Harry Potter online gamesMore Online Kids Games » Harry Potter Online Games Harry Potter provides magical fun for kids! They can get involved with the characters and story, even if they haven't read the books yet. Harry Potter is rich in game subject matter - wand games, trivia games, and games using the arrow keys and mouse. There's even an interactive virtual tour of Hogwarts and Hogsmead. I've tried to choose games and activities which appeal both to younger kids, as well as adventurous seven or eight year olds who want to become Quidditch champions or accompany Hagrid on his motorbike! So, wands at the ready, and let's go! Harry Potter online games and activitiesLinks open into a new browser window:Harry Potter Virtual Castle Move from Hogwarts castle to Diagon Alley and back via the Vanishing Cabinet, and follow the hints to collect items for your inventory. Grab poster downloads as you succeed in each quest - it's really not difficult! Harry Potter Motorbike Escape Play as Harry, riding in Hagrid's motorbike sidecar, flying through dark clouds in a bid to escape the Death Eaters and make your way safely to the burrow. The animation is fantastic - and the action truly thrilling! And your child will need to use both hands for this game, one on the mouse to aim the wand, then click and shoot, and the other on the arrow keys to move around. Why not play together, one moving, the other shooting? We did and it was fab fun! Remember to press the space bar for a dragon fire "boost" - whoooosh!
Harry Potter characters Some children will love to cut out a character, stick it onto paper and write what they know about him or her as part of their own Harry Potter magazine. Molly Weasley also looks fab in her housewifely apron - what do you think, heh heh! They really are a great set of characters. Harry Potter at Scholastic Starting with the Sorcerer's Stone, kids can practise a little wand magic, answer questions so that the Sorting Hat can decide which House they should be in, and if they are familiar with the book, there is also a trivia quiz. The wand game for the Goblet of Fire is a little more tricky, as kids try to match clues to keys so that they can open Moody's Magical Trunk! There's also a useful pronunciation guide of names and words from the Harry Potter books - kids click on each word or phrase and listen. Harry Potter online games from Surfnetkids Dolores Umbridge's Cats Harry Potter Currency Collector Quidditch, Hippogriffs, and the Weasleys' Kitchen game First up, a set of fab Quidditch tryout games, just right for skilled Beaters, Chasers, Seekers or Keepers! Next - simply sort Hippogriffs onto the correct perches. Or match dishes of sausages, eggs and toast in the wild and wacky Weasley Kitchen game! This one's a tricky arrow key game ;) The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Virtual Tour If you enter Hogsmead from the Home Page map, you're greeted by the guard of the Hogwarts Express who will show you where to go! Visit Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and whizz through the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, then enter the Portrait Gallery and hear the paintings talk. In Dumbledore's Office, move the mouse to scan around the room. You can click on the "move here" signs and zoom in to see more. Empty a phial into the pensieve and watch film clips and the actors talking about the world, or click on the sign for Hogsmeade and fly through the window and into the village to take a quick virtual tour of the shops. The graphics are beautiful - and of course everything is aimed at making you want to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando. I'm saving up, although we'd have to travel over from Europe, so it would be a big trip for us! I do hope you and yours enjoy my selection of Harry Potter online games!
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