Back to School Party 2010 Style

We are working towards our plan for our 2010 Back to School party.
With the new Harry Potter movie coming out shortly after school is back in session, I am pushing for a lovely Harry Potter themed party.

We have already had one HP themed party, for the P's birthday. You can read about that party here.

I have been looking at some of my favorite blogs for insperation

Hostess with the Mostess has some very gorgeous ideas including these drinks...


And these yummy wands can also be found on her site.

The following images are from Little Ant Design. I addddddddoooore her Harry Potter work and will be certain to adapt the following for our back to school party.


The wand shop.


Potion Class


Three Broomsticks To Go Bags (which I will use for goodie bags)


These were used to place the movie pass in, however just as lovely for the actual invite we will be sending out....

Back to school party

...and the party is done! Probably one of the easiest parties we have hosted yet! The reason for the party was Back to School, however it was an opportunity for all of my daughters friends who have 18" dolls to bring the dolls over as well.

A picture of the guests of our guests. What shocked me is there were no duplicate dolls brought to the party. Two girls even dressed the same as their doll.


The first activity was to make barrettes for the dolls. We used ribbon and jewels...prettttttyyyyy.


As each of the girls finished their barrettes, they filled in a quiz about themselves that we used to play guess who answered this during our snack time.



The food "buffet". The food was divided into big and little. In addition we used plastic shot glasses as the 18" dolls cup for lemonade PLUS cut regular square napkins in half and folded. The girls LLLLOOOOVVVEED the tiny cups and napkins.


The girls all sat on the floor with their dolls, pretending to feed them. And eating both plates of food.


After snack time, the girls each created a poster for their dolls space at their homes. Oh how long you can keep girls involved with some paper, markers and glittery stickers...

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The girls all introduced their dolls on the webcam. Video to be edited and sent out via private YouTube.com link to each of the parents.


We took three pictures of each of the girls; one of the girl alone, one of the doll alone and one of the girl and the doll. Each girl chose which picture they liked best and and glued the picture onto a glittery piece of craft paper and used a ribbon for the chain.

Getting ready for the Back to School Party

Whoo Hoo.
School starts Tuesday...so that means parteeee.

We have the food purchased

Big and little of everything.

The nametags written out

Using paint chips...

And the goodie bags are packed

The bags are from Ben Frnaklin (on sale for .45 and the goodies total MAYBE $2 per bag!!

The Back to School Doll Party

Alas the invites for the Back to School party and done and on their way to the invitees. Big and little invites, one for the girl and another for the doll that is also invited. The dolls invites are altered to be addressed to them. Ha!