Decorate with floating candles in small or large bowls of water.

Provide your guests with a Wizard’s Pouch. Include some gold coins and a key. You can send this with the invitation or as they enter the party area.

Have your guests buy treats with gold coins from the treat trolley. Include chocolate frogs if you can find them, but, gummi frogs will also work. Serve gourmet jelly beans with many flavors and other fun treats.

Make Wands – Add glitter, horse hair, green foil for dragon skin, phoenix feather, etc. to a hole drilled in the center of the wand. Or make wands from chopsticks with a piece of felt glued on for a handle. Wrap a sparkly pipe cleaner around the wand. Now your guests really ready for a Harry Potter party.

Sorcerer’s Stone – Give each guest their own smooth stone to paint (use acrylic paints). Endow it with a magical spell with their wands, and it will become their own personal sorcerer’s stone.

Leviosa – Practice this simple wizard spell and levitate a feather by blowing through a straw. Who can keep their feather in the air longest?

Make a Potion – Gather all sorts of fun ingredients for a potion and let your guests have fun. Try adding 100 year old dust (baking soda) to water from a bitter well (colored vinegar). You may also provide eyeballs (peeled grapes), pig intestines (cooked spaghetti), bitterroot (small twigs or pretzels), ant poop (poppy seeds), unicorn droppings (malt balls), dragon snot (green jelly), bat droppings (chocolate covered raisins), or chopped liver (chopped, canned mushrooms). 

Quidditch – You’ll need to call your neighbors for a few extra brooms. Give each of your guest a broom and have them try to run with a broom between their knees while playing Quidditch. Obviously there will be some differences, like no bludger and no flying. But, split your guests into two teams and let them try to get a ball through a goal, tossing and rolling a ball across a field.

Magic Duel – Once your Harry Potter party guests are outfitted with wands, review a few magical spells, then host a magic duel. Have two guests stand together and take ten steps away from each other, then turn and try their best magic spells on each other. Whoever is first, wins!

Triwizard Tournament  – In the Triwizard Tournament Harry Potter has the chance to steal a golden egg protected by a dragon, find Ron hidden underwater, and go through a labyrinth full of magical obstacles. So, host your own Triwizard Tournament. Spray paint a plastic Easter Egg gold and hide it. Since you may have difficulty finding dragons, just hide the egg very well. Then, give your guests a snorkel mask to search for something in a wading pool. Make sure the wading pool has many objects, both floating and not floating, for them to search through. Make your own challenging labyrinth in the form of an obstacle course.

Animal Candy – Magic candy can make you make animals sounds. Have your guests try different flavors of jelly beans and imitate whatever animals it reminds them of. You may want to give some ideas just to get this Harry Potter party game going.