Harry Potter Themed Dinner and Movie Night

Posted 2014-04-02 by thriftyfrugalfun ⇒ follow

Waiting for the Hogwarts Express Photo Oxyman, wikimedia Commons

Ages: 6-13

Indoor or outdoor: Indoor.

Cost: Varies

Equipment/resources: Imagination and the internet.

My boys love the Harry Potter books. After reading the first one, we planned a family movie night to watch the movie and compare the differences.

One of my sons asked if he could plan a Harry Potter themed meal to eat before the movie screening. He also wanted make some decorations for our dining area.

No Harry Potter movie night is complete without Butter Beer

Instructions:

1. First thing we did was to search the internet for Harry Potter themed recipes. There are heaps of websites out there which provided us with great inspiration.

Harry Potter themed recipes

2. Once we had decided on a few recipes, then we made a shopping list and purchased the ingredients necessary.

3. We pulled out a few old Halloween decorations to decorate the table and also decided to make "floating candles" to hang on the ceiling. These were cheap, but time consuming to make.

Floating candle tutorial

We made floating candles out of paper.

4. Once the decorations were made and the table was set we got busy in the kitchen. We made pumpkin pasties, cheesy broomsticks, butter beer, licorice wands, chocolate frogs and of course Bertie Botts Beans!