The Unofficial Harry Potter Party Book: From Monster Books to Potions Class! Crafts, Games, and Treats (3 page)

Fill each bud vase with a few gems for each house as guests arrive.
Red: Gryffindor
Blue: Ravenclaw
Green: Slytherin
Yellow: Hufflepuff
Use the house points to reward the guests by giving gems to their houses throughout the party whenever someone from that house wins a game or answers a question correctly.
The house with the most gems at the end of the party is the House Cup winner.

I. Paint a face on your celery root -- as cute or as menacing as

you like.
II. Push the leaves into the top of the celery root. This is easy to do because the celery root is firm, but soft inside.
III. Put some soil into the pot and put your mandrake into the soil.
Tip:
You can find celery root in your local grocery store near the ginger.
Make sure to put on some earmuffs before you take your new mandrake out of its pot!
I. Starting with a helium-filled balloon, draw yellow eyes at the top of the balloon. Line the yellow eyes with black marker and add big, black pupils.
II. Add the beak, feet, details of the feathers, and spots.
III. When the marker has dried, tie a long piece of kitchen twine to the bottom of the balloon.
IV. Tie the invitation near the bottom of the balloon using the twine.
V. Put a weight on the end of the twine.
I.Mix the tube of brown paint with the water.
II. Dip the coffee filters and paper into the brown paint/water mixture. Let them dry.
III. Cut labels out of the paper with the decorative edge scissors.
IV. If you’d like darker paper, dip your paper in the brown paint again.