Talmage's Harry Potter party

We had been planning out for weeks what to do for Talmage's party. I had gone online and seen the most outrageous fun ideas for things to do at the party. Some seemed way too much for 6 year olds. Unfortunatly, as the party day appoached Talamge was sick. And wasn't getting better fast enough with his fever for me. So we postponed from a Friday night to a Wednesday night. And actually it worked out great. Lots of kids that wouldn't have been able to come that night could come on Wednesday. (keep that note to self)
We had told to kids to come dressed as their favorite Harry Potter character or muggle. I had gone online and downloaded some Harry Potter fonts to make signs for around the house. And I downloaded each of the Hogwarts house symbols, printed, cut them out, glued them to colored foam and then hung them like banners.
We had different areas for different places. Ollivander is the wand man. Talmage & I spent a couple of days making wands for the kids out of square wood dowls, that we wrapped the ends with pipe cleaners and then decorated the rest with markers and glitter glue. They turned out awesome!!
We had signs for different classes and areas like Potions, Care of Magical Creatures where we made spiders that looked like ants, the Mirror of Erised, Honeydukes Sweet Shoppe. It looked really cool.
































We dressed Garrett as Draco Malfoy. He looked perfect.



Talmage was Harry, and Ammon was Ron. Talmage wouldn't let me take his picture, but he's going to be Harry for Halloween, so I'll get him then.














The kids arrived, some dressed as wizards, some just as muggles, but they all looked great.

We had pizza, opened presents, played a wand/fortune telling game, then had cake which I made. I made a Firebolt broom. The handle was cocoa krispies, and then the end was black licorice. It turned out pretty good I think.

Talmage & Emery (aren't they cute?)










Talmage & Ally











Talmage & Josh











Talmage & Easton

Talmage & Lindsay (she wants to marry Talmage in the temple)



Talmage & Logan

















Talmage & his best friend Zane








The kids really had alot of fun. Honeydukes was probably the favorite place of the night. I had made melt aways cookies with mini chocolate chips, Funky Fudge, Chocolate dipped pretzel wands, plus we had lemon drops, pumpkin melt aways, jelly beans, and gum coins. Lindsay said it was the bet party she'd ever been too. Boy I have a lot to live up to for next year!!