Brigitta's Harry Potter Birthday Party

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The up-and-coming musical from England

6-19-2010

David - Photos

Joan - Captions

Brigitta's Harry Potter Birthday Party

Brigitta, whose birthday is in December, has always wanted a outdoor summer birthday party. This year she got it. We gave Brigitta a super Harry Potter themed party. Although it was 90 degrees outside and the weather threatened thunderstorms, it never rained - which was good because we had no alternative in-house activities planned.

Platform 9 3/4

Party guests entered the house through Platform 9 3/4 - a painted "brick wall" cloth stretched across our front door.

Once inside, party guests decorated black cloaks which truthfully were too hot to wear for more than a few minutes - but they added to the whole experience.

The Sorting Hat

When their cloaks were finished, each guest had to be sorted into the individual houses. We divided them up evenly so each game we played would have an equal number of participants. Each young wizard sat on a chair, put on the Sorting Hat and chose a "wand". On the ends of the wands were stickers of the four Hogwarts houses. The stickers were put on the capes. At the end of the sorting, they opened up the wands (they were really Pixi-Stix painted black) and had a mouthful of candy magic.

Group Photos

We moved outside for the group photo. They kept the cloaks on long enough for the group pictures, but not a moment longer. In cooler weather, I had envisioned them wearing the cloaks throughout the day and earning badges to put on from every activity. As it were, each badge that was earned was still put on the cloaks that were nicely kept in a heap on the ground.

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Quidditch

One of the four Harry Potter activities was quidditch. In the Harry Potter series, Harry plays a sport where he has to fly a broom and catch a flying ball call a "golden snitch". I made a golden snitch and hung it on fishing line while David tied Svea's homemade broomstick to our Merry-Go-Totter. Someone had to push the other end of the Totter and someone had to dangle the snitch, but this proved to be one of the favorite activities for our young wizards.

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Ghost Hunt

(In the bubble tent)

The guest had to enter a screen tent full of bubbles (from our bubble pool) and find one of five Moaning Myrtle cards hanging from the ceiling in the midst of thirty five other ghost cards hanging

up.

Annika got a face full of bubbles and had to rinse out her mouth - which she found most entertaining.

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Potions

In the potions class, our young wizards had to follow a recipe, mixing several solutions together and apply them to goldenrod paper (a chemically reactive paper) to reveal hidden words. When all of the words had been revealed, and put in the correct order, they lead the guest down through the trap door to a trunk hidden in the basement library in which they found their treat bags.

Although the camera flash makes the photos look bright, the room was rather dark and the fog machine had put just a bit of smoke in the air.

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Marauder's Map

The third station was a treasure hunt based upon Harry Potter's Marauder's Map. Each group began by climbing the rock wall to get clues to the location of a treasure map piece. With the pieces, they could find the final treasure box.

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Food

After the outside activities, snacks were served inside. The porch table and another six foot table were covered with a black tablecloth and black house banners hung from the ceiling. Brigitta got to choose the table service - gold plates and plastic champagne glasses. Snacks consisted of mini hot dogs wrapped in breadsticks, cheese, crackers and salami, chips, fruit and homemade chocolate frogs.

The cake was actually four cakes of different flavors representing the four Hogwarts houses including a green mint cake for the Slytherin house.

Each wizard was able to sample some of each cake.

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Opening Gifts

We were in the backyard for the opening of the gifts because at least we had a slight breeze outside. The girls all sang a song while passing the gifts around and which ever gift was in Brigitta's hands at the end was the gift opened. A nice idea that seemed to keep all girls interested for the entire opening ceremony.

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