Introduction

 Hello and welcome to the blog! This site is dedicated to explaining in detail how my friend and I planned and ran a Harry Potter-themed backyard summer camp. Hopefully this will be a helpful resource to those hoping to pull off a similar event, or simply entertaining for anyone else who come across this blog!

During 4 weeks in June and July 2013, my friend Georgia and I hosted two 2-week sessions of Harry Potter Camp in my backyard (see website here: harrypottercampelmhurst.blogspot.com ). This was a follow-up in many ways to a Percy Jackson Camp I ran the previous year that was a lot of fun. From the beginning, our goal was to promote reading through the experience of a summer camp that would immerse kids in the world of the book.

Harry Potter Camp was in many ways very different from Percy Jackson Camp, and although we did learn a few things from the first time, we had to start from scratch with the activities and material. Luckily we were able to borrow a lot of ideas from people who shared their own expertise on the internet--the Harry Potter series has inspired a lot of creativity! Various websites that were directly used will be included throughout this blog, and at the end there will be a master post of all the websites that we used in our research.

The posts are organized by subject on the right of the page, or you can click "older posts" at the bottom as you read to go through them all in order. You can also use the search bar on the right. Thanks for visiting this site; enjoy!