The magic of Harry Potter is flying into homes around the world with the help of Harry Potter At Home. Launched by J.K. Rowling and her Wizarding World partners – Audible, Bloomsbury, OverDrive, Pottermore Publishing and Scholastic in the aim to help kids during this time of isolation.
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Harry Potter At Home is a magical online space for kids to discover and explore everything they love about Harry Potter and the Wizarding World. Kids can enjoy enchanting craft videos, learn fantastic facts, play Harry Potter games, create crafting magic and watch special readings by famous faces and friends of the Wizarding World.
Daniel Radcliffe will be the first of many exciting contributors to help kids read through the first Harry Potter book – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone. He will introduce the Dursleys, who don’t like anything mysterious. Enter a cat reading a map, owl-filled skies and whispers about the Potters.
Bring the Wizarding World into your home by creating all kinds of wizarding-inspired creations.
Activities include:
• How to draw a Bowtruckle tree guardian
• How to make a mini broomstick charm
• How to draw an Occamy
• How to make a papercraft Howler
• How to re-create the magic of the Marauder’s Map
• How to draw a Niffler
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If you’re reading Harry Potter for the first time, the First-Year Challenges is a great way to guide you through your first ever journey to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Activities include:
Quizzes
• Chapter One Quiz
• The First Year Hogwarts Professor Quiz
• The First Year Magic Quiz
• The First Year Muggle Quiz
• The First Year Quidditch Quiz
Puzzles
• Harry Potter Wordsearch
• Silliest Words Wordsearch
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Once kids have finished listening to Daniel Radcliffe read Chapter One of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone, it’s time for them to take their first-ever Chapter Challenge. There will be a Chapter Challenge for every chapter of the first Harry Potter book.
Kids can also read through the Handy guide to reading the Harry Potter books for the first time or Ten words you need to know when reading the first Harry Potter book.
For all the latest news on Harry Potter At Home, be sure to register with the Harry Potter Fan Club.
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