calming strategy.
Take those fantasies of instant potions. Add a splash of outdoor messy fun. Then add a dash of cleaning out the pantry. Remove any screens or negativity and you’ve got yourself a DIY Potion Kit for kids.
These potions aren’t intended to be consumed – they are a fun, cheap, outdoor, mixing activity that is not connected to witchcraft at all – it’s just wholesome fun away from video game screens.
This activity features in the list of 100 unique free activities to do with kids.
How to make Potions from your Pantry
We like to mix a little of this, and a little of that, to make some amazingly named potions. Store in little glass jars or sealed test tubes.
Try something like:
Sea Foam
- green food colouring
- water or soda water
- shaving foam
- peppermint essence
Essence of summer
- dried flowers
- expired tea leaves
- edible glitter
Purified plasma
- red food colouring
- vegetable oil
- water
- metallic gold paint or food colouring
Activating Powder
- bicarb (bicarbonate of soda) powder
- citric acid powder
- salt
- dried rosemary
For more ideas and potion recipe cards for kids, grab your instant download of 7 A5 cards plus labels for your potion jars/test tubes:
- labels for potion bottles or jars
- Potion of Calm instruction card
- Mist of Instant Sleep instruction card
- Energising elixir instruction card
- Brew of healing instruction card
- Blank potion recipe card
