Harry Potter peg dolls

Hi! This is Future Ticia 2023, and I’m updating this Harry Potter peg dolls post for multiple reasons, not the least of which being, my logo is outdated, but also this can be adapted beyond Harry Potter, but it really did make a fun book and activity, and when we eventually had a Harry Potter unit and Harry Potter birthday party (oh wow, I never wrote about that!), these were all handy.

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A Care of Magical Creatures Unit

Future Ticia 2023, apparently my Harry Potter peg dolls started off with something different.

I had these grand ideas for this month.  I was going to design a whole unit for Harry Potter, and create a lesson for each of the classes Harry takes.  I even got started with these lessons…………. with Care of Magical Creatures.

They happily created their own animals consulting Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You (which the kids have not so subtly been hinting we should get a copy of, rather than the library one).

We also wrote about famous wizards for History of Magic, but since the kids all used their own names in the wizards I can’t share those with you.  Needless to say, their wizards performed mighty deeds and duels.

As we were listening to the third book on audio (if you haven’t listened to them, DO), I came up with my amazing brainstorm, and saved a day that was starting out horridly.

Harry Potter peg dolls

So a happy afternoon was spent painting peg dolls, followed by another happy afternoon starting the paint job on Hogwarts.

Harry Potter peg dolls supplies

peg dolls of various sizes, acrylic paint, paint brushes, ultra fine point Sharpie (for writing details)

Extral details that are fun to add:

Unfinished wooden castle, unfinished small house (the exact one we bought is no longer sold)

These are obviously my Harry Potter peg doll versions because I wanted to show mine off, I’ll spotlight the kids in a second.  I got the inspiration for them from these two sites: Harry Potter peg dolls etsy set, and Harry Potter peg dolls Craftster forum.

I made peg dolls for the various Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, but they’re not quite done, they need some final details.  The kids made the owls.  I also have a McGonagall, but in all the play they’ve gotten her hair bun was knocked off, and I need to glue it back on.

Then we set to painting Hogwarts.  This project is still in full force.  The kids have each painted two rooms so far, and they’ve cut out loads of stuff to glue onto the walls.  (I got a lot of inspiration for the castle and dolls from this Harry Potter peg dolls thread on Craftster).

And then they played, and played, and played, and played a whole bunch more.  I think since we started this project on Thursday, they’ve played with this for about 15 hours, at least.  That’s a lot of play time in 4 days.

For more information on how we paint peg dolls check out my painting peg dolls post.

For more Harry Potter peg dolls or some fun lessons or acitvities check out my Harry Potter pinterest board.