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DIY Backyard Quidditch

October 3, 2018 By: Michele McDonald7 Comments

Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy DIY Backyard Quidditch tips!

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Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy tips!
One of the activities we were really looking forward to at our Harry Potter birthday party was playing Quidditch! The thought of trying to create a Quidditch field in our yard seemed a bit daunting though. So I did a lot of research into putting together a decent game. Luckily, now that Harry Potter has been around for 20 years, a lot of people have thrown this party before me! I ran into one incredible idea for creating the Quidditch hoops which was not only brilliant but incredibly inexpensive as well. Easy and cheap is always a win!

Gathering all of the other supplies to play the game was pretty easy as well. We only changed the rules a little bit, but the kids really seemed to enjoy it!

Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy tips!
Quidditch Supplies:
Brooms
2 Bludgers
1 Quaffle
1 Golden Snitch
Rules
Quidditch Hoops

In wizard Quidditch you need 1 Keeper, 1 Seeker, 3Chasers, and 2 Beaters.

We altered that by 1 player, having only 1 Beater per team just to make it a little less crazy with all the ball throwing.

You can see above that our “Bludgers” are giant bouncy balls. The main reason for this is that they are being thrown by the Beaters at all of the other players. They are big balls, but fairly lightweight so their impact isn’t likely to hurt anyone.

The Quaffle is a slightly deflated kickball. Again, not super hard, but enough for the kids to toss around to each other and try to get into the hoop.

The Golden Snitch that we used for the game was a golf ball that I spray painted gold.

Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy tips!
I wanted to get creative with the brooms but just was not finding anything I thought would work well. These were mostly 8-11 year olds at the party so I didn’t want giant brooms they would end up tripping over. I finally opted on these blow up balloons I found at Oriental Trading. They are pretty small (just 2 ft long), but actually perfect for our game of Quidditch. All of the players had to “ride” their broom while playing or their moves would be disqualified.

You can download my copy of the rules here if you like. Again, we did alter the rules by one player to make it less chaotic. It also made it so that all of our players were able to have brooms since the set came with 12.

Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy tips!
The Quidditch hoops are sheer genius! I found the idea of how to make them here. We tried it and it worked SO well!!! I lucked out and found hula hoops on sale somewhere since it was the end of summer. And the PVC pipe and piece that were used weren’t expensive at all. We glued the ends of the hula hoops into the PVC piece. Then it was just a matter of hammering the pipe into the ground and attaching the hoops to the top. They held up great! In fact, we left them up in our yard for several weeks after the party and they never budged or leaned or anything.

Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy tips!
The kids had such a good time with this game! I can see why people have actually created real Quidditch tournaments now.

And you can see how small the brooms were in this photo! Though they worked awesome for the game.

Bring the magic of Quidditch to your yard with these easy tips!
We hid a Golden Snitch prior to the party starting and had the Seekers from each team try to find it during the game. Whomever found it won the game for their team!

 

What do you think? Would you tackle a DIY Backyard Quidditch match?

 

 
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Comments

  1. that guy who loves harry potter says

    August 7, 2020 at 1:11 PM

    sounds fun but the seeker who get the snitch their team should only get 150 points not win the game or else why have any chaser, beaters, or keepers?????????????????????????????

    Reply
  2. Jenny says

    July 15, 2020 at 12:38 PM

    Perfect! I love how simple the hoops look to make.

    What type of glue did you use?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Michele McDonald says

      September 6, 2020 at 1:18 PM

      Almost any adhesive will work but I suggest E6000.

      Reply
  3. Kristen Eunson says

    May 28, 2019 at 2:32 PM

    This looks great! I have a Harry Potter theme in my classroom and I’m excited to try this on our last day!

    Reply
  4. Jann Olson says

    October 14, 2018 at 9:39 PM

    What a fun event!! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
    hugs,
    Jann

    Reply
  5. Mother of 3 says

    October 9, 2018 at 6:08 AM

    That looks so fun! My younger two boys have always wanted to play but it sounded intimidating to set up. Pinned.

    Reply
  6. Rotatext says

    October 4, 2018 at 1:46 PM

    harika fotoğraflar
    Poşet Baskı

    Reply

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