If you are looking for a Harry Potter party game, look no further. This Sorcerer’s Stone game is sure to be a hit at your Harry Potter party!
If you’ve seen some of my other posts, you may know that my oldest child is a HUGE Harry Potter fan. For the past few years, she has requested a Harry Potter birthday party theme, which has given me considerable experience with all things Harry Potter party-related, including Harry Potter party food, favors, decorations, and games.
At her most recent party, she wanted everything themed around the first Harry Potter book, so I created a Sorcerer’s Stone Harry Potter party game for the kids to play.
This Harry Potter party game corresponds with the seven obstacles Harry had to face while trying to save the Sorcerer’s Stone.
This post is all about a Harry Potter party game.
Harry Potter Party Game
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How to Play the Harry Potter Party Game
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry and his friends have to go through seven challenges to save the stone from Voldemort. This party game has seven parts that go along with the challenges from the book.
Before playing this party game, I recommend splitting the kids up into teams. We did this by having a sorting ceremony and putting the kids into the four different houses.
To make the teams as equal as possible, we used scratch-off sorting house cards (you can get my free printable for them here). We put the cards in a bowl and had each kid draw one out. Then, they scratched off which house they belonged to. The kids had a lot of fun doing this.
After the teams were determined, I gave each team a copy of the challenge cards (you can print these off at the bottom of the post).
The first house to complete all seven challenges and find the stone won a prize. You could also separate each challenge and do it as its own separate game.
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1. Fluffy
In the book, the first challenge for Harry and his friends was to get past Fluffy, the three-headed dog, to get to the trapdoor. To do that, they had to play music to keep Fluffy asleep.
For the Fluffy challenge in the Harry Potter party game, I made a printable song scramble. To complete this challenge, you must unscramble all of the nursery rhyme songs.
Feel free to download and print this free printable below.
2. Devil’s Snare
Devil’s Snare is the second challenge in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This is a magical plant that wrapped itself around Harry and his friends and tried to constrict them. Thankfully, Hermione knew a thing or two about the plant and could help them break free.
For this Harry Potter party game, the Devil’s Snare Challenge was one of the kids’ favorite challenges. It was also super easy to prepare. All you need is a roll of green streamer for each team. We used this green streamer 4-pack off Amazon.
To play, each team must choose someone on their team to get wrapped in Devil’s Snare (streamer). Then, their teammates must wrap them up using the entire roll of streamer.
Once they are wrapped and the whole roll has been used, they must break free from the Devil’s Snare, and the team can move on to the next challenge.
3. Enchanted Keys
The enchanted keys are the next challenge in the Harry Potter party game. In the book, Harry must find the broken winged key in a room full of flying keys to move on ahead.
For this party game, I bought these enchanted keys off of Amazon that come with wings. It has stickers to attach the wings, but I found it much easier to use a hot glue to attach the wings.
Plus, the hot glue helped them stay on better. With four of the keys (one for each team), I bent and glued the wing in half to represent the broken winged key.
I then laid these keys scattered out on a table. The kids had to look and find the broken wing one to move on to the next challenge.
You could also hang these keys from the ceiling, scatter them in the grass, or hide them around the party area.
4. Wizard’s Chess
The fourth challenge Harry faced was Wizard’s Chess. For the Harry Potter party game, I knew not everyone would know how to play chess, and not to mention, a game of chess can take ages, so I created a much simpler dice version.
Wizard’s Chess Setup
The first step is to make your chessboard. To do this, I taped black and white paper together. I used a 5×5 grid, but you can make it as large or as small as you prefer.
*If I were to do it again, I would probably make each colored square be 2×2 instead of just one piece of paper to give some added space on the board.
In the upper left corner of the chessboard, I put checkmate, and in the bottom middle, I put start. You can either just write “checkmate” and “start” or use my free printable below.
Then, I created a printable that had corresponding moves for the numbers on a dice.
How to Play Wizard’s Chess
To play this Wizard’s Chess Challenge, each team will choose one player to be their “pawn”. That player would step up to the “start” space.
Then, another player on their team would roll a die. Whatever their die lands on, the “pawn” would do the corresponding move from the dice printable.
For example, if a team rolls a one, then their pawn moves forward one space. If a team rolls a five, then their pawn moves to the right one space.
We had all four teams use the same board. Because we did it as a race through the challenges the first team that got the chessboard got to go as fast as they wanted. However, once another team got to the Wizard’s Chess Challenge then they had to go back and forth rolling the die.
We also played where, if one team’s pawn lands on the space of another pawn, then the pawn that was already on that space has to go back to the start.
*After playing this game at my daughter’s party, I adjusted the printable slightly because it took SO long for a team to get checkmate. To make it go a little faster, I included two “move 1 space in any direction” instead of the one we played at the party, because teams kept getting stuck waiting for a move to the left.
5. Mountain Troll
Lucky for Harry and his friends, the troll had already been taken care of, so in this party game, participants only have to run to the next challenge.
6. Potion Riddle
In the book, Harry had to solve a potion riddle to get to the last challenge. Because my daughter already knew the answer to the potion riddle from the book, I decided to come up with another one to use at her party.
The printable you’ll find below for this challenge includes the potion riddle from the book, as well as two other potion riddles you can choose from. One is a simpler three-potion riddle, and the other is a more challenging 5 potion riddle.
I recommend solving all of the potion riddles yourself and then deciding which would be best suited for the age of the kids at your party.
1. Three Potion Riddle
Three bottles sit in a dusty line, one is safe, and one’s not fine. One moves you forward, bold and true, one sends you back the way you flew. One hides poison, foul and mean. So choose the one that’s safe and clean!
Three Potion Riddle Clues
- The forward-moving potion is not in the middle.
- The poison is on the left of the one that sends you back.
- The bottle on the left is NOT poison.
The correct potion bottle is the first bottle, which is the smallest bottle and contains a green potion.
Here is the answer key:
2. Five Potion Riddle
Two hold juice that’s ripe and sweet. One is poison, admit defeat. One holds water cool and plain. One is a potion you must obtain.
Five Potion Riddle Clues
- Bottle #3 is NOT the potion or the poison.
- One juice is between the water and the potion.
- The last bottle is not juice.
- Bottle #1 is either the potion or water.
The correct potion bottle is the first bottle, which is the smallest bottle and contains a blue potion.
Here is the answer key.
3. Seven Potion Riddle from the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Book.
This is the potion riddle from the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Book. The correct potion bottle for this riddle is the smallest bottle, which is the one containing a blue potion.
Here is the answer key.
It can also be fun to make potion bottles as props to go along with the challenge. You can reuse old bottles like dressing bottles, olive oil bottles, hot sauce bottles, etc. or pick up some clear bottles like these and use food coloring to color the water inside.
Here are the three different potion riddles along with their answer keys for you to download and print.
7. Mirror of Erised
In the book, the Mirror of Erised is the last challenge for Harry Potter. Dumbledore created this special mirror and shows the viewer what they most desire. However, it was enchanted so that only someone who wanted to find the Sorcerer’s Stone and not use it for its power could get it.
For the Mirror of Erised challenge, you will need both a Sorcerer’s Stone and a mirror. For the stone, we used this red jasper stone, but you could also just find a large rock and paint it red.
For the mirror, you can either use a mirror hanging in your house or hold up any mirror for kids to look into. Make sure to hide the Sorcerer’s Stone somewhere the kids can see when they are looking into the mirror.
We used the bathroom mirror and had the door propped open with the stone hidden on a ledge in the hallway outside of the bathroom.
*I waited to hide the stone until a team was almost done with the potion riddle so nobody would find it before they had completed all of the challenges.
Harry Potter Prize Ideas
We had a variety of Harry Potter prizes for the kids to choose from after the game. Here are some of the things we used. The chocolate wands, aka pocky sticks, were a favorite.
- Chocolate Wands (Pocky Sticks)
- Monster Book of Monsters Notepad (fun DIY craft that you can learn how to make here)
- Bertie Botts Jelly Beans
- Jelly Slugs
- Haribo Harry Potter Gummies
- Harry Potter Pens
Bertie Bott’s Beans
Harry Potter Party Game Challenge Cards
Here are the free printable challenge game cards. Download and print them out. Then, cut the cards out and staple them together. Make sure to have one copy for each team.
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