Tons of Harry Potter party ideas with lots of printables to make it easy to use these ideas yourself.
Harry Potter Party Ideas
Throw an amazing Harry Potter birthday party with all of these Harry Potter party ideas. My friend and I recently threw a Harry Potter themed party for our gourmet dinner club that we take turns hosting. This theme was SO FUN. The hardest part was probably combing through ideas and modifying them to work for us. We’ve also simplified a lot of the Harry Potter party ideas by adding our own free printables so you don’t have to go to all of the work that we did. Have fun!
Print these Harry Potter book covers and wrap them around the spine of a book. Done.
Make this DIY Harry Potter Platform 9 3/4 or purchase the brick fabric. This was probably my favorite decor at our party.
This Harry Potter I Spy game is a great activity to have handy at your party.
Print and hang these Harry Potter Educational Decrees.
This Harry Potter Photobooth is cheap and easy. You basically just have to print out the images we designed and glue them onto a poster board.
I made This Harry Potter banner after the party but I definitely love it and would have used it.
Customize your own Harry Potter acceptance letter. We added the names of our guests to the letter and changed the date to the date of our party. We also added the address under the signature line.
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Print these Harry Potter potion labels and glue them onto some bottles!
Harry Potter merchandise is so much fun. I spent hours and hours combing amazon for some of The Best Harry Potter Gift Ideas.
These Hogwarts house banners were simple to make. Just use black felt and cut out the printable pictures to glue onto the felt. Our friends thought we had ordered them online and didn’t even notice that they were paper.
If your Harry Potter party is a Christmas party then this Harry Potter Christmas banner is perfect!
We collected old bottles including Rootbeer bottles, Tabasco, Franks hot sauce, and some from the dollar tree. We printed these free printable labels from Over the Big Moon onto parchment paper.
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To glue the labels onto the bottles I used this elmers spray adhesive. This stuff is THE BEST. One of my kid’s teachers once asked me to glue A TON of papers together. It would have taken a couple of hours but instead I threw out drop cloth down and sprayed them all and I was done in 10 minutes. I’ve considered giving this to my kids’ teachers all as gifts because it would same them so much time. It’s also great because it adheres better to things like glass.
We found two-packs of fake candles and a hula hoop at the dollar store. Then we hung a hula hoop around the chandelier and hung the candles using clear thread like this (you could also use fishing line) to hang the candles from the hula hoop and chandelier to make floating candles above your table!
For our Harry Potter party we also thought these Lumos & Nox labels were a fun touch to add to the light switches. We burned the edges of the paper to give it a more magical look.
There are a handful of proclamation educational decrees, wanted posters, daily prophets, and miscelaneous fun signs that we decided to print onto parchment paper and burn the edges before hanging on the wall with painters tape rolled up. Tip: parchment paper is a lot cheaper on amazon here.
In the bathroom we couldn’t decide between Moaning Myrtle or the Ministry of Magic so we just went with both.
It was also a fun touch to add “The chamber of secrets has been opened. Mudbloods beware!” to the the mirror in the bathroom.
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And some leftover spiders from Halloween and a reminder to “just follow the spiders” was fun and made everyone shudder.
If you have a reindeer for your yard at Christmastime you can turn it into a doe for the occasion. “Always.”
We used book pages from a Harry Potter book we found at Salvation Army to decorate down the table and we set brooms made of twigs on top. In the middle of our table was a lantern made into a cage with a stuffed owl inside.
These printable Hogwarts house banners are super easy to make. Just print and cut.
On the table we had a few of these sorting hat cootie catchers for our guests to have some fun with.
For our menus we used parchment paper and printed these marauder’s maps on the outside and on the inside printed our menu for the evening. Tip: parchment paper is a lot cheaper on amazon here.
We had a great Harry Potter party!
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Oh my wizarding world, this post is absolutely magical! 🧙♂️✨ I’m totally stealing these ideas for my kid’s next birthday bash (who am I kidding, it’s for me too!).
Those Hogwarts acceptance letter invitations? Genius! I can already picture the kids’ faces lighting up when they get ’em. And don’t even get me started on those Butterbeer cupcakes – I might need to whip up a batch just for… um, quality control purposes, of course!
The wand-making station is such a brilliant touch. I can see the little ones waving their creations around, yelling “Expelliarmus!” at each other. Let’s just hope no one actually manages to disarm anyone, haha!
Quick question for any fellow Potterheads out there – what house are you in? I got sorted into Hufflepuff and I’m not even mad about it. Badgers represent! 🦡
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go practice my British accent and figure out how to turn my backyard into the Forbidden Forest. Anyone know where I can rent a Hippogriff? 😂
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Can you create also some party ideas for the movie Lord of the Rings? This one is fantastic!
All of these party ideas are great. My nephew loves harry potter so I’m gonna use these for his next birthday.
I’m a fan of harry potter, I really like these ideas
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So great, it’s great to have another mystery game for everyone to interact with each other.
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Where did you find all of the printable educational decrees and daily prophets? I have only been able to find the wanted posters, and I would love to have the rest!
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Your floating candles are beautiful. Similar to what you created, only I fashioned the candle tubes, fishing line, tea lights, and hula hoops myself.
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This is all so incredible – thankyou!!
I am really interested in Journaling. I write in three journals. How many do you use?
I really like your floating candles. I did the same, except I made the candle tubes, fishing line, tea lights and hula hoops.. The wedding reception was in a fire station, so the ceilings were really high, a tall stepladder and great help from sons and grandsons handled this problem for me. Each hula hoop was hung onto heavier fishing line and a knot was tied in it to make sure the hoops didn’t move..oh and I wrapped the hula hoops with black streamer paper. I also had remotes for those lights..It was a huge success. A lot more projects were done with tutorials from here.. All very successful. Thank you for sharing.
Where did you find all of the printable educational decrees and daily prophets? I have only been able to find the wanted posters, and I would love to have the rest!
I spent hours and hours combing the interwebs for all of these posters. I would have saved some of the links but I didn’t think about posting all of that at the time. I have been toying with the idea of making some of the educational decrees for free printables so people can find them all in one place easier than I was able to.
Thank you so much for sharing all these resources! Saved us tons of time to throw a great Harry Potter party! So appreciate it. 🙂
I’m so glad it helped out Jess! I noticed while planning my party that there are tons of good ideas out there but they are hard to pull off. My goal was to take away all of that work so I’m glad it is working!
Awesome site with LOTS of ideas!! Thanks so much!