Planning my Party

First I had to think budget!  Being a poor university student this is a big deal.  So I decided I'd rather spend my money on food and gifts than decorations.

Food

Hogwarts feast

• Roast chicken
• Roasted potatoes
• Salad
• Butter beer

Gifts

• Chocolate frogs in awesome boxes and with cards.  
• Bertie Botts every flavor bean. in the boxes  
• Wands 

Decorations
Theme: Gryffindor common room

• Gorgeous red curtains
• Gryffindor Banner
• Chess game
• Rita skitter as a bettle in a jar
• Daily prophets
• Quibbler
• Bats, simple black paper cut outs hanging from the ceiling.  

Activities

• Eat dinner
• Harry Potter Clue
• Trivia Games
• Watch a movie
• Pin the tail on the hypogryph
• Find the Horcruxes, treasure hunt
•  dueling with sparklers. 

Butter Beer

After visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Cici and her chef father decided to try to simulate the butterbeer as close as they could. Looks like they got it pretty close! Great job Cici!

Preparation Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 12-ounce bottles of Cream Soda (not diet)
• 4 1/2 teaspoons Butterscotch Sundae Topping Syrup
• 1/2 cup Reddi Whip Canned Whip Topping

Directions:

Step 1: Measure 1 1/2 teaspoons Butterscotch Topping Syrup into each of the glasses or mugs (Chilled mugs works great).

Step 2: Add a 1/4 cup of cream soda into each glass and stir with a spoon until butterscotch topping is completely mixed in with the soda. Set aside.

Step 3: For the Foam - Combine the Reddi WHip, the remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons of Butterscotch Syrup, and 1/2 tablespoon of cream soda in a small bowl. Stir until well combined.

Step 4: To Finish - Pour the remaining Cream Soda into the Glass or mug. Spoon the foam mixture slowly into the center of the glass until it reaches the sides of the glass.

You can enjoy this right away or let stand for 1-2 minutes to get the full effect and look of the WWOHP Butterbeer. ENJOY!!!

Chocolate Frog box take 2

 I cropped off the tabs and tried to even out the gold tones so that they were more uniform.  I love making the blue fade.  I think it's freaking awesome!  I hope you like it too. 

This is what I want my invitations to look like once I finally have time to print them.  I can't wait to deliver these!  

Food

Roast chicken

• 1 (3 pound) whole chicken, giblets removed
• salt and black pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon onion powder, or to taste
• 1/2 cup margarine, divided
• 1 stalk celery, leaves removed

Caramel tapioca

Bertie Botts Every Flavor beans box

Gryffindor Badge

  This is a color Gryffindor badge that I altered colors on and sharpened a bit more.

There is also a black and white version which is great to enlarge.

Plans

Make red curtains for the living room
Create a Gryffindor flag over the fireplace
make chocolate frog boxes, cards and actual frogs
Make a Lady bug/beattle for rita skeeter and put it in a jar on top of Daily prophets, with an acid green quill.
Make a Quibbler, with the actual articles in them
Find a cheese board and peices for the decor
make paper bats and cut them out and hang from ceiling
Make invitations on parchment paper.  Owl on the outside, marauders map directions and letter invi

Chocolate Frog

I spent hours searching for the perfect chocolate frog template online, and even ones you pay for aren't close to perfect.

So I got basic templates and modified them so that the colors were correct and everything else was as perfect as I require.

The hardest part was the chocolate frog card.  I used the large picture from Honey dukes with Salazar Sytherin on it and hand painted over it, several hours later voila!

I figured that I can't be the only serious harry potter fan who is searching for the chocolate frog box and chocolate frog cards.  So here are the templates completely free,  I don't think i'm violating any copy right laws, but if I am please KINDLY tell me.  Enjoy!

To make this I copied the template from http://mugglenet.tumblr.com/post/1481069049/chocolate-frog-box  then doctored the colors to make them prettier. I also then cut in the circle on the base so that the bottom wasn't some lame nutrition label.  Once I finish my chocolate frog card template I'll post that as well. Best of luck!