Thread: What to put in potion bottles??

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Here I thought I was doing so good, but now I'm stumped!

I got my bottles Friday, and have labels too - was plannning to put water in the bottles, with some food coloring - but now I realize I need to put SOMETHING in the water!!

True, not all HAVE to have something in them, but I'd like to have something in most them. AND, I bought bottles with small openings, not even thinking in advance!

Besides the obvious, plastic options (fingers, toes, etc..) what do you guys use?

when party city or something has those little 1-2$ bags of halloween eye balls and such
u can buy some and put them in the bottles with maybe some green water or something

You could use tonic water, it has quinine in it. So it glows under UV light. maybe put some props inside floating in the water...fake frogs, plastic bat wings etc.

yeah! the I have 2 bags of those plastic rings (kids are too old for them now) I can cut off the ring part and use the spiders in one bottle! Great idea!!

I will also use the tonic water - didn't know that about it!

OK, I just posted this in another thread not noticing this one, so its repeated here

Last year, Dollar tree were doing packs of assorted internal organs (Heart Lungs Brain) that I will be using for The rats and bats organs.

Also Have the ones that expand in water - these will be for larger animal organs (and maybe human ones)

Also the snakes and insects that expand are also good contents

packs of plastic flies and bugs are also good contents

So what about liquid contents.

Food coloring added to water, Highlighter pens (soak them in water - these will also gow under blacklight - warning though, wear plastic gloves when working on these as hands tend to get stained and also glow !!)

For my Troll Snot, I used liquid soap that has the cleansing beads in ... can add some plain old dish washing liquid (different color) but dont mix it together - just swirl the contents. Believe me, it can look gross!

Tonic water is good if you have a blacklight.

A couple more ideas

Quaker Oats = dried skin
Hearth Ash = Ash of Witch etc
Pepper = Graveyard Dust

Herbs and Spices also make good contents

With the stores starting to put out Halloween goodies, body parts (eyes, fingers, toes, etc) make great contents also

Hopefully these ideas will get you started

Here's some I thought of, and some I've learned from fine folks around here...

I would bottle or jar these alone, not with water.

Other ingredients-

Fur of Bat - Dryer lint
Spider's eggcases - The ends of Q-tips
Fat of the Unbaptised - Crisco
Eyes of Newt - dried lentils in clear dish soap
Legs of the Scarab - Dried grapestems painted black
Ground Heretic's Bone - Corn meal
Suicide's Shroud - shreds of stained cheesecloth
Eyeball Ichor - Apple butter

almond slivers: werewolf fingernails
"grow-an-animal"...any type: seamonster babies/fetuses
shrunken apple heads: gnome heads
tiny novelty skeleton: shrunken man
novelty snakes, newts, frogs, etc. (call this anything you wish)
puffed wheat: elf brains
dried chicken bones you could call this "anything" bones (any tiny monster you choose)

My article...I'm so proud (sniffle): How to Craft a Witch’s Kitchen | Halloween Alliance Scroll down for a list of more stuff to put in your bottles. (There is a bulleted list.)

Oh, and...here is my witch's kitchen from last year:

Dead Spider's blog has a whole section dedicated to filing the bottles:
Witches Kitchen

omg - I go to lunch, come back and LOOK at all the amazing ideas!!!

And 2 more Witches Kitchen sites for me to go look through!!

You guys rock - thanks so much!!!

I love this place!
Bev

one other question - corks - I need corks of various sizes and I know I've seen them in stores before, but can't for the life of me, remember where.

I noticed some potion bottles had burlap tops with twine tying it on the bottle - a good idea if corks can't be found in the right size I guess.