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| So much candy! |
This week I'm sharing the 4th post in my Harry Potter Birthday Party series. Today we're focusing on the Great Hall and Honeydukes - both of which were in our dining room!
If you missed the other posts, check them out:
The Great Hall
Not true to the movie but more inspired by it, we used beautiful gold tablecloths, silver and gold paper plates as well as cheap plastic goblets. I found the goblets at the local Dollarama and the cloth and plates on sale at an art store.
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| The glow sticks looked waaaaay better in person! The kids loved them...and they lasted for over 10 hours! |
I wanted to make the candles hang from the ceiling but I didn't have a tonne of time. Instead, I bought glow sticks and hooks to hang them from the ceiling. I also hung tulle to make it more magical. I have to say the glow stick were the amazing. They looked great during the party even though it was daylight. That night my daughter had three of her best friends sleep over for a Harry Potter movie marathon, and the glow sticks were even more AWESOME.
The Great Feast
The food itself wasn't really food from the books or movies. We had grilled chicken wings, pizza pops, veggies and fruit. We did, however, give them Harry Potterish names like wicked wings, pizza pasties, fleur de la coeur fruit and herbology bites (veggies).
We served 'pumpkin juice' which was really orange-mango juice!
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| Gold disposable table cloth, gold and silver plates & napkins and plastic goblets completed the Great Hall Feast. |
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| The kids devoured these wings! |
Honeydukes
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| Our dining room side buffet became Honeydukes! |
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| We picked up some Martha Stewart chalk board signs and easels to write out the candy names. |
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| These containers had chalk board sticker already attached and ready to go. |
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| We also bought cheap tongs so the kids could get their candy without sticking their hands in the jars! |
For the candy shop, I bought a bunch of cute and cheap glass containers from the dollar store and lots of candy from them too. The candy went into the containers. From Michaels and Dollarama, I bought funky labels (on sale) and we gave the candy HP names including:
- acid pops (lollipops)
- gringott gold bars (caramels)
- exploding rockets
- laughing taffy
- love potion necklaces
- life preservers
- every flavour beans
- golden snitch snacks
- chocolate frogs
- jelly slugs
- forbidden forest bears
Chocolate Frogs
We made our own chocolate frogs. They are simple to make if you have the frog mold. I ordered one (two would have been better as it would have allowed me to make more at once) from amazon.com. The molds make quite a big frog! I melted about 2/3 of a bag of melting candy from Wilton and filled each cavity half full. I then sprinkled rice cereal in the middle and topped it off with more chocolate. I then threw them in the fridge for about 30 minutes to set. I started the process over again until I had about 24 frogs.
I also printed out Honeydukes labels and placed them on some resealable bags so the kids could 'shop' at the store and take their favourites home as part of their loot bag.
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| Do you love my daughter's Gryffindor coloured nails?! |
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| They look better than this - bad lighting! Lumos! |
Loot Bags
What else was in the loot bags? Glad you asked! I found the cutest owl pens at a local art store and Harry Potter magnets at our local toy shop. These with the candy bag went into our loot bags. The bags were simply brown paper bags with a customized thank you sticker attached. Adorable, don't you think?
Thanks for reading! Our next and last Harry Potter birthday party post will be all about the cake!
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