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Help with DD's odd birthday request- potions set

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WithRosesAroundTheDoor · 30/05/2023 22:06

DD (6) is Harry Potter mad.
Her request for her birthday present is a potions kit but she has specified that it has to be one that she do in the bath. 🤦

Coloured water/ bubble bath is not going to cut it as it needs to 'do stuff'.

I'm thinking that I could get some posh potions bottles and maybe repackage something like Gelli Baff but that's where my ideas come to an abrupt stop.

Does anyone else have any thoughts please? It is the only thing that she has asked for and is convinced that I will come up with something amazing.

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missingthewinchesterboys · 30/05/2023 22:07

Primark had some stitch stuff that came in test tube vials.

ilovebagpuss · 30/05/2023 22:12

Crush up a bath bomb and put in nice glass jar this will fizz and colour if she makes a potion in a bowl? Cheap herbs or dried flowers in a pretty container.
Some bath oil
I would try and make a kit with some cute little pots or glass containers if she is careful.
Talcum powder?
A plastic bowl she can mix it all in.

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Bunnyannesummers · 30/05/2023 22:13

Lush is going to be your friend here. Buy a load of bathrooms, crush up, repackage and label as ingredient’s.

Namechangedforthis2244 · 30/05/2023 22:14

Have a Google for crackle bath. It hisses and fizzes and turns the water a different colour

Dilbertian · 30/05/2023 22:14

Bath bombs? Maybe a set she can make in the kitchen and then use in the bath. Or maybe there are tiny ones available that can be put in a stoppered tube or vial.

Bath crayons?

Cornflour - make gloop in a bowl in the bath, play with it in the bath, let it mix in the water.

Porridge oats - put some in a popsock, knot it, and squeeze in the water. You could try dying the oats with food colouring first? I don't know whether it would work, but you can dye uncooked rice with food colouring, so might be worth a try.

Do oil pearls still exist? They were all the rage when I was a teen. The park dissolved in hot bathwater, leaving a rainbow shimmer of oil on the surface.

MsMargoLeadbetter · 30/05/2023 22:14

Have you tried the Potion Lab OP? Their Lava Fizzing Potion Kit seems to be mostly bath fizzers, they also have a Rainbow Fizzing Potion Kit. I bought a different kit last year which they don't seem to do any more, but they were really helpful when I contacted them about it prior to buying, you could ask them which bits are specifically for bath use!

Lava Fizzing Potion Kit

Our Lava potion kits are a different kit compared to our Frog Froth Potion. There is no recipe or cauldron but the magic and imagination remains the same. It is designed for free play to let their imagination run wild and mix marvellous creations of th...

https://thepotionlab.co.uk/products/lava-fizzing-potion-kit

Bunnyannesummers · 30/05/2023 22:14

Bath bombs!! They all have jellies, fizzing soaps and things like that.

have a look in cheap shops for those little shower gels in capsules that dissolve in water. V 90s but would work

OptimusPrime31 · 30/05/2023 22:15

Glow sticks could be used as a magic wand

FatAgainItsLettuceTime · 30/05/2023 22:20

Just found this old thread that someone started at Xmas, might be some good ideas on here www.mumsnet.com/talk/christmas/4672464-potion-making-kit

Cas112 · 30/05/2023 22:20

If you didn't live to far away you could always take her to the cauldron experience in York

www.thepotionscauldron.com

I don't think it's to expensive either

Dilbertian · 30/05/2023 22:23

How about some bezoars?

www.trouva.com/products/glo-pals-lumi-light-up-cubes

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WithRosesAroundTheDoor · 30/05/2023 22:29

Wow. I didn't expect so many responses so quickly.

Thank you all so much. I am going through them. There are some brilliant suggestions.

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Dilbertian · 30/05/2023 22:30

I wonder whether you can do the volcano experiment in the bath?

Use bubble bath instead of fairy liquid. Bicarb is perfectly safe in the bath. Vinegar would be neutralised by the bicarb (though would it be completely neutralised?) Could you use a different acid? Would lemon juice work? It would certainly smell nicer! You could mix edible lustre into the bicarb.

How about effervescent vitamin C tablets? Not instead of vinegar! As a potion to play with.

Newbeginnings90 · 30/05/2023 22:34

Oh this is such a sweet request - if you DIY it she'll remember it forever!

Dilbertian · 30/05/2023 22:38

How about setting up the cabbage experiment for her.

old.coolscience.org/CoolScience/Teachers/Activities/CabbageJuice.htm#:~:text=Now%20using%20a%20fresh%20cabbage,to%20its%20original%20purple%20color.

The only ingredients I would leave out are the ammonia and the washing soda. All the others are safe if they spill on her.

SomeNights · 30/05/2023 22:44

Bicarb and vinegar with food colouring?

AnotherDayAnotherUsernameForMe · 30/05/2023 22:47

Crayola make bath colour tabs or Baff Bombz come with a magic paint brush.

Lush bath putty.

Kids stuff colour change bubble bath - Sainsburys.

Bunnycat101 · 30/05/2023 23:31

I was going to suggest the magical mixling cauldron thing (or the minis if you wanted something to go with the potions) but the ideas above are so good (am am stealing for Christmas!) my daughter would love the potion kit above so I reckon go with that one.

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