Hogwarts Spell Stations
This is my third and final Eleventh Harry Potter Birthday Party. *sniff* I had a high standard to live up to. I feel like I need aspecial little elixer to make it all work but barring that I would love your opinions. Thanks!
Thomas's Eleventh Birthday with Hogwarts Spell Stations
Headmaster:
Mama
Students:
Zack, Matt, Caydan, Thomas
Head Girls/Prefects:
Vi-Vi (Zack), Sydney Li (Thomas), Camille (Cayden), Kate (Matt)
1. Sort into houses, explain I award house points but observing Prefects may comment on opposing teams who seem to have earned rewards/disciplines
2. Wingardium Leviosa (Flying lessons): Two balloons are taped to two straws which are strung between two chairs, respectively. When inflated the balloons display hand drawn broom riders! The balloons are inflated and released simultaneously so that the straws will wiz down the string. The rider to get to the end first, or travel the farthest as the case may be, is the winner. We have four houses so the two winners will face off for race champion!
3. Bombarda (Quid ditch Practice): This is a golf ball toss game in which two golf balls are attached to the end of a short piece of rope. The balls are thrown at a square hoop so that the balls either travel pass or wrap around the hoop. The top hoop is worth more points than the bottom loop. The house with the most points wins.
4. Immobulous/Petrificus Totalus (Freeze tag): One house is it and they are in charge of tagging other houses. They must yell one of the two spells to freeze the player in place. Another house can unfreeze you. If all houses are frozen the last person tagged becomes it. The house which remains unfrozen the longest wins.
5. Wingardium Leviosa (DA Lessons): We have taken four pool noodles in the house colors and duct taped them into a square hoop toss. This is hung from the porch to give height. Death Eater Masks have been hung inside each hoop for target practice. Houses must toss a football through the hoop while calling out the spell. Bonus points for getting it through your own house color.
6. Accio (DA Lessons): Like egg toss, two houses face each other and toss a water balloon back and forth between them making the gap increasingly bigger with each toss. To signal you are ready to catch the balloon you must yell Accio Water balloon! The houses that get the farthest away before exploding win. The two winning houses face off for champion.
7. Bombarda (Death Eater Skirmishes): Water balloons are hidden Easter egg style throughout back yard, waiting to be found and used against other houses. The driest house wins.
At this point the boys are tired and need a break so we eat dinner, outside since they are all wet now. During the meal I quiz them for bonus House points, simple trivia and spells used during the party so you don’t have to be a devoted fan to win some points!
8. Stupefy/avada cadavra (Final Battle): We have a very nice set of Laser Tag so the boys face off in the Final Battle around our front and back yard while prepare the birthday cake and House Awards.
9. Announce and Award house points, lowest to highest like Dumbledore. Then the boys play Harry Potter video games and eat cake until 8pm.
10. The sleep over portion begins at 8pm and last until 10 am the next morning. This gives us only enough time to play the entire Harry Potter Movie Marathon if someone promises to man the DVD continuously. If this person should fall asleep on duty, chaos.
Extras:
Lumos: glow sticks in the shape of Horcruxes (Diary, Ring, Necklace, Cup, Crown, and Snake) have been hidden in the sleeping bags
House cups: small plastic trophies full of house color gushers
Dinner: green Hawaiian punch, soft pretzels, nacho bar- chips, cheese, ground meat (there is not theme here, just his favorite foods *shrugs*)
Cake/ice cream: individual cauldron cakes - spiral hoho's cut into 1/2 in thick slices line a bowl and then the bowl is filled with ice cream and frozen solid again. Before serving the cake is removed from the bowls so it stands alone with the swirl pattern on display. Then it is topped with green or blue cotton candy and sprinkled with pop rocks.
Snacks: trail mix potion- gummy worms, cheese puffs, Reeses, skittles, pretzels (gross, right?)
Breakfast: Quaffle waffles (actually they are smores pancakes but doesn’t that sound cuter?)
Thomas's Eleventh Birthday with Hogwarts Spell Stations
Headmaster:
Mama
Students:
Zack, Matt, Caydan, Thomas
Head Girls/Prefects:
Vi-Vi (Zack), Sydney Li (Thomas), Camille (Cayden), Kate (Matt)
1. Sort into houses, explain I award house points but observing Prefects may comment on opposing teams who seem to have earned rewards/disciplines
2. Wingardium Leviosa (Flying lessons): Two balloons are taped to two straws which are strung between two chairs, respectively. When inflated the balloons display hand drawn broom riders! The balloons are inflated and released simultaneously so that the straws will wiz down the string. The rider to get to the end first, or travel the farthest as the case may be, is the winner. We have four houses so the two winners will face off for race champion!
3. Bombarda (Quid ditch Practice): This is a golf ball toss game in which two golf balls are attached to the end of a short piece of rope. The balls are thrown at a square hoop so that the balls either travel pass or wrap around the hoop. The top hoop is worth more points than the bottom loop. The house with the most points wins.
4. Immobulous/Petrificus Totalus (Freeze tag): One house is it and they are in charge of tagging other houses. They must yell one of the two spells to freeze the player in place. Another house can unfreeze you. If all houses are frozen the last person tagged becomes it. The house which remains unfrozen the longest wins.
5. Wingardium Leviosa (DA Lessons): We have taken four pool noodles in the house colors and duct taped them into a square hoop toss. This is hung from the porch to give height. Death Eater Masks have been hung inside each hoop for target practice. Houses must toss a football through the hoop while calling out the spell. Bonus points for getting it through your own house color.
6. Accio (DA Lessons): Like egg toss, two houses face each other and toss a water balloon back and forth between them making the gap increasingly bigger with each toss. To signal you are ready to catch the balloon you must yell Accio Water balloon! The houses that get the farthest away before exploding win. The two winning houses face off for champion.
7. Bombarda (Death Eater Skirmishes): Water balloons are hidden Easter egg style throughout back yard, waiting to be found and used against other houses. The driest house wins.
At this point the boys are tired and need a break so we eat dinner, outside since they are all wet now. During the meal I quiz them for bonus House points, simple trivia and spells used during the party so you don’t have to be a devoted fan to win some points!
8. Stupefy/avada cadavra (Final Battle): We have a very nice set of Laser Tag so the boys face off in the Final Battle around our front and back yard while prepare the birthday cake and House Awards.
9. Announce and Award house points, lowest to highest like Dumbledore. Then the boys play Harry Potter video games and eat cake until 8pm.
10. The sleep over portion begins at 8pm and last until 10 am the next morning. This gives us only enough time to play the entire Harry Potter Movie Marathon if someone promises to man the DVD continuously. If this person should fall asleep on duty, chaos.
Extras:
Lumos: glow sticks in the shape of Horcruxes (Diary, Ring, Necklace, Cup, Crown, and Snake) have been hidden in the sleeping bags
House cups: small plastic trophies full of house color gushers
Dinner: green Hawaiian punch, soft pretzels, nacho bar- chips, cheese, ground meat (there is not theme here, just his favorite foods *shrugs*)
Cake/ice cream: individual cauldron cakes - spiral hoho's cut into 1/2 in thick slices line a bowl and then the bowl is filled with ice cream and frozen solid again. Before serving the cake is removed from the bowls so it stands alone with the swirl pattern on display. Then it is topped with green or blue cotton candy and sprinkled with pop rocks.
Snacks: trail mix potion- gummy worms, cheese puffs, Reeses, skittles, pretzels (gross, right?)
Breakfast: Quaffle waffles (actually they are smores pancakes but doesn’t that sound cuter?)