lright moms … i need help i have a 5 year old daughter that loves to take stuff that doesn’t belong to her to her room and make " potions " with them … she takes everything like food , drinks , hand soaps, lotion … basically anything she can get her hands on … I’m and so over cleaning up her messes and toys …What can i do to stop her from doing these things…
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Give her only certain items and make her do it outside with adult supervision.
Get her some magic mixies! Or baking soda & vinegar with food coloring or something tell her she’s only allowed to do bath potions or something
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She’s a reincarnated star child you leave her alone !! 
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Encourage it! Get her into baking, or chemistry! The messes won’t last forever but the lessons she learns and support you give will
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Get her a chemistry kit! Or get her into making mud pies or something of that nature
Give a area and put things in that area for her to use!
Get her a lab kit! Let her be creative and make potions, but must be at the table! Yay for her and having a creative beautiful mind!
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good luck we have the same thing going on here
Make her play with them outside, future scientist in the making
Buy actual ingredients and have it in a designated place
I think it’s awesome! Get her a science kit . With “ experiments she can mix and get results and have fun . She’s creative and that’s a good thing.
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There’s gotta be some sort of kits out there. Maybe some science projects?
Do it with her. They’re only little for such a short time.
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I use to do the same thing when I was little! Lol But my mom ONLY let me do them outside…maybe she can do that 
Make her a huge plastic table and buy her things to make potions with in it. You can go to the dollar tree and buy things such as lotions, soaps, oils, sand, glue, slimes etc… This is great for her imagination and her cognitive functions and play with her and make some amazing memories that you both will love.
Please don’t dull her creativity. Provide her with a kit and a designated place and designated items she can use to make these things. The kid sounds like she’s creative and you should nurture that.
Encourage it! She’s growing and experimenting what she likes. My daughter loves making potions too so we bought her a magic mixie, chemistry supply, teach her about acid and base, educate them on the importance of everything she is doing on her own. My daughter is six today but she started since she was four. Today she makes her own slime, volcanoes etc. lol
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My daughter used to do the same thing. Then it turned into making slime. She’d go thru so much school glue more at home than she did while at school lol. Love how she was always trying to make something!!
Get her a set up of items she can use for potions and designate a spot for crafts. I have a table where my daughter makes all her potions and a bin full of items for her to use. It’s their imagination… let them be young
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Buy her her own special stuff to make potions?
What a magical wee girl. Being so creative. I loved my kids doing that.
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Me and my cousins used to make potions as kids no help here but brings back great memories
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Mine did this too. She grew up
Okay… So I was the kid who made potions and stuff. My mom told me what I absolutely could not use and then let me go at it 
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Have her clean her own mess, but I wouldn’t stop her creativity.
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Easy bake oven! She can mix her cake batter and add colors and the results are delicious 
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She sounds fun… lay down some ground rules for her. Location, cleaning up, what she can and can’t do/use.
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Encourage it, start teaching her about intent and manifestation, begin your own coven, and enjoy life to the fullest!! 
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Tell her go make.them.outside lol
I was the same way for soooo long and my kiddos ( 8 and 10 ) are the same way
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When you figure it out let me know. Mine is 10 and still does this 
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You’ve got a little chemist in the making.
Nurture it!
Get her a little chemistry play set with things to mix. Fun if they fizz or change color or something like that.
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Lindsy McCann is this you?!
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Find “potions” yall can make together successfully. Like soap, lotion, lip gloss, science experiments, growing flowers/herbs, etc. Have some fun keeping her busy. I use to love to pretend to make potions.
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Let her earn money doing simple chores around the house. Take her to dollar tree and buy her a basket and let her buy her potion ingredients and pick a designated area for them to be stored and used. Teach her responsibility and imagination with them.
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My seven year old still does this
My daughter did/does this not as much as she use to thank goodness!!! Making slim helped adding all the weird stuff different colors glitters different ways to make it helped a lot we still make slim and she’s 12 about to be 13 
what really help was the little passport science subscription. It was given to my daughter as a gift. She loved it. It gave her something to look forward to every month it was controlled the big kids would even get involved and help figure things out it was worth it we renewed the subscription a couple times
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Oh my gosh… I remember when my daughter was in this phase… Dont worry she’ll grow out of it. Or become a scientist
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Make her responsible for cleaning it…
Give her items she can use to make “potions” and do it with her in a safe space to make a mess, or much less mess with help. You’ll be far better off helping than fighting her.
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For outdoors you could set up a little mud kitchen and for inside my boys make their potions in the bath tub! Get a cheap can of shaving cream, different little containers/utensils and if you’re feeling fancy throw in some water color changing tablets 
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Give her a Safe space to do it….
Bath time
Etc.
give her some small containers and some dyed water or colorful soaps and tell her she has to do it outside or over the side of the bathtub
Let her be a kid. That sounds like fun. Lock up what you don’t want taken.
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Make it something you guys do together? Clearly she enjoys it, maybe you guys can make actual stuff? Maybe you could make a “potion” that turns into slime? Or a potion that turns into homemade play dough. You just have to make sure she understands that it’s something she should do with you, not by herself.
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To be honest I was like this as a kid. More you punished and took away the more I wanted to experiment.
Get her a kit, you may have a kiddo who cab make spells, cures, or ect. Even if it’s trash. Ibloopooved making slim and other odd stuffs.
My son (severe autism) just did this with all of my makeup and hair products and lotion. ALL of it. I wanted to cry but what has helped before this was getting like dollar store stuff and letting him have his own stuff to make potions with.
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You make her clean it up. You def need to make her stop so she doesn’t accidentally harm herself mixing things together that shouldn’t be.
Instead get her science kits where she can mix stuff safely together.
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Give her stuff she can have. My daughter has done this since she was 2 years old and she’s 10 now. Water tables are a fun alternative too.
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Why do all little girls go through this phase it’ll end soon, hang in there.
My girls were the same. I got the big cheap bottles of soaps and lotions from the dollar store and other items to make potions and cheap refillable bottles and containers
Go to Dollar tree and get stuff for her to make her own potions.
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I actually think it’s so interesting how so many girls go through this stage
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She should grow out of it…I know I was a child that loved to make “potions” and things and my mom bout went crazy too…
Steer her into cooking or chemistry, but she has a drive! I would gather plants from outside and do the same thing. Fix her own little bag with items that she can use to practice her craft. Maybe get some empty spice bottles, spoons, measuring cup, play dough, little rolling pin etc. And explain that the messes are not fun for mom.
I used to love making potions.Just tell her she has to do it outside or put a big mat down for her
Encourage her ask her what she wants make she has a creative side let her grow herbs, teach her to use them. If you are not schooled in them,learn together.
Give her a space to do potions (like the sink or bathtub or outside) and follow through every time with her cleaning up. Making potions is one of my favorite memories as a kid!
Designate a ‘potion station’ on wet area floors if no outside area 
I’d leave her alone unless you want to spend the rest of your life as a newt!
You can’t. It never stops.
Mine like this has been this way for years. She’s almost 10 
good luck! Buy cheap lotions, shampoo and conditioners from now on lol
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Look on pinterest for kid potion making sensory bins! She will love it.
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My 10 year old does this 
My now 16 year old daughter did this at the young age of 5, it was very frustrating but I started allowing her in the kitchen to help bake and turn her imagination into baking many different things, she helped cook and learned to bake by 6 years old and loved it so much, it was great memories and still today she loves to bake and make up her own different variety of goodies that come out amazing!
Maybe try to allow her to do something like that. Also my now 4 year old loves to make “potions” but her only place to do that is outside or in the bathroom, with only certain things that I help her gather up to do have some fun.
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My daughter is 15 and has moved on to making tintures and hairmasks and such with flowers and coco oil now. Every once in a while i find a surprise in a jar that reeks up the bathroom and have to throw out the whole rotting mess of rose petal or lavander, etc
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You let that baby witch live her best baby witch life 
No but fr idk my 6yo does the same thing and it drives me crazy. I’ve pretty much given up trying to stop her with the understanding that she cleans up whatever mess she makes. It’s working for us so far 
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It’s time she learns to cook. Grab the cookbook and teach her to follow a potion recipe that turns into something delicious.
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I did that when I was a kid lol
Go to the dollar store and buy some cheap products and a cute basket to put them all in. Then sit down and talk about the rules: only done at the kitchen table or outside, don’t drink or eat anything she makes, only use what’s in her basket, ask you before she makes any potions, and if she makes a mess, she has to clean it.
Have her do chores to earn money to buy more stuff at the dollar store.
Have her do chores to earn enough money to buy her own things from the dollar tree to use for her potions🤷🏻♀️
My son does the same thing. I bought him a chemistry kit & a slime kit from 5 below. He loves it. Maybe try that so she isn’t using your things.
Get her an actual potions kit!
I was the SAME WAY!!
Just like the movie Drop Dead Fred!!! I love it and wish more kids had a passion these days at such a young age… Make it special for her and you!! Results will be amazing for the both after. And yes some scrubbing… But THE MEMORIES AND PICTURES
PRICELESS!!!
Idk mines 11 and still likes to mix things.
Just enjoy it while you can. 
. She won’t be doing that for long and you will miss these weird little things when she’s older.
Have her to clean up the mess and throw the toys away instead of cleaning them
Encourage her imagination but make her clean her own messes.
Teach her alchemy and to make real potions for healing. It’s a great knowledge to have especially at a young age.
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Omg I hated when my girls went through this stage. Nothing in my house was sacred. They would use anything including my expensive make up or detergent or anything. Ugh I also hated they would make sli.e or play doh and get it everywhere. It was such a nightmare smh. Thankfully it’s been years now and we have moved 2 times since then but omg I can relate to what you are going through. Hugs. It will pass but hang in there. By the way I hate messes and omg they sure 
did push my buttons and momma bear was not happy at all. Lol. Hugs. Our son did not make these potion messes but our girls did. Thankfully they are 25, 18 and 13 now. Lol
I was like her and my daughter is too we now upgraded
she’s experimenting… get her a set up & let her science side have some fun… but cleans up her own mess or experiment time is done
The website is called science projects for young children you could look up there and do some really cool things where young kids to do this is one but there other to
I used to do the same thing
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It must be a ‘stage’ kids go through. At five, I remember making mud pies and using every spice my mother had in the kitchen before baking them over an open fire in the backyard. Of course, I got a spanking, but it was worth it.
She is expressing her creativity. Go to the dollar store and get her very own things. She also needs to have her own pans. $10 should do it. She also needs to be advised to recycle this stuff and clean up after herself when she’s done.
I did this as a kid, felt like I was creating something cool.
I think it’s awesome kids are still being kids and doing this these days! I used to do it when I was younger. I used to think there was a witch living at this huge house down the street from my friend’s house and we thought her garden had magical things in it, so we would sometimes take a little bit of this and that and make potions with it lol. My parents got me a science kit where you mix things together to create different things. It was so cool. Get her kits to make potions. There’s a toy cauldron that comes with “potions” to make and you can buy refills for it on Amazon. If I was a kid I would have loved getting that as a gift! Shoot, I still would love it if someone gave it to me lol
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1st, put all that stuff away and switch to bar soap. 2nd, explain when she does that u will take the toy she “ruined” and throw it away. 3rd, allow “potion time” in the tub only. Get her a few cheap soaps and some shaving cream. Tell her if she does potions outside the tub, she will lose potion time all together.
Clearly she has a thing for experimenting, don’t be mad about that. Get her science types of things and let her be her. Who knows, you may have an intelligent scientist who will become super successful some day. Never ever crush a child’s dreams. You’ll miss the cleaning up as she gets older, they’re only young once
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Build her a “kit” that can only be used at the table. Seriously though good luck. My son loved to do " science experiments" we would find raw eggs, water, soap, bowls, utensils, you name it under his bed. Totally understand your frustrations. You are seen and not alone
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My son does the same thing 
looking into getting him an experiment kit.
Buy them science kits, mini microscopes, introduce them to baking.
I was this kid and I wish instead of being scolded and beaten for it that I had the opportunity for those keen interests to be honed and developed rather than punished.
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Make her clean up her messes.
My boy did this from 5 to 7 years:rofl: I just left him to do what he needs to do but…. He had to clean up! He stop now.
Set up an area where she can do it , thus she won’t hide & take to bedroom. Agree on what she can use & can’t. U suggest stuff shows yr interested. She’ll then tell u more of what she’s up to 
Make her clean it up and give her a space to do it
Make her clean up the messes
Get an indoor water play set she can make her potions in the bathroom where it’s easier to clean!
My daughter did this for years when she was younger. It sucked at the time but honestly it was fun watching her creative mind come up with things. I ended up buying stuff just for her potions and she ended up only using that stuff.
Mine doesn’t make potions, she makes crafts, with anything and everything she can find. What I did was buy a huge tube like tray and a bunch of stuff from the dollar store, and we set up her own little craft corner/table for her to work at. She is allowed to use anything she has there and keep it there or she will clean up the mess made anywhere else. Any crafts she makes will become decorations around the house for a bit which makes her feel good about it. This has worked great for us, hopefully it’ll help you. 
Buy jars ahead can put some in and sell her potions let her creativity flow
Give her an area where she can do it.