Halloween Specimens, Potion Bottles, and Apothecary Jars
Halloween Glass Bottle Displays
Potions, elixirs, and specimens have been bottled up since the middle ages, as one of the earliest ancient medical practices to be able to easily distinguish and dispense pharmaceutical mixtures in both healing and poisonous forms. Bottles, jars, beakers, and vials can be attributed to countless scary stories and strange lore inclusive of visions of Witches conjuring up creepy concoctions in the kitchen, to a Mad Scientist's secret laboratory with frightful preserved body parts and experiments while creating mere doom boiling over...
Wooden Apothecary Cabinet
Small Storage for Herbs
Traditionally, apothecary cabinets were created to store herbs and roots to keep each separate from another. The ingredients were used for filling medical prescriptions, but are now commonly used to organize jewelry or small trinkets.An apothecary chest or cabinet can help create a convincing Halloween display by including the historic element behind dry ingredients along with your bottles of liquids. If you prefer an authentic aged look, you can distress an old cabinet by scuffing up the wood with sandpaper and digging a few small scratches into the corners and sides. Place on a vintage style table with your bottles, add a few creepy elements such as fake bones and body parts, and cover in cobwebs...
Apothecary Chest with 9 Drawers
Amazon Price: $42.95 (as of 02/14/2012)
9-drawer storage chest for herbs, spices, and your favorite collection of odd little trinkets.
DIY Halloween Specimens
Vote for your favorite specimen projects!
Halloween specimen jars are fun and easy to create.
Just add water and food coloring to your specimen in the jars, and mix mostly yellow with a few drops of green for a pickled appearance, so to speak.
Some popular specimen objects include:
Cauliflower - for brains.
Grapes - for eyeballs.
Dried Full Apples - for heads.
Plastic rats and body parts are also good float-in-a-jar Halloween props.
Here's a few scary specimen specialties for inspiration:
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Atomic Brain
Atomic Brain Table Top Halloween Prop
Amazon Price: $150.10 (as of 02/14/2012)
Steel and aluminum with lights and bubbler. An amazing "living brain" prop for any Halloween party!
Especially useful as a main display for mad scientist and zombie Halloween party themes.
Potion Bottles
Potion Recipes and Labels
* Colored Water - use dark green, red, purple, orange, and black to make them spooky.
* Glitter - for magical potions that need a little sparkle.
* Dish Soap or Shampoo - creates a foamy appearance.
* Food items - cooked white rice and dry potato flakes make creepy bug parts.
* Other small trinkets that may fill the curiosity of what "Eyes of Newt" and "Dragon's Breath" are supposed to appear as...
- Beautiful Vintage Style Bottle Labels
- Very creative, free printable potion bottle labels.
- Potions and Spell Bottles
- Unique potion and spell bottle tutorial with clever fillings...
- Witches Kitchen Display
- Amazing display of Witches Kitchen items, plus a glowing bottle and label aging tutorial.
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Squishy and/or Squeeky Things...
Glass Potion Bottles
50 Pcs-extra Small- Miniature Glass Bottle with Cork Top No4- 18x10mm
Amazon Price: (as of 02/14/2012)
Miniature potion bottles to mix with tall and elegant jars. Perfect size for small vials of tiny specimens.
Glass Apothecary Jars
Vintage Glass Storage
I created a few candy jar labels here if you prefer to label your jars, along with a few candy ideas to fit each theme: WebSpinstress Halloween Printable Jar Labels.
You can also use glass apothecary jars to store strange specimens, capture all of the cookies, or hold party favor bags.
Halloween Bottle Labels
Wilton Skulls & Scrolls 6 Count Bottle Labels
Amazon Price: $2.03 (as of 02/14/2012)
Transform any glass bottle into a potion bottle for Halloween...perfect size for wine bottles and apothecary jars.
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Which specimens will you be squishing into jars this Halloween?
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KonaGirl
Sep 20, 2011 @ 6:45 pm | delete
- Hm-m-m. I think this Halloween I will have to brew up a happiness spell to make people forget their misery for at least one night! Great lens! Blessed.
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Staceysk
Sep 16, 2011 @ 1:45 pm | delete
- Edible jars with crushed chocolate cookies and gummy worms
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alyson67
Aug 28, 2011 @ 5:38 am | delete
- I started making potion jars for this years halloween party and I put some dirt and worms (fake ones) in and it looks great, real gross. It's called earth worms by lovemanor.com They have a great selection of labels. My husband pick them up at our local store in the fishing section.
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TylaMac
Feb 27, 2011 @ 1:36 am | delete
- What fun! My husband always does his shrunken apple heads and people love them. We have a few rubber rats,too. I think we should add some more creepy stuff in jars next year.
*Blessed by a Squid Angel*
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monarch13
Oct 29, 2010 @ 1:18 am | delete
- very cool, i did this last year!
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missbat
Oct 18, 2010 @ 6:29 pm | delete
- I love making these. I used to collect old bottles and decanters from garage sales and fill them with colored water. I even have a little ceramic jar that reads "Wool of Bat" on it. Awesome lens!
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Nenkai
Oct 11, 2010 @ 6:25 pm | delete
- Fantastic lens! I just put my own attempt together and realized it has the imagination of a snail. I shall do better with the next one!! Well done to you, though. You have inspired me to make more effort!!
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awelldressedbullet
Oct 5, 2010 @ 9:21 pm | delete
- Boo! Happy Halloween lens! - Kathy
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sandralynnsparks
Sep 15, 2010 @ 2:13 pm | delete
- What a great idea!
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M_S_Beltran
Sep 10, 2010 @ 1:42 am | delete
- Now THIS was just what I was looking for... eeeexcellent! I'm doing my screen porch into a "gypsy witch wagon" and I have a plant stand for herbs that I will also be putting potion bottles, ingredient jars, etc. all over for decoration. Nice nice work, love it, great job, I'm putting this up on my lens and probably going to use lots of ideas here.
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Antique Style Bottles
Two's Company Apotheke Vintage Apothecary Jars, Set of 24
Amazon Price: $192.44 (as of 02/14/2012)
Set of 24 small apothecary bottles.
