My oldest turned 11, which is the age one gets their letter to Hogwarts! So naturally we started the tradition of a huge Harry Potter Party to celebrate when our kids turn 11.
The great hall was made amazing thanks to AliExpress – takes a while to ship, but you can’t beat the prices! The house flags were about $3 a piece. I paid more of the great hall backdrop because I wanted it to be cloth so that I could easily reuse it from one party to the next. Got the candles off of Amazon.
HONEYDUKES!
I made the chocolate frog boxes from poster board cut from my Cricut Maker and gold metallic vinyl. — Snitch wings were a print and cut from the Cricut Maker. — I printed the Honeydukes sign with vinyl as well and put it on a wooden board from Hobby Lobby (see below). I couldn’t find the right font, and there wasn’t a high enough quality image I could use online, so I had to copy/draw it on Procreate.I had different stations/locations around the house, and this one turned out pretty fun. Death Eater tattoos (from AliExpress), glasses (from Hobby Lobby), gold and silver coins (thank you Dollar Tree). I made the sign using a blank wooden sign from Hobby Lobby with fonts in Microsoft Word that looked close enough to the Borgin and Burkes fonts. The best part was the wanted posters. I found them online and printed them at my local copy store. Closeup!Another station was the Wiseacre’s station. I bought a wooden baseball sign from Hobby Lobby and transformed it to a replica of the Wiseacre’s sign. — The main feature of his station was the up-cycled second hand store jewelry box, that we used to make patronus bracelets – these were a huge hit!Got the charms from AliExpress for a great price!Hanging keys from Amazon for $12! I jut hung them from my light fixture. AliExpress for the win again! Hung it in my doorway to the piano room (nothing cool on the other side – just a photo-op backdrop). Another photo-op wall. The Harry Potter Undesirable No 1 poster was 8.5 x 11 paper, so I printed a bunch of those and then filled in with the legal sized Daily Prophet front pages. Found them all online and printed at my local copy store. I know, I should have done letters coming out of the fireplace, but this was way easier. Spiders were from Cricut and I downloaded the font from online. I bought these boxes on AliExpress and then did the print and cut option on the Cricut for the label. I couldn’t find a good file that would work with the print and cut option so I had to draw it on Procreate, and it turned out great!It was a process!A replica of Harry Potter’s birthday cake for the birthday boy. I kept the butter beer simple and just did cream soda, but then I mixed heavy whipping cream, mixed with marshmallow fluff and caramel topping. When it was all whipped together the topping was actually pretty close to the real deal (which I can say from experience!).
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What is the link/price for backdrop great hall cloth?
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You can find it in the Ali Express app. I found it searching “Hogwarts Backdrop”
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