Thread: ideas needed to fill jars and bottles and labels name

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hi everyone

in 2009 we have a witch theme and i need to make some jars and bottles , i have a list of a few things but i dont have all the names for the labels yet and would apreciate suggestion labels and things to put in bottles , i might try and translate the names in french if it is possible too.....thanks in advance for all your suggestions

so far i have :
mushrooms (craft ones or dehydrated real mushrooms)
fairy dust
graveyard or zombie ashes
worms
eyes
brains (goblin brains)
sardines wich are fake fish lures
bat wings
boo's(ghosts in bottle)
bat blood
dried butterflies
snakes
spiders
frogs
love potion
lizards
pumpkin seeds
heads in bottle (shrunken heads)
small bones

other things i was thinking of was dried peas , lava beans etc ...

** i have dragons breath that came to mind but no idea how to create a fire effect in a jar for that one (you know dragon spit fire )

Children's Tears

Anything from Macbeth:
In the poison'd entrails throw.--
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Fillet of a fenny snake,
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangl'd babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,--
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,


Also, fairy skeletons (tiny skeletons with or without wings), Dragon's blood, slugs, leeches, bezoars, virgins tears or blood, vampire teeth or werewolf teeth/claws

fairy dust can just be glitter. worms, they now have gummy worms that look like real worms. they have gummy eyes and gummy brains. theres also these weird looking mushrooms my daughter refers to as looking like brains. see if you can make bat wings out of cut and bent clothes hangers and glued on black pantyhose material. ghosts can be made from cheesecloth and homemade paste [flour and water]. there's recipes for homemade blood [look up in google]. find some dead butterflies and you can use them. spider, frogs, and lizards should be easy to find in $ stores. pumpkin seeds you can buy like sunflower seeds unless you still have a pumpkin around from halloween. you can find recipes in google on how to dry them. you can use an apple cut up in the shape of a head for your shrunken head. lots of people make apple head dolls. go to a craft store or walmart and see if they have any beeds in the shape of bones. i got some beads that are skeleton heads. frenchy could possibly help you with translations. sheepies 666 has some good ideas for labels there. noodles called bloodworms.

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Pickled Pets / Preserved Specimens


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Originally Posted by hallorenescene

fairy dust can just be glitter. worms, they now have gummy worms that look like real worms. they have gummy eyes and gummy brains. theres also these weird looking mushrooms my daughter refers to as looking like brains. see if you can make bat wings out of cut and bent clothes hangers and glued on black pantyhose material. ghosts can be made from cheesecloth and homemade paste [flour and water]. there's recipes for homemade blood [look up in google]. find some dead butterflies and you can use them. spider, frogs, and lizards should be easy to find in $ stores. pumpkin seeds you can buy like sunflower seeds unless you still have a pumpkin around from halloween. you can find recipes in google on how to dry them. you can use an apple cut up in the shape of a head for your shrunken head. lots of people make apple head dolls. go to a craft store or walmart and see if they have any beeds in the shape of bones. i got some beads that are skeleton heads. frenchy could possibly help you with translations. sheepies 666 has some good ideas for labels there. noodles called bloodworms.

hallorenescene , thanks for all the help but i have aleready all that i mentioned in my initial post to make those bottles ,i am not missing the ingredients , i have fake worms used for fish lures , fake fishes used as fishing lures they look like sardines , i have bat wings , frogs , snakes , mushrooms , etc all those i have i also have the shrunken heads

only thing i am puzzled is how to make fire in a bottle for dragons breath , is their a small enough fake flame lamp that exsist that could fit in a jar ?

sheepies666 their really cool thanks for the suggestions

Bubbels , that children tears is awsome , will defenatly use that ....i am very kid friendly haunt and display so that is a great idea ...

UnOrthodOx , i'll have to see what kind of pickled pets i can do , their is alot of squirels here hehehehe

i love making new potion bottles & jars every year. I had a jar with toads breath this year - I used wisps of green spiderweb - you could use red/orange spiderweb for dragons breath.

I also squeezed a small rubber skeleton into an old JD bottle & filled it with water & made a lable 'shrinking potion' - just poured the water out at the end of halloween & can refill it next time.

i also had a packet of rubber worms & did the same with them - on the label i had 'pickled bloodsuckers'

i had 'mummy dust' (used cigarette ash!) & 'graveyard dirt' (compost)

LOL, I don't know why I didn't think of toad's breath (okay, frog's breath) and mummy dust - I have those labels on my potion bottles...d'oh!

I also have Wolfsbane, Deadly Nightshade and pickled spiders.

I'll try to think of more stuff tonight.

Cat's paws could work too, now that I think about it, or their tails or eyes. And lizard tails or lizard's gizzards (which is always fun for kids to say), powdered ogre horns (or any other monster you want to sub in) and magic beans.

i have pheonix feathers - red & gold/yellow feathers

unicorn tail - a few strands cut from a long white wig

fairy tears - silver glitter in water

love potion - water coloured with the inside of a pink highlighter pen

mummy nails/ trolls teeth - dried pine cone broken up


- ha! now that they are all away till next time I can't remember what half of them are!