Halloween Decorating: Ghoulish Potion Bottles

Yesterday I shared my Decorated Pumpkins with you from the Halloween Decorations on the Hoosier cabinet. Today we are going to chat about the Ghoulish Potion Bottles. Now, if you have been around here awhile, you may remember the Potion Bottles from the Halloween Decorating a couple years ago and again last year for the Halloween Party on a Budget.

Although I used the exact same bottles with labels, this year they got a little upgrade in their contents. From the skeleton bones to the bloody eye balls…each bottle is spooky, creepy and pretty gross!

First let’s chat about the labels, where to find them and how to apply them…

Potion Bottle Labels

Halloween Clip Art from Graphics Fairy
Vintage Poison Labels from Spook Shows
Labels on Love Manor Pinterest Board
Labels on Love Manor Flickr Page

Apply Labels

Save and print out labels
Apply Mod Podge {original} to the back of the label, place on jar and cover with more Mod Podge

Ghoulish Potion Bottle Contents

Spaghetti – cooked
Cauliflower – cut
Chow Mein Noodles
Dark Sweet Cherries – canned, drained and rinsed
Plastic skeleton parts – from the Dollar Store
Plastic spider rings and vampire fangs
Food coloring

Ghoulish Potion Bottle Instructions

For each of the bottles, add the contents then add food coloring to a measuring cup with water, add to the bottle
For the Chow Mein Noodles and Spaghetti, be sure to leave room for swelling
The tall bottle in the back has cauliflower and plastic vampire fangs, you can’t see very well, but we painted them tan so they looked more real, they started out purple and green
The spaghetti also has a few spider rings that I simply pushed down into the noodles
Note: the contents do start spoiling, so if you are using these for a party decoration be sure to make them only a couple days ahead. If you are using them for decoration for your home, you may want to pick and choose what contents to add.

Mr. Bones found a home in a cauldron, next to the Potion Bottles.

On the next shelf, a couple of Dollar Store plastic rats, a candle holder with a pumpkin for a little pop of color and a vase filled with skulls, bones and spider webs.