Valentine’s Day Love Potion Activities

Start your 14 days of love with your littles off with theses two fun Valentine’s Day love potion activities!

Fizzy Love Potion:

Any type of baking soda and vinegar science experiment is always fun for kids. Add some colors and glitter and it’s even more captivating. There are so many different fun types of potion play you can do with your toddlers. This fizzy glitter potion is the perfect sensory play activity for Valentine’s day. Try this fun Fizzy Dino Eggs activity next if your toddler likes this!

Supplies needed:

1. Baking Soda
2. Vinegar
3. Dish soap
4. Food Coloring
5. Glitter
6. Jar or container for the the love potion
7. Tray to catch any overflow. This is our favorite sensory tray.

Steps:

1. In the bottom of your jar add a mix of differnet glitter.
2. Pour baking soda on top of the glitter. (Fully cover the glitter if you want it to be a surprise for your littles)
3. Put a squeeze of dish soap directly on top of the baking soda.
4. Pour vinegar in a separate container and add a couple drops of red food coloring.
5. Let your little one pour the vinegar into the jar with baking soda and watch as the love potion begins to fizz out with all its beautiful glitter love surprises!

Love Potion Brew

This is a fun take on water play! If your toddler is anything like mine then they could play with water for hours on end. Add a little sparkle and “Magic” into the mix and you just doubled your play time and excitement. The idea is simply to gather different supplies to mix into water and create a “love potion”. You can gather similar things to what we used or you can use all natural materials (flower pedals, gems, leaves, etc). Little advice: After you are done with the activity, dump the water and keep everything else because you will most likely be asked to do it again. We played with it 3 days in a row.

Supplies needed:

1. Water
2. Red Food Coloring
3. Pom Poms
4. Glitter
5. Foam hearts
6. Flowers
7. Bowl
8. Spoon or whisk
9. Compartment tray or small bowls
10. Floor mat (optional)

Steps:

1. Set up an area that is okay for messy play. We love laying out one of our Gathre Mats (Discount code: kayleen10) and doing this type of activity on the floor.
2. Set out a tray with compartments like this one or a few small bowls to add your ingredients in.
3. Set out a large empty bowl
4. Add water and red food coloring into a separate container. (A small measuring cup would be perfect for this)
5. Set out a few spoons or a whisk for them to mix the potion.
6. Let them get started and watch the Love Potion fun began!

@diy.mama.kayleen

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As always please use parental discretion when doing these activities. You know your child best and how to keep them safe and having fun while doing activities. 

XO,

Diy Mama Kayleen