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For stress-free party planning, order your Birthday Party Supplies on-line Then, use the Harry Potter party games, activities, recipes and decorating ideas provided below create an unforgettable Harry Potter Birthday!


Harry Potter Party Invitations
Make your Harry Potter invitations with an antique white or beige card stock paper. Use your computer to create "The Daily Prophet" The lead story of course will be your child's birthday and celebration ideas. Add a few word searches or riddles for fun!

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Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban Party Decorations
You'll have a lot of fun decorating for this party!
Use poster board to make signs for "Diagon Alley",
"Professor Snape's Potions class", "Alivan's Wand Shop" "Hagrid's Hut",
"The Great Hall".....match the locations to your activities.
If your feeling creative, sponge paint white sheets with gray paint, to create stone walls. Then, hang the sheets on your walls and windows.
Add any of these items for more effects: Hang gaudy gold framed pictures or mirrors (thrift stores or gold spray paint), gold and purple, streamers, Wizard hats,  large cauldron with steamy dry ice, broom sticks leaning against the corners, make "house" banners with felt or poster board the possibilities are endless! Don't forget to welcome your party guests to Hogwarts School as they arrive.


BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES & ACTIVITIES

Alivan's Wand Shop
To make wands, collect short, dry sticks from your yard, or purchase wooden rods from a hobby store. Attach a feather, sprinkle with glitter, decorate with sequins or ribbon, etc. Let the children decorate their own special wand. 
  One mother we spoke to, gave the kids colored electrical tape to wrap 12 inch pieces of dowel. We liked this idea for neatness and the fact that there was no drying time.

Golden Snitch Craft Pin or Magnet


You'll Need:
White craft foam
Gold or yellow colored "pom - pom"
Hot glue gun or craft glue
Gold glitter, glitter glue or sequins
Pin backs or self sticking magnetic strip
Scissors (several pairs)

Trace the shape of the wings on the craft foam before 
the party. The children will cut them out on their own.
The wings can be left white or decorated with glitter, 
sequins or glitter glue. Use craft glue or a hot glue gun to attach the pom-pom's and pin backs. I recommend a hot 
glue gun (adults only) for faster drying time.

HARRY POTTER PARTY GAMES

Sorting Hat Party Game

Introduce your guests to the fantastic world of Harry Potter as soon as they walk through the door with this easy paper bag sorting hat. We used
a paper grocery bag folded inside out, "bunch-up" into shape and then stapled. Place the hat upon each guest's head as they enter the party room. To "go -all-out" , pre-record a voice repeating the houses; Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Slytherin, one by one, in any order you choose. 
It would be simpler however, to have someone holler from the other room.
Before the party make several house badges with the names Slytherin, Griffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw. We've already made some for you to print...click here to print.

Use a hole punch and yarn for children to wear the badges around their necks. After the Sorting Hat has "spoken", give each child a badge with
the name of their house.

"The Marauder's Map" treasure hunt
Divide the children into teams and give each team a map.
They must collect certain items along the way according to their map. They will end up at Honeydukes, a store loaded with sweets; nougat, coconut ice, toffees, chocolates, Every Flavor Beans, Fizzing Whizzbees, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Pepper Imps, Ice Mice, peppermint creames, sugar-spun quills and exploding bonbons...They can even make some of their own!
Tip: Your local sweet shop will have a variety of candies in different shapes and sizes to emulate the candies from 
the book.

HARRY POTTER FAVORS AND PRIZES
Keep in mind if you are making crafts, that these items will 
be sent home with the kids as a favor. Other items could include: gummi rats, Bertie Bott jelly beans, Harry Potter glasses, glow sticks, stickers, glow sticks and Harry Potter coloring books with glitter crayons.
 

Harry Potter Party Recipes

Bewitching Brew 
Your guests will be spellbound when they witness your ability to turn an ordinary beverage into an enchanted drink that crackles and spits! Simply pour your child’s favorite beverage into glasses for all your guests. After you have placed a glass in front of each guest, add a few Pop Rocks™ candies to each one. Since this candy is processed with carbon dioxide, it will crackle, pop, and spit when it comes into contact with water, juice, soda pop, etc. (Pop Rocks is a registered trademark of the General Foods Corp.) 

Magic Wand Pretzels
Prepare the night before the party.
Dip large pretzel sticks into melted white chocolate bark.
Then into colored sprinkles. Let them harden on waxed paper.

Chocolate Spiders

1 pound chocolate confectioners' coating 
1 (8.5 ounce) package chow-mein noodles 

Directions 
1 Chop the chocolate confectioners' coating and place into a heatproof bowl over simmering water. Cook, stirring occasionally until melted and smooth. Remove from heat and stir in the chow mein noodles so they are evenly distributed. Spoon out to desired size onto waxed paper. Cool completely before storing or serving. 

Chocolate Frogs
"Gummi" toad candies
Chocolate melting chips

Melt the chocolate pieces in the microwave or in a double boiler. Dip the frogs into the chocolate and place on waxed paper. I found that the frogs looked better if I dipped the hind quarters not the head. You can also drizzle the chocolate on some of the frogs instead of fully dipping them.

Wizard Hat Cupcakes

Make your own edible wizard hats with cupcakes, ice cream cones,
melted chocolate and yellow decorating frosting.  

To dip the cones...
Melt your chocolate bark or "candy melts" (craft store).
Pour the melted chocolate into a shallow pan, such as a cookie sheet.
Gently roll the cones in the melted chocolate. Place the cones upside down on a sheet of waxed , or parchment paper. All the chocolate to harden completely before adding the lightening bolts and stars.

Place the hats onto your frosted cupcakes and then use a decorating
tube to make a ring around the bottom edge.
Tip:
Some of our readers have used fondant to cover the cones. We prefer
the chocolate method, because children prefer the flavor.

Make your own Harry Potter Birthday Cake
A simple sheet or round cake is much cheaper and tastier than store bought. Top your cake with wizard hats, using frosted, or chocolate dipped ice cream cones and frosting stars add a pair of plastic glasses!