On November 26th Carma and I hosted a Harry Potter Movie Marathon for the Young Women in our ward. We decorated the house and made most of the food and take home goodies.
Sirius Black wanted poster:
Gryffindor and Hogwarts wall crests:
History and Spell books:
Carma made these Marauder's maps for all the girls. They open up to reveal the main floor of Hogwarts Castle and the surrounding grounds.
I made up my own Harry Potter Pictionary game. I cut index cards in half, wrote different people, places, and things from the movies and books on them. I then carved out a stamp to make them more like real game cards. We then laminated them so we will be able to use them again.
We had a bit of a Wizarding Treat Feast
We didn't have time to make pumpkin juice, although we did find a recipe that looked good. Instead we just used apple juice.
We made pretzel wands which turned out to be a big hit with the girls.
We made chocolate frog boxes...
...and they had chocolate frogs in them!
We also had Harry's birthday cake that Hagrid made for him. It's a little hard to read due to the fact that Hagrid might have sat on it a bit.
We also had Bertie Botts Everyflavor Beans. We couldn't find any of the gross flavored ones in the Boise area in the little time we had to get ready, so we made due with Jelly Bellies.
No wizard house would be complete without a few potions lying around.
In case of any unexpected petrification, we made sure we had some Mandrake Elixir ready.
And in case we needed to sneek into the ministry to find a horcrux, we had plenty of Polyjuice potion on hand.
We had our meager collection of Wizard Cards on display. I may not have hundreds like Ron Weasley, but I have some good ones.
We had a blast watching the movies and playing pictionary and doing trivia in between each movie. We started watching the movies at 4:30 pm on Friday. We all fell asleep around 5:30 am Saturday with only one more movie to watch. We were up by 7:30 am to watch the sixth movie and then came down to Boise to watch part one of movie seven.
We had so much fun, that next year in July when the last one comes out, we are going to go a little crazy!
I love it...how creative and how fun!!! You did a great job!
ReplyDeletedo you have the print out for the chocolate frog box you made? where did you get it? I'm having a harry potter party soon and I was looking to make my own chocolate frog boxes. thanks
ReplyDeleteAriana- if you look at one of my newer posts called three things in common, the template for the chocolate frog boxes is there. I hope you have fun with your marathon!
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