Harry Potter Birthday Party Ideas – Part 1
For all the Harry Potter fans out there – or parents of fans looking to throw a themed birthday bash for your little ones – I wanted to share some of the 12 Harry Potter Birthday Party Ideas that I recently worked on for iVillage.com, which include everything from themed food & drinks to favors & activities!
You can find all the how-to info on each project over at iVillage, and detailed images of the first 6 projects in this post. (Part 2 with images of the next 6 projects will be posted on Monday.) Here goes…
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PARTY PROJECTS 1-6:
1. Quidditch-Inspired Party Favors – inspired by Martha Stewart’s Halloween Witch Brooms – but this “Harry Potter” version features edible pretzel rod broomsticks, gold ribbon accents (to mimic the gold detailing on the Quidditch brooms), and is filled with “Honeyduke’s Special Wizard’s Treat Mix” (pictured below).
2. Magic Color-Changing Drinks (pictured above)
3. Honeyduke’s Special Wizard’s Treat Mix – featuring edible Honey Nut Chex Mix, Gryffindor-inspired burgundy and gold M&M’s, and novelty gummy candies like spiders, frogs and worms + a free downloadable treat sign:
4. Potion Jar Centerpieces – featuring magical (and mostly creepy!) ingredients from the series like Bloodworms (spaghetti with marinara), Gillyweed (backyard weeds in green-tinted water) and Hippogriff Gizzards (canned oysters) + free downloadable jar labels (jars purchased at Ikea)
5. Official Hogwarts Party Invitations
6. Transfiguration Booth – a themed DIY Photo Booth / fun dress-up activity!
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Stay tuned for Part 2: Projects 6-12, coming soon!
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OH MY GOD….ohmygodohmygod….
This is the CUTEST thing I’ve seen in weeks. LOVE THIS!! I think I want to throw a party now…
This is party theme and design is fabulous!
Some really great ideas! Love the labels on the jars, kids would love this! So many of these ideas could work for a regular Halloween party if Harry Potter ever loses popularity, although that’s not likely to happen anytime soon!
WOW! I love all the ideas, and can’t wait to use this at my kids birthday party!
Am I too old to have this party for my birthday? Seriously, love it!
So, so awesome! I can’t wait for my girls to get old enough to enjoy HP so we can have a HP themed party.
Super Fun!
Amazing! I need to have this bookmarked!
Those are amazing ideas, Jenn!
I am throwing a wizard party for my son in june. These are great ideas, maybe I will have to add some to his party. Thanks.
So, so cool!! What a great idea… and with so many amazing details. Love it!
Great details! Love it! My sister would die for this party! (and she’s almost 30 lol)
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Seriously amazing!! Love it and wish I had a reason to throw this party!!! As always, thanks for sharing!!
Colored drinks. Simple. Brilliant. Epic.
Magical ideas! I particularly love the colour changing drinks – my kids would love this!.
I made some dinosaur eggs that could easily become dragon eggs, and would make a great addition to the Harry Potter theme. You’ll find them here
Wow! Brilliant execution and fun ideas for the kids
Where was this when I did my daughter’s HP party last October? THis would have saved me a LOT of work. Cute ideas. Thanks for the continuted inspiration.
So many creative ideas!!! Love the broomstick favors :)
Cool ideas. I just threw a Hogwarts party for my 7 year old. It was so fun!
What a treasure trove of great ideas! Makes we wish my kids were old enough for Harry Potter!
You have the best idea of party favors, really really amazing! It will surely bring happiness in kids party!
I can’t find more info on how to make the magic color-changing drinks. The link won’t work for me. Can anyone help? Everything is just so darn cute!
Hi Jen. HELP… please. I am going to do a Harry Potter themed party for my son’s 8th birthday – I am looking at your HP party for inspiration and ideas (as usual :) Do you have any downloads for all of the cool signs you used?? Thanks!!
I need links to the downloads for the snack labels… such a cute idea! ksutton1084@yahoo.com Thanks!
Hi Kristen –
You can download the labels and snack sign at the full article on iVillage. Here are the direct links:
Labels: http://www.today.com/parents/12-easy-ideas-wizard-worthy-harry-potter-birthday-party-1D80226524#139574
Treat Mix Sign: http://www.today.com/parents/12-easy-ideas-wizard-worthy-harry-potter-birthday-party-1D80226524#139578
(There are download links on each of those pages.) Hope that helps! :)
Thanks for the creative ideas… I am taking 3 and using for my son’s Harry Potter party!
Awesome ideas!!
im in a mother daughter book club and my daughter loves harry potter these will be great.i also recommend the unofficial harry potter cookbook
These are great Ideas. Thank you. Does anyone know of any “magical” ideas for a party for adults though?
I'm using the theme for my high school graduation invitations… LOL MATURE MY ASS.
why do all the links take you to a pregnancy website instead of the details??
Hi Andrea – It looks like iVillage moved the location of the article on their site since the first time this posted (a few years ago). I just updated the links so hopefully they’ll work for you now – thanks for the heads up! :)
Awesome stuff! Thanks so much for sharing :)
Using this for my Sweet 16th lol
Does anyone have the Honeyduke's Treat Mix template saved? I can not open it through the main site. Any help would be greatly appreciated! My son's bday party is in a few weeks and we were planning on using this template for the goody bags. Please help!
Great ideas and best party ever