Harry Potter themed birthday party :0)

This was a rather epic party!!  In the planning as well as the execution of it :0)  We started planning around 2 months prior, lots of research, and a great excuse to watch all the movies again.  We also came across lots of amazing blogs with helpful pointers and tips which we used and are listed below.

We decided that our invitation would be the acceptance letter that Harry receives from Hogwarts in the first film and it would be delivered by owl :0)

We re-wrote it a little to include personal details and the location of our party, we printed them on plain paper with the Hogwarts Crest as the background.  We found some gold envelopes in the £1 shop and addressed them to each child.

Included in each invitation was a train ticket for the Hogwarts Express that we requested the children brought along with them to gain admittance to the party ~ and every child remembered them even though invitations had been sent out a month prior to the party!

We then decided that it would be really fun to send out chocolate frogs with our invitations!!  We found the frog mould on Ebay here >Chocolate frog mould and it is just the right size to fit inside the boxes.  We used cooking chocolate melted in the microwave and poured in the mould and popped in the fridge.  Templates are all included below for you to download along with the owl template we used to send all our invites out.

They were fairly time consuming to make, but we made them up over a few nights after school, we used a multi purpose glue to put them together, then we used glue dots to seal the chocolate frogs inside their boxes.

We stuck the invitations in the owls beaks and tucked the chocolate frogs inside the owls after they had been put together.

The downloads for the owl invitation carrier and chocolate frogs are below.