Harry Potter Birthday Party

October 21, 2018

We hosted a party for the Fall birthday cousins and did it with a Harry Potter theme. We celebrated Lillian 10th, Benjamin's 10th, Johanna's 6th and Ellie's 4th. Since there were four of them each one picked a wizarding house from Hogwarts as their theme for their cake.

We already had a bunch of Harry Potter themed decorations that we have collected over the years, so we only added some themed food and Bridget drew the Hogwarts school logo. Megan created a flock of owls and turned the mud room into an owlrey. We brewed some butter beer, and polyjuice potion. We planted a mandrake and made a cake. The girls helped me with dyeing fondant and Johanna helped make the ropes to trim the cake. Bridget cut out the Raven for the center of the shield.

Rachael spray painted the Quiditch goal posts. And we set up a game field that involves bouncing ping pong balls through the goal posts. I also printed images for a Harry Potter "Who Am I?" game.

Jim wasn't able to get the day off of work so the party had a different feel. And Emma was also working so we missed her too. But the party went well and all of the birthday kiddos had a good time. Johanna even got to invite 2 of her friends from the neighborhood, so there was an even bigger group of little girls than usual for the celebration.

Happy Birthday!