High Ropes Challenge Course Party - Harry Potter

Welcome to our High Ropes 

Course Fun Day party, where 

we all dressed up as 

Harry Potter 

characters as we climbed 

people on our course. 

As missionaries at 

Heber Valley Camp, we 

all put on Fun Days at 

the end of the year.  

We pick a theme and 

then have treats to 

go with the theme and 

people from all over 

the mission come and 

participate. 

We have over 100 

couples, so it is a big 

party.

This is our District Leader 

as a young Harry and an 

older Harry.  He was chosen 

to be Harry because he 

still has lots of hair!

This is our other 

District Leader, 

his wife, as 

Rita Skeeter.  

They are the Loose's.

The Steele's as 

Mad Eye Moody, 

and a Gryffindor student. 

The Clayson's as 

Professor Umbridge, 

and a Hogwart's professor.

Sister Draper on the left, 

ready to battle, 

and her husband as Snape.

The Bartholomew's 

as Dobby, 

and Madame Hooch. 

The Warner's

The Stephen's as Ron 

and Hermione.

Hubby as Malfoy, 

and me as McGonagall. 

(Hubby did all of the 

AI versions of our 

district and we enlarged 

them to 11x14 and hung 

them around the course. 

They were a real hit. 

I made and served 180 

Butterbeers made with 

our slushie machine that 

we brought up. 

We served nachos 

with Bugles, Fritos and 

tortilla chips, and we 

had a large assortment 

of candy and cookies. 

Rita wandered around 

interviewing and asking 

annoyingly personal 

questions.  

Umbridge 

sorted everyone into 

houses and gave them 

a house sticker to wear.

As people went down 

Big Blue, 

they received flying 

lessons and put on a 

cape and mounted a 

broom.

And Snape flying down 

on the zip line.  We have 

two zip lines on our course. 

Everyone had a wonderful 

time socializing, eating 

and climbing.

(Our district, put in Azkaban)

This first summer of 

our mission ends on 

September 25th. 

It will be sad to see 

the second years leave 

as many of them live 

in another state.  

We have had a wonderful 

summer serving the 

youth and families 

together.  This has been 

such a choice opportunity 

to live in a trailer on this 

mountain and climb 

come snow or rain!!! 

Thanks for stopping to 

visit our cast of 

characters.

Harry Potter Yule Ball

As you know, we have been crazy busy this

last month with Harry Potter activities for our

Young Single Adult Ward.  My husband is the

Bishop of the Ward and I have fun throwing

fabulous parties for them.

To end the month of house competitions, I

decided it shouldn't be just an awards ceremony,

but a Yule Ball.  Now asking these kids who

are age 18-30 to come to a ball, could be kind

of risky, but we knew that if we made it magical,

showed them how pretty it was going to be, fed them, 

and then turned the lights down they might dance!!!

I invested a little money in netting, sparkling

silver tablecloths and runners, and fairy lights,

but other than that, I used what I had.  

Our Ward cultural hall is smaller than most and

carpeted rather than a gym floor.  It also has the

advantage of having accordian walls that can make

the space smaller, so we closed off a third of the 

cultural hall.  Then we strung a wire across the back

accordian wall to hang the fabric and fairy lights from.

The tables were set with my white pinch pleat

tablecloths that I purchased for my daughter's

wedding six years ago.  The vases and votives were

ones that I glittered for a friend's wedding reception.

I purchased new silver glittered table runners.

Then I filled the vases with water beads, submersible

lights and white and silver naturals.

We had electric candles in vases leading up to the

front door of the church and hung netting curtains

at the front to make the entrance inviting.

A chalkboard sign directed them to the right

entrance door.  We had the ball music playing 

in the foyer as they entered.

As they entered the cultural hall, they saw the

final results for the competition in the bottles.  They

also were to put their names in the cup for a special

drawing at the end.

The star of the dessert table was the five tiered

chocolate fountain.  My daughter used to have a

chocolate fountain business where she supplied 

them for wedding receptions and events, but

that changed when everyone got small ones

that they purchased themselves.  I still get a 

thrill seeing a huge chocolate fountain.  

I also filled tall vases with the water beads

and placed two submersible lights in those.

Some of my metallic trees anchored the table ends.

I ordered a three-tiered cake from Sam's Club

(only $65 - such a steal) and then added a

Hogwart's seal that I printed on my edible

printer, surrounded by edible pearls.

I also created a Yule Ball Chocolate Board for 

the dessert table.

The dessert table was anchored on the other 

end with a candy selection and in the center

The Triwizard Cup (which I purchased recently

at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter).

My niece had given me a set of Harry Potter

Cookie Cutters from Williams Sonoma, and I

made shortbread cookies and dipped the bottoms 

in chocolate.  

Our final item on the dessert table was Golden Snitches

made by a member of the Relief Society Presidency.

On a side table we served sparkling apple cider

in plastic goblets from Dollar Tree.  I have used

and reused these a dozen times - I just throw them

in the dishwasher.

I came as Hermione with the side pony tail and pink 

ruffled skirt, and hubby came in his dress robes.

The invitation said, 

"Dress to impress!"  This was a ball, after all.

It wasn't required, but we had quite a few who 

dressed up.

Ravenclaw was the winning house with over 

15,000 points!  The closest competitor had 7,000 points.

It was a huge success and with the help of some of 

the Young Adults, we had the whole room transformed 

in about a total of two hours.

I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday

Dishing It and Digging It

Sources

Water Beads (I used 1 lb)

Submersible Tea Lights

Curtain Fairy Lights (I used 2)

Silver Tablecloths

Table Runners (I used 10)

40 Yards of Tulle 

(I used 3 but more would have been nice)

Silver Cake Platter

(I have had mine for years, but this is similar)