Create STEM Opportunities with Potion Making

We also made ‘Goblins Snot ‘mixing together cornflour, water, green colouring and chia seeds.

We popped our mixture into bottles and wrote our own potion labels too.
According to the children tomorrow we are making a spell book!!

Resourcing

• Old white shirts (Lab coats)
• Safety goggles
• A variety of different sized flasks, containers and bottles (Try adding some measuring cylinders and jugs too)
• Wooden spoons
• Slotted spoons
• Variety of measuring spoons
• Weighing scales
• Blank spell books to write in
• Sticky labels to make up names for their potions
• Pipettes and turkey basters
• Pretend spiders, cobwebs, eyeballs
• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

Ingredients (Supervision of play and risk assessments should always be carried out) 

• Natural resources around you (sticks, stones, pine cones, acorns, gravel, leaves)
• Water (coloured, fizzy, scented)
• Vegetable oil
• Cornflour
• Chia Seeds
• Vinegar
• Bio- Carbonate of Soda

To find out more on Nature Based Learning and working outdoors take a look at Wanderlust: Nature Study Programme here