Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Party Supplies, Theme Decorations, and Party Planning Ideas

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Party Supplies, Theme Decorations, and Party Planning Ideas

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Deluxe Pak
Turn your home into the Great Hall at Hogwarts™, just don’t invite the Dementors™! Your Deluxe Pak for 8 includes invitations, 16 cake candles, cauldron cake topper, solid-color tablecover, confetti, mylar balloon, 18 assorted balloons, 3 rolls of 81' crepe paper streamers and 50 yards of curling ribbon in 3 colors, 9" plates, cups, forks, spoons and 16 napkins.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Basic Pak
Includes 8 invitations, plates, cups, forks, spoons, 16 napkins, tablecover and 18 balloons.

Wizard Favor Boxes
Give everyone a bit of birthday magic to bring home. Each castle box includes a glow stick, 4" owl bean bag, lightning bolt tattoo, mini goblet, glasses and Harry Potter sticker sheet.

Wizard Cone Hat Party Activity (4)
Create mystical wizard hats with this fun activity! Kit includes pre-cut pieces of black-and-blue swirly cardboard, shimmery star stickers, elastic string, and instructions. Finished hats are approximately 7" tall. (Recommended for ages 5 and up.)

The Penny Whistle Birthday Party Book
OVER 30 ALL-NEW, SURE-TO-PLEASE PARTIES FOR KIDS OF ANY AGE!
Whether your two-year-old's passion is teddy bears, your eight-year-old can name every dinosaur in the museum, or your sweet-sixteen-yearold wants a sophisticated casino evening -- you can create the perfect party with "The Penny Whistle™ Birthday Party Book."
Complete with suggestions for entertaining games and activities, instructions for making personalized invitations, decorations and party favors, and delicious recipes for refreshments (including the best birthday cakes ever!).

Making Magic
As your guests arrive, invite them into the Great Hall at Hogwarts! Transform your party room into the school's legendary hall using a roll of corrugated cardboard with a stone wall print to decorate the walls. Cut it to fit the walls and mount it with thumb tacks. It's available through many party supply shops and hobby stores.

As your Hogwarts students walk into the Great Hall, give each guest a home-made wand. These can be made of any material you choose, but should be made before the party.

To make wooden wands, carve small wooden handles from dead branches of a tree. Bore a hole in the end of each, and insert a stripped and sanded twig from the same tree into each one using a little wood glue. Twigs that are twisted, bent, and lumpy with knots, will look great. Hint: allow the wand's tip to extend about 1/8" beyond a knot. This gives a nice finished end, and makes the tip safer because it is has less of a point.

Your guests' imaginations will take them into their own magical game as they cast spells and turn each other into toads, lizards, rabits, etc. This is a great way to entertain the children until all your guests arrive!

Sorting Hat
Introduce your guests to the fantastic world of Harry Potter as soon as they walk through the door! Create your own Sorting Hat from construction paper or felt before the party begins. (It's o.k. if it looks a little tattered and torn - afterall, it's been around for thousands of years!) Place the hat upon each guest's head as they enter the party room. (Prerecord a deep voice repeating the houses - Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Slytherin - one by one, in any order you choose.) After each guest has worn the hat for a short while, play the recording to let them know which house they've been chosen to join. After the Sorting Hat has "spoken", give each guest a party favor representing their house. For more fun, invite guests to come dressed in wizards or witches robes.

During the party, encourage good behavior by awarding (or subtracting) points for each house based on the actions of its members. At the end of the party, tally up the points for each house to see who is the winner. Award small party favors to the witches and wizards of the winning house.

Wizard Hats, Wands & Brooms
This enchanting activity will keep your wizards and witches busy casting spells on one another for hours. You’ll need construction paper, markers, glitter, feathers, sequins, ribbon, glue, scissors, and anything else your student magicians might need to make their magical necessities absolutely perfect.

For hats, provide large sheets of construction paper. Roll them into a cone shape, and secure with glue. Let the children decorate them with materials of their choice.

To make wands, collect short, dry sticks from your yard, or purchase wooden rods from a hobby store. (Rolled up construction paper also works well.) Attach a feather, sprinkle with glitter, decorate with sequins or ribbon, etc. Let the children decorate their own special wand.

If your guests want to make brooms instead, simply tie a bunch of twigs, or straw, to a pole with string. Even though it won’t fly, your guests will love it.

Muggle Magic
Even the youngest Harry Potter fans can accomplish this neat trick! Pick five pennies with different dates on them. Place the pennies in a wizard hat and ask one of your guests to pick a penny and look at the date without telling what it is. Have all the guests pass the penny around to look at the date. Quickly put the penny back into the hat and shake up the pennies. Have your young magician reach into the hat and pull out the chosen penny. The secret? He or she will know which penny was chosen because copper absorbs heat, and the penny everyone has handled will be warm. Once everyone knows how the magic is done, let all the children take a turn.

Hooting Owl
Help Harry find Hedwig with this fun game! You’ll need a glass pop or milk bottle with a narrow mouth and a blindfold for Harry. To begin, choose a child to be Harry and gently blindfold him or her. Seat everyone in a circle around Harry and gently spin him or her a few times; everyone else passes the glass bottle around the circle without speaking. When Harry says “stop” the player holding the bottle must blow across its mouth to hoot like Hedwig. If Harry can guess who it is, the children trade places and continue playing. Since this game involves a glass bottle, it’s best sitting down. If young children will be present, wrap the bottle in plastic bubble wrap, or another protective layer to prevent it from breaking in case it’s dropped.

Dragon Eggs
Collect large plastic Easter eggs, or the egg-shaped containers in which nylons are sometimes packaged. Paint each one with fleck-stone paint to create an enchanting, mysterious look. While the paint dries, follow the recipe below to make “flubber.” This gooey substance will represent the fluid inside the egg that oozes out when the dragon hatches.

To make flubber, follow the instructions below:
1. Mix 2 cups of white Elmer's Glue™ in a large container with 1-1/2 cups of warm water. Add drops of food coloring for added fun (optional).
2. In a second container, mix 1-1/3 cups warm water with 3 teaspoons of Borax™.
3. Combine the two mixtures into one bowl and stir. The resulting mixture will become gelatinous.
4. Mix well, pouring off any excess water. Keep in an airtight container until you’re ready to put the dragon eggs together.

After the paint has dried, put a dragon figurine inside each egg container, and fill the egg with flubber. Give the children their dragon eggs when they arrive, and instruct them to keep them warm until they’re ready to hatch. When the children can’t wait any longer, let them hatch open their dragon eggs to see what’s inside!

Hunt for the Sorcerer's Stone
This hunt for the Sorcerer's Stone will have your guests in the spirit of Harry Potter in no time! Wrap a few candy stones (available at specialty candy shops) in plastic wrap, or, for a magical touch, use squares of fabric tied with gold satin cord. Make several small packages of stones, so there is enough for each child to discover a few.

Hide the stones throughout the house or yard. With one pack of stones, also hide a large stone (a geode, quartz crystal, piece of amber, hand-painted stone, etc.) to represent the Sorcerer's Stone. The child who finds the Sorcerer's Stone wins a special prize!

Making Potions
Before your guests arrive, decorate a shelf with old clear glass bottles and jars filled with odd or creepy looking things. Label the jars with the names of potion ingredients. See the list of potion items, and their actual Muggle names, below for ideas.

Manticore Pituitary - capers
Beetle Eyes - small black beads or poppy seeds
Salamander Skin - pickled ginger
Eye of Blind Cat - cocktail onions
Hippogriff Gizzard - smoked oysters
Bat Liver - chopped canned mushrooms
Bloodworms - cooked spaghetti in reddish-pink water
Deadly Nightshade - fruit of the miniature eggplant
Mandrake Root - whole ginseng root
Hollow Stump Water - water with some dirt and potting soil thrown in
Sleeping Potion - water colored deep purple-blue with food coloring

For fun, leave the labels blank on a few jars of ingredients and have a contest to see who can come up with the best names for them.

Lead the group in making a potion, and then let the kids make their own. Be creative and have fun!

Student Witches & Wizards
Turn your party into a Hogwarts gala by making a simple cape for each guest using black cotton fabric. As each guest arrives, give him or her a home-made cape. After the sorting ceremony, allow the members of each house to come up with a crest or shield to represent their house.

Using felt, cut out small shield shapes for the children to decorate. Provide glue, glitter, pens, additional pieces of felt to cut out shapes, etc. For young children, simply draw large letters ("H" for Hufflepuff, "S" for Slytherin, "R" for Ravenclaw, and "G" for Gryffindor) on each shield once the sorting ceremony has divided them into houses. When the shields are finished, attach them to the capes with tape or a safety pin. For a look that's simply "Harry Potter", fashion spectacles from black pipe cleaners. Your guests will surely enjoy their Hogwarts attire long after your party is over!!

15" Wizard Hat Piñata
Discover the fun of breaking open a piñata and watching your treasures rain down! A removable sticker marks the hidden location where candy should be inserted. Piñata fillers and pull-string piñata kit sold separately.

Kids love the excitement of trying to break open a piñata and see the treasures rain down. This 96-piece assortment of toys and candy is perfect for eight guests, and will bring even more fun to your piñata activity.

Pull-String Piñata Kit
Turn your piñata into a pull-string for a gentler piñata activity. Kit includes trap door release and 20 pull strings.

Magic Wands
Make your celebrations even more fun and easy with home-baked treats from Pillsbury®, our favorite brand of baking mixes.

1 cup Pillsbury® Creamy Supreme® Chocolate Fudge Frosting
1 cup chocolate candy sprinkles
16 pretzel rods
1/4 cup Pillsbury® Creamy Supreme® Vanilla Frosting

1. Line cookie sheet with foil. Place chocolate frosting in microwavesafe 13x9inch (3quart) glass baking dish. Microwave on HIGH for 10 to 15 seconds or until melted; stir until smooth. Place candy sprinkles in shallow dish.

2. Dip each pretzel rod in melted frosting, turning to coat completely. Roll in candy sprinkles; place on foillined cookie sheet. Refrigerate 30 minutes or until frosting is set.

3. Place sheet of foil on work surface. Place vanilla frosting in small microwavesafe bowl. Microwave on HIGH for 10 to 15 seconds or until softened. Dip 1 inch of each coated pretzel in vanilla frosting; place wands on foil. Let stand about 4 hours or until frosting is set.

Bewitching Brew
Your guests will be spellbound when they witness your ability to turn an ordinary beverage into an enchanted drink that crackles and spits! Simply pour your child’s favorite beverage into glasses for all your guests. After you have placed a glass in front of each guest, add a few Pop Rocks™ candies to each one. Since this candy is processed with carbon dioxide, it will crackle, pop, and spit when it comes into contact with water, juice, soda pop, etc. (Pop Rocks is a registered trademark of the General Foods Corp.)

Cockroach Clusters
Treat your guests to a sweet snack enjoyed by witches and wizards alike! Simply follow the directions on the back of a Rice Krispies Cereal® box to make Rice Krispies Treats. Shape them into little cockroaches and dip into melted chocolate; let cool.

Magic Cupcakes
Use the Pop Rocks™ left over from your Bewitching Brew to make these surprise snacks! Simply make your favorite cupcake recipe, or purchase Pillsbury® cake mix and follow the directions. After your cupcakes have baked and cooled, frost and sprinkle with Pop Rocks.™ When eaten, the candies will react with saliva to crackle and pop in the mouths of your guests! For fun, make up a spell before serving your guests. They’ll be delighted with these tasty treats, even if they know the secret!

Fantastic Feast
This is truly a feast for your eyes as well as a snacker’s delight! On a large decorative tray, arrange a variety of visually appealing sandwich substitutes, including lettuce for filler. Try some of the following options for a great meal:

Dudley’s Delight - Cube several kinds of cheese and decorate them with colorful toothpicks.

Hagrid’s Ham & Cream Cheese Rolls - Spread softened cream cheese on thinly-sliced ham and roll it up. Add pineapple to the cream cheese for a sweeter treat. Cut rolls into 1 1/2-inch lengths.

Hermione’s Magic Wands - Clean and cut your child’s favorite fruit into bit-sized pieces; assemble them on skewers. After you have speared all the fruit, break off the sharp tips to prevent accidental injury. Let each guest choose his or her own wand.

Hogwarts Celery Sticks - Fill celery stalks with peanut butter. Keep feathery ends for decoration, and place “bugs” (raisins) along the length of the stalk for a surprise you’d find only at Hogwarts!

Slytherin "Snack"ers - Choose several different shapes and flavors of crackers and serve on the snack tray with cheese cubes and vegetables.

Hedwig’s Silly Sandwiches - Your guests will hoot with delight when they see these tasty treats. Simply prepare your child’s favorite sandwiches and cut them into fun shapes with a cookie cutter.

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Cake Decorating
Cake pans, cake toppers, cake decorating kits and candles, not all themes available.

Bakeries and Professional Cake Decorators
Locate bakeries and professional cake decorators in your area to order a children's birthday cake to coordinate with your kid's theme party.

Balloons
Use balloons to mark the party spot; hang them on the mailbox, near the front door, or tie them to the birthday child's chair to mark the seat of honor. Place balloons anywhere that strikes your fancy. The more the better!

Pastel Personalized Banner
Your child's name on his or her very own Happy Birthday Banner! Our colorful 18" x 72" banner is made of durable plastic with handy metal grommets for easy hanging and years of use. You will be asked to provide the name(s) that will appear on your personalized banner when you check out. (Recommended for all ages.)

Primary Personalized Banner
Your child's name on his or her very own Happy Birthday Banner! Our colorful 18" x 72" banner is made of durable plastic with handy metal grommets for easy hanging and years of use. You will be asked to provide the name(s) that will appear on your personalized banner when you check out. (Recommended for all ages.)

Birthday Party CD
Kids' Birthday Party Music CD
Add fun to your party with this wonderful collection of 18 songs. Includes favorites such as "Candy Man," "Lollipop," "The Name Game," "Yakety Yak," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Disco Duck," and "Happy Birthday to You."

Young Wizard
Before you conjure wizardly wonders with magic potions, hexes and spells, make sure you're dressed for the occasion in proper wizard regalia! Our full-length satin robe for young wizards has long bell sleeves and an attached hood glittering with sequins. Includes sequined belt with star buckle. Made in USA of acetate and poly/nylon. Accessories sold separately.

Wizard Hat
For young wizards everywhere. This magical hat is made of crushed velvet with silver accents and a soft metallic trim.

Black Rimmed Glasses
Have your guests look the part of young wizard apprentices with these spectacular spectacles. Child-sized glasses measure 5" across and 4.5" at the sides. UV 400 protection.

Wizard Hat & Glasses
You'll be ready to master the school of wizardry dressed in these mystical accessories. Hat is made of crushed black velvet with silver star accents and has a soft, metallic fabric trim. Measures approximately 20" tall and 7" in diameter.

Black Cape
This 24" black cape has the look and feel of satin and is the perfect accessory for a wide variety of dress-up outfits. With its high-collar and drawstring tie, one size fits most children. (Available while supplies last.)

Magic Wand
Let your guests create some magic of their own with these 9.5" wands.

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Be sure to take lots of pictures. You and your child will want to remember this special day.

1. Keep you camera close in hand through out the party so you don't miss a moment.
2. Get close, fill the frame with the subject(s) you are wanting to capture.
3. Take action photos, capture the thrills and emotions by taking candid pictures.
4. Focus on small groups or individuals, you do not need to have every guest in every photo.
5. When you have your film developed, order extra prints and send them to the parents afterward.