We made frames with brown construction paper then made original signs to look like the ones from the movie e. In the living room next to the entrance we set up a lighted deer Christmas lawn decoration as Harry's stag patronus. We decorated the great hall table with numerous candles fancy platters gold plastic goblets with jewels I bought at oriental trading co.
Many of the guests also wore Hogwarts robes and some even brought wands and brooms. My older daughter spent several hours making wands from chopsticks beads hot glue and paint--they looked fantastic! She dressed up as Ollivander and had each child try to cast a spell with a couple wands. When they held the correct wand another daughter in the room next door would start playing magical music.
Sorting came next. I told them the sorting hat would take their wishes into consideration so most of them whispered their desired house as they came up. Even with letting them choose we ended up with a pretty even number in each house.
They sat on the stool and I placed the sorting hat on their head saying things like "very brave" or "this one is loyal" before shouting out their house. Once they were sorted they each received a gift bag in their house color and we went to the kitchen to decorate them with markers house crests and characteristics of their house--these became our party bags to take home the crafts and favors.
While the kids decorated we finished preparing the feast. I wanted it to be like a real Hogwarts feast so we served chicken drumsticks Ollivander's finest edible wands bread sticks corn on the cob and grapes dragon eyeballs on big platters in the center of the table.
We also found a simple recipe for butter beer to serve in the golden goblets--it was a big hit! Before the feast began Professor Dumbledore my husband in his graduation robe and long white beard and wig gave the start of term speech. I found mini birdcages in the Michael's dollar section and the kids had a blast creating their own magical creatures.
They each turned out unique and adorable! Charms - First we learned "Wingardium Leviosa. We taught the girls how to wave their wands then in pairs they practiced casting the spell. When they got it right we turned on the hair dryers and the ping pong balls levitated in the air until they ended the spell!
Next they learned the summoning charm Accio. Once they had practiced they each took turns casting the spell and my daughter hid behind the sofa and tossed them a pair of Harry Potter earrings we found at Hot Topic.
Quidditch Tryouts - I told the kids each of the houses needed new quidditch players in the fall and wanted to get a look at the new students' skills. Each team sent one person at a time to "fly" on their broomstick carrying a quaffle playground ball toward the far end of the pitch. On the way we had helpers throwing bludgers small soft balls at them. If they were hit they were supposed to stop and throw the bludger back.
At the far end an adult held a hula hoop to each side. The kids had to throw the quaffle through their hula hoop retrieve the quaffle fly back quickly to their team and pass off the broom and quaffle to the next child. This game was a big hit! Snitch Relay: For seeker tryouts we switched teams and had the girls line up in the entrance hall.
In another room an adult hid 2 "golden snitches" yellow plastic easter eggs filled with gummy snakes and closed with 2 yellow feathers sticking out the sides. The teams each sent one player at a time to find a snitch then we had a short delay while we hid the next two snitches. The team who finished first most often won. While they played I took pictures of each of the girls wearing the sorting hat to send with their thank you cards.
I finally opted on these blow up balloons I found at Oriental Trading. They are pretty small just 2 ft long , but actually perfect for our game of Quidditch. You can download my copy of the rules here if you like. Again, we did alter the rules by one player to make it less chaotic. It also made it so that all of our players were able to have brooms since the set came with The Quidditch hoops are sheer genius!
I found the idea of how to make them here. We tried it and it worked SO well!!! I lucked out and found hula hoops on sale somewhere since it was the end of summer. We glued the ends of the hula hoops into the PVC piece. Then it was just a matter of hammering the pipe into the ground and attaching the hoops to the top.
They held up great! In fact, we left them up in our yard for several weeks after the party and they never budged or leaned or anything. The kids had such a good time with this game! I can see why people have actually created real Quidditch tournaments now.
And you can see how small the brooms were in this photo! Though they worked awesome for the game. We hid a Golden Snitch prior to the party starting and had the Seekers from each team try to find it during the game.
Whomever found it won the game for their team! Harry Potter Quidditch is our super cool game that you definitely have to be playing on our site and in which we are surely that you would try to take them all and make everything that you can in such order that you would never fail our game in there.
First of all, everything over there is something that you must change and the fact that no one would ever get in your face is something that we are sure you would like a lot.
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