Harry Potter Birthday Party Invitations

Adelle decided she wanted a Harry Potter Birthday Party this year for her and her friends. We were all pretty excited about the idea. Wes has been reading Harry Potter to the girls every night and they are almost finished with the entire series. Each time they finish a book in the series they then watch the movie that corresponds with the book. Needless to say, there has been a lot of Harry Potter around here. Wes decided to make the invitations look like the Hogwarts acceptance letter in the book and movie. The lettering was green. Adelle's read "Ms. Adelle Oates..Room in the Basement" and then our address. Most of the kids she invited were from her class so they said "Desk in Mrs Yates class". I don't think it was the best idea to deliver the invitations at school, but we didn't have any of the kids addresses. Adelle is in an advanced reading class that has kids from all over the valley. Some kids were disappointed they didn't get invitations (our house is only so big). Adelle even got punched in the stomach by some dumb kid. Anyway, lessons learned. Back to the invitations. Wes used sculpey to make a Hogwarts H to use as a stamp. The hard part was finding material to use for the seal. Candle wax is too brittle. We didn't want to go pay for real sealing wax, so we ended up melting crayons and dripping it onto the envelope. We then covered the seal with sparkly nail polish to try and help it stay together better. Honestly, this part probably took way too much time, but the end effect was pretty neat.

Instead of just printing out a map on map quest Wes decided to make the invitation map look like the Marauder's Map. It looked pretty neat.

The actual invitation had McGonagall's signature from the book. Wes scanned it so he could include it in the letter. It said they were invited to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a special party. It said that the School was disguised as a muggle house and then gave our address. Wes even included an equipment list. The kids had to bring a smock or apron, their very own wand, and informed the students they would be receiving a book of spells at the party.

We were very pleased with the end result. This was just the beginning of the madness yet to come :)