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Harry Potter theme is good enough for a Halloween party for the whole family and can include guests from all ages. Party invitations on parchment paper in the Hogwarts style can be made at home. You can get the idea for Harry Potter party invitations from the article on Party invitation ideas for Halloween here. At the entrance you can put a sign saying Hogwarts School or Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Pumpkins with lighted candles in all sizes can be used to turn your hall into the Great Hall of Hogwarts. The centerpiece for the dinner table can be a handmade Sorting Hat that looks tattered made using the felt paper and decorated by sparkling stars, crescent moons and lightning bolts available in the stores.
You can name one of your rooms as ‘Herbology Class’ and put herbs in a large pot as the centerpiece on the table there. You may create a Quidditch field in your backyard by spray-painting small plastic balls with gold paint and gluing wings to it cut out from golden paper to make snitches and hang them from the branches of the tree and other high places. Black and orange streamers can be used to decorate the home. You may also decorate the ceiling using glow-in-the-dark stars and play ghost and goblin sounds and scary Halloween music for the party. Framed knights or ladies purchased at yard sales can also be put on display near the doors. You may hang a Moaning Myrtle in your bathroom made up of an old doll draped in translucent fabric.
Serve treats and food in cauldrons. Adults can dress up as Dumbledore or other teachers of Hogwarts while other costume ideas include owls, ghosts, werewolves, dementors and even humans or Muggles. Harry Potter trivia contest can be played for the party and menu can include pumpkin soup, roasted herb potato medley and tossed Green Salad with blue cheese dressing. Treats may include assorted jellybeans presented as Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, chocolates in the shapes of frogs, bats, rats, and brooms and apple pie. Toy or real broomsticks and magic wands can be given out as party favors.See Also: Harry Potter Games
