Ideas needed for a Harry Potter themed home school day

[Lardlizard]

We have the outfits, was thinking of making choc frogs etc, was also thinking of some sort of Simple science experiment etc if anyone has any ideas ?

I'll try and find the link but am sure saw something about this on BuzzFeed such as recipes etc- loads of stuff on Pinterest!

www.brisbanekids.com.au/18-magical-ideas-harry-potter-party/

No 16 on the list is all the potions etc

Vinegar and baking soda "volcano"? Put an egg on vinegar and the shell will dissolve leaving a "jelly egg". Cornelius and water mak as a "liquid solid" if you like it slowly it's liquid but if you got it fast it's solid.
Make butterbeer, or pumpkin juice, or cockroach cluster etc depending what ingredients you have in. Go out in the dark and do astronomy - you can get star map apps. Make wands.

Cornelius???? Cornflour!

Make your own spell incantation & what you would want it to do?
Draw your own patronus.
Go onto the Harry Potter site (wizarding world?) and get sorted into houses
Choose a companion - owl, cat, etc
Make a stamp/mould for a Hogwarts wax seal & write a letter

Titianna thanks for fab link

Thanks for the brilliant ideas everyone

Going to start out with an invite to hogwarts

Invisible writing revealing potion. Write or draw something with lemon juice. Cut up red cabbage and boil until the water turns purple. Paint this onto the writing and it will change colour where the lemon juice is. You could draw a map and use the potion to show were the treasure is.

If there old enough to learn a bit of science, the cabbage water is an indicator, and the lemon juice is an acid. You can expand on this by testing other things to see if there acid, alkaline or neutral. (Lots of cleaning products alkaline, citrus fruit or vinegar are acid, water is neutral)

Bubblegum that is genius !

You must be a teacher!?

We've done a couple of harry potter parties.

The best potions we tried were vinegar, washing up liquid and baking powder (can add food colouring too) to make a potion that froths up, and another one where you sprinkle pepper on a bowl of milk, then dip a cotton bud in washing up liquid in the middle and the pepper all moves away (we said the pepper was spider eggs and the washing up liquid was basilisk venom). We made oobleck one time too which went down well (loads of recipes online).

We did care of magical creatures via a treasure hunt where I did loads of toys in different habitats and the dc had to find them.

Charms we did just by acting e.g. somnium and the person pretends to fall asleep (dp did huge over acting). We did a different charm where we sneakily turned music on and off using a phone. I tried doing wingardium leviosa using a magnet glued to a feather and wand, but it didn't work very well.

I almost was, I've done a PGCE but decided not to go on to NQT year. Absolutely loved the teaching, especially practical lessons, but despised the paperwork.

Some good stuff here: harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/fun-stuff/
I’ve used some of these for HP events in school.

Loads of stuff on Pinterest. Wand making looks good but you need a hot glue gun.

Magical creatures top trumps? You will need to make the cards, decide on categories and ratings etc. Could be a good one to do together, rather than you having to prep everything.

Freeze ice cubes with food colouring, red, blue and yellow. Add different cubes to lemonade for colour changing drinkable potions. Learn about colour mixing from primary to secondary to tertiary colours.

@Lardlizard just been to Aldi they have the aisle of fun Harry potter special buys!

I love all the potion suggestions! Depends on their ages, but a few other ideas:

DADA - have a wizarding duel! Find sticks for wands, decorate them, and dramatically act out a battle.
Charms - if you could make up a new spell, what would it be? If you have a child on the geeky/intellectually curious side, they might like looking up a relevant Latin word to use as the incantation.
Herbology - good fun if you have a garden. Identify plants and trees and make up magical uses for them.
History of Magic - write and illustrate (or tell together and illustrate if younger) a story from the history of the wizarding world. Can be from the books or totally made up depending on how creative they are. Bonus points for including real historical muggles getting mixed up in magical shenanigans.
Transfiguration - turn paper into creatures using origami (the jumping frog works great!)

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Cornelius???? Cornflour!

Well theres a Harry Potter auto correct fail

Someone posted a thing on here at the start of lockdown about making children think they've apparated. It involved a hoop and a blindfold I think. But i didnt save it as I didn't think my teens would fall for it.

Also the wizarding world website has quizzes and craft stuff to do

Someone posted a thing on here at the start of lockdown about making children think they've apparated. It involved a hoop and a blindfold I think. But i didnt save it as I didn't think my teens would fall for it.

It was brilliant. You need an adult accomplice though. This was it, I think.

Practice apparition: stand them on a chair. Drill then in the three Ds (you'll have to look them up!) and get them to jump off the chair and try to apparate into a hoop at the other end of the room / garden. Then, when it's time for their apparition test, they have to do it blindfolded. Blindfold them and spin them a few times, get them to recite the three Ds a few times, while your accomplice moves the chair to right next to the hoop. Lead them up onto the chair, get them to jump, they - hopefully! - land in the hoop. Accomplice very, very quickly moves the chair back to where it was during the practices, they take of their blindfold and they appear to have apparated where the chair is now to the hoop. Ta da!

The Three Ds are Destination, Determination and Deliberation! (Yeah< I had to go and look it up too!)

I'm a grown adult and I so want to try the Apparition trick, I'm going to have to talk some people into doing it with me once lockdown is over.

Sapphire determination! That's the one I couldn't remember. Thanks!

Yes that was it SirSamuel I want to have to have a go too but the DC won't play along :(