Hogwarts Enrollment

I had her write a letter to Hogwarts requesting her registration packet, and put it outside our front door for the owls to take to Hogwarts for her. She found a scroll tied to the door a few days later with her enrollment packet, (Registration form with class interest query, Sorting hat questionnaire and directions for making a Owl Post Box). She decorated a box from the dollar store she placed her completed forms in it.

A few more days brought a Supply List, Wand Order form with a place to trace her hand for measurement, Robes order form and a Diagon Alley order form. We traced her hand, measured other random parts of her body as directed on the Madam Maulkin's form and copied her other supplies onto the Diagon Alley form and put them out for the owl post.

Over the next two weeks or so she received her orders. I sewed a robe and hat out of black cotton. I glued feathers onto pencils and put them in a box marked "Training Quills". I made a wand with sculpy for a handle over a 1/2" dowel sanded so it tapered at the point, (not a sharp point though). I bought a primary lined paper tablet, stickers and other cute stuff that fit the theme at the dollar store. I wrapped each delivery in brown paper, (I bought a roll at a packing store), included invoices, and used address labels and stamp printed off the yahoo group, cut out and taped on.

The following week brought her Sorting hat results, Welcome to Gryffindor letter, a "Fairy Advisor is Arriving soon" letter,(saying that a fairy will come to stay with her and oversee her schooling. She may look like plastic but will travel throughout the house, leave notes and glitter in random places, and report back to hogwarts on any rule breaking) and directions for her fairy house. We chose a box to use as a base,gathered sticks, leaves, and fabric scraps. She decided what went where and I glued them on. She cut out blankets, drew furniture and cut it out.

She put the house in her room before she went to bed the night before her classes started. In the morning she found a fairy in the house, (I actually used one of the Disney Fairies' dolls), and a scroll in her owl post box with welcome letters from each of her teachers and her first week's assignments.