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Working on another badge set!
We have three badge sets that you can pull steps from to create events, parties, etc. These are Digital Photography (4 badges), Fairies (5 badges) and Harry Potter (8 badges).
I have started on the next set . . . Girl Scout Traditions.
In honor of the 100th anniversary, I’m trying to get this done before the end of August. I’m planning on the following:
- Girl Scout Traditions: Daisies
- Girl Scout Traditions: Brownies
- Girl Scout Traditions: Juniors
- Girl Scout Traditions: Cadettes
- Girl Scout Traditions: Seniors
- Girl Scout Traditions: Ambassadors
- Girl Scout Traditions: Adults
- Girl Scout Traditions: Miscellaneous
I wanted to start with the program as it started at that level, doing activities from over the years (updating if necessary), then ending with looking toward the future with the three Journeys and Girl Guide for Girl Scouting for each level for the girls. The adult’s version would work more from the leader / facilitator / volunteer viewpoint. Then, miscellaneous will cover items that need to be included but are more of an overall program item or doesn’t really fit anywhere else.
I have many of the old books, training materials from my council and other items from when I was a Junior. If you have any materials you think might be incorporated, links that contain pertinent information, etc. I’d love to have to the information. You can email me at larajla <at> gmail <dot> com.
Badge: Harry Potter – Christmas at Hogwarts
The other AEP Harry Potter badges have steps to provide you with material for day camp, afternoon camps and other non-holiday activities. Some of those activities can be adjusted slightly and used with a Christmas theme. This badge program focuses on the happenings in the Harry Potter world during Christmas.
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Steps
Event possibilities
1. Event featuring food.
A feast can take an entire day to prepare. From deciding what to serve to preparation to enjoying the final product, an entire event can be held around learning food made in England and those dishes specifically mentioned in the Harry Potter saga. Typically, large meals are prepared and enjoyed around festive occasions, such as Christmas. See the AEP supplement Harry Potter: Feast Recipes for food ideas for this event.
2. Yule ball event.
While this was mentioned in a previously released badge program, create an event around the ball only. Start with teaching your kids various dances, tips for “dressing up” including applying make-up, making decorations and more activities that can go into preparing for a dance. Then hold your ball.
3. A very Weasley Christmas.
Picture Christmas at the Burrows. From knitting scarves and hats to homemade treats, you can bring a family Christmas to your troop, group or even do this as a service project, donating the items you make to a homeless shelter or other needy organization.
4. Hogwart’s Christmas party.
Most years, there are more staff than students that stay at Hogwart’s for the holidays. Try a toned-down theme featuring decorating a Christmas tree with homemade ornaments and readings from “The Tales of Beedle the Bard”. See the AEP supplement Harry Potter: Ornaments for ornament ideas. What other ideas can you come up with?
5. Host a party for others.
Create a Hogwart’s Christmas for others — younger troops, children at a homeless shelter, etc. Incorporate ideas from the event ideas above or from the specific activities below.
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Specific activities
6. Quick list from events.
Below is a quick list of possible activities mentioned in the Christmas party ideas above. Feel free to mix and match these into your own unique Christmas celebration.
- Create a Christmas feast
- Share a Christmas feast
- Enjoy a Christmas feast
- Dancing
- Proper attire for a ball
- Making decorations
- Knit hats and scarves
- Make homemade gift treats
- Decorate a Christmas tree
- Make Hogwart’s inspired ornaments
- Listen to stories from “The Tales of Beedle the Bard”
7. Donate a tree.
Instead of putting up and decorating a tree, place the tree in a public location. Create your own ornaments or ask others to help decorate the tree. Exchange ornaments on the tree for gifts for needy families. Brainstorm your own exchange program, places that would appreciate a specially decorated tree, etc.
8. Sleigh rides.
Sleigh rides are a wonderful way to spread holiday cheer as the bells ring across the snow. You can do them for your own group or share them with the public and request they share the Christmas spirit as you have with them.
9. Magical bonfire.
Taken from the Harry Potter: Science badge program (Step 8), gather your ingredients to make your fire magical. Instead of being in a small fireplace, create a bonfire outside to enjoy readings or songs.
10. Hogwart’s carols.
From dressing in white to be caroling ghosts to enjoying traditional caroling, Christmas is the most musical of the holidays. Be sure to practice with your group before starting out and perhaps even provide a small songbook with the lyrics for use during the event as well as a memento for participants to keep.
11. Snow sculpture contest.
Create snow sculptures of the architecture, creatures or even characters from Harry Potter. If you want to add color, have spray bottles mixed with colorant available. Keep these bottles warmed so they don’t freeze. Be sure to provide an area to warm up with refreshments.
12. Secret Santa.
Harry received more than one present anonymously – the invisible cloak and the Firebolt are just two examples. Host a Secret Santa exchange and reveal the gift givers at a special event.
13. Socks everywhere!
Allow everyone to bring and decorate one or more pairs of socks.
You might even want to play “Dobby’s Mismatched Socks” game. Provide each participant a pair of mismatched socks in a wrapped box. Everyone opens their box to find their gift. They then must trade socks, one at a time, until they have a pair. They may have to trade for a sock they don’t want because someone who has their sock wants a different one. The prize is each person gets a pair of socks and perhaps a nice card from Dobby.
14. Painting fun.
Pair off your participants. Let them paint a portrait of each other. Be sure to emphasize that it doesn’t have to be an exact likeness, it can be abstract or more realistic.
15. Camping in the wilderness.
While your tents might not be like Hermoine’s, camping in the wilderness during the holidays is a lot more likely to happen if your girls are active in other groups. Most clubs and groups don’t do much during the holidays, so use this time wisely. You might even want to decorate the trees outside the cabin with nuts and berries for our feathered and furry friends.
16. Hogwart’s Christmas candy.
Inspired by Honeyduke’s? Ask everyone to bring their favorite sweet treats for an exchange. Provide rules for sharing before the event to eliminate misunderstanding. You might also like to make some at the event like taffy or bar cookies.
17. Costume contest.
Ask everyone to dress up as their favorite character or Muggle. Rate them on their outfits as well as how well they play the role they’ve selected.
18. Share your ideas.
Do you have more Hogwart’s Christmas ideas? We’d love to hear them. Send them directly to me or post them to our blog at larajla.com.
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Supplements Available
SUPP_HP_Feast Recipes.pdf
Recipes that are more in keeping with Christmas.
SUPP_HP_Ornaments.pdf
Ornament ideas and a few sample patterns found on the Web.
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Sites to Explore
harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Christmas_at_Hogwarts
harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Christmas
thehogshead.org/christmas-at-hogwarts-65/
www.helium.com/items/2043526-how-to-host-a-harry-potter-christmas-party
britishfood.about.com/od/introtobritishfood/tp/harrypotterfavorites.htm chowhound.chow.com/topics/787195
www.squidoo.com/harry-potter-christmas-ornaments
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Beedle_the_Bard
Badge: Harry Potter — Science
These experiments are sorted into length of time to complete. If you’re doing a day camp, starting crystals on the first day will allow your kids to see a progression during a week. Shorter experiments can be used after starting a longer one or for shorter events.
You can use those given below or select your own experiments. Since most science experiments do things that appear “magical”, the number to choose from is great.
For each experiment you choose to do in your activities, do the experiments yourself to make sure they work as described. You can find directions for experiments on the Web. Determine the age level you feel could do the experiments you choose.
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Steps
Longer experiments
1. Grow crystals.
Using either salt or sugar and water, grow crystals. Make sure you have some that you have grown for examples.
2. Seeds/beans growing.
Growing a seed in water allows your participants to see roots start to grow. Your container needs to be clear as well. This project may also be used for “Herbology.”
3. Terrarium.
Create a miniature world within a bottle or other clear container. This is another possibility for “Herbology.”
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Shorter experiments
4. Sun prints.
Using construction paper, use the magic of the sun to make prints.
5. Disappearing / invisible ink.
Lemon juice, sweat, saliva or experiment with recipes to create disappearing ink. See the AEP supplement or find your own recipes for experimenting.
6. Slime.
Find your favorite recipe for slime. If you don’t have one, experiment with those you find on the Web until you get one you are happy with.
7. Carbon dioxide potion.
Combine water, baking soda and vinegar to make carbon dioxide bubbles. Place this in a beaker or cauldron. Find the amounts you need and adjust for your container.
8. Magical fire.
Varying chemicals can change the color of the flames. Find sources for these materials to color your night fire.
- Calcium — red flame
- Copper — green flame
- Sodium — orange flame
- Lithium — pink flame
- Lead — blue flame
- Potassium — purple flame
- Barium — light green flame
NOTE: Other materials can also make your fire magical such as granulated sugar will spark.
9. Paper chromatography.
Chromatography allows you to analyze complex mixtures by separating them.
You can make this a mystery where your participants have to match the ink on a note. Compare with sample pens you have to determine who wrote the note.
10. Levitating feather.
www.mrsruss.com/Science/potter2.htm
Try both the scientific and magical approaches to levitating a feather.
11. Reducio!
www.mrsruss.com/Science/reducio.htm
Reducio! Is a spell to reduce the size of an item. Do the experiment in the link to make an egg fit into a bottle.
12. Dry ice for all.
The smoking dry ice allows you to make fog or sinking bubbles. Search the Web and try a variety of dry ice experiments. Pick a few to share with your participants.
13. Magical balloon.
Use vinegar and baking soda in a soda bottle to blow up a balloon. Be able to explain what happens.
14. Dancing colors.
A few drops of food coloring placed into warm milk and dish soap in a bowl makes the coloring dance on the surface of the milk. Find more out about this experiment and try it yourself.
15. Lava lamp.
Make a lava lamp out of household materials. Be sure to provide any warnings necessary before building these.
16. Wizard goop.
Find a recipe and make silly putty for wizard goop.
17. More experiments.
Don’t stop now. Explore sites and books to find more experiments. Share those you find work well with other AEP members.
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Supplements Available
SUPP_HPS_InkRecipes.pdf
Ink recipes from natural materials.
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Sites to Explore
guidezone.e-guiding.com/bvfmagic.htm
www.mrsruss.com/Science/disappea.htm
www.dadcando.com
www.campfiredude.com/campfire-magic.shtml
www.make-stuff.com/formulas/flames.html
www.yesmag.ca/projects/paper_chroma.html
www.mrsruss.com/Science/potter4.htm
www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/awesome-dry-ice-experiments
www.weirdsciencekids.com/dryice.html
www.ehow.com/how_5668084_make-sun-prints-construction-paper.html
www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-make-a-sun-print.htm
www.instructables.com/id/Science-Experiment-Inflate-a-Balloon-with-Vinegar/
www.funology.com
hobbyscience.com/colorsdance.html
www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Lava-Lamp-with-Household-Ingredients
www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000035
Badge: Harry Potter — Recipes
Add a little more magic to your gathering with these recipe ideas. Try them yourself before handing them off to your kids.
Some of these may be used for a “Potions” class.
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Steps
1. Decorate cakes and cookies.
Whether cupcakes, sheet cakes or cookies, decorating with house colors, edible graph elements or colored fondant, you can make your own Harry Potter themed cakes. Don’t do all the work yourself! Make an example and let the kids create their own masterpieces.
2. Drinkable potions.
Check out the AEP recipe supplement for Brianne’s drinkable potions. Make one or more of the following.
- Draught of Peace
- Euphoria
- Felix Felicis
- Love Potion
If you don’t care for any of those, create your own. Use Brianne’s recipes and unusual ingredients for inspiration.
3. Edible wands.
Dip pretzel rods in melted white chocolate, almond bark or even frosting. Decorate with sprinkles. Perhaps replace the pretzel with licorice to make your wand or even a hard stick of candy. If it’s really hot, try popsicles to help keep your participants hydrated. Make any of the mentioned wands or create your own edible wand recipe.
4. Beverages.
Try creating butterbeer or pumpkin juice. Use the recipes from the Web or create your own. Experiment until you find one you like.
NOTE: You may wish to include alcoholic versions for adult parties. There is one recipe in the supplement for this, but many more online if you wish to explore this further.
5. Chocolate frogs.
Purchase chocolate and forms from your local hobby store if you do not have any of your own. Melt chocolate and pour into form. Wrap each individually with paper or use one of the templates available online to wrap your frog.
You do not have to stick to frogs. For example, heart-shaped chocolates can have “love potion” mixed in.
6. Adjusting candies.
By simple adjustments to candies to renaming them, here are a few ideas for your Honeyduke’s store.
- Acid pops — dip sucker into warm water, then roll in pop rocks. Wrap in new wrapper.
- Blood pops — red lollipops
- Fizzing whizbees — pop rocks
- Jelly slugs — gummi worms
- Licorice wands — black or red licorice whips
- Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans — Jelly Bellies
- Lemon drops — no adjustment necessary
- Owl Pellets — chocolate covered peanuts
7. Muggle dishes.
Since the stories are set in England, any English recipe will help add to your Harry Potter experience. Look for recipes that your participants are not likely to have tried before like Yorkshire pudding, scones and shepherd’s pie.
8. Explore parties.
To get a wide variety of ideas for Harry Potter recipes, search the Web for kids’ parties. Parents are incredibly imaginative and they share their ideas. Find more ideas to add to your recipes.
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Supplements Available
SUPP_HPR_Recipes.pdf
Recipes and food ideas.
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Sites to Explore
www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/features/crafts/food
www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Harry-Potter-Themed-Feast
greensim.com/lemonade/wizfood.html
www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/food.html
www.britta.com/hogwarts/recipes.html
www.budget101.com/frugal/harry-potter-816/
Badge: Harry Potter — Games
The house who wins the most games wins the “Quidditch Cup.” While “Quidditch” is the most recognizable game, you may find other games are more to the liking of your group. You can do a variety of games or choose one for the houses to compete against each other.
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Steps
1. Muggle Quidditch.
Muggle Quidditch is a real sport. Learn about it. Review the IQA rulebook (currently version 4) to get specifics on field size, play and more.
2. Home Quidditch.
Explore additional versions of Quidditch. If you’re playing at home or camp, you will need a simplified version to teach quickly. The kids will be more interested in playing than waiting. Some links are in the “Sites to Explore”. Don’t stop there. Explore the Web.
NOTE: No matter which way you choose to play Quidditch, determine if you will play a single game or if you will have houses compete against each other over a longer time (such as day camp) and on the last day play for the Quidditch Cup. Make sure you take pictures of the winning Quidditch team with their prize.
3. Gobstones.
Gobstones is the equivalent of marbles. The difference is that the gobstones spit putrid liquid at players when they lose a point. Find rules for various marbles games to play.
4. Wizard’s chess.
Whether you choose to have your participants play chess or work as the pieces themselves, chess is a great rainy day activity. Teaching and playing chess is time consuming. You could do this as one-time activity or over a longer time, creating a competition to find the best player or even a Wizard’s Chess Club.
5. Wizard duel.
summercampprogramdirector.com/harry-potter-camp-ideas-part-2-the-classes/
Find out how this camp handles a wizard duel. Create your own list of spells to use or utilize the spell trading cards provided by AEP. Remember, no unforgivable curses.
6. Broomstick races.
Create a play area. Provide broomsticks and adjust your favorite relay and / or race to include broomsticks.”Fly” on them or use them to sweep items.
7. Broom hockey.
Find out about broom hockey. Adjust the rules as necessary to fit your event.
8. Find the snitch.
Get a yellow ball (or balls). Hide them for participants to find. Award house points when found and relocate the ball.
9. Dementor tag.
One person wears a dark cloak as the dementor. The professor teaches the Patronus charm to the participants to protect themselves. After practicing the charm, the participants are ready to play. When they are not successful (didn’t get do it right) or if they ran away, the dementor tags them and they freeze. The professor is the only one who can unfreeze them with a mini chocolate bar. The professor cannot be frozen by the dementor.
10. Moaning Myrtle.
Think Marco Polo, where you blindfold one of the participants and then the rest position themselves around the area and start moaning and crying. When the blindfolded child finds someone, they have to guess who it is. If they’re right, the two switch places and the game continues.
11. Immobulus.
Participants dance to music and when the “wizard” yells “Immobulus!”, the music stops and everyone stands perfectly still. If anyone moves, they are “out” and become the wizard. Then the music starts again.
12. Who am I?
As children arrive, pin a piece of paper on their back with the name of a character from the Harry Potter books (give easier characters to the younger children). Kids must then move around the room asking questions about their character, which can only be answered with “yes” or “no”. Example questions might be:
- Am I a wizard?
- Am I a Muggle?
- Am I a child?
- Am I good at magic?
13. Harry Potter BINGO.
Use your bingo set with special Harry Potter cards. You can find blank ones in the AEP supplements.
14. Mazes.
Whether it’s the maze of the Hogwarts building or the maze from the Triwizard Tournament, mazes can be small and on paper, in a cornfield or even a path of colored sand to follow. Create a maze for your participants. Include hidden items to add a scavenger hunt twist or time your participants to see who gets through your maze first.
15. Triwizard Tournament.
Create an obstacle course for your tournament. Base it on the Harry Potter version or create your own and try to incorporate items to help keep your course within the theme.
16. Printable games.
Create your own word searches, crosswords and more. Printable games can be created before your event. You can use minimal volunteers with printable games as the participants will help each other.
17. Runes.
Change your runes into a game by replacing each rune with a letter and create secret messages.
18. Guess how many.
From Bernie Bott’s Beans to chocolate frogs, give your participants a quick game to guess how many. You can award points to the house with the closest guess, give the container to the winner or award as you wish.
19. Horcrux scavenger hunt.
Create a scavenger hunt with items that might be used, or were used, as horcruxes. This could include rings, books and even people.
20. Trading cards.
Many card games involve trading cards. Find the trading cards in the supplements and print some out. Let your participants create their own rules.
21. Purchased games.
Harry Potter is extremely popular. You can purchase games for your participants to play. This includes games completely based on Harry Potter as well as popular games given a Harry Potter twist. Some include:
- Clue Harry Potter
- Harry Potter Wizard Chess
- LEGO Harry Potter
- Harry Potter Scene it?
- Harry Potter Trivia (various)
- Harry Potter UNO
21. Make your own.
Make your own original Harry Potter-based game. You can use the popular characters or explore areas in the series that give you the freedom to add your own imagination. For a start, AEP has provided a “Hogwarts Houses” sheet as a game board. Share your rules with AEP members.
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Supplements Available
SUPP_HPG_Hogwarts Houses.pdf
Game board to create your own Hogwarts game.
SUPP_HPG_MiscPrintables.pdf
Quote quiz and two character name mix ups / scrambles.
SUPP_HPG_Potter.pdf
Blank “Potter” cards (BINGO).
SUPP_HPG_Runes.pdf
Rune cypher and meaning sheets.
SUPP_HPG_BeanFlavorsB.pdf
Blank trading cards to create your own Bernie Bott’s Beans flavors.
SUPP_HPG_TCPotions.pdf
Seven pages (9-up) of potion trading cards.
SUPP_HPG_TCPotionsB.pdf
One page of blank potion trading cards to create your own.
SUPP_HPG_TCSpells.pdf
Sixteen pages (9-up) of “Charm, Curse and Spell” trading cards.
SUPP_HPG_TCSpellsB.pdf
One page of blank spell trading cards to create your own.
SUPP_HPG_WFFlavors.pdf
Word find for Bernie Bott’s flavors.
SUPP_HPG_WFPotions.pdf
Word find for potions.
SUPP_HPG_WFSpells.pdf
Word find for spells.
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Sites to Explore
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggle_Quidditch
www.squidoo.com/quidditch
www.wikihow.com/Play-Muggle-Quidditch
www.bhg.com/crafts/party-ideas/activities/how-to-play-quidditch-at-home/
www.wikihow.com/Play-Quidditch-World-Cup
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jin9KuMvlYU
www.harvington.org.uk/guides/Quidditch.htm
www.internationalquidditch.org
www.landofmarbles.com/marbles-play.html
www.teachervision.fen.com/harry-potter/lesson-plan/2694.html
www.ehow.com/how_2267460_make-harry-potter-board-game.html
www.ehow.com/how_4597707_play-broom-hockey.html
Badge: Harry Potter — Magical Crafts
These crafts can be used for a Harry Potter theme or any magical /wizard theme you choose.
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Steps
1. Wands.
Create a wand. Make these ideas your starting point. Add your own individuality, mix and match or create your own unique design.
- Collect sticks outdoors and decorate with twine, feathers, etc.
- Use pencils and punched shapes to make wands
- Color doll rods, place foam stickers back to back and add glue and glitter to foam
- Create chocolate sucker wands
- Create wands with paper and hot glue per the “Dad Can Do” site
Your wand can be a stick only or you can add stars, snowflakes, pom-poms or more.
If you’re feeling very ambitious, try a technical approach and add LED lights you can turn on or other elements that add to the illusion that magic is real.
2. Quill and ink.
Make a quill — feather, bamboo or any other material you like. Experiment with ink recipes and find one you like to share.
3. Books.
Provide books, notepads or any other way to hold items collected during the event. You can ask the kids make their own or decorate a purchased composition book. All flat paper items collected during camp will become a keepsake that can be included in your book.
4. Bookmarks.
Bookmarks for each house can be created from original drawings of the participants to materials that feature a specific house or wizarding theme.
5. Runes.
Make a set of runes from air-dry clay or polymer clay if your kids are older. For younger kids, try creating runes by painting or drawing runes on wooden coins or rocks. Learn about runes so you can provide additional information.
See the Harry Potter: Games supplement SUPP_HPG_Runes.pdf for information on runes.
6. Crystal ball.
Create your own crystal ball. Use a baby food jar to fill with oil, glitter and water. Of course, you can put your own items in to your crystal ball. Find instructions for “snow globes” online and adapt these into unique crystal balls.
7. Witches hat.
Make a hat out of construction paper, felt or any other material you prefer.
8. Magical pouch.
Create a drawstring handbag or pouch using whatever crafting technique you prefer.
9. Costumes and accessories.
Beyond a simple hat our pouch, try making clothing or accessories for yourself or others. Adults wearing appropriate clothing for their house, position, etc. Your costume may be as simple as a normal Muggle outfit with a couple accessories that don’t quite fit in a Muggle world. You may also choose to go all out and create a costume like Professor Sybil Trelawny.
10. Broomstick.
Find an old broomstick to alter into a magical one or create your own from raw materials.
11. Golden snitch.
From origami to knit, there are quite a few ways to create your own golden snitch. Find a pattern you like and make yourself one.
12. Death eater mask.
Check out the Instructables Web site and others for ideas. Create your own mask, paint a paper plate or purchase pre-made masks.
If making a death eater mask is too dark for your group, try general mask making and call it “Transfiguration.”
13. Goblet / cup.
Decorate a goblet / cup with rhinestones, paint and other items to make it very fancy. You can also print out one of the AEP goblet drawings to decorate in the supplement SUPP_HPMC_House Cup.pdf.
14. Trading cards.
Create trading cards in the form of artistic trading cards. (See the AEP badge program Artistic Trading Cards for more information.) You can feature potion recipes, spells, poems, photos of the stars, original artwork and more.
For an additional idea, ask your participants to submit their favorite trading cards for an art contest and allow all other participants to vote for their favorite. You can award special prizes, points for houses, etc.
NOTE: Trading cards can also be a game after they are created. Before using originals in any game, make a copy or clear photo of the cards in case they are damaged.
15. SWAPs
Look through SWAP sites to find Harry Potter themed ideas. Perhaps you have items already in your SWAP stash, so check that out as well. Some ideas might include:
- Broomsticks
- Wands
- Crystal balls
- Mini potion bottles
- Beaded safety pins
A few SWAP ideas are included with the AEP supplement.
16. Your own magical crafts.
As you watch the movies or read the books, keep notes for any item you think you might be able to craft. Go back later and either elaborate on your design or create it.
17. Art influenced by Harry Potter.
Provide a variety of art materials. Ask your participants to create a piece of art based on the Harry Potter universe. For an additional activity, host a contest and ask your participants to vote on most authentic, strangest, etc.
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Supplements Available
SUPP_HPMC_House Cup.pdf
Ideas and three templates to create your own house cup.
SUPP_HPMG_SWAPs.pdf
SWAP ideas plus templates to make charms for SWAPs.
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SUPP_HPG_Runes.pdf
SUPP_HPG_BeanFlavorsB.pdf
SUPP_HPG_TCPotions.pdf
SUPP_HPG_TCPotionsB.pdf
SUPP_HPG_TCSpells.pdf
SUPP_HPG_TCSpellsB.pdf
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Sites to Explore
www.dadcando.com
crafts.kaboose.com/wizards-wand.html
www.instructables.com/id/Harry-Potter/
www.barleyhall.org.uk/MakeAQuillAndInk.asp
www.squidoo.com/broomsticks
Badge: Harry Potter — House Crafts
You won’t want to use all these crafts, but pride in one’s house is very important at Hogwarts. A chosen unifying look amongst your participants might be one way to award points for the House Cup.
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Steps
1. House pole.
Pole and a stand that the kids can decorate in house colors or you can decorate before the event. Use a round, long doll rod with groves in the end to attach awards. Create a pole or brainstorm other ways you can track the progress of each house as they attempt to win the House Cup.
2. House banners.
To identify your house location, create a banner. Use a pre-made felt banner or create your own from scratch.
3. Capes.
Instead of robes, make capes. A simple circle out of felt with a head circle cut out and slit down the front. Allow kids to decorate in house colors and add a clasp.
If you’re planning an event where rain is possible, use black garbage bags instead of felt. Tie bags will easy to put on and take off. Decorate with markers and paints. Make sure you test this before having others do this craft as all colors and brands will not show up the same.
4. Scarves.
You can create scarves in a variety of ways. From cutting strips of felt in house colors and braiding them to loom knitting to crocheting, you can create a scarf to wear. Look through any patterns you have or on the Web to find a pattern you feel is appropriate for the age level / experience of your participants.
NOTE: Scarf design changed over the years in the movies. Find images of the scarves so you can see the difference.
5. Bandannas.
Hold a tie-dying session with bandannas in the house colors. Make additional ones in case any are lost. If you don’t have time to tie-dye, allow your participants a chance to decorate bandannas. Brainstorm how your participants can use their house bandannas during your event.
6. Friendship bracelets.
Provide embroidery floss, yarn or similar fiber in house colors for friendship bracelets. Practice making bracelets so you can help those who have not made them before.
7. Lanyards.
Make lanyards in your house colors with fibers as in Step 6. You could also purchase blank white ones and use markers in the house colors to decorate them.
8. Tote or bag.
Totes, bags or another way to carry materials can be decorated by each participant. They will carry their materials during your event. Make sure you have a way to identify each participant’s bag beyond the house colors. Explore ways to do this while utilizing your house colors.
9. House crest.
Each person gets a house crest to decorate in the house colors and include in their book. The AEP supplement SUPP_HPHC_House Crest.pdf has two blank templates you can use.
10. Iron-ons for shirts or bags.
For hotter events, explore ways to make iron-ons of house crests onto t-shirts. You might also want to do this on your tote / bag (Step 8).
11. Cheer on your team.
Perhaps you’d like a pendant on a stick with your house’s crest. Pom-poms for cheering? Brainstorm ways we show support for your sports team and create your own cheer items to use during active games such as Quidditch.
12. SWAPs.
Create SWAPs in house colors or based on your house. Explore ideas online or come up with some of your own. Unique SWAPs may be used for awards for winning the House Cup.
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