My 5 year old daughter is unicorn-obsessed, so of course she wants a unicorn birthday party this year. I thought I would get a head-start on the party favours/goody bags by making some Unicorn Magic Potion kits. Since I’m a sensory mom (is that a thing? i don’t know – lol), I made them myself. Here’s how I did it.
Making potion fizzy powder is very easy. I used a slightly different recipe this time in order to increase the yield and I’m very happy with it. I have another recipe here.
DIY Potion/ Fizzy Powder
- 2 cups baking soda
- 1 cup citric acid powder
- 1 cup cornstarch
I mixed the baking soda and cornstarch together first. Then I added some purple gel food colouring to colour the powder purple. The food colouring step is obviously optional. I did find it difficult to spread the dye out in the powder as the dye drops got trapped in the powder. I ended up mixing it with my hands and smearing the powder between my hands to mix the dye in.
Once the dye was mixed in, I stirred in the citric acid powder. I added the citric acid last to be extra cautious the dye didn’t activate a fizzing reaction. I also added some glitter and unicorn polymer clay slice mix to the potion powder. Again, this is optional.
I don’t think the measurements in this recipe need to be exact. Baking soda and citric acid powder mixed together will make a fizzing reaction when water is added. The cornstarch just prolongs the fizzing. I only had 2 cups of baking soda left, so the cornstarch also allowed me to make more potion powder. For reference, this amount of powder made 20 party favours (with 4 spoonfuls in each small bag).
Part of the fun of making potions is mixing magical objects into the fizzing substance. For potion add-ins I included some purple crushed decorative filler, sequins, resin unicorn and rainbow trinkets and acrylic gems.
I put everything into a bag and added a pipette (for adding water to the powder) and a thank you note with the potion instructions. I will link the thank you note here if you’d like to download it.
Materials
- Baking Soda
- Citric Acid Powder (Amazon)
- Cornstarch
- Purple Gel Food Colouring (Michaels)
- Unicorn Polymer Clay Slices Mix (AliExpress)
- Crushed Decorative Filler (Michaels)
- Glitter (Michaels)
- Unicorn, rainbow, cloud, gem trinkets (AliExpress)
- Small Bags (AliExpress)
- Pipettes (AliExpress)
- Larger Holographic Bags (Amazon)
- Thank you Note (DIY – link above)
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A quick note on AliExpress: You can get the items I bought on AliExpress on Amazon, I just chose to buy them on AliExpress because it’s less expensive and part of the reason for doing a DIY was to save a bit of money.
Everything is packaged and ready to go. Now I just have to organize the rest of the party. lol. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment!