How to make Witches Potion Props for your Halloween Party
This blog gives some ideas on how to turn basic everyday items and found objects into weird and wonderful Halloween props.
Plastic Bottles
Rinse out your bottles and paint with Acrylic Paint or Gesso and leave to dry. Popping the bottles on the end of a brush allows you to paint the whole bottle without covering yourself in paint and provides somewhere to leave the bottles whilst they dry.
Add decoration with relief paste...
and leave to thoroughly dry for a couple of hours.
Dry Brush some metallic Acrylic Paint – we have used Liquitex Iridescent Rich Bronze – over the whole bottle.
Once the bronze effect is complete…
you can add colour with Acrylics…
Gilding Wax or metallic highlights on raised areas with Gilding Wax.
String
Use string to cover items to give them texture.
Glue the string in place and paint with the black and bronze Acrylic Paint to match the bottle. For additional ‘weirdness’, we glued the cap back onto the bottle upside down. The golden sphere feature was created with modelling clay covered in Gilding Wax.
Pebbles
Take an interesting looking pebble and glue to the bottle cap with PVA. Make sure you leave it for a few hours to dry.
Gilding Wax again adds interest.
Dusters
Take an old duster and cut it into strips.
Add a bit of Burnt Umber Acrylic Paint to some water and submerge your strips in it. Hang up to dry overnight.
The finished strips look and feel remarkably like suede leather and add an ‘olde worlde’ look to the bottles. With the addition of a few bits of feather, your bottles of witches brew are ready!