Mix a potion in a party idea of my own. I made it up myself. Me. Venus. I made it up while planning a Harry Potter-Barbie party last November for myself and one of my friends (her birthday is one day before mine, so we have a linked party 🙂 ). I found a recipe online somewhere about making a potion out of glue, water and borax, which makes the very popular SLIME. I thought that this was a nice idea, but it would be even better if we could eat/drink out potion. So I decided to make it edible.
Possible Ingredients:
There are no ingredients you really need for this – just whatever you have in you pantry or fridge! You will need a ‘base’ for your potion – it can be partly set jelly, partly melted ice cream, whipped cream or anything else that is fluid enough to be able to be mixed in with some other ingredients.
Possible topping ingredients:
- Shredded or desiccated coconut
- Sprinkles, 100s & 1000, Cachous (those hard bead-like things that are used to decorate cakes, also called peals), and other cake decorating things
- Crushed biscuit
- Raisins/sultanas
- Crushed Chocolate
- Shredded carrots, cucumbers, apples or any other fruit(s) and/or vegetable(s)
- Table sugar
- Icing sugar
- Breadcrumbs
- Shredded cheese
- Smarties/M&Ms
- Anything else edible that you have on hand
Other things you will need:
- Cups or ice cream cones
- Bow
- Spoons
- Straws
- Ice cream, partly set jelly, whipped cream, or whatever else your ‘base’ will be.
How to play/make:
This should be done on the morning of the party:
-  If using jelly as the base, make the jelly (any flavour you want/have) and put in fridge until it is cool, but not solid. Once it is starting to thicken, fill the cups or ice cream cones about half way full of jelly. Put them in the fridge immediately. Check on them every 10-15 min. If they thicken, don’t let them set. Take them out till they aren’t thick. Try to make this a game at the start so you don’t keep running to the fridge (people might think you are eating the cake!)
- Take out some bowls. Fill each with different things such as raisins, cake decorations, sugar, etc. Put a spoon in each bowl.
When you are ready for the children to have some fun…
- Give each child an ice cream cone/ cup with base inside it and tell them to make a potion by putting somethings in their cups/cones.
- Once they are finished, give each a thick (smoothie) straw to each so they can try to drink their potion and (if it is an ice cream cone) ice cream cone!
Tips:
- Use an ice cream cone (You don’t have to wash them!)
- Check for allergies before setting it out – you don’t want the blame! And they don’t want the pain!
- Put the jelly in the cups/cones approx. 30 minutes before you are going to start out. Otherwise, keep putting the jelly in and out of the fridge so it stays not too firm, but not too fluid, either.
- You can whip the cream yourself with a blender, or buy a bottle of the one that comes out the top with a sqqqqquirt!
I hope you have a great time with this activity. It is really fun and easy – prefect for a little witch or wizards party!
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