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Harry Potter Crafts – DIY Wands, Broomsticks, and More

June 29, 2020 by Julie 2 Comments

Ready to host a Harry Potter party? Or maybe you just want to make a DIY Harry Potter costume? Be ready with these Do It Yourself Harry Potter crafts

Harry Potter Costume

Harry Potter Wand DIY

DIY Harry Potter Wands

What is a wizard, or a witch, without a wand? Of course throwing a Harry Potter party one of the first DIY projects I tackled were some homemade wands.

DIY Harry Potter Wands

DIY Wand Supplies

  • Craft sticks
  • Rope and twine in varying thicknesses
  • Hot glue
  • Spray paint
  • Craft paint

DIY Harry Potter Wands

Of all the Harry Potter crafts, this one probably takes the most creativity. The first step was to add texture and dimension to the wands. I did this by wrapping the rope and twine around the wands and also by adding dollops of hot glue.

DIY Harry Potter Wands

With the twine and hot glue on the sticks it’s time to paint them. I started with a coat of solid black spray paint on each wand.

DIY Harry Potter Wands

Then it’s time to personalize! I used craft paints in shades of browns, black, and white to paint the wands. I used different shades on the different textures to create dimension shading and personality to make each wand unique.

Harry Potter Wands

Harry Potter Broom DIY

DIY Harry Potter Broom

Essential to Quidditch, and an important part of the Harry Potter books, are the brooms. Harry has a few brooms he uses including his Nimbus 2000 and his Firebolt that Sirius Black sends him.

DIY Harry Potter Broom

As I was planning our Harry Potter party I knew that broomsticks had to be on the list.

DIY Broom Supplies

  • Wooden dowels
  • Yellow plastic tablecloth
  • Duct tape
  • Scissors

DIY Harry Potter Broom

These brooms were probably the easiest of the Harry Potter DIY’s. You’re essentially making tassels to go on the end of the dowels that act as broomsticks.

Harry Potter Party

Start cutting long strips from the plastic tablecloths. I first cut the tablecloth into fourths, lengthwise. Then each of those fourths gets slits cut into it, along the short side. Don’t cut all the way through. Wrap the cut tablecloth around one end of the wooden dowel and secure with the duct tape.

Harry Potter Broom

Knowing that we would be playing Quidditch at the party I used two different colors of duct tape, one color for each team. So half the brooms were wrapped in red duct tape and half in white duct tape.

Harry Potter Golden Snitch

Harry Potter Golden Snitch DIY

Harry Potter Golden Snitch

With the broomsticks finished the other key element for playing Quidditch was out snitch.

DIY Golden Snitch Supplies

  • Styrofoam ball
  • Gold and yellow craft paint
  • Wooden skewers
  • Yellow paper
  • Gold pens
  • Glue

Harry Potter Golden Snitch

This was actually the same styrofoam ball I used for my DIY New Years Eve Ball Drop. For the Snitch I started by repainting the ball yellow. Then I went over the top with gold craft paint.

While the ball was drying I made the Snitch wings. Cut out the wings from yellow paper and glue them over the wooden skewers. I drew lines on the wings and then inserted them into the styrofoam ball. Our Golden Snitch was ready for the game!

Harry Potter Birthday Party

Harry Potter Floating Candles DIY

Harry Potter Floating Candles

When the students at Hogwarts walk into the Great Hall they are greeted by some floating candles. I knew for our party one piece of decor I wanted to create were those ‘floating’ candles.

DIY Harry Potter Floating Candles

DIY Floating Candles Supplies

  • Battery powered tea lights
  • Empty toilet paper rolls
  • White paper
  • Hot glue
  • Clear fishing line
  • Small hole punch
  • Scissors

DIY Harry Potter Floating Candles

Start with the empty toilet paper rolls. Punch two holes, across from each other, at the top of each roll. Cut a long piece of fishing line and string it through the holes. Apply hot glue around the tea light and place it at the top of the toilet paper roll. 

DIY Harry Potter Floating Candles

Cut the white printer paper in half length wise. Wrap the paper around the toilet paper rolls and secure with hot glue.

DIY Harry Potter Floating Candles

Floating candles need to look a bit melty, right? So I use hot glue around the top of paper to simulate dripping candle wax.

DIY Harry Potter Floating Candles

The most difficult part of this DIY is probably turning on the lights. I found that a chopstick works really well to flip the switch on the bottom of the tea light when it’s party time. We had our party at the park so I strung a line between some trees and then hung my candles from that line.

Harry Potter Floating Candles

Harry Potter House Ties DIY

DIY Harry Potter Ties

Another fun party activity was sorting the kids into their houses. I made ties representing all four houses.

Grab the image to print your own HERE

DIY Harry Potter Ties

Print out the ties, cut them out, and then laminate them. You can even use clear contact paper for a simple DIY lamination.

DIY Harry Potter Ties

The last step I did was to attach these name badge clips to each tie.

Harry Potter Crafts

I punched a hole in the top and then snapped on the badge clip. This made it easy to clip the ties to each party goer as we did the sorting.

Harry Potter Birthday Party

Harry Potter DIY Shirt

For my birthday boy, I used my vinyl cutter to make this heat transfer vinyl 9 3/4 t-shirt for him to wear to the party.

Harry Potter Sorting Hat

And here’s the sorting hat in action. At the start of the party the kids went shopping in Diagon Alley, picking out their brooms and wands. Then we arrived at Hogwarts for the sorting. After that there were Quidditch games and plenty of Harry Potter treats. Once you’ve made all the Harry Potter crafts, make sure to check out those Harry Potter recipes HERE.

Harry Potter Costume

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Comments

  1. Mr. tiddle.Winkle says

    July 2, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    You have some nerve celebrating Harry Potter after all of JK’s transphobic comments on twitter. Unless you support her viewpoints. If so, I will never visit or get crafting advice from your blog ever again.

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    • Julie says

      July 2, 2020 at 10:34 pm

      I very much appreciate your concern after the statements JK made.
      To let you know, I hosted this party last fall (fall of 2019) for my youngest son who is a big Harry Potter fan. The party was held before COVID-19, masks, social distancing, and the statements by JK.
      I would like to make it very clear that in no way do I support the transphobic comments made by Rowling. I do support the statements that Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and other stars from the movies made.
      I am the proud sister of a member of the LGTB+ community.
      I have always appreciated the lessons of friendship in the books and how Harry, Ron, and Hermione stick up for one another. I am hoping to still celebrate the characters that have brought me much joy.

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