Today we're going to be talking about one of my favorite topics...Harry Potter! If you or your kids have read the books or seen the movies chances are you know how popular Harry Potter has become...It's amazing!
I myself have read the books numerous times and I'm really looking forward to the new movies coming out soon! Plus I have some exciting news for this Halloween season!
For the first time ever, I'm offering my special Wizards School Show to the general public! This is the same program that I performed for 1000's of Harry Potter fans at event put on by Barnes Nobel Books, Walden Books, Ponderosa Restaurants, Lakewood Mall and many others!
Here is a photo from Barnes and Nobel in Danbury
As you can see it was a huge Success! Standing room only!
Here are a few of the magical effects included in this program!
· The Gryffindor Sword…The Gryffindor Sword appears suddenly in the Sorting Hat! This is just like the second book and movie!
· The Brown Bottle…Clearing the table, the magician suddenly vanishes a Brown Bottle from his table just like the third movie!
· First Year Potions Class…In a standard #2 Caldron a member of the audience mixes a quick Polyjuice Potion that turns a stuffed animal into a live dove as in several of the books!
· Transfiguration Class…Members of the audience change a live dove into a live rabbit using a transfiguration spell from the books!
· Divination Class…One member of the audience reads another audience member’s mind by gazing into a crystal ball! They won’t believe their eyes when they see this one!
· Herbology Class…The magician is completely shocked and surprised when a magical flower disobeys his commands. This is hysterical for the kids who see everything that is going on behind the magicians back!
· Advanced Charms Class…In this advanced magic class the audience attempts to float one of the audience members in the air on a ancient carpet! All I can say is that this is a very pretty piece of magic that everyone will remember.
This program will be available for private parties birthday parties and Halloween parties though the month of October! But you must contact me by Sep. 13th to book your party! To lock in your date simply send me a email with the date, time and place of your event and I will send you complete instructions How to bring this amazing program home! Send your email to: ted@bestpartymagic.com
If your going to do a Harry Potter theme you might as well go all the way with it! That's why I've included the following article below! It is filled with great ideas for your turning your home into Hogwarts for an evening!
Plan the Party
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Two to three weeks before the party begins:
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Make Wizard Maps for invitations. Round the edges of parchment paper with scissors. Write the party details to Hogwarts School (AKA your house), using invisible ink felt pens (available at the craft stores). Roll the invitation into cylinders, insert into mailing tube, along with a decoder pen, and mail to Muggles.
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Begin preparing the props, costumes, and decorations (see below).
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Party Set-Up - A few hours before the party:
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Welcome the guests with a sign at the front door that reads "Platform 9 3/4."
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Decorate your party room like the Great Hall at Hogwarts School.
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Make "snitches" by spray painting Styrofoam or rubber balls gold, then glue feathers on each side, and hang them from the ceiling.
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Cover the walls and ceiling with glow-in-the-dark stars, moons, and lightning bolts.
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Set out stuffed toy owls, broomsticks, magic wands, and potions (candy-filled bottles).
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Cover the table with a paper cloth featuring stars, moons, and lightning bolts, and add matching paper products.
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Party Time - Welcome the Wizards and Muggles:
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Ask the guests to come dressed as a Harry Potter character from the series, such as Harry, Dudley, Hermione, Ron, Draco Malfoy, or Nearly Headless Nick.
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Have costume parts ready so guests can dress up when they arrive, such as wizards, creatures, ghosts, goblins, owls, and Muggles.
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Provide the guests with wizard caps, cloaks, and magic wands.
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Give everyone Harry glasses and "tattoo" a lightning bolt on their foreheads with felt pen.
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Join Harry Potter in some Games and Activities:
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Play a version of Quidditch, Harry's favorite game, by providing the kids with a ball, some broomsticks, and a large area to play in. Divide the group into two teams, set up two goals on either side of the yard, and have the kids try to brush the ball over their own goal line.
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Have a Harry Potter Trivia Contest and ask questions based on the book - or a 'Who Said What?' game based on Harry Potter quotes.
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Have a Flavor Bean Tasting Contest. Buy a variety of jellybeans and place them in small paper cups covered with foil so they aren't visible. Pass one cup around at a time and have each player taste a jellybean without looking at it. Players must try to identify the flavors.
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Make Potter's Magic Potion by combining 2 cups white glue and 1 1/2 cups water together. Add a few drops of food coloring. In a separate container, dissolve 2 teaspoons borax in 2/3 cup warm water and mix well. Mix the borax and glue solutions together, and let the kids watch what happens to the mixture. Pass out handfuls and let the wizards work their magic. Wear smocks for this activity - it's messy, but fun!
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Let the kids create their own Wizard Capes and Magician Caps. For capes, cut length of inexpensive silky lining fabric and let the kids decorate it with felt-tip pens, glue-on glitter, and decals in the shape of stars, moons, and lightning bolts. For caps, give them lengths of felt, cut into rectangles. Fold the felt into a cone shape, staple it closed, trim off a straight edge, and decorate with glue-on sequins, glitter, puffy paints, and decals.
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Serve Cauldrons of Snacks and Wash them down with Magic Potions:
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Buy a plastic cauldron or use a black pot for serving the food. Fill it with soup, macaroni and cheese, or beef stew.
Serve "magic potions" in plastic goblets. Offer multicolored drinks - red, blue, green, orange - for added fun. Called them Rum-Runners.
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Offer the guests a variety of Harry Potter snacks and treats - Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans (assorted jelly beans), Fizzing Whizbees Levitating Sherbet Balls (green and orange sherbet balls), Droobles Best Blowing Gum (blue gum), Creepy Chocolates (in the shape of frogs, bats, and rats), and Peppermint Humbugs (peppermint candies.)
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Make Harry Potter cookies using a Harry Potter shaped cookie cutter.
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Provide Harry Potter desserts, such as apple pie, trifle, jam donuts
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Say Good-Byes with Hogwarts Gift Bags:
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Give the kids magic wands, jellybeans, wizard caps and capes, copies of Harry Potter books or tapes, Harry glasses, and press-on tattoos.
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Place them in small fabric bags tied with ribbon or velvet cords.
About the Author
Carol Selva
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Don't forget! The Deadline to bring the Wizard School program to your castle is Sept. 13th! So send your owl via email to reserve your date!
