Happy Birthday, Harry Potter

July 31 is Harry Potter's Birthday. The character turned 40 this year. Busy day for us.
I made bean dip for lunch. Oh, did I fail to mention July 31 is also National Avocado Day?

Nichole helped me figure out our menu plan and treats since she's a bigger Harry Potter fan than I and can think of more obscure references to food in the books.

Nichole: There are bananas, potato chips and sausages because in the 1st book at the island with the shack Uncle Vernon made them eat bananas and potato chips for dinner. Then Hagrid came and cooked sausages for Harry and gave him his birthday cake. In the 6th book, Ron and Harry are cutting vegetables, so we can have carrots. Butterbeer, jelly beans and chocolate frogs are pretty obvious in their reasoning. I can't remember a specific bread reference, but I like bread, so... Dobby shut his ears in the oven? Mrs. Weasley gave Harry lots of toast when he came to visit? Amos Diggory was given toast when his head appeared in the fire and he warned Mr. Weasley about Mad-Eye Moody.

Thanks, Nichole.

A few of us also made wands and we all participated in an online Harry Potter trivia game put on by Orem Public Library. They've been having Harry Potter activities all the month of July and this was the final on Harry Potter's birthday. The team we were playing for won.

We had fun putting on a big Harry Potter Birthday Party for Nichole back in 2017.
This July, my sister's family put on a big Harry Potter party (with social distancing) for my nephew. See what they did on her blog, Finding Time to Create. It's pretty awesome.