Luke’s Harry Potter Birthday Party

Luke was pretty excited to see me dressed up as Professor McGonagal – especially since I don’t really dress up.  They loved it.  Katie, Emily and Megan were fantastic prefects and did a great job helping with everything!

Once Luke’s friends were all here they visited Diagon Alley and got their robes, picked up a Spell book and wand at Ollivanders and headed through Platform 9 3/4 to Hogwarts.

The kids helped me make wands a couple days before the party.  We used different sized dowels and hot glue and then some craft paint that I already had.  They were pretty easy to make and the kids loved doing it.

Once in the Great Hall, the prefects brought the first years to the Sorting hat and told them their specific house – even though they were all dressed like Gryffindor.  Then the prefects taught Spells.  The boys were pretty cute practicing.

Then outside for Quidditch Practice…

It was really fun putting together the food for Luke’s Party.  When he and Matt came home from school and saw everything decorated they were beyond excited.  It was pretty fun!

The prefects added polyjuice potions (Italian soda syrup) to Sprite for the students drinks.

After opening presents our last activity was handing out Chocolate Frog Trading Cards.  It had printed out only two of each character so they were excited to trade and collect them.  It lasted longer that I thought.  So fun!!