Monday, January 24, 2011

Diagon Alley

When guests first arrived, they were brought down to Diagon Alley. I had removed most of the toys from our playroom (dumped them in my bedroom) and set up the shops. The first stop was Gringotts, where they got to pick up their Galleons. The coins are pirate coins from Oriental Trading, and the little bags were from Michael's (in the wedding section).





Then they went to Madam Malkin's, where they bought robes (the little cards say Small and Large in HP font) and hats. The robes are men's black t-shirts cut straight up the front. The hats were from the dollar section at Target around Halloween.





Next was Ollivander's, the most anticipated shop. We didn't do a wand choosing ceremony, rather we just let them try out all the wands and decide which they liked best. The boxes are spaghetti boxes covered in contact paper, with the length, wood, and core written on them. The wands were dowels with handles made of Sculpey (sorry, don't have a pic of the wands).





Then they picked up their cauldrons. These were from Oriental Trading, I think part of the St. Patrick's Day section.





The kids really enjoyed shopping in Diagon Alley. They had to pay me one coin for each thing they bought, then the rest of their money was to be spent in Honeydukes.

For the signs.. I got plaques from AC Moore for a few dollars each and used acrylic paints. For the most part, I used images from Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter as inspiration.

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