Edie decided in October that she wanted her 10th birthday party to be Harry Potter themed. With the new baby coming at the end of December and her birthday in January, we came up with most of the ideas before December. (We got most of the ideas from other party descriptions online, and then added our own flavor.) Despite this advance planning, however, I still did most of the work the week before, so these still count as last-minute projects.
I'll post the party description here, and then the cooler projects as separate entries. My pictures didn't turn out great, but hopefully you'll get the idea...
We ended up with over 30 kids in our very small house, but it was still a blast. AS kids entered, we put them through orientation, where they got sorted (by pulling a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin label from under our Sorting Hat) and received their class schedule. We had created 4 different class "stations", so we were able to rotate the groups through each station. The classes were:
Divination
(with my mother as Professor Trelawney)
The kids read a worksheet on palm reading and then learned their balloon fortunes. (We created a bunch of silly fortunes, stuck them inside balloons as we inflated them.) The kids had to sit on the balloons to pop them and then read their fortunes out loud.
Care of Magical Creatures
(with my brother-in-law as Hagrid)
Barry taught the kids how to make balloon animals, and then they were given their own container of play dough to build a custom creature. I got the play dough at Oriental Trading - they were Halloween-ish, and very much on sale.
Potions (with Lain as Professor Snape)
We let the kids make their own potions by mixing sodas and then had them do the classic pop rocks potion. I found the test tubes (aka Mardi Gras shot glasses) at Oriental Trading.
Here's my potions display. The picture doesn't do it justice - it was by far my favorite decoration. I pulled a bunch of images off of the internet and re-labeled the sodas. After everyone had finished potions class we moved the sodas back up to the food table.
Transfiguration (with my husband as himself)
Tim taught the kids the toothpick star trick and a card trick. Everyone got to keep a deck of cards for their goody bags.
After the kids finished their rotation of classes (about 20 minutes each), and ate pizza and cake, they were allowed to visit the Honeydukes sweet shop. They received one galleon at each class, and then were allowed to trade their 4 galleons for 4 pieces of candy. We found great candy molds at a local cake art shop, and made chocolate frogs, peppermint toads, and owl pops. We also had cockroach clusters (chow mein noodles and chocolate), acid pops (dum dums rolled in pop rocks), Every Flavor Beans (jelly bellies), and licorice wands.
After picking their candy, they visited Ollivanders and picked out a wand. I made about 30 wands the day before the party, in about 2 hours.
We finished with presents, and then the kids were picked up after about 3 hours of magic!
All in all, the party cost about $150, including food and supplies.
I'll post the party description here, and then the cooler projects as separate entries. My pictures didn't turn out great, but hopefully you'll get the idea...
We ended up with over 30 kids in our very small house, but it was still a blast. AS kids entered, we put them through orientation, where they got sorted (by pulling a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin label from under our Sorting Hat) and received their class schedule. We had created 4 different class "stations", so we were able to rotate the groups through each station. The classes were:
Divination (with my mother as Professor Trelawney)
The kids read a worksheet on palm reading and then learned their balloon fortunes. (We created a bunch of silly fortunes, stuck them inside balloons as we inflated them.) The kids had to sit on the balloons to pop them and then read their fortunes out loud.
(with my brother-in-law as Hagrid)
Barry taught the kids how to make balloon animals, and then they were given their own container of play dough to build a custom creature. I got the play dough at Oriental Trading - they were Halloween-ish, and very much on sale.
Potions (with Lain as Professor Snape)
We let the kids make their own potions by mixing sodas and then had them do the classic pop rocks potion. I found the test tubes (aka Mardi Gras shot glasses) at Oriental Trading.
Transfiguration (with my husband as himself)
Tim taught the kids the toothpick star trick and a card trick. Everyone got to keep a deck of cards for their goody bags.
After the kids finished their rotation of classes (about 20 minutes each), and ate pizza and cake, they were allowed to visit the Honeydukes sweet shop. They received one galleon at each class, and then were allowed to trade their 4 galleons for 4 pieces of candy. We found great candy molds at a local cake art shop, and made chocolate frogs, peppermint toads, and owl pops. We also had cockroach clusters (chow mein noodles and chocolate), acid pops (dum dums rolled in pop rocks), Every Flavor Beans (jelly bellies), and licorice wands.
We finished with presents, and then the kids were picked up after about 3 hours of magic!
All in all, the party cost about $150, including food and supplies.
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