potent potables

We went to the summer reading program at the Portland Library on Thursday, and Lauren was mixing up some crazy stuff at her potion table. First, the kids all got to add an ingredient for their potions -- yak's milk, ground bison horn, powdered plegrobs or something like that, and the elixr of life. you get the idea. They also got to pick if they wanted to make a love potion or mix up a drink that would make them strong. predictably, the boy chose strength and the girl love. so the kindly potions master behind the table scooped some pop rocks into some soda. I mean some fizzing seeds into the base elixr. We also made golden snitches with a styrofoam ball, glue, glitter and feathers, but neither one has managed to make it into the house.

Lauren mentioned that you could drink this foaming potion. Dante's not interested.

He's much more into this one, which turned into a tasty pudding-like stuff.