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Wizard’s Brew Fun is Brewing

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Talk about fun! I’m sure we all have pretended to make witches or wizard’s brew as a child. Now you actually can! I’m always looking for fun things to do with my kids. This is fun to watch no matter how old you are.

wizard's brew

Wizard’s Brew

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The weather has been perfect here for this. We can get outside and make a mess! And this outside makes clean up easy as we can just hose everything down. When we did the baking soda bubbles on the kitchen floor, I had a gritty mess to clean. Opps!

This would make a fun Halloween theme science experiment. Use some spooky, Halloween colors for your food color. Orange. Black. Dark green. Red (blood).

How to Make Different Colors for Halloween:

Orange: red and yellow.
Black: 1 part blue, 2.5 parts green, 3 parts red
Dark Green: Lots of blue, little yellow

What you need:

  • vinegar
  • glass jar
  • food color
  • dish soap
  • baking soda
  • glitter (optional)

How to make a Wizard’s Brew:

You’re going to start with your jar (or in our case an old glass candle jar) half filled with vinegar, with a few drops of color added to it. Squeeze in some dish soap, give it a stir.

wizard's brew - ingredients

Now add a heaping spoonful of baking soda. I put our baking soda into a silicone bowl, mainly just to get it outside without losing it all on the walk out, but it also made it easy to dumping into the jar.

Wizard's Brew

The dish soap makes it bubble rather than the quick fizz. A nice volcano eruption. It is not a quick erupt and done, but last for a few minutes.

Wizard's Brew

Now, anything mess related would not be complete without my children playing in the mess. They’re washable. Let them have fun. This has dish soap in it, meaning your children are going to be stained whatever color you use.

Wizard's Brew

This is fun. Go have fun with your kids.

Wizard's Brew

Wizard's Brew Science Experiment

Prep Time: 2 minutes
Active Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 7 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Estimated Cost: $5

A fun, messy activity for kids. This is fun during the Halloween season.

Materials

  • vinegar
  • food color
  • dish soap
  • baking soda
  • glitter (optional)

Tools

  • large jar

Instructions

    1. You're going to start with your jar (or in our case an old glass candle jar) half filled with vinegar, with a few drops of color added to it. 
    2. Squeeze in some dish soap, give it a stir.
    3. Now add a heaping spoonful of baking soda. I put our baking soda into a silicone bowl, mainly just to get it outside without losing it all on the walk out, but it also made it easy to dumping into the jar.
    4. Watch the magic. The dish soap makes it bubble rather than the quick fizz. A nice volcano eruption.
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Category: Experiments

I’m already planning on trying this again. I have some small little jars we’ll be using, the more bubbles and wizard’s brew the better. Plus more colors, and if I can hold off until I get to the store, glitter.

This could be a great addition to a witches Halloween custom/set-up.

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