Today I have tried to recreate the Hogwarts Halloween Feast in the first Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Being in my dining room, it is on a much smaller scale but super fun for Halloween none the less.Inspiration pic from everythingharrypotter.tumblr.com
One of the funnest things about this table were the floating jack-o-lanterns. All the family had to come up and check these out. They are hanging from the ceiling with a clear push pin and invisible thread and lit by a glow stick. The pumpkins were a very light weight plastic and I got them at the Dollar General Store for $6 a piece.
I really enjoyed this effect, it was super fun and just the kind of magic you need at Halloween.
Here I have taken a picture of the Hogwarts crest and placed it over my art for a temporary Halloween makeover.
I have put some props out from the potions lab at Hogwarts. I have the Sorting Hat, books with shabby covers, spell, and potion books set about.
If you use your imagination we could say that my son has created a little of the spider nest in the Forbidden Forest in the corner there. He really saw it!
Oh, and let's not forget the food!
The food on the table was copied after the movie also. A cauldron loaded with lollipops.
A bowl of apples with leaves, marshmallows, and a gummy bat.
Sugar cones rolled in chocolate, covered in sprinkles, and in a bed of M&M's. (In the movie I think it was a bed of jelly beans.)
A pumpkin pie. (In the movie it was a chocolate drizzled cheesecake.)
Candy bars with candy canes wrapped in gummy bugs and spiders.
What fun candy they now make for Halloween.
The Harry Potter series came out about the time my oldest began to read. For little boys; who would rather be active than sit still with a book, Harry Potter was the first experience of truly visiting a whole new world through reading. I read the whole book to him and his little brother and they gained an appreciation of the magic a book can hold. Mom enjoyed reading it for the first time as much as they enjoyed hearing it. That book will always be one of my favorite things because we shared the fun.
Enjoy the fun and the fantasy of Halloween!This is a re-post from 2010.