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Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

Harry Potter Fan Club!
 
Is that not the best reason to go to work? Every Wednesday, from 3:00 to 4:00, an adorable group of students arrives at my room to read Harry Potter. They are the cutest, because they are staying after school, by choice, to read! 
 
I started out by inviting any interested Potter Fans:
 

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

After we started reading, one of the early activities we did was making bookmarks to mark our books!

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club ActivitiesPotter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

After Harry got his wand at Ollivander’s, we logged on to http://www.pottermore.com to see what wand we  would receive!

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

When we read about Harry and Ron on the Hogwarts Express, we made these chocolate frog boxes using this template I found at The Leaky Cauldron.

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities
Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

I had students choose their most interesting character and we started these character maps, using evidence from the text that shows us what the character is like!

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities
Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

 

We started a couple handy charts based on the kids’ observations after reading a few chapters.

We hunted for characteristics of each Hogwarts house.

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

After they noticed the connections between Harry and Voldemort, we started a Venn diagram.

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities
We used an online quiz to figure out which house each student is in (BTW, I’m totally down with Hufflepuff).
Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

And then we worked on creating our house crests!

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

We took pictures and put it all together for a nice little display outside my classroom door! The Potter Fans are in!

Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities
We made some fun golden snitches using these materials: styrofoam balls, spray glue (which I managed to spray pretty much all over my table, and papers stuck there for weeks), glitter, sparkly pipe cleaners, and sparkly gold foam fun felt.
Potter Fans: Harry Potter Book Club Activities

 
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  1. This is such a useful post! I just started a HP Book Club at my school and was struggling with coming up with activities to do before we really get into the "meat" of the book/series. These ideas are perfect. Thanks for sharing them!

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