Harry Potter Christmas Tree

Next, I took a golden ornament like these and hot glued a feather on either side. Ta Da! Instant Golden Snitch!

Harry Potter Christmas Tree

As I worked on making the flying keys from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, my husband and our daughter, Jade, helped unpack the Christmas lights and Nutcrackers.

The children hung our red crackle glass ornaments while I finished our flying keys. We were going for more of the Gryffindor colors for this Harry Potter Tree. I used these Extra Large Keys and white feathers to create them. I made about 15 of them but several didn’t make the kid test… FYI: feathers are kinda delicate.

The Golden Snitch and the House Crests turned out really great. We added our red grape string lights to add that little Umph!

Harry Potter Christmas Tree

I ordered a couple of owl ornaments to go on the tree because every wizard needs an owl! We have a Snowy Owl, a Gray Owl, and a Brown Owl made of natural items. I also had a porcelain owl ornament from many, many…many years ago.

I found these glittery reindeer ornaments at The Dollar Store and we used them for Harry’s Patronus. We cut the antlers off another one which created the doe Patronus of Professor Snape.

Harry Potter Christmas Tree

We even made potion ornaments! We used crushed charcoal for Floo Powder, Dried Tea Leaves for Gillyweed Potion, and Golden Sugar Crystals for Wolfsbane Potion. I used some of Gabriel’s scrap parchment paper to make the tags for a more authentic look. We had made loads of parchment a few months back by soaking copy paper in tea until it attained that old look and then lightly burning the edges of the paper. Super easy.