Week One Done!

Well, I had expected to start off the Hogwarts Summer Academy today, actually.  But the girls were all so excited that we ended up starting last week!  So far they have watched movie 1 and 2 and are working on 3.

I didn't have any supplies for the wands as I didn't expect to start so early, but we did do a few things:

We did fingerprint art and created magical creatures with our thumbprints and ink pads for Care of Magical Creatures class.

Next, for Transfiguration class, we did crystals!  I had bought a kit and it turned out really well!  They had a great time!

I handed them out their Hogwarts Summer Academy notebooks which I made out of 3-ring binders.  I also made a fairy book that has fairy coloring pages I found on the internet as well as "information sheets" for them to tell about their fairies (learning about habitats and using their imaginations without even realizing it!).

Two of the girls have gone to visit their father for 3 weeks, so we will be doing some things with them through skype and some things they will just have to wait to come back to enjoy.

I'm looking forward to it all!

Another Day at Hogwarts!

We had a misfire in that the neighborhood kids couldn't come to Hogwarts today.  So we rearranged some things and did a lot of coloring type crafts.

We had Transfiguration Class today and made up magical things from two (or three) separate words.  Then we had Herbology Class and created magic plants from a seed:

I will post all the forms on the forms page since I can't figure out how to put just .pdf thumbnails up.  Feel free to use the forms for your own Hogwarts Classes!

Next we played with marble cracking.  We didn't have any clear marbles and it didn't work as well with the multi-colored ones but it was fun.  I followed the directions from a wonderful site!  You can too - just click HERE.  Really nice tutorial.

We are going to try again with clear or solid colored marbles.  Now, I just have to find some!!

We also spent some time on our Care of Magical Creatures book:

Although we missed all the kids, it was a very eventful and fun day at Hogwarts!