Coolest Harry Potter Child Birthday Game Ideas
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If you're throwing a Harry Potter party, here are some of the coolest Harry Potter Party Ideas.
Search for the Sorcerer's Stone
This cool child birthday game will get everyone in the spirit of Harry Potter in no time!! A job is always easier when great wizard minds join together (in this case, it means solving a series of clever clues to find the sorcerer's stone which you can make by painting a stone or putting many small candies in aluminum foil and making an oval-like shape out of it). To set up the kid party hunt, first choose four to six successive hiding spots around your house or yard (the last one will be where you hide the sorcerer's stone). Then write a clue that leads to each one. For example, the first clue, which might lead the kids to look under the couch, can be printed backward so that only if they figure out to put it up to a mirror will they see the clue. The second clue, hidden under a shoe, for example, might lead them to the mailbox. Another idea for a clever clue is to write everything with a white crayon on white paper, and put a colored marker and instructions to scribble all over the paper to reveal the message. For the remaining clues, consider writing a riddle about Harry Potter, creating a Harry Potter word search puzzle, coming up with a numeric code and a key to translate each number into a letter, etc.
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
Just imagine how much fun you can have at a Harry Potter party with jelly beans that taste like sardines, black pepper, horseradish, lawn grass, and lots more crazy flavors! This is an AWESOME and fun activity. Give each guest a sheet of paper and have them number from 1 thru 10. Then have them eat the first flavor and determine which one it is. Have them write it down, and when everyone is done with the first flavor, tell them the answer. If they are correct they can circle that one. Continue until all 10 flavors have been tasted and guessed. The winner is the player with the most correct answers.
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Hooting Owl
This is a child birthday game where Harry Potter needs to find Hedwig. What you will need is a glass bottle (beer bottle, Coca-Cola glass bottle etc.) with a narrow mouth and a blindfold. Start by seating everyone in a circle. Then blindfold one of the kids (who decides to be Harry) and spin them around a few times, sitting them back down in the middle of the circle. Everyone passes the glass bottle around the circle without speaking and 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 kids trade places and continue playing. Since this game involves a glass bottle, its best that everyone is seated. (If there will be young children playing this game wrap the bottle in plastic bubble wrap, or any other protective layer so that if it falls it won't break.)
Professor Snape's Potions Class
First off, for this child birthday game, make sure to cover your kid party area with newspapers or do this activity outside (also make sure that each kid has an oversized shirt on for a smock). In this activity, you show the kids how to make a potion and then let them make their own. What you will need is small bottles/jars (possibly science lab beakers), baking soda, vinegar and food coloring. Give the kids the food coloring and vinegar and let them mix their own colors. The MAGIC comes when they add the baking soda to create a foaming bubbly response!!!
Gross Potions Class
Have the kids mix and make the most disgusting potions imaginable. They'll love it! Fill and label several jars with all kinds of gross and nasty things. For instance, rovide blind dog and cat eyes (cocktail onions), hippogriff gizzards (sardines or smoked oysters), mandrake root (ginger), dream fluid (purple punch), bloodworms (spaghetti in red sauce), hollow stump water (water mixed with soil), and eyes of bats (black pepper balls). The kids will extremely enjoy just mixing all of these grossed out items and imagining what they can be used for.
Chamber of Secrets
Inform all the kids that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened and an evil monster has been unleashed! This is a game of tag, where you choose one kid to be the monster. Once the monster touches another player (the witches and wizards) he petrifies them and they must freeze. Petrified players can be freed by the Un-petrified (unfrozen) players when tagged by them. Once a player is frozen three times, they then remain permanently petrified. The last player to avoid being petrified wins!
Moaning Myrtle
This is a funny and silly Harry Potter child birthday game where the players try to outwit the birthday kid using their best moans, groans, whimpers and sobs! Start off by blindfolding the birthday kid. Then have the rest of the kids spread out into a safe room (that has no furniture, coffee tables, etc. or that the furniture has been pushed close to the walls); Once the kids are spread out, they musn't move from the spot they have chosen. All the kids then begin moaning and crying while the birthday kid roams the room in search of "Moaning Myrtle." When the birthday kid finally finds someone, they then try to guess who it is by feeling their face with their hands. If the birthday kid is correct, the two switch places and the game continues.
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