Short version, I need magic potion names that are suitable for a 11 year old.
TLDR version:
Summary
A birthday coming up for an eleven year old boy. He’s somewhere on the autism spectrum. I know he’s on a couple of different medications and has some troubles in school, both academically and behavior wise. He’s in a separate class in school for some subjects, like reading.
Last Halloween, I filled some corked bottles with various candies and put labels on them like Bat Wings, Vampire Fangs etc. It went over really well and he still refills them with candy to use.
Now, he’s really big into wizard stuff and is trying to read the Harry Potter books at home. It’s difficult, but he really likes them. He’s got a wand and a hat etc. His parents have asked me if I could do some sealed magic potion bottles filled with non-edible stuff for him to use while playing wizard.
I have some smaller corked bottles and I can come up with stuff to put in them, but I need some kid friendly names, such as Fairy Dust or Powdered Unicorn Horn. I have 50 of the bottles (don’t ask) so any number of names up to that would be great. Anything you picked up reading or watching TV as a kid. His parents shot down my suggestions of arsenic and strychnine so I have to turn to you folks.
Thanks to everyone for your replies. We spent some time with the kid today, took him and a couple of his friends to one of those places where the whole floor is trampolines. Dodgeball, basketball and rock climbing. No adults allowed on the trampolines , but I did get to throw dodgeballs at kids so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.
Had a chance to talk some wizard stuff with him and I found out he had to give up on the Harry Potter stuff for now, it was too difficult for him. He couldn’t name any potions at all, so it seems I’ll have to go with the more self explanatory potions.
Again, thanks for your help, I think I can come up with enough names from what you’ve supplied. Plus, it occurred to me that I can print labels instead of hand making them. Less work for me!
The sound of a cat’s footfall
The beard of a woman
The roots of a mountain
The sinews of a bear
The breath of a fish
The spittle of a bird
(And what’s up with that list? I can accept that they didn’t count female facial hair as a beard. I can accept not knowing about lungfish. I can even accept that they did’t know that birds have saliva. But why would they think that bears don’t have sinews?)
I think these are too tough for him, but I bookmarked that for my further use.
Perfect, nice and simple.
Holy crap, Harry Potter has a lot of potions! Those are all from the books? I have to wonder how many teenage boy wizards used the Engorgement Spell despite the dangers.
Great source and printable too! Save me some work.
Come on, out with it. We’re mostly adults here.
What kid doesn’t like squidgy things, right?
Did you make those up? Good job, I can do those.
I like the cat’s footfall one. Easy to fill the bottle too.
