DECORATIONS

• ENTRANCE HALL
  • Walls decorated to look like stone castle walls
  • Ghostly pictures on walls
  • Medieval castle and wizard decorations (such as potions)
  • Hogwarts banner
  • House items: Slytherin’s locket; Griffindor’s sword; Hufflepuff’s cup; Ravenclaw’s diadem (tiara) (to be offered as prizes)
  • Broomstick stand
• GREAT HALL
  • Starry nights (or black) tablecloth on ceiling, covered with glow-in-the-dark stars
  • A few glow-in-the-dark/clear glitter starry balloons on ceiling
  • Long dining table for feast, with ornate tablecloths
  • Silver and gold scatter stars (various sizes)
  • Hogwarts banner
  • Sorting Hat stool
• MIX-HOUSE DEN/CLASSROOM
  • Metallic streamers twisted in House colours
  • Walls and floors decorated with ornate cloth hangings and rugs
  • Lots of ornate cushions
  • House banners
  • Potions/Wizarding school supplies

FOOD & DRINK

• Pumpkin pasties/Cornish pasties
• Traditional English roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding
• Treacle tarts
• Traditional English puddings
• Cauldron cakes
• Party pies and pastries
• Star-shaped fairy bread
• Witches’ hats cupcakes
• Dragon eggs meatballs
• Hagrid’s rock cakes
• Ice cream bar with magical toppings (flu powder: chocolate sprinkles and cachous; soil: crushed choc cookies; gummy bugs; marshmallow mushrooms; magic dust sherbet and sprinkles; Herbology fruit; potion sauces; moss OR hair sample: cotton candy; Pop Rocks)
• Butterbeer
• Pumpkin juice
• Magic colour-changing potion drinks
• Magic foaming spiders
• HONEYDUKE'S TREAT MIX
  • Liquorice wands
  • Cockroach clusters (chocolate clusters)
  • Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans
  • Golden snitch pops
  • Chocolate frogs
  • Acid pops (sour lollipops)
  • Fizzing Whizzbees (flying saucers)
  • Droobles’ Best Blowing Gum
  • Fudge Flies
  • Ice Mice
  • Pretzel wands
  • Witches’ hats sherbet cones
  • Gummy worms, snakes, frogs, bugs (incl, jelly slugs)
  • Chocolate bugs
  • Sherbet straw wands, fizzers, Nerds, Pop Rocks, Freckles
  • Magic wand flavoured drinking straws
  • Dragon/pixie egg chocolate eggs
  • Coconut ice, nougat, golden toffees, toffee éclairs, mint humbugs
  • Sherbet lemons
  • Black pepper imps
  • Tooth-flossing string mints
  • Peppermint toads
  • Sugar quills
  • Blood lollipops
  • Exploding bon-bons (sherbet bon bons)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Sorting Hat (Divide into House teams and earn a point for each game won. Team with the most points wins prizes.)
• Harry Potter movie marathon
• Quidditch game
• Harry Potter board game
• Bobbing for snitches (foam balls, with only one snitch)
• Search for dragons eggs
• Trelawney’s tarot card reading/palm reading/tea leaf reading
• Divination Class--Throw the tarot cards in a cauldron
• Potions class (provide ingredients and vote on best recipe)
• Tri-wizard Cup (dragon’s egg search; diving for dolls; maze/obstacle course) to win trophy cup filled with goodies
• Voldemort piñata to beat with “wand”
• “Exploding” snap game
• Gobstones game of marbles/boules
• Wizard chess
• Chamber of Secrets obstacle course (timed): play music for Fluffy; Devil’s Snare net; jump to grab key and then open door; stepping stone chess squares; knock out the troll with a bat; logic potion puzzle—drink the potion; jump through Mirror of Erised; grab Tom Riddle’s diary.
• Transfiguration Pictionary
• Pass the magical parcel (with music OR each person answers Harry Potter trivia questions when the parcel is handed to them)

GIFTS & NOVELTIES

• “Dragon eggs” with small gifts inside
• Handmade ancient runes tic tack toe set
• Handmade Wizard Trading card (to go with chocolate frogs)
• Harry Potter merchandise & party novelties
• Bubble wands
• Tarot cards
• Keepsake boxes made to look like magical books
• Dumbledore’s Army enchanted chocolate galleons
• Deathly Hallows: toy/candy/lip gloss ring; toy wand OR wooden pencil (and Tom Riddle’s diary); cloak
• Remembrall (clear ball with glitter)
• Sneakoscope spinning tops
• Winged key shaped bottle opener
• Body glitter or glittery bath products
• Fortune Fish
• Star, magic or wizard themed products
• Magic puzzles/brain teasers
• Weasley twins’ gag magic gifts
• Books on magic/wizards/witches