Fun Harry Potter Birthday Party Idea

Here's a fun Harry Potter birthday party idea for your child, based on the popular books and movies.

Harry Potter Cake

Your Cake Topper

Bring your birthday child's cake come to life with this really fun Harry Potter Cake Topper for a magical birthday cake.

Colorful Edible Cake Art

Here's a wonderful Harry Potter edible cake art to transform your child's cake into a magical treat.

Fun Party Supplies

Imagine these fun Harry Potter Party Supplies for even more party fun.

Magical Invitations

Have some fun with an invitation that "magically appears."

Use a white crayon to write your invitation on white paper. When you send out your invitations, include a black crayon with instructions for your invited guests to "rub the black crayon across the white paper to watch their invitation magically appear right before their eyes.

You can also write your invitation on parchment paper to give it an official look.

Remember to include the first and last name of your birthday child, the address of your party location and the start time and end time of your birthday party.

It's also a good idea to ask them to RSVP buy a certain date. And don't forget to mention if food will be served or if costumes can be worn.

Write Your invitation like this:

"Welcome from Hogwarts School of Wizardry."

"You are invited to a very special gathering to celebrate the (how old your child will be) th. birthday of (first and last name of child)."

"Expect magical things to take place as we celebrate this most important birthday."

"Our birthday celebration will be held at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, located at (address of the party location). When the clock strikes (time party begins) O)'clock, the magic will begin."

"Refreshments will be served."

"Our invited guests may wear Harry Potter costume garments, or you may dress in the casual manner of the day (wear your regular clothes).

"Use your "muggle phone" to RSVP by calling (phone number) by (date)."

"Magic will be in the air as we celebrate this very special birthday. So please join us at Hogwarts School of Wizardry. We'll be enjoying fun activities, games, birthday cake and delicious treats. A grand time will be had by all."

Printed Invitations

Take a look at these fun Harry Potter printed invitations that your guests will love.

Fun Costumes

Your birthday child will have so much fun with these magical Harry Potter costumes.

Harry Potter Fiber Optic Robe

Harry Potter Gryffyndor Robe

Magical Games and Activities

Be creative, most any party game can be changed to match your birthday theme.

Remember the "Pin The Tail On The Donkey" game?

Draw and color a large picture of Harry Potter (or any character) on white butcher paper. Make "black eyeglasses" or some other part of the character.

Blindfold each guest and see who pins the object the closest.

How about playing the "Hokey Pokey," but you can call your the Hermione Giggle!

"Musical Chairs" becomes the Moaning Myrtle Dance.

How about Transfiguration?

Let your guests act out the characters by playing Charades. They can even act out being transformed into something like a frog, or a book, or a dragon.

Hogwart School Test

Before your party, put together the alphabet. Down the left side of the paper, put one letter on each line (A, B, C, D, until all 26 letters are listed. make copies of your list and give each guest one copy, a pencil and ten to fifteen minutes to fill in the blanks.

The object is to list something from the Harry Potter stories for each letter of the alphabet.

Potter-Mon-Ingo

Make up Bingo cards using Harry Potter characters (pictures for little kids, written names for older kids). Make sure all the Bingo cards are different or everyone will be winners. Kids like this game.

Golden-Snitch-Seek

Put together teams and let them find clues hidden around the house that will bring them to their treasure (loot bags, small toys or game cards).

The clues should be different for each team or they'll be all over each other.

Clues should be simple. For instance, "back of chair" (could be any chair in the house) and when they find the right chair, there is another clue, such as "under table".

A list should contain four to eight clues and the team must stay together while they search.

The winner will find the Golden Snitch first. (Use a gold covered chocolate coin).

Party activities

Face Painting using symbols of the four Hogwart Houses.

Paint a character on the cheek of one guest and ask all the other kids try to guess what Harry Potter friend it is. Continue until all the guests have their cheeks painted.

Party Food Ideas

Chocolate Mice

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup icing sugar

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1 cup coconut

1/4 cup walnuts

2 cups Rice Krispies

1/4 block parowax

1 pkg chocolate chips

Maraschino Cherries (noses)

Licorice or Fruit Leather (whiskers and tails)

Mini candies ( eyes)

Thinly slice almond (ears)

Directions: Mix peanut butter, icing, sugar, and butter together.Add coconut, nuts and Rice Krispies.

Form the mixture into "mice"(little oval-shaped balls).

Melt parowax and chocolate chips.

Dip the "mice" into the chocolate mixture.

Place on waxed paper and let cool.

Slice cherries to use for "nose".

Roll out fruit leather or licorice and slice intothin strips for whiskers. Add thin slices of almond nut for ears.

Take Lots Of Pictures

Your child and all their party guests are going to have so much fun. So take lots of pictures to preserve your precious memories. And did you know that the Kodak EasyShare Gallery is the perfect place to share your pictures with family and friends.

These Harry Potter birthday party ideas are going to help you put together a magical party.

Make Your Own Invitations

If you're interested in making your own invitations for your Harry Potter Party then you should take a look at these homemade birthday party invites for inspiration at Make-Your-Own-Invitations.com

Have FUN

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