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Create STEM Opportunities with Potion Making
Who loves potion making?
Today we have made some great mixtures but even better so much learning has happened- From predicting to problem solving!
Weâve explored making âWitches Bloodâ and watched it fizz and bubble as the bicarbonate of soda combined with the vinegar.
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We also made âGoblins Snot âmixing 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 assessment...
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