Coolest Harry Potter Birthday Party

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When your child asks for a Harry Potter birthday party, you will want to come up with a child birthday party idea that will make the party memorable for everyone.

You can turn almost any space into Hogwarts to enjoy an afternoon of magical games and activities. All you need is the right party ideas to pull it off.

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Invitations

One great child birthday party idea for Harry Potter invitations could be a realistic looking invitation to Hogwarts School of Wizardry.

To do this write "You are being summoned to the Hogwarts School of Wizardry. Please attend on (the date) to celebrate the birthday of our Master Wizard (your child's name). You will be given a test in Defense Against the Dark Arts when you arrive. Here is your clue to help you succeed." You can then include hint to one of the games you will be playing such as a bag of candy or a magic wand.

To make them look more official, add a Hogwarts School of Wizardry header and include sayings like "Send the RSVP with your owl." The paper can be aged by dipping it in tea after you have finished and allowing it to dry.

Other invitation ideas for a Harry Potter birthday party make the invitation to look like an article in the Daily Prophet (the wizard newspaper). All you need to do is to print out the announcement below a picture of your child dressed in a Harry Potter costume made from a pair of black rimmed glasses and a Harry Potter Gryffindor robe costume. To make the paper look like newsprint, either rub the paper with newspaper or rub black chalk onto the paper with a cotton ball.

You can also make invitations on a velvet-covered paper and add pictures of a castle, stars, moons, and even a wizard's pointed hat. To include a map to the party location, make a "Marauder's Map." (It cannot be opened without a tap from a magic wand!)

Decorations

For a Harry Potter birthday party, one great child birthday party idea is to make your own Harry Potter banners along with a wizard personalized banner.

For Hogwart's banners, Slytherin is a silver serpent on a green background, Gryffindor is a red background with a gold colored lion, a blue background with a bronze-toned eagle represents Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff is a black badger on a yellow background. Another great wall decoration is to get a large picture of a castle blown up and printed onto cardboard. "Hogwarts" can then be hung on the wall as well

The Harry Potter party pack is ideal for the feasting table. They come complete with eight settings of Harry Potter birthday party plates, cutlery, and cups that look magical on the tablecloth and napkins included in the pack. The matching decorations such as confetti, ribbon, crepe paper, and balloon work well to finish off the room.

The Harry Potter centerpiece can be placed in the center of the snack table and you can even include a few Hedwigs or Harry Potter lanterns. To add to the feel of the room, you can lower the lights and use strobe lights, static lights, and dark sounding classical music. If you would like to give each wizard some treats, use cauldron candy cups.

Food

Cakes - A Harry Potter birthday party cake can include any number of ideas including:

1) A Harry Potter cake kit makes an ease scene of Hogwarts. Spread the base icing on smooth with a spatula. (To get rid of knife lines, finish off by making the icing knife wet. Then in one motion, from one end of the cake to the other, lightly drag the knife across the top. A flat or shell tip can then be used to make the border around the top and along the bottom.

2) Another great child birthday party idea is a castle cake also fits well into the Harry Potter theme.

To do this, make two 9 x 13 cakes. The first one can be trimmed and laid onto a large cake board. Then, cut the other one in half to make 2 pieces that are about 9 x 6.5. The one piece can be cut into strips to make towers. The other piece can be cut into triangles to make the tower caps. It can then be coated with grey icing and finished off by dragging a serrated knife very lightly to make a worn pattern. Black icing is great for making windows and you can use the flat tip to make window ledges.

You can then use a toothpick to draw out stones and other castle details. Around the sides and along the bottom of the castle, make clouds with whip cream and a large round tip.

Main Meals

How about a heap of cat litter? Mix a cup of pancake mix and hard cheese with one pound of hamburger this can then be made into the "cat poop". Lay the "poop" on the top of the "Litter," which is actually a bed of white rice.

"Slug egg soup" is another great option. Use tomato soup with pot barley and some finely chopped vegetables.

Drinks

• Mix up several colors of juice and let the little wizards mix their own potions by mixing the juices together with different kinds of Pop Rock candy.
• Make "goblet of fire" drinks by mixing vanilla ice cream and Sprite pop into a parfait glass and adding red food color.
• If you would like to make a punch, clean a latex glove, fill it about three-quarters full with water and food coloring, and lay it flat on a cookie sheet after tying it shut. Once they have been frozen, they can be removed from the gloves and added to the punch.

Sweet Treats

• Buy chocolate frogs or make them in a candy mould.
• Meringues make great caterpillar cocoons.
• Make or purchase macaroons and call them "cockroach cookies".

Party Favors

Wizard favor boxes are a great way to give party favors at your Harry Potter birthday party. Each one has glasses, an owl, and a tattoo of lightning bolt to get partiers in the mood. There are also glow sticks and stickers included in the Harry Potter themed box.

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