Draw ingredients for a magic potion

What can I use if I don't have colored pencils, a black pen, or a ruler?

Use crayons or watercolor paints instead of colored pencils, a fine-tip ballpoint or felt-tip marker instead of a black pen, and the straight edge of a book or a cardboard strip as a ruler when adding label and measurement marks.

My pencil lines smudge or the black pen blobs over the coloring—how do I fix that?

Draw lightly with your pencil, let markers or paint dry completely before tracing final outlines with the black pen, and test the pen on scrap paper first so erasing leftover pencil marks is clean.

How can I change this activity for different ages?

For toddlers simplify to one big bottle and one copied texture using stickers, for younger kids keep four ingredients and short names and properties, and for older kids add precise measurement marks with a ruler, more detailed textures from a real object, and a longer potion story.

How can we extend or personalize the potion drawing after finishing the basic steps?

Glue small real items like a dried leaf to match a copied texture, add glitter or watercolor washes to the bottle, make ingredient cards listing each name and magical property, and take the clear photo to create a digital collage before sharing on DIY.org.