Harry Potter Party-Games/crafts

For our Harry Potter party we played a few games and made some crafts.

We made Snitch Christmas ornaments inspired by the ones I found here.    Now is the time to do this as plastic gold Christmas balls are really cheap.  Basically you just hot glue some sparkly pipe cleaner to the back of the ball and form wings.

 This is an awesome Owlery garland made by the wonderful Annicka.  They were a perfect little detail that I love so much during parties.

 We made up a fishing game to win the sword of Gryffindor.  The sword was just a foam one with hot-glued jewels all over it.  The fish are just cute laminated fish (thanks Annicka) with paperclips on them and we had a magnet tied to a pole.  On the back of the fish were the numbers 1, 2, and 3 which corresponded to the different types of prizes you could chose from.

 "Don't Eat Pete" is a game where you put a piece of candy on each square.  One player leaves the room while the others decide which square is "pete".  The object of the game is to get as much candy as possible without getting pete.  If the player grabs pete everyone yells, "Don't eat Pete!"  In this case pete is Peter Pettigrew.  We have played this game many times in a wide variety including The Office, Star Wars, Dumbledore's Army, etc.