Making Spells

The children have been making potions and casting spells this Halloween. Children have explored natural maerials like conkers, pumpkin, sticks, pumpkin seeds etc and chose their own ingredients to add to their potion. Each ingrediant had been given a Halloween name such as vampire blood, bats wings and witches hair. Practitioners talked about the textures of natural resources and children used their senses to explore the items. Practitioners introduced rhyming words such as ghost and toast and cat and bat. They then used washing up liquid, white wine vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and explored mixing the ingrediants together to create fizz and froth to their potion. Children listened to the fizzing, slurping and sloshing.