We've been making lots of potions with the nursery, reception and year 2 classes at Dunkirk - and the children have created an amazing set of concoctions with wonderful descriptions.
They've been selecting just very small amounts of ingredients - thereby looking really carefully and closely at things (both in class and on the school allotment and Nature Garden). There's been wonderful group work and loads of exploring with different mixing bowls, jugs, pipettes, whisks, pestle and mortars and magic sticks...
The potion below took an hour to make and was made entirely in this ice-cream scoop, carried around the allotment lovingly as the ingredients were selected and a potion making song was gently sung (made up by the boy making the potion).
The children came up with really wonderful descriptions of what their potions would do to you - some were very magical and others more medical, depending on different topics the children were exploring. Some of the potions would turn you into rainbows, or change your behaviour, or make you very small... Some had to be drunk, others you rubbed into your hair, some you threw up into the air and let it splash down and give you magic powers...
This potion had to be eaten - and would make you fall asleep! It had taken an hour to make and had to be stirred by every different type of spoon / whisk / pipette there was; and then it had to be hidden for several days before it was ready...
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