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Harry Potter Party & A Recipe for Butterbeer

October 31, 2016 by Susan 14 Comments

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Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party! (Free Printables)

 

We enjoy Harry Potter.  A lot.

The boys have a friend who just finished the book series for the first time and hadn’t seen any of the films.  Loving a themed party as we do, of course we made it into a full fledged 2-day movie marathon.  All the kids in Minnesota have a couple of days off of school in October, so our date was set.

I did a lot of searching online, and found some pretty incredible parties.  Ones where you actually felt you were in Hogwarts.

Our Harry Potter party was nothing like them.

I wish.

But with work, school, and college visits, we shot for a much more do-able party.  Authentic, no. Loads of fun, and something anyone can do…you bet!

Harry Potter Party Decorations

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Our guests were greeted out front by a couple of dementors.  I was so pleased to find these at our local Dollar Store.  I only had to make a few minor adjustments and they were perfect.

They started out with white skeleton heads (which I colored black with my trusty Sharpie) and had white fabric on top of the black (which I cut off).  I picked up some additional black mesh fabric (also at the Dollar Store) which I draped over the top.

 

 

These free wanted poster printables I found online (do a Google search and you’ll find lots).

Do you expect them to move when you look at them?  I did…every time.

We posted several around the house.

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!  Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Our front bathroom had spiders heading out into the Forbidden Forest and this inspiring quote from Dumbledore framed on the counter (you can find it below).

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!  Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Moaning Myrtle was hiding in the back bathroom.  She was easy to find and print out, just doing a Google image search.

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!  Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

 

Honeydukes Treats and More

 

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

We had a snack table filled with candies from Honeydukes and a lot more.  I made the labels (you can find them below).  Because this was a two day affair, and we had people coming and going throughout, I made a little sign to remind everyone to not go too crazy and eat everything up in the first half hour.  (I also didn’t put everything out the first day, to ensure that our table wasn’t empty on day two).

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Besides Bertie Botts, we also had:

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!  Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

We also had Golden Snitches and Dementor’s Kisses.

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!  Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Cookies with House color frosting options were also available.

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

Our Pumpkin Juice was mostly apple juice with a little splash of pumpkin juice (from Trader Joe’s) and a dash of cinnamon-sugar.  And the Polyjuice Potion was Kool-Aid.

Instead of having guests write their names on cups to keep track of, I went through the stack and labeled each cup with a character’s name.   We had everyone from Harry to Lucius Malfoy to Buckbeak.

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party! Free printables and a recipe for Butterbeer.

 

Butterbeer

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

No Harry Potter party would be complete without Butterbeer!  We opted for the cold variety.  We mixed a little butterscotch flavoring into cream soda and topped it off with a creamy mixture of whipped cream, marshmallow cream and more butterscotch.

A little sweet…yes.  But everyone agreed it was a yummy treat.  (You can find the recipe below).

Two days and 19 hours of movies is a lot!

We started about 10am each day.  Besides snacks, we had a plan for meals.  I provided one meal each day – easy crock pot recipes.  And we asked guests to bring money to order pizza once each day also.

We had, I think,  a total of about 15 people in and out over the two days.  The kids took breaks between some of the movies and went outside to throw the football or play some basketball (we thought about setting up Quidditch, but couldn’t get a hold of enough hula hoops).

Check below for the butterbeer recipe and printables.

 

Printables

Click here for Honeydukes Printable

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Click here for Other Snack and Beverage Printable

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

 

Click here for Manners Sign Printable

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Click here for Dumbledore Quote Printable

Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party!

 

Harry Potter Party: ButterBeer

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Susan
October 31, 2016
by Susan
Category Themed Entertaining
Prep Time
15 minutes
Easy to do ideas for a Harry Potter party! Free printables and a recipe for Butterbeer.

Ingredients

  • Cream Soda
  • Butterscotch Syrup
  • 2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 7 oz. container of Marshmallow Cream

Instructions

  1. Reserve a couple of tablespoons of cream and whip the rest to soft peaks
  2. Remove from mixing bowl
  3. Add marshmallow cream to bowl and beat until smooth, adding reserved cream to loosen a bit
  4. Slowly add whipped cream back in, whisking to combine between additions
  5. Fold in several tablespoons to 1/4 cup (per your taste) of butterscotch syrup
  6. Refrigerate until ready to use
  7. When ready to serve, stir some butterscotch syrup into cream soda (we did it in a pitcher, but you could do it by the glass). Add per your taste.
  8. To serve, just spoon some cream mixture over the top of each glass.

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Comments

  1. Roy A. Ackerman, PhD, EA says

    October 31, 2016 at 8:41 am

    Very cute.
    And, since I know nothing of the “culture”, I just assume it was perfect.
    Great fun for your kids!

    Reply
    • Susan says

      October 31, 2016 at 6:34 pm

      Thanks, Roy!

      Reply
  2. Kathy says

    October 31, 2016 at 10:29 am

    My kids love Harry Potter! My son has read the series several times and just bought the newest book. My daughter, 8, is just getting into it!

    Reply
    • Susan says

      October 31, 2016 at 6:34 pm

      My kids have read the books, and I read the last one (before the movie came out…I wanted to know how it ended!). I just started reading the whole series from the beginning this summer and am loving it even more than the movies.

      Reply
  3. Martha says

    October 31, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    I’ve never watched Harry Potter, but the Butter Bear sure sounds delicious! I’ll have to try that.

    Reply
    • Susan says

      November 1, 2016 at 10:08 am

      It was really sweet…but definitely tasty!

      Reply
  4. Doug says

    October 31, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    I am thoroughly impressed by all of the planning that went into this.
    Amazing ideas.
    How can you top that next year?

    Reply
    • Susan says

      November 1, 2016 at 10:08 am

      Thanks, Doug!

      Reply
  5. Laura Dennis says

    November 1, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    Fun party and I love your printables.

    Reply
    • Susan says

      November 1, 2016 at 3:05 pm

      Thanks, Laura! I’m glad you stopped by!

      Reply
  6. Amy says

    November 2, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    Oh, this is just brilliant! We threw a mini-Harry Potter Halloween Poetry Teatime this year but nothing like this! Pinning for great ideas for next year:)

    Reply
    • Susan says

      November 3, 2016 at 1:42 am

      I’m so happy you found some ideas!

      Reply
  7. Erin Vincent says

    November 8, 2016 at 6:18 am

    Oh goodness, what fun!!! We are huge Harry Potter fans and this looks EPIC! I just love the dementor outside your door.

    Reply
    • Susan says

      November 8, 2016 at 9:39 am

      It was such a blast! I’m so glad you liked it. The dementors were a lot of fun to make!

      Reply

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