Cole's Harry Potter Birthday Party

So sorry to do this but I need to post pics and don't have much time at this moment to go into details... I will edit this page later with the invitations, (which came out amazing and arrived exactly how they would in the book), and other details... It was a crazy day so I don't have pics of everything (so mad at that) but This'll have to do...

 

 

If you haven't guessed the students (ie: guests) walked in to Ollivandar's to make their own wands!

 

Sorting time... (I used felt, an old box and sharpies to create the sorting hat...) each student was given a shirt (iron on tie and crest I created in photoshop, word and from internet images) to represent based on which house they were sorted into as seen below,

You can kind of see the house pennant banners and each table was assigned to a house, much like the movie (book) You can't see hte decorations and banner for each house as its in the front of the tables...

 

Time for potions class... I found a bunch of spells from the book and movie online (and in the book) copied those into this book with a spell I specifically made one for the birthday boy with several ingredients (the last being vinegar) to make the potion foam at the end:

 

I think it was something like this... (Again, I'll fix this later)

• ground dragon eggshell - baking soda
• cornish pixie dust - blue glitter
• ogre hair - pieces of thread
• kool-aid (can't remember what this was but it made the vinegar smell less pungent)
• vinegar (i think it was water from Gringott's underground bank) can't remember

everything was in marked baggies or viles (thank-you Martha Stuart halloween clearance) the reaction was totally worth it! The kids thought it was awesome when the potion bubbled up and went over! (plastic cauldron also thanks to halloween clearance items!)

of course we had a candy cart (bar) with all the candies that were in the book... (including chocolate frogs with Hogwartz professor playing cards... (found the chocolate mold online and used green Wilton melts to create green chocolate frogs although the movie is regular choc so that would work)

Here's my notes prior to creating party stuff... 

Decoration:

• 9¾ sign
• Brick wall - Need sponge and red paint for shower curtain (may have red paint)
• Pictures of Owl’s in windows or just owl’s
• Shop Sign – need Paper from Alex’s work – draw and paint sign (or have Cole color)
• Cauldrons – All Sizes – Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver – Self-Stirring – Collapsible
• Apothecary “Dragon Liver, sixteen sickles an ounce, they’re mad…”
• Eeylops Owl Emporium – Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy
• Broomsticks with Nimbus 2000
• Robes,
• Telescopes,
• Strange silver instruments
• Barrels of Bat spleens, Eels eyes
• Spell books (look in Chamber of Secrets), quills and parchment  (I USED ELECTRIC TAPE AND FAKE FEATHERS ON REGULAR PENS TO CREATE QUILLS)

• Gringotts (bank) – need fake/choc gold coins
• Words engraved in a silver door:

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

• Ollivander’s table
• Candy Trolley
• Lemon drops
• Chocolate frogs
• Bertie botz every flavor bean

Food:

• Large sticky choc cake with Happy Birthday Cole In Green icing
• Golden snitches (I USED GOLD CAKE DUSTING POWDER FROM MICHAELS TO CREATE THE GOLD ON THE SNITCH CAKE POPS... WISH I HAD A PIC, THEY CAME OUT SO CUTE!!!)
• Pumpkin pasties

Maybe stuff

Side room

• Need privet drive sign
• Need to make letters to Harry Potter (look online)

Mr. H. Potter

The Cupboard under the Stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging

Surrey

• Hang letters with Fishing wire

to take “surprised” pics for flying car thank-you

“the daily prophet”

“Muggles seen stowing away in flying car”

Muggle day at Hogwarts a success!

Birthday Student, Cole would like to THANK all his friends and family for joining in on the festivities at Hogwarts in celebration of his 8^th birthday!