Thread: Cheap, realistic, and quick Apothecary / Witch bottles filled with ingredients.

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I'm finally posting a tutorial! Woohoo!

These bottles will surely look realistic AND last.

Materials:
Assorted glass bottles that already include fitting corks. (Can be found at almost ANY craft store *cough Michaels cough*)
Flavorless, colorless gelatin. (Grocery stores)
Food coloring
Assorted live and dead plant pieces from the woods or your backyard (Mushrooms, dead leaves, LIVE leaves, flower buds, dead flower buds... you get it.)

A funnel
Hot glue.

Instructions:
3 cups of water for ever 4 packets (equivalent to one tablespoon) of gelatin you plan on using.
Add the gelatin to the boiling water and mix until completely dissolved.
Using the funnel, pour as muh into the bottle as desired. Then you may or may not decide to add your natural 'ingredients' into the bottles. Shake 9covered of course) until all the ingredients are covered within the bottle and settle down to the bottom. Now you may or may not decide to add food coloring; color as desired.

Using the hot glue, create a ring aroudn the cork and place into bottle firmly, swish the bottle around one more time and wit for everything to settle.

Now, place into the refrigerator until firm and there ya' go!
WITCHES BOTTLES!

Now you may choose to add labels or keep them as is.
Enjoy!

(If there are any mistakes or if anything is hard to understand I apologize and will do my best to clear things up! This is my first time posting a tutorial!)

Pictures coming soon!

Just wondering, have you made these and stored them for a time? Sometimes when you use food/organic product with a liquid it will ferment and cause the bottle to explode. I was wondering how your method does during storage. Thanks

Originally Posted by lzrdsgal

Just wondering, have you made these and stored them for a time? Sometimes when you use food/organic product with a liquid it will ferment and cause the bottle to explode. I was wondering how your method does during storage. Thanks

Hello!
I only have the bottles that I made last year, and they seem to be doing fine!
Just be sure to keep them in a cool, dark place for storage.

Well that answers that question LOL If you have them from last year and no big jello explosions in your storage... good enough for me LOL Nothing worse than having a jello giggler on your favorite life sized Jason prop.

LOL !!!
One of my witch jars contains Gefilte Fish from Big Lots. (It made a great looking bottle of Goblin Brains.) I had removed the label and painted the lid but never opened the jar, of course. Ewwwwwww.

After the season was over and it was packed away into a box, I was sure to mark the box with large letters that read... "If something stinks - check this box!"

Originally Posted by darkrosemanor

LOL !!!
One of my witch jars contains Gefilte Fish from Big Lots. (It made a great looking bottle of Goblin Brains.) I had removed the label and painted the lid but never opened the jar, of course. Ewwwwwww.

After the season was over and it was packed away into a box, I was sure to mark the box with large letters that read... "If something stinks - check this box!"

Will be interesting to see... what happens to a stuffed animal alien I STUFFED into a mason jar and jello-ified in light of what you and others have said. The little guy is sitting on top of the fridge and still looks good at 3 months and counting. Why not flavored? The sugar ferments? Hmmm... will have to put it somewhere it can be watched for explosive tendencies.
But speaking of jello... has anyone created Jello mummy brains by desicating (sp) and freeze drying jiggler brain and heart molds in a freezer? I had to throw a three year old one away because it began to stink. I am still experimenting to get them right so they last a long time (like almost forever). The mad scientist in me I guess.

I suspect it only went bad because it contained other food stuffs to make the brain really gross. The drying and freezing preserved it 2 almost three years, and all dried out it looked all ancient and mummified. Used this brain 2 years. Very cool. Until the freezer started picking up the smell. Bad baggie...lol.
Well, back to making mummy jello's (got a new size brain mold this year). Cait

Ps: My other "brains" of similar age are holding up somewhat better. Food coloring instead of flavored may just make my creations almost immortal, thanks... maniacal laugh here!

PPS: Is this the sort of thing that might go in the "tutes" section as a standalone article? You can't just bag em and tag em (or so i quickly discovered).

Originally Posted by darkrosemanor

LOL !!!
One of my witch jars contains Gefilte Fish from Big Lots. (It made a great looking bottle of Goblin Brains.) I had removed the label and painted the lid but never opened the jar, of course. Ewwwwwww.

After the season was over and it was packed away into a box, I was sure to mark the box with large letters that read... "If something stinks - check this box!"

Sounds good... mmmm.
lol

Originally Posted by lzrdsgal

Well that answers that question LOL If you have them from last year and no big jello explosions in your storage... good enough for me LOL Nothing worse than having a jello giggler on your favorite life sized Jason prop.

Exactly! lol

Thanks "Future" for the encouragement. I Didn't mean to hijack your thread. But I will get my thoughts together and post something up on the proper mummification of jello...lol.