I must admit that when Sarah told me she wanted to do a Harry Potter Birthday Party I was so excited! I quickly went to work to prepare. We had a lot of fun putting it all together. We made these fun invitations.
They even had a cool wax seal.
We delivered (most of) them by owl. She even got one reply by owl. It was pretty awesome!
I made these fun treats.......
........for treat bags for her to hand out to her party guests.
I spent almost two days making these wands. It was really fun, but more time consuming than I had anticipated. I love how they turned out though.
Sarah was pretty excited the party day was finally here.
Ollivander's Shop......all ready to go.
And platform 9 3/4.....check. Time to party!
When the guests arrived, they went to see Mr.Ollivander (aka Aaron) and he helped them choose a wand.
John David was so excited about his wand.
Here's everyone with their wands.
After everyone had their wand, it was time to be sorted into houses.
After the sorting ceremony, we played some games. For the first game, each house was given a Book of Spells. They had 5 minutes to study, and then we had a contest to see which house could tell the correct name of a spell they would need for a specific situation. Slytherin won 30 points for this game.
The second game was a quiz about potions.
Each house was given the same five potions and had to correctly identify what each one is used for.
Slytherin also won this game, and added 30 more points to their score.
The next game was "Find the Golden Snitch". Sarah found the first snitch and won 50 points for Ravenclaw.
Her friend, Leah, found the second golden snitch, and won 50 points for Griffindor.
The last game was a Horcrux Hunt.
I found the idea and clues for this game online and it was awesome. The kids loved looking for all seven horcruxes and points were awarded for each horcrux that was found.
Emma scored double points for her house because she found and destroyed a horcrux all at the same time. Well done Emma! Well done.
John David found the last horcrux.......Voldemort's snake, Nagini. When all the points were tallied, Ravenclaw had the most points and won the House Cup. Way to go Ravenclaw!
After all the hunting, the kids were ready for some food.
Luckily, Hagrid made a birthday cake especially for Sarah.
And some Butterbeer Cupcakes, which were amazingly delicious, by the way.
We sang to the birthday girl!
And she made a wish.
And then we had a (mini) Hogwarts Feast.
It was a lot of work, but it turned out great.
And the birthday girl said, "It was the best birthday ever!"
