Felicitys Harry Potter Birthday

The plan:
Felicity is turning 11 this year so everything in her party will be about preparing to
attend Hogwarts and actually arriving at the schools great hall. The birthday will
have 3 main areas: the entry/living room which will serve as Diagon Alley, the family
room which will serve as both Hogsmeade village/activities area, and the Garage
which will be decorated as the Great Hall.

To-dos

Make a guest list

Create/Send out invitations
Decide on a menu
Plan activities
Plan decorations
Create stations
Shop for supplies
Clean/decorate house and garage

Stations
Plus: Will or has potential of earning money and guest can participate as often as
they like.
Plus-1: Will earn the guest money, but they can only participate once.
Minus: Will cost money but they can participate as many times as they wish.
Minus-1: will cost money and they can only participate in this activity once.
Not marked means that it will not cost or earn the guest money

Area one: Diagon Alley

Station
1. Diagon
Alley
Entrance

Description
This is the entrance to
the house/living
room/area1

To make
Out of foam
board, create the
brick entrance to
the alley using
markers and

Supplies
- foam board
x4
-x-acto knife
-markers
-mounting

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Set up
Attach to
sides of
door
using
mountin
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xacto knife

tape

g tape

Small
table
with
black
cloth and
someone
to man
the
table____
.
Set up
an area
with the
laptop
and with
the jar.

2. Gringotts
Bank
Station[plu
s-1]

This will be the first

station that will meet
guest. They will sign
the guest book here
and receive a money
bag.

Coins, money
pouch, and guest
book.

-See Post for

coins and
pouch
-? Guest
book

3. Sorting
Quiz [plus1]

This station will be a

laptop with a sorting
quiz for guest to take.
They will not get to
see their results until
the Great Hall. For the
smaller children we
will have simple
questions pulled out of
a jar to determine
their house. AGAIN, it
will not be announced
until the Feast at the
Great Hall
Each guest will
purchase a wand. They
will get blind folded
and reach out for the
wands set up at the
station.
Shopping for quills
station- each guest will
be able to shop for a
feather will and
practice writing with it.

Make print outs of

the simple
questions for
small kids

Laptop,
paper and
pen

Create wands,
decorate the
station

See post
Blind fold

Set up
area with
bind
folds and
wands

Create quills

Ink
Feathers
Knife
cards

Set up
this area
in the
area
between
the
family
room
and
living
room

4.
Olivanders
[minus-1]

5. Quill
[minus-1]

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6. Diagon
Alley Photo
booth (if
they want
an instant
photo it will
be a Minus1,
otherwise it
will not
matter)
7. Hat
booth[minu
s-1]

8. Spell
Book[minus
-1]
9. Pin the
Scar on HP
[minus to
play, plus
for winner]

With Hogwarts theme

ties, hats, and
cauldrons, there will
be an area for
pictures. This will be
the equivalent of
shopping for a
cauldron and uniforms.

Create this dress

up are with foam
board and a
treasure box of
items

Foam board

On the
right
corner of
the living
room.

As part of the
Hogwarts uniform,
each student will be
required to purchase a
hat, which they can
decorate if they will.
Guest can purchase a
spell book which will
come in useful later.
Like pin the tail on the
donkey

Create hats out of

foam or paper

Embellishme
nts

On a
table

Create spell books

Paper , pc,
and printer

On a
table

Create or
download a
version of this
game

Where
the black
table
currently
sits

Area Two: 9 3/4/Hogwarts Express/ Hogsmeade

village/classes
Station
1. Entrance
to platform
9

Descriptions
Guest will travel
though platform 9 to
stimulate the entrance
to the
train/Hogwarts/hogsme
ade area of Harry
Potter

2. Flo
powder
Station[min
us-1]

Guest get to create a

necklace filled with
floo powder

To Make
Curtains painted
in a brick color.

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To Buy
Red
curtains
Tension rod
or thumb
tracks

Glitter,
bottles,
necklace
rope

Set-up
Using a
tension
rod,
hang the
curtains
in the
entrance
to fam.
Room
Table
station

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3. Wanted
poster-photo
booth

Photo booth of a
wanted death eater

Create the poster

4.Wanted: A
Dueling
Game
[minus/plus]

Guest will participate

in the wanted game
with their wands, spell
books, and rules. It will
be very much like rock
paper scissors. They
can earn a reward for
catching the bad
guys
Un fogging the future
by professor Trelawney
Piata of dementor,
with a wand for a
stick this will happen
outside, but will be
showcased in this area
until activity begins

Create rules,
wanted printouts

5. Divination
Class
6. Dementor
Attack

Foam board

Glass ball &

costume
Create dementor
& wand

Hang
with fish
line in
front of
clock in
area #2
have
Robert
man this
station

candy

Area 3: Hogwarts Great Hall

Station
1-4. House
Tables

5. the
Sorting Hat

Description
Decorate four tables to
look like the house
tables; food will be
potluck style, so they
will be on the tables
for self serve
Guest will finally get to
find out which house
they belong in. As they
enter

6.
Herbology
Class

This station will be the

cupcake station in the
form of mandrakes

7. HP Movie
loop

We will be playing HP
movies on a loop to

To make
Food:

Create hat, and

have ties ready for
them according to
their color of
house
Make cupcakes
make bby
mandrakes from
figures or molds

To buy

Set up

Get
speaker

Buy little
figures
Planting
pots

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Projector
& screen
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8. Weasleys
wizard
wheezes
and the 3
broomstick
s [minus]

add to the scene

This section will have
replicas of the goodies
found at these places
in the book. They will
be for sale

Create replicas&
labels:
Chocolate frogs
All flavor beans
Pumpkin juice

DCOR
Area 1:

Each station will be decorated

Balloons and streamers on empty spaces in the colors of the houses

Area 2:

Grindylows on the ceiling fan

Wanted posters of Felicity

Area 3:

The shield of Hogwarts super sized x2 out of foam board

Floating candles
House shield

Throughout the house:

Moaning Myrtle in the Bathroom Toilet

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