Harry Potter Party Decorations and Dinner Ideas

Every Harry Potter Party needs the proper decorations.  

Half the fun is figuring out how to bring the Harry Potter world into your party.

I had so much fun decorating my home for our party that it's hard to share all of my ideas in one place.  

Click here to find a link to the rest of of my Harry Potter Ideas.   

Here is a list of what you will find in this post:

A Honeydukes Treat Station

Honeydukes Treat Boxes

Hogwarts House Point Tracker Containers

Butterbeer Puffcorn and Candy Cauldrons

Honeydukes Treat Bag

Weasley's Wizard Wheezes Party Favor Link

Bertie Botts Every Flavor Bean Boxes

Potions Drink Station Printable

Hot Butterbeer Recipe Link

Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Sign Printable

Hogwarts House Flags Printables

Wand Tutorial Link

Dining Table Decorating Ideas

Harry Potter Cracker Party Favor Link

Harry Potter Etched Butterbeer Mugs Link

English Dinner Menu

Dementor's Chocolate Trifle Recipe

Hogwart's Express Diorama Link

 Printable Harry Potter Banner Link

Harry Potter Christmas Tree Link

"Have You Seen This Wizard?" Posters

Hogwart's Bathroom Ideas

Dobbie's Feet Link

Harry Potter Wizarding Games Link

Harry Potter Trivia Game Link

Harry Potter Bingo Link
Fifty More Harry Potter Ideas Link

Honeydukes Treat Station

I have this cute little buffet that I inherited from a grandma and it made the perfect Honeyduke's Party Favor Station.

I added the Honeydukes fringe along the bottom of the top shelf.

Here is a printout that you can use if you would like to do something similar.  

Honeydukes Treat Boxes

The boxes above were for my guests to fill with candy from the Honeydukes Treat Station.  

 I bought premade boxes at the store. 

 I tried to find a design that resembled something from a candy store.  

Then I  added the Honeydukes label (below) with a glue stick.

Here is a printout of the labels if you would 

like to do something similar

.

Hogwarts House Point Trackers Containers

What you will need:

4 matching glass containers

yellow candy

red candy

green candy 

blue candy

a glue stick

a printout of the house symbols (below)

The House Scoreboard containers I bought at the dollar store, along with the candy that is in them. 

 I found four glass cylinder shaped containers at the dollar store.  

 

Then I printed out the house symbols below.

Cut out each house symbol the best you can.  

Apply liberal amounts of glue stick on the back of the symbol. Center each of the symbols on it's container.  

Fill with the color of candy that is appropriate for the respective house.

TriWizard Cup

The TriWizard Cup came from Target.  

Since it was cool, and I  already had it, I had to use it for my decorating.   

I used it to pull names out of for our

Harry Potter Minute to Win It Games.  

Butterbeer Puffcorn and Candy Cauldrons

I bought a bunch of different sized cauldrons from the dollar store and Party City.  

I put Halloween candy in them and 

wrote on the outside with chalk pen.  

A lot of the candy was Gryffindor colors, and some came in

Slytherin colors, so I labeled them accordingly. 

 The Butterbeer Puffcorn is absolutely delicious 

and really easy to make,  

You can find the recipe here.

Honeydukes Treat Bag

This cute little treat bag is perfect to use for decoration on a plate, or for a take home gift.  

The bag is folded and then you fill with small treats, toys, etc.  

Fold over the top, punch two holes and tie with a ribbon. 

It adds a special touch to your party.

Treat bag printable:

See how to fold your treat bag by clicking here, 

or you can follow the diagram below.

Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans boxes

The traditional Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans Container is adorable, but it is hard to make, large and expensive.  

I got the traditional Bertie Bott's box off of Google. 

I made one, but it took a lot of time

plus it held a lot of jelly beans.

It was a little too big to make for everyone at the party, 

so I created the little boxes to use at the party.  

Bertie Botts small box template:

Print it out on white cardstock.

Weasley's Magic & Mayhem Minis

  

Easy Treats to make for your Honeydukes table.

I had some m&m minis that I bought on clearance after Halloween.  Since they were orange, and Weasley's Wizard Wheezes is orange, I saw a great opportunity to create something that good old Fred and George might of come up with.  

That's how Magic and Mayhem minis were born.
For the printout click here.

Drinks (Potions)

My guests got a selection of sodas properly disguised as a potion.

To get the bottle potion labels just click here.

And to make it more fun we added extra ingredients (flavored syrups) so that everyone could make their potion truly unique.

     Potions Sign and Great Hall Sign: 

If you need more locations, including all the houses, etc.,

the rest of my location signs can are located here:

 Hot Butterbeer Recipe Link

Butterbeer is a must at any Harry Potter event. 

 I made Hot Butterbeer for my family on Christmas morning. 

It was delicious!!!

Click here to get the recipe.

  

               

Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Signs

I put up fun signs all over the house.  

Below is a printout for Diagon Alley and Hogwart's Castle.  

I have made quite a few more signs on another post.  

You can find the printouts here.

Hogwarts House Flags

These house flags are the easiest ever!  

All you do is print out the flags below on colored cardstock.   

Match the color to each house.  

For Hogwarts I used gray instead of black for obvious reasons.  

Cut out the V shape at the bottom then punch holes in the upper corners and put a string through and hang.

Flag Printouts:

Wand Tutorial Link

My awesome Sister-in-law made everyone in the family a wand.  

To see how easy it is to make a wand click here.

 The Dining Table Decorating Ideas

Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures at the party because I was too busy hosting, 

but here are a few things that I did that will give you some ideas.

I hung owls on the light over the dining table.

I used large deer for the center of the table and I placed an English Cracker Party Favor on every plate.

Harry Potter Cracker Party Favor Link

On every plate I placed a homemade English Cracker .  

This is a long standing English tradition that 

can be seen in the Harry Potter films.  

There are three different versions:

Humour from Harry

Advice from Albus

Trelawney Teller Treats

They come with printable sayings and instructions

on how to make them crack.

  To see how click here.  

My grandchildren LOVED these!  

They crack when you pull them apart 

and have a cute little fortune in them.  

My granddaughter read everyone's fortune aloud 

so that everyone could hear.  

Some of them even wore the cute little crowns that came inside the cracker all day!

Harry Potter etched Personalized Butterbeer Mugs Link

 I etched a mug for everyone at the party.  

On one side I put their name and 

on the other side I put their patronus.  

They were a hit!  

English Dinner Menu

Main Dish - Bangers and Mash

(Sausage with Mashed Potatoes)

For dinner I made Bangers and Mash which is mashed potatoes and sausage. 

 I wanted it to be easy so that we could enjoy our party.  

It is a traditional English dinner that my family loves.  

I browned bratwurst ahead of time and then put them in a crockpot with some chicken broth.  

I made traditional homemade mashed potatoes and gravy to go with it.  

I served it with green bean casserole and a salad.  

Super easy and my family loved it!

Dementor's Chocolate Trifle Recipe

This was super easy to make, but was amazing! 

 I was quite surprised at how yummy it was.  

To make Dementor's Trifle you will need: 

brownies 

large box of chocolate pudding 

container of Cool Whip  

I used store bought Costco brownies and mashed them at the bottom of a crystal bowl.  

It's nice to use a clear bowl for any trifle so that you can see the layers.  

Next add layer of chocolate pudding, 

and then a layer of cool whip. 

 I used cool whip because it keeps its shape 

better than whipping cream. 

Repeat all the layers, 

so that there are two layers of each ingredient (six layers total.)  

Be sure to finish with the cool whip layer on top. 

 

Then  top off cool the whip with a grated a chocolate bar. 

 Store it in the fridge with plastic over the top so that the flavors can blend.  

Serve it chilled. 

Additional Decorations:

Hogwarts Express Diorama 

Tutorial Link

In my entryway I had this diorama of the Hogwarts Express.  

To see how I made it click here.

Printable "Harry Potter" (or Birthday or Christmas) Banner Link

On my fireplace I put "Harry Christmas" banner.  

To get this print out, or a "Harry Birthday" print out click here.

Harry Potter Christmas Tree Link

My Harry Potter Christmas Tree was amazing!  

I made a lot of the items, or purchased them at the dollar store. 

 It was so much fun to put together.  

To see how I did it click here.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WIZARD? 

Posters

I made two different versions of the 

"HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WIZARD?" 

One I printed on a full sheet of brown cardstock .

The other I made a trading card size.

My original intent was to make a just a small card to hang on the Christmas Tree.  

They were so cute that  I decided to print them out large on a brown cardstock (to save on ink) and hang them up all over the house.   

To make them I just googled the Azkaban sign and copied it.  

Then I found funny pictures of my family and photoshopped the Azkaban prison sign in front of them.  I moved the Azkaban sign a little bit in each picture.  Just that small thing made them seem more authentic.  I cropped the picture and I placed it over the Sirius Black picture. I laminated the cards so that they look like trading cards.  

I made an extra set cards for each person to take home.

Hogwart's Bathroom Ideas

 In the bathroom I put Moaning Myrtle on the mirror.

Print out the picture of Moaning Myrtle and then cut around her head.  Use a washable glue stick to glue it onto the mirror.

Print out the saying below, cut it out and then glue it to the mirror next to Moaning Myrtle's head

  

Here's the saying if you want to use it.

The Ministry of Magic Toilet

And of course, the toilet HAD to be the Ministry of Magic.  

Here's a printout for your toilet.

Dobby's Feet Link

Dobby was also at our Harry Potter Party. 

He was hiding in our Christmas Tree.  

To see how to make Dobby's feet click here.

Harry Potter Activities:

Harry Potter Wizarding Games

After dinner we played 
Minute to Win It Harry Potter Wizarding Games.  

WE HAD SO MUCH FUN!!!  

My son, who told me not to do it, came up to me afterwards to let me know how awesome the games were. 

 If you want to see how we played them just click here.

Harry Potter Trivia Game Link

Test your Harry Potter knowledge in a new and fun way.  The game is adaptable to any set of questions.

  Find out how to play it by clicking here.

Harry Potter Bingo Board Link

Just in case you have extra time here's a link to Harry Potter Bingo Boards.

Fifty More Harry Potter Ideas Link

Incase you might even want more Harry Potter ideas I have a link that shares all of my Harry Potter ideas plus an additional fifty or more ideas that I have found on the web.

Just click here to see them all!

I hope that I was able to give you a few ideas for your Harry Potter Party.  Please leave a message if you liked the ideas and let me know about your party.

Love,
Holly