Harry Potter Birthday Party! PART 2- Decorations continued

Hi again!

If you have no idea what I am talking about, check out my other post 'Harry Potter Birthday Party! PART 1- Decorations' as this is a sequel!

I believe we got up to the potion jars, so as this is in a jar, I'll tell you how to make the 'Lumos' Candle.

Decorations

'Lumos' Candle☀

'Lumos' basically means 'Light', so I thought it made sense to have a candle with 'Lumos' written on it!

I used 'Grey Cerne Relief', which is basically a glass painting pen, but I just created the pattern (see above) rather than doing any painting itself. I did this to a glass jar and left to dry for 20 minutes and stuck a tea-light in it.

Here is the 'Grey Cerne Relief':

Floating Candles

Making these were not as hard as I thought. All I did was paint some toilet tubes white, add a base to them, stuff them with tissue paper and pop a battery powered candle in them!

It was the hanging up that was the issue. You need to attach a piece of thread from one side of the tube to the other. This is hard to make secure. Then add another piece to this and to where you want to hang it!😏

Cauldron- Difficult

I apologise for the blurry picture

Moving onto a more difficult set of decorations. One of which, is the cauldron. Because of them being more complicated, I am going to go through them step-by-step.

1. Blow up a balloon and make sure it is held upright by something- I used a bowl-thing!👍 You then draw a line around the balloon to show where you're going to papier-mâché paper and PVA glue- this was the amount that made mine sturdy.

2. Make a mixture with black paint and PVA Glue use this instead of just PVA glue for the last coat of papier-mâché.

3. Pop the balloon when the last coat is dry.

4. To make the handle, scrunch up a piece of newspaper into a long, sausage like shape and bend it over so you can tape it onto the inside of both sides. Secure with masking tape.

5. Use the PVA glue/black paint mixture to paint the handle and the inside of the cauldron.

Wait for it to dry and it's ready!


Photo Booth With Props- Difficult

I cheated a little bit with props because we had some elf🎄 ones left over from Christmas so I stuck them in a pot with five other ones I made!

1. To do this, you need to make the items below out of cardboard:

• A tie 
• Harry Potter-style glasses
• A lightning bolt- for the scar
• A witches hat
• And a wand

You can then attach them to long Kebab sticks.

2. To make the photo booth itself, create a frame out of cardboard and paint it brown. You can then make the two signs (see photo).

Sorting hat- Difficult

1. I began making this by creating a cone out of cardboard and taping this to a circular base.

2. You can then add eyebrows and a mouth with other bits of card, cut to shape. Also, make a tube of newspaper that you can stick out of the top. 

3. If you have used Sellotape to secure it, Give it a layer of papier-mâché (see Cauldron), or if you've used masking tape, don't bother.

4. Now, you can paint it a light brown, adding tone to it with darker brown to places like under his eyelids and in his mouth. I also added a few patches.

Name labels-Table Decorations

These little labels will tell you whose sitting where!

I cut little rectangles out of black card and folded them in half, to then stick a piece of normal paper onto one side where I wrote the person's name with a scarf in the colours of their house AND I wrote the name of their house at the top! 

Table Mats-Table Decorations

Each of these tablemats were placed on the table for the plates of food to go on. The designs I chose were:

• The Marauder's Map x2
• Gryffindor House Crest
• Hufflepuff House Crest
• Slytherin House Crest 
• Ravenclaw House Crest
• Hogwarts House Crest

I printed them out and laminated them which stops any heat from the bowls of food burning the table.

Spiders-Extra Touches

To make your party really stand out, why not create a trail of spiders crawling up and out of the window?

Pumpkin and Candles-Extra Touches

You can even carve a pumpkin to look like Harry Potter, to be positioned in the party room with little candles dotted about to add atmosphere! 
Extra Touches

If you add a Harry Potter book- or two-, alongside a Harry Potter newspaper (mine's homemade) with maybe a wand near a low, atmospheric lamp, it can add a little bit more sparkle! We also played Harry Potter theme music to eat along with.🎵🎶

Costumes

Why not get your guests to come dressed up, ready to go to Hogwarts? We even had a werewolf-Professor Lupin at our party!

I hope you enjoyed learning how to make your Harry Potter Party AWESOME!💁

There will be a PART 3 coming soon which will tell you how to make some Harry Potter food treats for your party!

Stay tuned for more!

Elly💬