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Harry Potter Family Movie Night

Modified: Jul 29, 2025 · Published: Jan 17, 2017 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

This Harry Potter Family Movie Night with the kids has ideas for homemade wands, decorations, butter beer recipe, golden snitch chocolates, and every flavour jelly beans.

Harry Potter family movie night ideas.
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  • Why We Love This Movie Night
  • Harry Potter Decorations
  • Harry Potter Movie Night Menu
  • Butter Beer
  • Harry Potter Dessert
  • DIY Harry Potter Wands
  • Harry Potter Costumes
  • More Movie Night Inspiration
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Why We Love This Movie Night

  • Harry Potter!!!! We're big fans!
  • The DIY Harry Potter wands were easy to make with things from around the house, and came out so great.
  • We made butterbeer, and goldsnitch chocolates and they were delicous.
  • The DIY Harry Potter decor from things was a fun detail to add.

Over the last few months, my daughter Paige has been reading the Harry Potter books.  So we’ve started watching the movies together as she finishes each book.  Over the Christmas break we enjoyed the first three together, and last Saturday we made a Family Movie Night out of the fourth Harry Potter Movie.  It was so much fun, that I wanted to share it with you and possibly inspire a Harry Potter Family Movie Night of your own.

We did this party quite awhile ago, and it inspired even more DIY Harry Potter decor, including a whole set of Harry Potter Free Printables you might like. And we created a whole snack tray of Harry Potter snacks that are perfect for a Harry Potter movie night. Be sure to check them out for more ideas.

Harry Potter Family Movie Night homemade decorations

We didn’t have anything planned Saturday, and those are sometimes the very best kind of Saturdays.  I knew we were planning to watch the next Harry Potter movie, since Paige had finished the book and when I was out shopping that week I noticed a package of Bean Boozled  Jellybeans -they're just like Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans, so I picked them up on an impulse, thinking they might be fun for movie night.

You know how much we love a theme around here, so I mentioned to the girls I’d picked up the jelly beans, and asked if they’d like to turn it into a family party.  The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, of course they loved the idea of making it into a family party.  And so, our Saturday was filled with creating our little Harry Potter party.

Harry Potter homemade party decorations

Harry Potter Decorations

They decorated the living room with a few Harry Potter inspired things.  They added Harry’s luggage pile and owl Hedwig, along with a broom for flying -not exactly the Nimbus 2000, haha, but close enough.

how to decorate for a Harry Potter party

We were inspired by the scene in the first book where all the school letters come flying out of the fireplace, and added some letters on fishing line to our fireplace.  

On the side chair, is Harry’s cloak of invisibility.  

And up on the mantel, a favourite quote “Mischief Managed”.

Harry Potter Family Movie Night decor ideas

Harry Potter Movie Night Menu

We often make homemade pizza for family movie night, so we enjoyed that with a salad for dinner, and ate in the living room watching the movie.  To go with our pizza we made our own Butter Beer, and it was soooo good.

Harry Potter Family Movie Night dessert table

Butter Beer

To make the Butter Beer, we combined a little bit of vanilla cream soda in the bottom of the cup with some butterscotch sauce, and stirred well to combine.  Then we topped it with more cream soda.  We added whipped cream to the top, and another drizzle of butterscotch sauce.  It was kind of like a soda float, so good.

homemade butter beer
Harry Potter Family Movie Night golden snitch desserts

Harry Potter Dessert

For our dessert, we made some golden snitches out of Ferrero Rocher chocolates.  We used free printable Golden Snitch wings, and hot glued them to the wrappers.

golden snitches made from chocolates

We also ate the jellybeans.  This was so funny.  

We put them all into a little bowl.  You know that sweet smell you usually get when you open a bag of candy?  Well it was certainly missing here, since the vomit, grass, and dog food jelly beans were mixed in there too.  

We took turns choosing one and seeing what we got.  It was so funny to see some of the reactions to a first taste.  And also funny to see who refused to play anymore after one round, haha.

homemade Harry Potter style wands

DIY Harry Potter Wands

My girls spent most of the day before the movie working on their wands.  

They used inexpensive plastic chopsticks as the base for each one, and then added dimension with hot glue.  For some of them we also added beads, and polymer clay details, or beautiful marbles.  

Once they were done, we painted them with regular craft paint.  

They turned out so, so well.  I think they were their favourite part of the day.

how to make your own harry potter wand

Harry Potter Costumes

My an girls also made some costumes for us.  They made the sweetest little doggie Hogwarts uniform for our dog Oscar, out of felt and hot glue.

Harry Potter dog costume

And for the rest of us, school ties to match our houses.  We had all taken an on-line quiz before to see what house we belonged to.

Harry Potter Family Movie Night house ties

This was such a fun night, and I know we were making special memories too.

Harry Potter Family Movie Night -homemade wands, decorations, butter beer recipe, golden snitch chocolates, and every flavour jelly beans.

It was almost all stuff we had around the house.  I think the only thing I had to buy was the package of jelly beans.  

It’s a reminder to me that sometimes all we need is time enough to create something fun.  Often our weekends are busy, or full of errands and jobs to do, but there is something special about a Saturday with no real plans,and all the possibilities it holds.

Harry Potter Movie Night dessert table

As we say around here a lot, life is what we make it, so we may as well make it a party, and this is the perfect example of that.  May your life be marked with great celebrations, some as simple as an amazing family movie night.

Harry Potter dessert ideas

With a Harry Potter Family Movie Night, life really is a party!

More Movie Night Inspiration

  • Harry Potter snacks and treats board.
    Harry Potter Inspired Snacks and Treat Ideas
  • Harry Potter DIY Decor & Free Printables used to create this Potions Classroom.
    Harry Potter DIY Decor and Free Printables
  • Free movie night printables including a free ticket, popcorn banner, food labels, and signs.
    Free Movie Night Printables
  • Halloween movie night free printables
    Halloween Movie Night Ideas and Free Printables

If you try any of our Harry Potter Movie Night Ideas or any other ideas on my blog please let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!

Frequently Asked Questions

Where did you find the every flavor beans?

I spotted them at the party store. You could also look for them at speciality candy shops or on-line.

How long did it take to make the Harry Potter wands?

We worked on the in stages, since we need to let the hot glue dry, bake the polymer clay, let it cool, attach it with hot glue, and then finally paint the wands. It was probably an hour or two project, broken up over the afternoon.

Where did you get the suitcases and bird cage?

These are some vintage ones I actually use as decor. I found the suitcases at an antique show years ago, and the bird cage was a thrift store find that we spray painted gold to use as decor. They came in handy for this project.

 

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