Harry Potter Parties

The atmosphere of magic and wizardry is perfectly recreated at the stylized Harry Potter-themed party. A lot of effort should be made to prepare and conduct such a holiday, since the main task of the event involves not only an appetizing treat and a standard entertainment program, but also a real transgression of party guests from real space into the world of sorcerers and sorcerers.

You can celebrate a holiday in the theme of a young wizard at home or in any other place, and the site for the event should be selected taking into account the number of guests and the need to divide the space into some thematic zones. The party can be arranged in an apartment, in the country, as well as in a cafe or outdoors. Be sure to consider the age of your audience. So, for a children's party, light and spacious rooms are suitable, where images of monsters cannot scare them. And older guests can be invited to the "scary dungeons".

The most important and crucial stage in the preparation of the party is the decor of the room in which the event will take place. The home hall can be decorated in the style of the Gryffindor living room or the Great Hall of Hogwarts. Barely crossing the threshold of the house, guests should plunge into the atmosphere of witchcraft and magic. Walking through the 9 3⁄4 platform is a great solution. As a brick wall, you can use the most common curtain with a corresponding structural pattern.

To create the atmosphere of Hogwarts, you need to hang candles from the ceiling of the living room. They should hang vertically, as if floating in zero gravity. Scattered balls of blue, yellow, burgundy and green shades in accordance with the main colors of the faculties of the secret school will look very impressive. The walls are usually decorated with themed posters calling for the release of house elves, voluminous chant letters, images of unicorns and centaurs, a map of Diagon Alley, and photographs of the world's most famous wizards. Any tantamareski based on the plot of the epic look interesting.

In the entourage of the room, there must certainly be magical decorations. These can be old parchments, a luminous fortune-telling ball and, of course, ghosts. They can be made from balls with a stretched gauze cloth.

It is necessary to place all kinds of jars, bottles and other containers filled with multi-colored liquid on the bookshelves. To make a potion with worms and blood, you can fill a bottle with scarlet liquid with the addition of boiled spaghetti. For a potion with dragon claws, a green liquid with almond slices and algae is suitable - your imagination is not limited here. The gray cobweb and garlands made of bats look very impressive in the corners. Stuffed animals are welcome in the decor.

Themed signs should be hung on the doors of the room. For example, designate the living room as "Great Hall", the toilet - "Help-room", the kitchen will become the "Potions Room", and the exit from the premises - "Forbidden Forest". Be sure to put real brooms in the corner, and the most beautiful of them will be the Nimbus. No young wizard-themed party is complete without the Sorting Hat.

It is necessary to prepare for the celebration in advance not only by the organizers of the holiday themselves, but also to prepare their guests for it.... A few days before the event, all friends need to be presented with invitations with information about the time and place of the holiday. If you are unable to give the invitation in person, you can use modern means of communication - e-mail or instant messengers. The easiest way is to use ready-made automatic templates - they can always be downloaded from the Internet. They will surely become a good memento for guests.

A good idea would be to design invitations in the form of a ticket to the Hogwarts Express. As you know, this is the only vehicle that delivers students to a closed school. To make them, you will need white sheets of paper, as well as multi-colored felt-tip pens. It is advisable to soak the paper in coffee or strong tea leaves and scorch the edges - so they will look more ancient and mysterious.

It is better to write the text by hand or use a computer literary program. The text may be something like this: “Boys and girls are to arrive on Sunday at 8 pm at the School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft, located at X. We will meet you at platform 9 3⁄4. Password: "I swear that I am plotting a Prank and only a Prank." Another interesting option for invitations is letters in the style of those that owls bring to young magicians when they enroll in school. You will need colored paper, a colored pen, a Hogwarts envelope, wax or sealing wax, and a red ribbon.

Write an invitation on paper: “The Headmaster of Hogwarts informs you about your enrollment in the School of Witchcraft. Be sure to have a magic wand with you, as well as a cheerful mood. A magical dress code is provided. " At the entrance, guests with invitations can be greeted by a Fat Lady, who only lets in those students who say the password. At the same time, the lady gives each guest a wand, as well as a mantle and other magical attributes that will be useful to him in the future celebration.

All participants in the event at the entrance should be given a sorcerous name, to which they will have to respond throughout the evening. Let the hero of the occasion be Hermione or Harry Potter, and his friend Ronald Weasley. Don't forget heroes like Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom, Severus Snow and Albus Dumbledore. A married couple can portray Mr. and Mrs. Weasleys or Tonks and Lupine.

So that guests do not get confused in names, each party participant needs to be given a badge indicating his magic name. Any party member who responds to his real name should be fined. It could be tasting chocolates with different flavors. If such a treat is not at hand, you can subject the participant to the Imperius spell. During this test, the offending guest will have to follow instructions, such as crowing three times or riding a broomstick around the room.

The dress code for the Harry Potter party is very simple. It is difficult to imagine magicians without a magic wand, a book of spells and a mantle. All basic attributes can be made independently or purchased in specialized stores. Event organizers should prepare robes, scarves and colorful ties in advance.

At a magical holiday party, everything should be fabulous, including the food on offer. A gala dinner at Hogwarts should include fish canapes, cheese platters, and cheese sticks. In films about wizards, baked potatoes and meat pies are often mentioned. For dessert, it is better to offer pumpkin cookies, marmalade, as well as sweets in the form of bats and spiders.

Particular attention should be paid to drinks. Guests will enjoy lemonade, juice and pumpkin juice. The best choice for cocktails is a strawberry drink. It is very simple to prepare it - just chop the strawberries and cover with sparkling water.

Guests should also be offered butter beer. This is one of the most referenced drinks in the book. You will need the following ingredients:

• milk - 1 l;
• ice cream - 500 g;
• caramel - 40-50 ml.

All components are whipped in a blender and poured into glasses. You can't celebrate a holiday without a cake, especially a birthday. Such a treat is made either independently or by professional pastry chefs, but always in the appropriate theme.

The scenario of the holiday should include a game program, intellectual contests and gifts for the party participants. Let's look at some interesting ideas.

The very first entertainment will be the distribution of faculties. For this, a hat is placed in the center of the room, leaves with the names of faculties are placed in it. Each participant must get one piece of paper. Based on the results, it will become clear to which of the four faculties each party participant will belong.

This game is a modification of the popular Crocodile entertainment. Since all the participants in the party have already been assigned, one representative is chosen from each faculty, who should represent the conceived personality of the fairy world, an animal or a piece of furniture.

As planned, in order to go to the holiday, you need to find out the password. It is reported, for example, to the Fat Lady at the entrance. During the game, the participants take turns asking her questions, to which the lady can only answer "Yes" or "No". Communication might look like this:

- This animal?

- No.

- Is that a man?

- No.

- Is it an item?

- Yes.

"Does it belong to the Muggles?"

- Yes.

The questioning can continue until one of the participants unravels the word.

You will need a dragon poster for this game. Party participants are given improvised spears with plasticine tips. The competitors are blindfolded with a kerchief and untwisted. Then each player must try to hit the monster with a spear right in the eye.

If there is a lot of free space, you can play a sports game. This will require at least 4-5 players. Each is handed a broomstick. The player's task is to cover the distance as quickly as possible. Complicating the task can be dementors plying the entire trajectory of the race and trying to intimidate them. Perhaps the most interesting entertainment can be a quest, where the participants have to look for the Philosopher's Stone or Horcrux. The bottom line is to gradually unravel the clues. Having solved one puzzle, the participants will be able to find out where the next one is. Thus, you need to go the way until the moment you find the item you are looking for.

Suggestions should be tailored according to the age and interests of the players. It is recommended to take 7 to 19 steps, but children 6-10 years old should not have too many of them. For adult guests, there should be as many tips as possible.

If you do not have enough time and imagination to make your own unique adventure search, then you can purchase a ready-made quest set on specialized portals. The soundtracks for all parts of the film will be very useful at the celebration based on Harry Potter, and the audio will be complemented by the compositions of the teams The Parselmouths and Swish and Flick, which became famous just for the performance of music about this wizard.

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