you’ll find Harry Potter Craft and Activities for kids. Every DIY you ever needed as a Harry Potter fan! Enjoy.
1. DIY Wands-Harry Potter Crafts and Activities for kids
Things you need
- Acrylic Paint
- Chopsticks
- Glue gun
- Paper Plate
Procedure
- Taking the chopstick and the hot glue gun start making the handle of the wand, it can have variations and you can customize the design to your liking. To make the rings leave a little space and come back to fill the rest of the rings so that they do not run together.
- To speed up the process you can use a fan to dry the glue faster. Then go back to fill in the cooled rings
- For the end cap make a big circle from the glue, remember to allow it to cool between layers.
- When cooled down start painting the stick. Do a black layer for depth-first at some places, then whole stick with a layer of brown and let it dry.
- Then do the last layer with gold paint using a dry brush lightly. Let it dry to complete the wand.
2. DIY Floating Candles and flying keys
Things You Need
- A Floating Candles
- Paper rolls
- White acrylic paint
- Brush
- Hot glue gun
- Paper
- Tea light candles
- String
- Tape
Procedure
- Take a toilet roll so that you will not need to cut it. Use white paper and cut out the end of the paper to close the ends of the roll on both sides.
- Take the led candle, place it towards the top of your roll, take something pointy, and poke a hole underneath where the candle ends on the roll and one on the opposite side as well.
- Now take white paint and start painting the rolling white. Use a hot glue gun to make drips to resemble hot wax melting without covering the holes you made. Dry Paint the glue wax white to match the candle.
- Glue the circle that you cut out earlier on the bottom to close up the candle and paint white if needed.
- Take a transparent string, pass it throughout the holes, and tie a knot at the ends to hold it in place and hang it later. The battery will also be able to rest on the string and you can change it if need be.
- Make more candles if you want but your floating candle is ready.
3. DIY Dragon eggs-Harry Potter Craft and Activities for kids
Things You Need
- Fake eggs or Easter eggs
- Glue Gun
- Metallic paint
Procedure
- Take the fake egg and start making a design on the egg using a glue gun. Make a design that appeals to you.
- Take a darker color as base and metallic as highlighting color.
- First, do a base coat, and when it dries do the other highlighting color.
- You are done; do try iterations in different colors and designs.
4. DIY Golden Snitch-Harry Potter Craft and Activities for kids
Things You Need
- Table tennis ball
- Leaf skeleton
- Pencil
Procedure:
- Take the ball and using the glue gun draw the pattern on the ball. You can trace the design first and follow the lines to make it easier. Let it dry.
- Take acrylic paint and paint the ball gold. Then pinholes on opposite sides for the wings.
- Take the skeleton leaves and glue them in the holes. Let it dry for some time.
- To make the stand take two lids one small and one big lid. Paint them both black and paste the small lid upside down on the big lid to hold the ball. The golden snitch is ready to shine
5. DIY Bookmarks-Harry Potter Crafts and Activities for kids
Things you need
- Strips of paper
- House pintables
- Glue
Procedure
- For each bookmark, you will need four strips of 24 cm length and 1 cm width.
- Take the main house color first and pate the ends to form an L shape with both ends equal.
- Just below the red strip, paste the yellow strip parallel to the red one. Now take the second yellow strip and align it with the other red strip overlapping the first yellow stripe.
- Now fold each strip alternatively inwards while applying glue in between to give it more strength.
- This will form a chevron pattern, cut off the excess ends at the bottom. Take the badge printout and cut it neatly as possible. Pate it on the top of the bookmark and voila! , the bookmark is complete.
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