My best friend and I are great fans of harry potter and she was coming over for a sleepover soon and I had to get ready a party and tidy my room in 3 days! Bit by bit I came up with a smasher of a plan, then while looking for extra ideas, I ran across this site. And naturally, as I had decided I had a winner of some kind here, I took part. I don't know whether this will turn out alright for you, but if you want to try, read on. First things you have to do: 1) Check with your mum/dad that it's okay that you even have a party. 2) Tidy your room or wherever the party will be held. 3) Make a time table of things to do and when they will all happen. 2) Make a map of your house and your backyard/garden and label the places differently. E.G.-  Your backyard/garden is the hogwarts grounds or the black lake. Invites Note: Don't forget to write on the invite that everyone gets 20 house points to start off with. Make sure all guests understand what house points actually are. Idea number 1: Invite friends to Hogwarts with an official looking invitation in a large, handmade envelope with red wax seal. Write your invitation on white paper with gold/silver ink, stain with a cooled coffee or tea mixture, and roll up when dry. Tie with red ribbon or seal with red wax. To make this look even fancier, get your parent to mark a H for Hogwarts. Idea number 2:   Print some Hogwarts house ties and use them as invitations - or cut them out and send them as they are in a big envelope, with instructions your party guests to colour them in in their favourite house's colours and wear them to the party! Idea number 3:   If you have a colour printer, then great. If not, don't worry you can still create the invites. If you don't have a printer at all, ask at school and find someone who has. Anyway, we created letters by doing this: We put the hogwarts crest/badge at the top of the page on the right-hand corner were the address goes on muggle letters. You can find this in images on goggle if you type in 'hogwarts badge'. For anyone who doesn't know what that looks like, here is a image. We used different fonts on the computer for the invite. You may like a couple of the recommended fonts that my pal and I have listed below. If you don't explore on your own and find something you do like.  Harry Potter Parties- BlackChancery. Harry Potter Parties- Bradley Hand ITC. Harry Potter Parties- Brushwood. Harry Potter Parties- Brush Script MT. Harry Potter Parties- Chablis. Harry Potter Parties- Concerto. Harry Potter Parties- Fixedsys. Harry Potter Parties- Freestyle script. Harry Potter Parties- Gautami. Harry Potter Parties- Geometer. Harry Potter Parties- Gospel.  Harry Potter Parties- MarkingPen-Thin. Harry Potter Parties- MarkingPenHeavy. Soooo, those were just a few of our favourite fonts. On some laptops you can't get some of the fonts but of other you'll find you do. In this case, just use some of your own fonts on your own laptop or computer.  House points idea: If you do something really well, a teacher (an adult) will award you 1, 5, 10, 20 or 50 house points. But beware! You can lose house points to. In each game, there is a note of house points and how many you should get. Adult roles in the party: If you have a mum and a dad, to could be a idea to make your mum dress up as Minerva McGonagall and your dad as snape! Party Food Strawberry acid pop drinks All you need is strawberry's and fizzy strawberry drink. Cut the strawberry's up into little bits and tip into a glass, poor a reasonable amount of fizzy strawberry drink into the glass to and dilute. To make this into a desert, simply add some strawberry ice cream! OOOhh YUM!  Spark Wands  This is easy! All they are is breadsticks. The breadsticks are the wands, and if you want your 'wands' to shoot 'sparks' then get ones with seeds on them. Crumpet Faces  If you like crumpets, and you like pizzas you and your guests will be simply dieing to get to one on these delicious things. Bless God for these crumpet faces. What you need to do: 1) Get 2 Crumpets and cover with cheese olive oil tomatoes and olives if you like them. Make into faces or throw on. 2) Heat in your oven for about 10 mins. 3) Eat and enjoy! WARNING: Don't put them in the toaster, this could set the house on fire!   Harry Potter Party food is really easy to come up with. Just think of a food or drink you and your guests would like and come up with a creative harry potter name for it. Easy or what?  Harry Potter Games Astrology Simply Print and Cut out the following planets. Each student at hogwarts has 10 mins to find all nine planets hidden around the house. If you do manage to find them all in that time, you will be awarded 10 house points, but if you don't, well, you lose 10 house points. Here is a Hyperlink to a web page were you can print out the planets names and a image. http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112540/images/JPEG/allplanets.jpg just press the button that says Ctrl on it on the bottom left while holding down the mouse button on the hyperlink. Create your own spell!  This game is bound to be a bbbiiiggg hit. You need to Refer to any good Latin dictionary (online or a book) and give the students a list of Latin nouns and verbs, which they can combine into their own spells. Use Latin because it sounds good for spells and even JK Rowling used that language for her spells you see 'Lumos' means Light in Latin. Let them practice by having Wizard Duels with each other. Use glow sticks as wands as these give off light so are perfect. E.G.-If you said 'locus' to someone, they would have measles!  Spots-macula, locus, punctum  Curse-vomica, pestis, maledictio, pestis pestis, exsecror, devoveo, deprecor  ect.  Race to dinner! This little game is good fun. Create a course around your house to get to your dinner. But, everyone can shot a spell, although the spells are restricted to Stunning spells and Disarming spells. If you are hit by a Stunning Spell, then you have to stay still for 5 secs. If you are hit by a Disarming spell, your not allowed to shoot a spell at anyone for 5 secs. But... your not allowed to shot a spell unless you have count 2 secs from the last spell you shot. This is a bit complicated so practice this game before your party or everything could end in chaos!  Harry Potter board games If you child is a great fan of harry potter then you should also have some great harry potter board games to. A few great harry potter board games that we just loved were : Harry Potter Cluedo, Harry Potter DVD Scene it, Diagon Alley Harry Potter and Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit. If you haven't got any of these fabby games, just go to Amazon.co.uk: low prices in Electronics, Books, Music, DVDs & more or Play.com (UK): DVDs, Music CDs, MP3s, Video Games, Books ... or last eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace for a price that suits you. DECORATIONS You don't really need decorations to have a great harry potter party and I can prove it because we didn't have any but we still had a great time together. But if your party is themed on a particular harry potter thing (ours wasn't) I suppose you need them. If I did decorations then the first thing I would do is get a giant harry potter poster. Posters are normal and not that fancy, but there easy to make. Just make a collection of harry potter bits and pieces that you have that are flat and relatively small. Now arrange them on a piece of A3 paper and stuck on when you are satisfied. In hogwarts they have house hangings, so why not try and make them to. Use a old sheet, cut to the right size and paint or draw the house that you have picked symbols on it. E.G.-  Gryffindor: Red and Gold with a Griffin. (Lots of people say it's a Lion but JK Rowling states clearly in the first book that it is a Griffin.  Activates Owl Message: This cute little message is a great activity as you could then send your note to Daniel Radcliff who plays harry potter. Or... even better any other of the cast as I have the address's! To print out the owl message click here: http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/noline/nlowl.shtml and to see the casts address's click here: http://www.mugglenet.com/movies/movie1/actoraddresses.shtml  Potter Puzzles  http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/Harry%20Potter%20Spells.pdf Test your knowledge of Harry Potter spells. Whoever finishes first wins 20 house points because it's hard. WARNING: No referring to any books or the internet , or you will lose 20 house points! I wouldn't do it... http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/Harry%20Potter%20And%20The%20Half-Blood%20Prince.pdf Test you knowledge of the book, Harry Potter and the half-blood prince on this word search. Whoever finishes first wins 10 house points. WARNING: No referring to any books or the internet, or you will lose 30 house points! I wouldn't do it... Cake We didn't have a cake, but you can. Maybe you could buy little harry potter figures you know and stick them in the cake... Favors I'm so sorry, but I don't know what favors are. Soooo... I hope your party goes okay and your guests love it. Bye!