How to make Harry Potter potions & DIY magic potions (Free labels!)

Everyone knows that the most fun part about Halloween is the idea that witchcraft and magic is real – with a few ghosts and goblins thrown in. Similarly, it’s the best part about Harry Potter too. This Halloween a lot of our decor revolved around wizards and witches, and all good wizards and witches need to know how to make a DIY magic potion. Find out how to make Harry Potter potions and other witchy brews below!

Creating DIY Magic Potions

Our Witch and Wizard Halloween theme this year ran through the house with our Witchy Halloween Fireplace and our Harry Potter welcome nook. For both those spaces, I knew I would need to include some DIY magic potions.

I decided to create some generic magic potions that could work for my Witchy spaces and some Harry Potter specific magic potions. After all, the potions and spells are such a huge part of Harry Potter that I didn’t feel like the space would be complete without them. After some research and some experimenting, I learned how to make Harry Potter potions that I felt were worthy of the space.

Above all, my daughter loved the Harry Potter potions so much that she said she was going to steal them for her room after Halloween. It made me think that the DIY magic potions could be a great gift for anyone wrapped up in the witchy and wizarding world. If you have a little Harry Potter fan – or a big Harry Potter fan because I know you’re all out there – then these could be perfect for a birthday party craft, décor or even a fun holiday gift.

Things you need for this how to make Harry Potter potions and DIY Magic potions craft

Here is a list of the supplies you will need:

• Cookie sheet – I place the bottle on this in case of spills.
• Brown paint – This is used for aging the bottles. You don’t have to use it on all of your potions. I did it to some of them and you can really see it best on the Polyjuice potion.
• Paint brush
• Glass bottles with cork lids – You can easily find these at the craft store or you can or you can find a bunch of different selections {HERE}.
• A measuring cup with a pour spout for water
• Cotton balls – lots of these
• Food coloring in whatever color you want the potion to be
• Glitter in whatever color you want the potion to be
• A glue gun
• A funnel without a strainer
• Long bamboo skewers
• Embellishments for the bottles like thin twine, strings of leather and various charms like my Dragon Charm or key charms like I used on the Polyjuice Harry Potter potion and the various love potions.
• Labels for the potion bottles. You can download my FREE ones here –> {Potion Bottles}

How to make Harry Potter potions and DIY Magic potions

1. If you decide you want to age the bottles, use the paint brush and the brown paint. Kind of swish it all around the entire surface of the bottle. Immediately wipe some of it off with a cotton ball to ensure it doesn’t stick too much.
2. To make the Harry Potter potions and DIY magic potions, all you need to do is combine water, food coloring and glitter in the potion bottle using a funnel.
3. Then, pull individual cotton balls a part so they are spread out. Stuff each one into the potion bottle using the skewer.
4. You will need a lot of cotton balls to achieve this look. The idea is that you really don’t want any of the water to appear at the top of the jars. You want enough cotton balls in there to be soaking it all up.
5. After that, use the skewer to adjust or move cotton balls around once things are inside.
6. Continue to layer in the water, food coloring and the glitter with the cotton balls.Do this until you reach at least ¾ of the way up the jar. I would always recommend going ¾ of the way up or all the way up to the top with the potion combination.
7. Then, using the glue gun, run some of the glue around the top of the jar opening and then push the cork in.
8. After that add on your embellishments. Maybe you just want to wrap twine around the neck of the bottle. Use the glue gun to secure it and then you can tie it in back. Or tie it in front and add a charm. You can see how I tied off some of the bottles in the photos. Watch how I do it in the video above.

Tips for how to make Harry Potter potions and DIY magic potions

• I made my Harry Potter potions similar colors to those that are described. But really you can make your potions any color you like.
• Add as much or as little of the glitter as you like. I’m a glitter kind of girl so I loaded mine up. I combined different colors to really get cool effects in some of them like the Dragon’s Breath (orange, yellow and red) and Vampire Blood (red and black).
• You can use any size bottles for these – big or small. I have two sets of Harry Potter labels. One I made for the larger bottles like mine, and another set for slightly smaller bottles.
• The labels for the witches potions are made for smaller bottles like the size I used in the post. Hopefully you can see that relative to the other objects and spaces.
• There were three potions I made differently. The Pixie Dust is just various different kinds of white glitter. The spider eggs are actually just white beads. The Sand of Time are a mix of golf glitter and Kinetic Sand.

Don’t forget to check out the Witch Halloween Fireplace and the Wizard’s office nook!

Thank you so much for visiting today, friends! I hope you loved learning how to make Harry Potter potions and other DIY magic potions. This was such a fun craft for us and I hope you find it to be that way too.