Harry Potter Halloween Party, Potter Parties - Advice & Suggestions |
 Apr 28 2008, 03:19 PM
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Super Jenn!  Posts: 2,371 Joined: 5:43pm March 19, 2006 Location: Knitting elf socks & scarves in the Hufflepuff Common Room. . .   |
submitted by Carla S. Invitations Using a "wizardly" font and Professor McGonnagall's first letter to Harry as an example, create a personalized invitation for everyone on the guest list. If the exact location of the person's room in their house is known, be sure to put it on the outside of the invitation! Print the invitations in green ink, put them in envelopes and hand them out! Decorations Hang several "haunted portraits" (which can be found seasonally at party supply stores). Place cornstalks and pumpkins around, throw spider webs around the corn stalks and then stick little black spider rings into the spider web to create "Aragog's Nest", and hang a large cardboard spider above it. Make an enchanted ceiling by purchasing a roll of navy blue table covering some glow-in-the-dark stars, silver glitter, and a package of 10 little pumpkin buckets. Measure how long the ceiling is, then simply cut the table covering to fit. Glue glitter and stars on to the table covering, hang it on the ceiling and hang the pumpkin buckets from it! Mix your own potions using household supplies, food coloring, and small potions bottles (available at arts & crafts stores). Put raisins in one and called it frog brains, a couple of spiders in another, and some jelly slugs in another. If more decorations are desired, simply hang some bats, pumpkins and skulls about! Games Hide the "Game Den" behind Aragog's Nest. Set up a video game system and television so that the guests can play Quidditch World Cup. Have an area for playing charades. Have separate areas for different Potter-themed board games. Harry Potter Scene It, Harry Potter Uno and Mystery at Hogwarts are a few choices. Food Try Licorice Wands, Ravenclaws (A bag of Bugles placed in a plastic cauldron), Dirt Cake, Dragon Snot, Dragon Blood Punch, Apple Cider, and a big bowl of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans to tempt the guests! Credit Carla S.'s party ideas were taken with permission. Please note that the patterns and tutorials you find here have been designed by Harry Potter fans all over the Internet. The authors alone hold the copyrights and licences to these patterns and tutorials, which means you CANNOT use their patterns to make something that you will sell to others afterwards. You can use them to make things for yourself. You can make some for your friends and ask them to pay for supplies. You CANNOT, however, ask them to pay you to do it as though you had created this pattern by yourself, or try to sell you crafts to a local store. Think about it. Would you take a Prisoner of Azkaban book, photocopy it, put your name in big red letters on the front cover and try to sell it in your local library? The answer is, obviously, no. Well, selling crafts you have made but not designed would be just as bad! Please note that posting a picture of a finished oject on Leaky Lounge will be taken as permission for the photo to be included in the Harry Potter Crafts gallery. If you do NOT wish your photos to be included in this gallery, please PM a Crafty Witch at the time of posting. Also note that the tutorials, recipes and patterns found here have not been tested and that The Leaky Cauldron's Harry Potter Crafts section is not responsible for any mistakes they may contain. If you do find something wrong in one of them, however, please e-mail us to let us know. On that note, Harry crafting to all! This post has been edited by hardhat_cat: Feb 17 2009, 10:13 PM -------------------- Jenn   |
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