Harry Potter Birthday Party – Early Planning

There are so many options and ideas for a theme – it is so easy to go overboard.  I focused on the first movie – The Sorcerer’s Stone and kept it very light – nothing scary.   My goal was to use props and supplies that I already had, and to buy things that could be reused for future party decorations.  I ordered most everything from Amazon, and I ordered early – knowing that mail often takes a month or more to get here, and frequently gets lost along the way. 

I organized everything by station:  Hogwarts Express, The Great Hall, Defense Against the Dark Art class, and Potions class.

I even gave Jackson his Lego gift early, so that he could put it together before the party, and we could use it as a decoration!

Harry Potter Birthday Party: Invitations

Back in December or so, I convinced Jackson to let me plan a Harry Potter birthday party for him.  He has been quite against it, but once I convinced him to watch the Sorcerer’s Stone with me, he was all in.  We agreed to have a small-ish party at the house, and we set the guest list to 8 kids total.

I started with the invitations.  Most invitations are digital these days, but I went old school and created ‘flat card’ paper invitations, with a Hogwarts wax seal for the envelopes.  I used 4 Privet Drive font for both invitation and envelope, with black ink for invitations and a green ink for the text of the envelopes.  I think they turned out marvelous!