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Summer holidays are great, but they can get a bit boring. Here are a few HP based ideas to gey your summer started with
a swing.
- We're all kids at heart, so what better way to spend a day playing Harry Potter? It's great fun, and i try to fit in at
least one or two entirely HP days in my summer. The following are ideas for lessons, quidditch etc, hope you find them useful!
- Quidditch: Has your brother or sister got a toy broom left over from Halloween? If so, write 'Firebolt' on the side in
gold marker, and let your imagination take you to the Quidditch Pitch! For the balls: use a scrunched up roll of parchment
(hey, i'm in character) and spray paint it gold. For bludgers: i usually find tennis balls (but rounders/cricket balls are
best) painted black work great. And for the Quaffle, a shiny red ball from a toy shop is good. For the goalposts i use fishing
nets (available from seaside towns) elevated on flowerpots and stuck in the holes in the bottom, then seal the hole inside
the pot with blu-tack, so the stick of the net doesn't drop through. Now go flying!
- For potions: take a peek in the spice cupboard at home, i cleaned ours out recently, and had a great afternoon getting
yelled at by an imaginary Snape! some good stuffto use is: bay leaves, bicarb of soda, herbs, fizzy drinks, salt, off food,
garden stuff, bath crystals, and anything that will go in the cauldron! (or painted bucket)
- Care of Magical creatures: buy fantastic beasts and where to find them, the write essays and do studys on some of the
creatures in there. (I find a new set of multicoloured biros makes this a lot more fun)
- Charms: get a piece of wood and practice those incantations! (A good prop is feathers and fans)
- Defence Against the dark arts: Go and look in all the dark spaces of your home, and try to capture a Boggart! Remember
'riddikulus' and your imagination will do the rest!
- Astromony: lean out of your bedroom window late at night and study the stars
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