Potions

This is the Potion Cupboard.
For this class, I prepared the jars before the party. I added blue food coloring to baking soda and put a small amount in the bottom, then topped it with white baking soda, so that no color was visible.

The Recipe was "Mandrake Restorative Draught".
The "Mandrake Root" is baking soda, the "Phoenix Tears" is vinegar and the "Dandelion Root" is baking soda (dyed yellow). 

The students were asked to add a small amount of "Dandelion Root" to the jar.

The potion became very fizzy.

To that they added water. 

The water dissolved the baking powder and turned the potion green.
One of the prepared jars contained red baking soda, so the potion turned orange (a sign of on especially potent draught). That lucky student earned an extra ten points.
The guests were duly impressed!

Snitch Birthday cake

This is the Snitch Birthday cake.
I baked two cakes in Bundt pans and stacked them on top of each other, to make a (somewhat) round shape.
The wings are cut out of waffle squares that I found at the Bulk Barn. The hollow space in the middle is filled with gummy spiders and snakes.The flavor is caramel, obviously! 

Herbology Class

This is Herbology Class.
 We painted Styrofoam cups brown, to look like flowerpots and "planted" Mandrakes.

We made the Mandrakes out of Crayola Model Magic and painted them brown. The leaves are green pipe cleaners.

The guests had to re-pot the Mandrakes into empty cups (we had a lot of Styrofoam cups left over from a school project!). The bottom of the (now empty) cup revealed  how many points each person earned. Additional points were awarded for the least messy job!!!

Divination Class

This is Divination Class.
We cut out flowers from paper napkins and decoupaged them onto plain cups. Then we added paper handles and gold paint, to make look like fancy tea cups.  The book is a free download from the internet and dyed with tea. I punched holes into the pages and bound them with a leather strip.

With glue, I painted simple shapes, like birds, hearts and so on (the shape in the right cup is supposed to be a dog) on the bottom of the cups and covered them with tea leaves. At the party, every girl poured out the excess tea leaves and revealed her shape. Then they looked up the meaning in the book.

The pages of the book came with the explanations, I just drew the images to match my cups.