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These magical party snacks for our Harry Potter party were a big hit – especially with the imaginative DIY label templates for the snack jars!
My little one wants a Harry Potter party for her birthday, with everything a little wizard or witch could wish for. Well, I don’t have to think twice: real little wizards and witches definitely don’t celebrate a birthday without the magical sweets from “Honeydukes” in “Diagon Alley”! In addition to our fabulous Harry Potter birthday cake –the Mandrake Chocolate Cake – there will be a magical party snack table for all the enchanted sweet tooths!
With just a little effort, you can turn jam jars, our whimsical labels, and of course, heartwarming snacks into a magical snack bar for your Harry Potter party!
Magical Party Snacks for the Harry Potter Party
Every little wizard or witch likes different kinds of party snacks, so feel free to get creative here. I’ll give you a few ideas for what you can fill the labeled snack jars with. Of course, you can add to this list as you like:
- Unicorn Hair: colorful Hitschler strings*; cotton candy
- Fizzing Whizzbees: flying saucer candy (UFOs), sherbet bonbons
- Slimy Slugs: Haribo snails*, licorice wheels*
- Puking Pastilles: Toffifee*, peanut flips*, Storck Riesen*
- Dragon Eggs: grapes, chocolate Easter eggs*, Kinder Schokobons*, lychees, egg plums
- Ollivander’s Mini Wands: Mikado sticks*, wafer rolls*, pretzel sticks
- Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans: jelly beans*
- Bubbly Bubble Blasts: Hubba Bubba*, gumballs*
- Hufflepuffers: mini rice cakes*, peanut flips*, popcorn
- Dumbledore’s Favorites: lemon sherbet bonbons*
- Squeaking Sugar Mice: foam sugar mice*, chocolate milk mice from Lidl
- Edible Dark Marks: raisins or nuts – plain or chocolate-coated*, M&Ms*
- Pepper Imps: Lachgummi Happies*, Haribo Smurfs*, mini pepper sausages
- Chocolate Frogs: Haribo frogs* (optionally dipped in chocolate), Harry Potter chocolate frogs*, you can also make your own with a frog-shaped silicone mold*
As always, your magical ideas know no bounds. Whether salty, sweet, or sour – your favorite party snacks can easily be transformed into magical treats for your Harry Potter party! I’d love it if you shared your delicious snack ideas with us in the comments!
I’ve put together a list of the best sweets for magical party snacks.
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Delicious Potions
While I was creating labels for the Harry Potter party snacks, I went ahead and made a few more for some delicious “potions.”
For the cool “potions,” I decorated carafes with the labels and colored the juices accordingly. The little witches and wizards absolutely loved it! If you’ve been following us for a few years, you’ll know that I usually add food coloring and/or edible glitter to the drinks at children’s birthday parties – and the kids think it’s spectacular! A fun little highlight with very little effort(check out our dino party with “mud water” for another example).
Our Magical Party Drinks
- Clear Flobberworm Slime – water
- Abyssinian Shrivelfig – apple juice / sparkling apple juice (Since the little ones loved it, I colored the apple juice with green food coloring from the Good Bake drop system *)
- Fire Salamander Blood – red juices (e.g., red currant juice, etc. I colored one of my kids’ favorite drinks – passion fruit spritzer – with red food coloring from the Good Bake drop system *)
- Butterbeer – Well known among all Harry Potter fans! You can find many delicious – and of course non-alcoholic – recipes for kids online. (I didn’t include it at our party since not all kids tolerate milk.)
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Instructions for a Magical Snack Bar for Your Harry Potter Party
You can quickly create the snack bar using the printable template for the enchanting labels and a few jam jars – perfect for your Harry Potter party. It’s a delicious surprise that wonderfully complements the birthday cake and is especially loved by the little ones.
Your minis will surely enjoy helping you put together the magical snack bar – though be careful... some snacks tend to vanish as if by magic 😉
Materials List for the Magical Snack Bar
- Mason/jam jars (drinking glasses or taller bowls work too)
- Printout of the DIY template with magical labels for Harry Potter party snacks
- Scissors
- Liquid glue or clear tape
- Loads of sweets and snacks 😉
Craft instructions
- Cut out the labels from the template.
- Rinse the jam jars briefly and dry them thoroughly.
- Now stick the labels in the center of the front side of each jar. If you plan to reuse the jars for Harry Potter party snacks, I recommend using liquid glue or even a hot glue gun. If you – like me – want to use them again during strawberry season for jam, the labels also stick perfectly with small loops of clear tape (roll a piece of tape into a ring with the sticky side outwards).
- Fill the jars with snacks that match the labels – you’ll find plenty of ideas further up in the blog post!
And voilà – your magical snack bar is ready for your little wizard’s or witch’s Harry Potter party!
Mini-Tip: The snack bar is not only perfect for a birthday party, but it’s also an absolute highlight for a Harry Potter movie night or as a birthday gift for a Harry Potter fan!
My little ones and I wish you and your minis a magical Harry Potter party – and we hope you don’t end up with a jelly bean that tastes like earwax! 😉
Yours, Lia
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