Harry Potter Party

Maya chose to have a Harry Potter party to celebrate her birthday. She has loved Harry ever since we started the first book two years ago. She is now on book 4 on her second time reading the series and she (plus Josh and I) are all counting down to the final movie this July which we will see at the midnight session.

The good thing about Ethan and Kate both having HP parties last year is that we got to use lots of their costumes and ideas! Maya (dressed as Hermione) was, of course, Gryffindor. We only sorted people into Gryffindor and Ravenclaw houses and everyone except Maya was sorted randomly.

My favourite class of the day was Potions. I didn't come up with any wizardy names for the potions/experiments that we did but they were still fun! This is called Elephant's Toothpaste. The ingredients made a foam that came oozing out of our bottles.

Another potion we made is called Tie-dyed Milk. You put a drop of different food colorings into milk and then add a couple of drops of soap. It is fun to see what happens after adding the soap. If you have never done this you should try it with your kids.

All of the kids loved the "stupefy" game we played. It was a game of musical statues - when the music stopped they were all stupefied (frozen) which generally involved falling dramatically to the ground.

I love Ron and Harry dancing together in this photo.

And Hermione dancing with her Gryffindor house mate here.

We loved Corinne's idea of having a car pinata so we did one too. The kids got to be the womping willow and the car didn't stand a chance.

 

This reaction is from the David Archuleta CD from Ethan, Joshua, Sam and James.

A cauldron full of butter beer.

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

The snitch birthday cake was a little sad. Maya wanted a lamington snitch cake and I had a few challenges. The first was when Lucy ate the cake as it cooled, obviously too close to the edge of the breakfast bar. Luckily I had bought an extra mix. The finished product was dry and not very lamington-like. At least there was other yummy food for the kids to enjoy.

At the end of the day Sam and I enjoyed a cuddle.