Badge: Harry Potter – Magical Crafts

These crafts can be used for a Harry Potter theme or any magical /wizard theme you choose. Don’t feel limited what you find here and online. Make sure to incorporate your own ideas and imagination.

Steps

1. Wands.

Create a wand. Make these ideas your starting point. Add your own individuality, mix and match or create your own unique design.

Collect sticks outdoors and decorate with twine, feathers, etc.
Use pencils and punched shapes to make wands
Color doll rods, place foam stickers back to back and add glue and glitter to foam
Create chocolate sucker wands
Create wands with paper and hot glue per the “Dad Can Do” site

Your wand can be a stick only or you can add stars, snowflakes, pom-poms or more.

If you’re feeling very ambitious, try a technical approach and add LED lights you can turn on or other elements that add to the illusion that magic is real.

2. Quill.

Make a quill — feather, bamboo or any other material you like. Experiment with ink recipes and find one you like to share.

3. Books.

Provide books, notepads, folders or any other way to hold items collected during the event. You can ask the kids make their own or decorate a purchased composition book. All flat paper items collected during camp will become a keepsake that can be included in your book. You may even want to add a “saving memories” class to show different ways to save keepsakes this way.

4. Bookmarks.

Bookmarks for each house can be created from original drawings of the participants to materials that feature a specific house or wizarding theme. You can also choose to make “coloring sheet” versions for younger participants who are good at coloring but not at creating original artwork.

5. Runes.

Make a set of runes from air-dry, hand-made or polymer clay if your kids are older. For younger kids, try creating runes by painting or drawing runes on wooden coins or rocks. Learn about runes so you can provide additional information. Some starting information is included in the supplements below.

6. Crystal ball.

Create your own crystal ball. Use a baby food jar to fill with oil, glitter and water. Of course, you can put your own items in to your crystal ball. Find instructions for “snow globes” online and adapt these into unique crystal balls.

7. Witch hat.

Make a hat out of construction paper, felt or any other material you prefer. You may want to decorate them yourself or allow others to do so.

8. Pouch.

Create a drawstring handbag or pouch using whatever crafting technique you prefer. Decoration is optional.

9. Costumes.

Beyond a simple hat or pouch, try making clothing or accessories for yourself or others. Adults wearing appropriate clothing for their house, position, etc. Your costume may be as simple as a normal Muggle outfit with a couple accessories that don’t quite fit in a Muggle world. You may also choose to go all out and create a costume like Professor Sybil Trelawny.

10. Broomstick.

Find an old broomstick to alter into a magical one or create your own from raw materials.

11. Snitch.

From origami to knit, there are quite a few ways to create your own golden snitch. Find a pattern you like online and make one.

12. Mask.

Check out the Instructables Web site and others for ideas on death eater masks. Create your own mask, paint a paper plate or purchase pre-made masks.

If making a death eater mask is too dark for your group, try general mask making and call it a “Transfiguration mask” or you might make one for a magical, masquerade ball.

13. Goblet.

Decorate a goblet or cup with rhinestones, paint and other items to make it very fancy. Local dollar stores often have cheap glasses you can use for this purpose. You can also print out one of the Enrichment Project goblet drawings to decorate if you’d rather not make a usable one.

14. Cards.

Create trading cards in the form of artist trading cards. (See the ATC badge set for more information.) You can feature potion recipes, spells, poems, photos of the stars, original artwork and more.

For an additional idea, ask your participants to submit their favorite trading cards for an art contest and allow all other participants to vote for their favorite. You can award special prizes, points for houses, etc.

NOTE: Trading cards can also be a game after they are created. Before using originals in any game, make a copy or clear photo of the cards to use instead of the originals.

15. SWAPs.

Look through SWAP sites to find Harry Potter themed ideas. Perhaps you have items already in your SWAP stash, so check that out as well. Some ideas might include:

Broomsticks
Wands
Crystal balls
Mini potion bottles
Beaded safety pins in house colors

A few SWAP ideas are included with the supplements.

Badge and Supplement Files

Member Level

0EP_B_BPG_HP_MagicCrafts_2in_12up_MS1_larajla — generic badge printable
0EP_BLIST_HP_MagicCrafts_MS1_larajla — badge items per membership level
0EP_BSET0_HP_MagicCrafts_MS1_larajla —badge set and related badges
0EP_SUPP0_HP_MagicCrafts_Journal_MS1_larajla — badge journal
0EP_SUPP0_HP_MagicCrafts_Planner_MS1_larajla — badge planner
0EP_SUPPL_HP_MagicCrafts_MS1_larajla — supplements currently available per membership level

Supplement Fun

0EP_SUPP0_Color Fun_Harry Potter_Goblet 1_MS2_larajla – Color Fun: Goblet outline
0EP_SUPP0_Color Fun_Harry Potter_Goblet 2_MS2_larajla – Color Fun: Goblet outline
0EP_SUPP0_Color Fun_Harry Potter_Goblet 3_MS2_larajla – Color Fun: Goblet outline
0EP_SUPP0_Instruct Fun_HP_Earn Cup_MS2_larajla – Instruct Fun: Earning the House Cup
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP Bolt_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: Lightning bolt charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP Deathly Hollows_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: Deathly Hollows charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP Hogwarts Railway_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: Hogwarts railway charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP Hogwarts_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: Hogwarts charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP HP_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: HP charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP_Platform_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: 9-3/4 charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP_Potter_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: Potter charm
0EP_SUPP0_SWAP Fun_Charm_HP_Wizarding_MS2_larajla – SWAP Fun: Wizarding World charm

Sites to Explore

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Get the PDFs of the badge program / supplements here

Badge: Harry Potter – Magical Crafts

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