Harry Potter Party

Any true fan knows how you get to Hogwarts. Flying car is NOT advisable. 

This idea for the magical barrier looked cool and would be really fun.

So we started off with by welcoming everyone to Hogwarts. I split everyone into houses to play the games so they got a crest. Or if you don't want to print and cut them all out rings work too (Also a safety pin so they wouldn't lose it and some tape to attach it to the pin so neither showed)

I also had a caldron full of pens to take the test with but I forgot a picture of that part and had to make do with setting it up again at home. Another fun idea I had but didn't do was to pull the center out of the pen, the thin part that contains the ink and push it into a feather for quills.

Since this is me, and I like to eat, we started out with the food. 

Our Start of term feast included

Butter beer

Cauldron cakes

Pumpkin Pasties

Steak Pie

For the butter beer I used caramel Italian soda syrup, half-an-half, and either club soda or in my case water and dry ice. I reccomend the Da Vinci brand syrup, you can usually find it at Sams Club. 

After eating we all took our O.W.L. (Ordinary Wizarding Level) 

Since this was a baby shower we matched the baby from the book with it's description. We had Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley, the mandrake, Aragog, and Norbert. 

Instead of prizes for winning the game you got points in your house cup. You got 1 point if you got three or more right and 2 points if you got all five.

Then we went over to Honeydukes with shopping bags (6 in a pack at the dollar store!)

Here is my previous post on making your own candy shop.

But that trip had a catch. There is a get to know you game where you pass around a bag of candy and for however many you took you had to tell something about yourself. We did a variation of that. For however many packages you got from the candy shop you had to describe a scene from one of the books or movie. Whoever guessed which book or movie it was got a point in their house cup. 

And we had a photo booth off to the side.

We had some very informative wall decorations

And last but not least, Nagini was on the table for presents. 

Other things I did not a picture of include one very nice movie grade time turner, Beltrix Lestrange, Nymphadora Tonks, and a Death Eater complete with Dark mark.

And of course what really made the night was having fun with some great friends and fellow Harry Potter fans. So thank you to everyone who came and had a great time.


And Gryffindor won the house cup. 

Harry Potter Party Preview

Ok, so I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan. And I'm hosting a Harry Potter themes baby shower for a friend who is also a huge Harry Potter fan. 

I'll post more of the details later, but to start with we have the invitations and then 

the candy for the Honeydukes station.

 The letter in color and wording was styled to look like Harrys acceptance letter to Hogwarts.

And for the candy I got mini favor bags from the wedding section at Wal-mart and printed out my own labels. I filled the bags, folded the label over the top and stapled it shut. 

The candy is

Acid Drops - Warhead sours

Basilisk Babies - Green Apple Twizlers

Golden Snitch - Caramel Lindt Balls

 Cockroach Clusters - Crushed Pretzel Crisps and chocolate

Potion Powder - Colored sugar in apothecary bottles. They came like the in the Halloween section of Wal-mart. They were too cute to pass up

Dragons Eggs - Chocolate covered cashews set in a round candy mold