Hogwarts Part 2

The concept for this party was a day at Hogwarts. I wanted the kids to feel as though they had traveled into Harry Potter’s world for a few hours. With this in mind, I knew that I didn’t want to waste time watching a movie or playing a game. I wanted the kids to be very active.

After a little on-line research I found some very cute report cards that that someone had already made up and with just a little tweaking, they were perfect.

I now had a list of Classes that we needed to have curriculum for. I asked every friend I have for help and found a ton of willing volunteers to act as our Professors.

I made wands by sanding down different sized dowels, wood burning designs and staining them different colors.

We found Potion and History of Magic Books online that someone had already put together and Austin and I printed and bound them all together.

We rented a few capes and a scarf, purchased a couple different House ties and we were almost ready.

We only had the Refreshments and decorations left to go.

For decorations, I call my friend Beth, who loves Halloween and she let me once again go through her closet and anything that I couldn’t find I made. My friend Mariah was staying with us and she blew me away by offering to make a Hogwarts banner. The final touch was printing off tons of pictures from the internet and replacing all the frames in our home, with characters from the movies.

For Refreshment we wanted a Hogwarts celebration of Honeyduke’s Sweets. We had chocolate Frogs (gummy frogs dipped in chocolate), Gilly Weed (cotton candy), Blood Worms (gummy worms), Edible Wands (large Pretzels dipped in Chocolate), and Butterbeer. I also dipped Sugar Ice Cream Cones in Chocolate filled them with Gummies and then placed them on cupcakes for a witching treat.

The cake was my first attempt at a Sphere. We baked it in a bowl frosted it yellow (again with Mariah’s help) and them inserted wings I had printed off the computer with little sticks. A Snitch!