HARRY POTTER PARTY INVITATION IDEAS:

• Print with green ink on a parchment party details as if an invitation to “Hogwart’s School of Wizardry” and rolled up like a scroll – could use wax as a seal

HARRY POTTER PARTY DECORATION IDEAS:

• Put purple or black tablecloths on each table and sprinkle star confetti over the table

• Hang up a broom with a sign called Nimbus 2000

• Decorate with glow in the dark stars on the walls and Hogwarts banners with team crests on walls • have a big sign where people walk into the party labeled “Platform 9 ¾”

HARRY POTTER PARTY GAME IDEAS:

• Let kids apply lightning tattoo stickers to their foreheads once they arrive

• Make wands out of sticks from your yard – you can add a varnish or paint over the wands, or shoe polish – and spray glitter • hire a magician dressed as a wizard

• Provide wizard hats for all the kids and let them decorate with jewels, stickers, etc

• Have a “sorcerer’s stone” treasure hunt

• Have a broom race!

• Start with meeting with the “sorting hat” – you can stitch a wizard hat so that it looks like it has eyes and a mouth and hide a walkie talkie or baby monitor with someone hiding, acting like the “sorting hat”- delegate which team the child will be on

• Have a jelly bean flavor contest – let the kids guess the flavor of “Jelly Belly” jelly beans

• Have for the kids the Animal Capsules – you place in water and you watch as it transforms into an animal – they could use their magic wands and then place in water

• Have a dinosaur egg hunt

HARRY POTTER PARTY FAVOR IDEAS:

• Harry Potter glasses

• Give wizard hats for graduation

• Give out report cards with pictures taken from the party

• Fill black cauldrons with chocolate frogs and magic tricks