#hpparty

What’s a Harry Potter Party without your school books? Luckily, I didn’t have to go all the way to Flourish & Blotts to get these. I went to Pinterest.

When I saw these book covers I thought they would make great props to lay around casually. “Oh, this book here? That’s just my History of Magic textbook.” 

The books that I had in my library didn’t really fit the covers, so I had to use some double sided tape around the edges to get the covers to stay put. I thought it would be better to use smaller books that would fit the covers completely instead of larger books.

In my quest for the ultimate Potter Party, I have come across a ton of free printables (see my pinterest link for the sources of many of the printables I used). You can’t have a HP birthday party with Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, and you can’t have Every Flavor Beans without the iconic box from the movie (although I have seen people do it, but being such a huge Potterhead I wouldn’t dream of having Every Flavor Beans in a plastic baggie.)

When printing these out onto card stock I reduced the size by 50%. I thought the full page was just too big. You can never have too many jelly beans, but I decided that if I want to keep my sanity during this party, I may want to scale back the amount of jelly beans per box. Plus, there are some other Honey Dukes goodies that will be making a appearance. 

Here is the template I found (with the artist’s info of course). I’ll probably get a box of HP jelly beans to mix in with some “safer” flavors. Is that bean toffee flavored or earwax? Guess you’ll have to taste it and find out.

In my quest for having the best Harry Potter Party Props ever, I had an idea to make a jar of “Dragon’s Blood”. I thought it would be a really cool party prop for my daughter to keep after the party’s over.

One of the more memorable parts of the HP movies and Books is when Harry encounters the moving staircases. Now, it would be awesome to have moving staircases for this party, but there’s this thing called reality that keeps getting in the way (curse you realiltyyy! *shakes fist*) So, I have (with my Hubby’s help), come up with an alternative - a moving staircase mobile.

Have you ever tried to create a staircase out of cardboard and paper? Well, let’s just say that I really could’ve used a magic wand.

I drew the railings onto white cardboard, then stained the board with tea to make it look aged. I folded up a piece of paper for the stairs, and it was tricky AF. Once I was able to line up the railing and the accordion folded paper, I glued the “steps” into place.

It’s been awhile since I posted any projects, but I am working on some major Birthday DIY. It’s like the Crafting Olympics in my house, and it’s all because Im planning ZJ’s 6th birthday party!! Woot! Woot!