When my mom and I were planning her trip out here this time we thought it would be fun to spend the first week having a Harry Potter marathon. But of course I couldn't leave it at just watching the movies...
First, I decided that Abi could handle the first movie so I asked her if she wanted to be a part of that one. She did. So, we had to read the book. We spent a couple of weeks reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerers stone out loud and she really enjoyed it. I then spent the rest of the remaining time between finishing that book and my mom getting here re-reading the rest of the books myself.
It was so fun planning the fun for the week but I must admit I had Harry Potter on the brain so much that I was even dreaming about it... I had a few duels with Voldemort!
The first thing I needed to do was send the invitations. My mom got here last Monday afternoon, so that night as she was unpacking in Abi's room I made a Hoot sound and sent this balloon flying into her room carrying the invitation.
I also set one outside of Maddy's room for Abi to find in the morning.
Tuesday morning as they came downstairs I handed them their supply list and their class schedules...
Then we paid a visit to Diagon Alley.
Our first stop was Gringotts bank where we all picked up our gold from our vaults.
The next stop was Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions where we bought our robes... made of garbage bags.
Then we went to the Magical Menagerie and bought our owls.
Then we visited Ollivanders Wand shop to make our wands.
We also visited Flourish and Blotts book store and got our charms books.
To do our wands: First we used the hot glue gun to make shapes on the wooden dowel to give the wand texture and a handle. Then we each picked from the paint colors I had to make it personal.
Abi painting her wand...
drying wands...
It took a few hours for them to really dry but they were looking fabulous. As soon as Abi's was dry I used puffy pink and purple paint to add polka dots to it. She asked me to since she would be at school all day and that way it would be dry and ready when she got home.
Maddy playing with gold coins and her owl.
As it got closer to Abi getting home I started setting up the 'class' area. I got some play dough and made some mice for transfiguration class. I also added our wands to our spots.
I set up the 'trolley' of food. We had a lot of treats to last the week. We had Elixer of Life (water), Cockroach Clusters, Rock Cakes,
one acid pop (because it didn't work the way I wanted it to), licorice wands, and Fizzing Whizbees.
We also had Chocolate frogs ( I made these with a frog mold and Wilton chocolate) and Snitch truffles.
the set up with our empty Butter Beer mugs.
I set up a Hogwarts sign.
Then I put up the platform 9 3/4 wall. I bought a red vinyl tablecloth at the $1 store and then drew the bricks on with a sharpie. After I hung it up in the doorway I cut a slit up the middle.
As soon as Abi got home we started the party. First we all had to gather our supplies and then go through the wall to catch the Hogwarts Express!
Abi peeking back through to let us know she got through okay.
my mom going through!
We boarded the Hogwarts Express, put on our robes, and picked some treats from the trolley for the ride.
As soon as we arrived at Hogwarts we were sorted. My sad little Sorting Hat was made from a paper bag and some brown ink with a sponge. I put little pieces of paper in a bowl with each house on them and we had to pick them out to get sorted.
Abi was Gryffindor! My mom was Gryffindor!
I was Hufflepuff. Maddy was Slytherin!
We then attended our first class- Transfiguration. We had to turn our mice into teacups. I forgot to take pictures of all of them but got one of Abi's.
Abi's teacup.
Next we had Defense against the Dark Arts. First we had a lesson in boggarts.
Then I used the black balloon as a Dementor and here they are casting their Patronus charms at it. It promptly popped!
By the time we were done with the evening classes it was time for the great feast. We had roast with vegetables and began watching the first movie.
Of course we enjoyed some yummy butter beer too!
Since Abi wasn't going to be watching the rest of the movies with us, we planned classes to be before and after school and we watched the movies during the day and at night after she went to bed.
Wednesday morning we started the day with Charms class.
Here they are practicing some of the spells from their books...
We learned the charm for making invisible ink appear and then they were able find hidden messages...
Abi's says, "You lost a tooth!" because she had another tooth fall out that morning!
Next we attended Ancient Runes class. I wrote each of them a message. Then they had to decode them.
When Abi got home from school we played Harry Potter Bingo.
Then we had potions class. Here are our ingredients all set up.
First we made flavor changing drinks to enjoy while we had classes. (7 up with ice cubes made out of kool aid)
Then we made polyjuice potion. It was kool aid. Abi is mixing in some pop rocks.
We put in some sour patch kids and then drank it! We all pretended to turn into Maddy.
Next we brewed up some Felix Felicis (the luck drink)
Mom putting in some purple edible glitter...
We all had a drink to give us some good luck. Notice the pinkies on both of them!
And then we made snow using freezing powder and elixer of life.
this was Abi's favorite and she did it a few times.
Next up was Divination class. I printed out the house crests and then made a cootie catcher that I attached them to. I used some glasses I picked up at the party store to be Prof. Trelawney. It was really fun being goofy.
Abi choosing her fate. I am pretty sure she won the house cup.
After we were done everyone had to take a turn as Professor Trelawney.
Our last class was Herbology. We had to de-gnome the gardens. I printed out pictures of gnomes and stuck them in the dirt and flowers and sent them out to get them.
Maddy soon woke from her nap and took a turn as Trelawney as well...
Our last event of the week we played Harry Potter Scene it game and had Treacle Tarts.
It was such a fun week!
