The Last Week of Counting Down!

        This is the last week of Christmas Count Down! I found these adorable bath bombs at Walmart. There is a gnome, mermaid stars and fairy wings! She loves bath bomabs and creatures so win win!

Christmas Countdown Week 3

         These are some goodies for this weeks boxes. Lip balm kit, a unicorn to paint, some mini pies, fingerlings and a light up candy!

Hogwarts Christmas Count Down Week 2

       These are some goodies picked up for her Christmas countdown. I am trying hard to find things that have to do with magic school but some things are just too cute to pass up, like the reptar candy! Most of this stuff came from 5 Below or EBay. On Monday she gets the weekend goodies since she has visits with her daddy. It has been hard finding things that fit in the little boxes unless of course it is candy and she don't need that every day!

    
       This cute little dragon fairy was for day #9 and I felt he fit right in with Magical Creatures!

Hogwarts Christmas Countdown

        So I bought this adorable set of little paper bags for a Christmas countdown. Happy Potter theme of course!! They are extremely cute, sadly kinda small but i will make it work somehow. It be great if all you wanted to add was maybe some candies or pieces of jewelry but I wanted to add things like fun kits, magical creatures or maybe little gifts. They come as a file you print, cut and make yourself. they are easily made just a bit time consuming. There is one for each of the 25 days until Christmas. Since my little witch is gone every weekend she will get the days she missed on the Monday after. 

Love Potions, Arithmancy and Magical Creatures!!

        Skyler had a ton of fun this week in potions! She got to make a love potion! This is another one from The Wizards Workshop book. 

        I still think the cute little jokes and notes on the pages are simply adorable! Skyler had fun "casting" her spell too!

Magic Fun

        This week Skyler wasn't feeling too hot. I think she caught a cold from some sick muggles! We made some pretzel wands and enjoyed Strange Magic. I had never heard of this movie before but it had fairies! It also has a magic potion and it's animated so win win for momma wizard! She loved it as well. 

        So it was a pretty quick day for us after the movie she fell asleep. I was also pretty bummed to find there is ZERO merchandise for this movie. The fairies are beautiful and the other characters are amazing, sad nothing was ever done it may have made the movie much bigger! I did read that the soundtrack was available so there is always that I suppose! Happy spell casting!!

Witches And Wands!!

       This week was all about witches and wands! We made some wands that light and even some to eat! We also watched the history of witches!

        Licorice covered in chocolate??? We are so down for that!

Magical Field Trip!!

        We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn.... It has been a long standing tale that my mother was a witch in her day! Witches are something that have always fascinated both myself and my daughters. Not all witches are bad and history and mythology is full of stories of them. Even Shakespeare who we all adore had witches in his plays. 

        We have read about executions of so called "witches" before but until coming to this museum we had no idea the absolute depravity of it all. We knew witches had been burned at the stake before and hung but I guess you really have to see it to understand. We went to The Medieval Torture Museum to learn how criminals and such were treated back then. We really didn't know we would find so many things about witches.  

Herbology Day!

        Skyler has been wanting to try out her wax sealer so that was what she chose to do as soon as school started! I will say it was pretty cool. She wants more seals now! She was kind of weary about using the lighter so I lit a candle for her to use instead. 

Magic School Day!

        Butter beer ice cream was the first on her list today!! She is pretty much doing everything all by herself now and no longer asking for help so i am pretty thrilled in this area. We just got the recipe off line. 

Magic Fun!!

          We picked a fun movie this week. I mean if it has Nicholas Cage it has to be great, right? She loves her Magic school day! Shame on me for forgetting butterscotch sauce and we couldn't make any butterbeer ice cream! She was pretty forgiving though once she found out she was playing with fire for potions though!

       This week we made Zombie Fire!

Our Magical Week

 Magic school day is here!! This is her favorite day of the week I believe.  It was a pretty full day with Cauldron Cooking, Potions, book work, reading and a magical movie! This is the first time using The Wizards Workshop book and I am hoping she can do whatever she chooses pretty much on her own.  The art work in the book is pretty cutesy too. It is divided into three chapters, basic potions for beginners,  advanced wizard potions and hair raising potions for daring wizards. Now this is a cute book I saw it and fell in love right away. It wasn't the kids just mixing random stuff it was actual experiments with reactions but worded in a magical way so it was win win for me! It also came with a handy ingredient list and a set of down loadable labels to make the bottles for everything, which I did of course! Now the first down fall was the whole common ingredients it says that it uses. NO, most of these are not common things people have around their house I had to order a big majority of these chemicals off line. 
       The second down fall was picking potions and realizing we didn't have some of the stuff readily available at home even though I already got everything on the list. That was kind of frustrating. Granted I could have read through the book beforehand but when a book advertises that the list is everything you need I pretty much expect that to follow through. We finally decided on a potion that we had everything needed for and got to work! 

Breakfast For Witches

        Because we all need to start every day with a little bit of magic!

First Week In The New Year

       Fun day with magic! First up we had to take some "back to magic school" pictures!

        I know I am totally partial when I say I think my little witch is the cutest little witch of them all! I love her new school shirt!

Painting Fairies!

       This week Skyler is continuing to learn all about fairies and herbs she also painted some fairies for the wall!

  
      It took her a minute to master the magic of mixing the right colors to get the looks she wanted but after that she did great!

Skyler And Her Summer Magic Book

        I knew Skyler would want a book to keep track of all the stuff she is doing for Magic School this summer. I made her one this past school year so for summer I decided to get her a Summer Journal! She calls it her magic book and has used it in her own way to make it work for her! We use these journals all year and Skyler especially loves them! She gets to color and doodle and such so it is right up her artsy little alley! For summer she is all about fairies and herbs! Finding fairy books for a 13 year old that aren't babyish was almost a challenge!

Magical Field Trip!

         We had so much fun! The traveling exhibit of Harry Potter's World Renaissance, Science, Magic and Medicine was local! I actually stumbled across this years ago but it has never been close enough to visit so this was really cool to finally be able to go!

       So much of the Magical World is from actual history. It is so interesting to learn where certain ideas and such are rooted from. 

Potions Fun!

       It can sometimes be hard to make learning "magical" so I wanted to find "potions" that had actual science in it when I stumbled across this book and I LOVE IT!!! The book also has a link to download potions labels to make it even more fun! These are actual science experiments with a magic twist! Now I will say I had no idea how much work would go into getting all the ingredients for this. Some I had to order off line. None were really expensive, just the searching and all was time consuming. I didn't want to just start off with a few things and every time she would say I want to do this or that etc. I would be stumped finding stuff. I wanted it all together nice and neat so she could have complete freedom in picking or choosing what she wanted to do! 

Herbology Fun!

        We are still putting together all of our summer Magic School goodies!

       

Magic Summer Time

       So this week Skyler has picked her books to start out her summer lessons and we cleaned and organized her Magic School space! I am really looking forward to her Herb Fairies lessons!

     
       Her Wizards Workshop sure has grown from being one little shelf!

       She calls this the Astronomy Tower!

       All of her Magical Creatures have found a new home in their own little cubby instead of being spaced all over the room!

FAIRIES!!!!

           There is nothing more magical than a fairy garden! We wanted ours to stand out so we turned it into a tea party! This little table and chairs has been hers since as far back as she remembers but she is long since out grown it. Re purposing is always fun! This summer she is learning all about fairies and healing herbs. Magic School has been so hit and miss and she really enjoys it so I have to make sure it happens more. We joined Herb Fairies and it is amazing! She will learn all about healing herbs and natural remedies with a fairy theme! How fun is that!