We’ve been having a throw back moment on Harry Potter parties lately, so I thought sharing some of our beloved HP themed party ideas on this blog might be helpful to those who are planning/organising one.

Here are ideas on how to create your own stash of wizard “potions” and “potion ingredients” for your next Harry Potter themed party.

INGREDIENTS

• Acromantula Venom – Green or black colouring and water
• African Red Pepper – If you have red chilli peppers (real or artificial), you can use them. Take care that it’s safe for children though, if it’s a children’s party
• African Sea Salt – Any sea salt (or plain cooking salt) available in your kitchen

• Cat Hair – If you have a cat, collect some of its stray hairs. We don’t have a cat, so we plucked out some of our gray hairs (lol!!!) and cut the strands into shorter lengths.
• Cinnamon – There should be some of the real stuff in your kitchen.

• Dragon Dung – We used raisins.

• Gillyweed – Add green colouring to water. Then take some magical-looking greens from your backyard (or front yard), and add into the coloured water.
• Infusion of Wormwood – Green colouring and water
• Lavender – The real thing, if available, or similar looking herbs or grasses.
• Mint – If you have real mint leaves from your garden or kitchen, that would be perfect!
• Moondew – Plain water in a coloured (wine) bottle
• Moonstone (Powdered) – Use white or yellow luminous powder. If you have none, you can improvise and use any white powder, mixed with glitter powder.
• Morning Dew – Plain water

• Octopus Powder – Some random spice from the kitchen. I might have used Allspice.
• Peppermint – The real thing, if available, or similar looking herbs or grasses.

• Salamander Blood – Again, colouring and water.
• Salt – Of course, whatever salt you’ve got in your kitchen should be fine.

• Unicorn Blood – I used some light blue glittery craft paint, ‘coz it does look magical enough.

• Wartcap Powder – I used talcum powder, but it should be a beige-coloured powder. If you’ve got some old face powder you were planning to throw out, that should work. In desperate cases, lightly toast some flour.
• Wiggenbush Bark – any dried bark from your backyard will do.

POTIONS

• Ageing Potion – Create a dull green colouring and water mixture
• Amortentia – Add red food colouring (or any kind of liquid colouring) to water.
• Calming Draught – Dull blue colouring and water
• Draught of Living Death – Plain water.
• Elixir of Life – Red colouring and water.
• Essence of Insanity – Bright green colouring and water
• Felix Felicis – Cooking oil. Or you can add a bit of yellow colouring to water, if you’d rather have a water-based liquid.
• Polyjuice Potion – Appearance varies depending on the person to be impersonated, so you can have it looking however you want.
• Skele-Gro – Yellow colouring and water
• Veritaserum – Plain water. Use coloured bottle so it looks a bit fancy.