To make your own Harry Potter costume you'll need a few things:
Long black dress or black slacks with a white dress shirt. The tie is a burgandy background with a gold stripe.
You can use an inexpensive black twin sheet that you drape around the body and then cut and pin to look like a robe. You can use heat-n-bond fabric to make seams with a hot iron.
Use a frozen fruit juice lid to trace around on cardboard to make eyeglasses. Be sure to draw out the sides so they'll sit on the ears and stay on.
For a wand you can get a large new pencil and paint it the color of your choice. You could also use a large wooden spoon and cut off the spoon part; then sand down the area where you cut it until it's smooth. Paint it the color of your choice.
Use a light brown eye pencil to draw on Harry's lightening bolt scar.
If you don't want to make your own costume here are some alternate choices:
For those who want to look as authentic as possible Alivan's is the place to shop! They have wands, brooms, robes, house ties, house scarves, and even house banners.
Amazon offers this Harry Potter box set for a very reasonable price.
This is the officially licensed Harry Potter Deluxe wand with light and sound! It is motion activated, has 3 magical movie sounds and lights up.
This is a nice wand at a really reasonable price.
Very inexpensive and will really give that "authentic" look to any costume.
Perfect for the mommy giving the party to get in character!
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