HIT: Witches' Brew, plus bonus stuff!

[Marcia Norris <mnorris@SUWANNEE.K12.FL.US>]

It's a gorgeous 80 degree day here in north Florida, and I have the recipe
I was looking for, as well as one that includes GHOST POO!  It doesn't get
much better than this!  Thanks to everyone who helped.  The Witches Brew
recipe is first, then some other neat recipes follow.

Thanks again!
Marcia


10 - WITCHES BREW by Tony Pope

Materials Needed:
1 1/2  (one and a half) cups water
clear Pyrex dish/bowl
green food coloring
red food coloring
yellow food coloring
blue food coloring
something to stir with (a chopstick is good)
bleach
1 Alka-Seltzer per demonstration
dried beans
piece of yarn/string/or a snake drawn onto transparency film and cut out

This poem can be used with an overhead projector.  Begin with a clear Pyrex
dish.  Place the dish on the projector.  Cover the bottom of the dish with
water.  Add the ingredients as indicated in the poem.  The bleach will
cause
the colors to disappear.  The Alka-Seltzer will help expedite the process
too
and makes it bubble!  Read the
poem in a witchy voice.


Listen, my children and you shall hear,
A Halloween legend told far and near.

As witches galore - oh, what a sight,
Gather together on Halloween night!

Fat ones and skinny ones, old ones and new,
Fly in on broomsticks to make their brew.

Each witch brings a special treat,
To make this tasty brew complete.

The witches are ready, their magic to cook,
Let's come on in and take a look.

Watch carefully now-don't even blink, [pour water into dish]
This brew is too horrid, too awful to drink.

Begin with some green slime from the deepest, dark cave.  [add green food
coloring]
If you don't want to drink this, you'd better behave.

A drop of blood from a lion's tail,   [add red food coloring]
Insures that this brew's magic will not fail.

Add to it some juice from an evil curse,   [add yellow food coloring]
Can you imagine anything worse?

Heh, heh, heh, to this tasty dish,
We'll add the eyes of two dead fish.    [add two dried beans]

The bile from the liver of a bat killed at midnight,   [add blue food
coloring]
Makes this potion a gruesome sight.

We'll add some catsup just for fun,  [add more red food coloring]
Two snake eyes and a snake - see how they run?   [add two beans and a
string]

A final touch for the most delicate flavor,
Rattlesnake poison, it's something to savor.   [add bleach]

The brew's complete, the black cat is purring.
All it needs now is some careful stirring.    [stir]

A hot fire makes the brew boil and bubble   [add 1 Alka-Seltzer tablet]
If you listen, you'll hear it without any trouble.

The witches are pleased, and they cackle with glee.
Their brew is the best, the best it could be.

They fill up their vials and make ready for flight,
There they go on their broomsticks this Halloween night.

And off in the distance, by the light of the moon,
I hear them calling, "We'll see you so-o-o-o-on!"

*I modified this story/poem/demonstration slightly from the version I
originally received.  The original version had that you could add a cat,
witch, and pot cut out of and colored on transparency film and just place
them on the top of the overhead.  It also called for Worcestershire sauce
for
the bat's bile, rocks for snake eyes, blue food coloring for rattlesnake
poison.  By accident I found out that the bleach actually bleaches out all
the coloring you place in the dish (only place about 3-4 drops of food
coloring each time).  It was more visually effective (in my opinion) on the
overhead than adding Worcestershire sauce.  I would have bleach in a baby
food jar and use and eyedropper to drop a few drops of bleach into the
"brew."

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I remember what you're talking about and will check further, but here's
what
I've found so far...
You can make a witches brew with green and purple Kool-aid.  Looks awful
but
tastes fine.  Add gummy worms and bugs and I always added "Eyes of Terror"
bubble gum.  I out it in a plastic cauldron (with a glass bowl inside) and
stirred it with a wooden spoon.  The kids love it!

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I am at home now and my recipe for Bat Snacks is at school, but it is
basically a trail mix and you can do it up on your own.
Bat Snacks
Witch toenails...cashews
drops of blood...red hots
dragon teeth...candy corn
bones...pretzels
ants...raisins
ghost poo...miniature marshmallows
beady eyes...chocolate chips
goblin fingers...Bugles
bugs...M&M's
Mummy dust...powdered sugar
(Add anything else you would like and give it a yucky name)
Mix it in a huge container and then pour in some powdered sugar (not too
much) to give a  slight coating.  The kids adore this but it is expensive.
I
know I add some other things but off the top of my head I can't remember.
Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!
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I don't know of one on the overhead.  I made it for real.  You used frozen
orange juice and ginger ale instead of water.  Mix with gummy worms and
serve.  I added a frozen hand with gummy worms mixed in by freezing water
in
a rubber glove.  Use pulpy oj.


Marcia Norris, Teacher
Suwannee Middle School
Live Oak, FL
mnorris@suwannee.k12.fl.us

"Be not merely good; be good for something."
                                 ---Henry David Thoreau

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