Expecto Potterheads! While you’re waiting for your Hogwarts letter to arrive, a small group of wizards-in-training have been apparating a collection of enchanted Harry Potter activities to bring a goblet of magic into your life!

With the help of our Sorcerer’s Stone, we’ve compiled this assortment of Harry Potter Activities for kids (and, of course, for the geeky grown-ups like myself).  I’ve collaborated with two other Potterheads to bring JK Rowling’s books to life through hands-on magical activities, each with an educational twist. 

As you’ll see, many of the projects focus on Science which is a favorite subject around here. Adding the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to the cauldron makes it even more spellbinding, don’t you think?

If you are a teacher, homeschooler, or a Harry Potter Club leader, you are as certain as the Sorting Hat to find some mystical ideas in this collection to pair with each story, and you’ll find that we’ve made it as sweet as a sip of butterbeer by pointing our wands to its respective book.

Now “Accio Activities”

Harry Potter Activities

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An Introduction to Hogwarts

1. Lumos Wand | Babble Dabble Do

Learn how to make a Magic Wand the lights up with the help of electronics!

From Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone

2. Troll Bogeys | STEAM Powered Family

Let’s be honest, slime does look like…well…troll bogeys!

From Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone

3. Glowing Secret Messages| Teach Beside Me

Did you know this common household ingredient glows under UV light? Use it to draw your own Marauder’s Map!

From Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

Charms Class

4. Revelio Charm | Babble Dabble Do

Learn how to reveal a secret message with the help of refraction!

From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5. Wingardium Leviosa  | STEAM Powered Family

Employ magnetism to make a feather levitate in mid air!

From Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone

Divination & Quidditch

6. Dry Ice Crystal Ball | Teach Beside Me

Harry may have loathed staring into a crystal ball but your kids surely won’t be able to stop looking this one made from dry ice!

From Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

7. Golden Snitch Bath Bomb  | STEAM Powered Family

Chase this Golden Snitch all the way to the prefect’s bathroom! Just make sure Moaning Myrtle didn’t follow you….

From Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone

The Sweet Side of Hogwarts

8. Love Potion | Babble Dabble Do

Looking for love? Try mixing up this bubbling scientific concoction for your secret crush…

From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

9. Butterbeer Fudge  | STEAM Powered Family

A dessert fit for the beginning of the term banquet!

From Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

Potter STEM

10. Arithmancy Math | Teach Beside Me

Learn coding and math with this clever arithmancy activity.

From Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

11. Circuit Wand  | STEAM Powered Family

Another wand to master- learn electronics while you cast the Lumos and Nox spells!

From Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone

More

Stay tuned dear friends, my collaborators and I are working on turning this collection of Harry Potter Activities into a printable for use in at home or in the classroom. We will also be reprising this series to add more magic in the next year… In the meantime go forth and brush up on your wizarding, I mean scientific skills. The power of science and STEM really is enchanting!

If you haven’t read the books what’s stopping you??? I can honestly say this was the best series I have ever read in my entire life. Yes, it really is THAT good.

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