Potions and Merlin!

       This week the girls played with the potions set from Moon and Moth Magic Co. We also had an amazing field trip to a Medieval Fair where Skyler got to meet the greatest wizard of all time! 

        Skyler got to meet Merlin!!!! She had such fun at the fair and such fun meeting a fellow magic friend! She also enjoyed picking out a baby dragon to add to her collection! 

Magic Fun!!

       Once again I find us playing with fire! She absolutely loves fire portions. This week was a protection spell. It gave us a tough time too! We had to switch out the "cursed paper" twice to find one that would work. She still had a ton of fun though. 

       When telling her not to use this near any of her cyclops friends she informed me that a cyclops was a cannibal and they didn't make good friends LOL!

New Year New Magic!

       Skyler has a new cursive book!! I found this little gem on Amazon and it was a must have!

        I am basically letting her go her own way and do a few pages that she picks out. 

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!

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! 

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! 

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!

Week 8 Magic Fun

      Magic School project week!! The best weeks in my opinion! Getting up and doing stuff! "What fun".







       She actually remembered to wear her shirt too!

Potions And Pets!

       A while back Skyler made a dragons egg and since then it has sat in the Mandrake pot! What she didn't know is that all this time a baby dragon was growing inside it! She just had to wait until it was cold enough for it to hatch! Since Florida rarely sees actual cold I never dreamed this would happen but low and behold some spells were cast and we had BRRRRRRR freezing temps!! Well, out hatched her newest little friend! 

      A new baby dragon she has named Tempest! I knew I would raise at least one Shakespeare addict!

Skyler Making Potions

      Since we are doing the big Medieval Study this month Magic School has taken a break, but that is not stopping Skyler from learning new potions with her Moon and Moth Magic Potions Set! 

Moon And Moth Magic Co.

      So I was really bored one night and as usual I searched out some ideas for Magic School and low and behold I found something amazing!! This cool little company that makes potions! Moon and Moth Magic Co. is MAGICAL! Skyler had no idea this was on its way so BIG surprise to her and she loved it! I was astounded from the moment the box opened!

      Look at that cool packaging! I was honestly planning on repacking this in some brown paper with twine and slapping on a Diagon Alley label, but this was beyond beautiful in my opinion!

      
      She opened the box and said, "oh a big butterfly book" LOL! I told her in the magic world things are not always as they seem. When she started to pull it out she realized right off this was NO ordinary book at all. 

Week 4 Magic Fun

       
      So we had another project week! These seem to be her favorite weeks of course. We just had to split all the books she is wanting to read and all the activities she is wanting to do because too much in one day was too overwhelming! Alternating the weeks seem to be much, much better! So we started off with potions this week and it was all about mystical sand!
       

Week 2 Magic Fun!

       I was called "best mom ever" and "coolest mom in the world" several times after today! Apparently, not many moms teach their child fire based potions in the house or make butter beer fudge! This was project week and we had a blast to be truthful I loved every minute of it! The potion we did today was burning basilisk skin and it was awesome! I knew it would be wonderful so after she finished all her mixing I decided to video the outcome. 

Magic Crystals Potion outcomes from week 6

 This is day 2 There is a bit of growth. There is enough that the kids can actually see something is happening!

This is about day 5. Alot of growing going on here. I notice there is barely any smell now of the chemicals used.

Today. This is day 7. The crystals have now grown over the edging of the glass pan, sadly I am thinking I won't have a glass circle in my baking dishes anymore. They are a bit dissapointed for some reason they thought it would be way more colorful. I could have used more food coloring but oh well. They are very pleased with their garden!