Harry Potter Murder Mystery Lunch

 I planned a Harry Potter Murder Mystery lunch for my family. It was so fun! Because it was lunch, I kept it simple and didn't want to spend any $!

 Follow the spiders...

 Floating candles from paper rolls and led lights

 Personalized wands

 Owls delivering the lunch invite mail were found outside their bedroom doors in the morning.

 The wands

 We had a mystery lunch because Hogwarts Dinner Hall was in chaos because of a murder. The kids wrote out their 3 course meal in the menu and only ate or used the things in that course. Tom had to eat his macaroni with a straw and Emma with her fingers because they didn't get a fork in that course. Hahaha!

 While we ate we solved the murder with a game of Harry Potter "Clue". Basicly clue with Harry Potter suspects, weapons and crime scenes but without a game board. I had hid the gold snitch in the house and the person that caught the snitch got a free clue. We had fun and the best part was that we could play the game and eat crazy lunch with me participating since I could mix up the menu and clue cards.

The letter and invites, found on pinterest http://justsweetandsimple.blogspot.com/2011/07/harry-potter-party.html. She threw an awesome party! Tom and I are going to have an adult version of the fun we had with the kids and use more of her decor ideas.

Menu front

 Inside the menu. We wrote what we wanted then ate in order. No utensiles could carry over into another course. We had lunch so Macaroni, chips, strawberries, raspberries, snap peas, lemon petites, ice-cream, pretzels and cow cheese, straws, spoons and knives.

 I made Happy Potter "Clue" game cards. ( Like the game Clue)

I made books for everyone to keep their mystery cards in so what they knew could remain secret. I just used awesome pictures from pinterest.
We had a great time. I am looking forward to the adult repeat.