13K Shares This post contains affiliate links. An excellent Hogwarts letter is the key piece of a Harry Potter surprise. I knew I wanted to do it up, to make a really cool replica compared to the movie props, so I searched high and low to find the best projects, and I compiled them into a single place here. This post will link the places I’ve used for inspiration, and then how we made changes or revisions to make it our own.
Hogwarts Wizard is a handwriting font inspired by the Harry Potter universe. “Have You Seen This Wizard”, the Ministry slogan plastered on the iconic Sirius Black wanted posters in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Supplies for all parts. Color printer. (optional). Glue stick. Scissors / paper trimmer. (optional). Hot glue sticks.
(any color). Piece of red crayon. Exacto knife The Hogwarts letter First things first, the actual letter.
I used the from the book as my guideline, but edited it to include the Orlando locale and the dates of our trip. I’ve got two versions of the letter for you to choose from; the is great if you have a to print on, and a, which can be printed on plain white paper and still have the look.
(Both files will open Google Drive in a new tab) The blue box shown above doesn’t print, but you can easily edit that text to make the letter say just what you want. (Before you download the PDF, be sure to install the font.) The envelope I have to confess, this one had some challenges. I ended up printing the address and Hogwarts seal and then using my Silhouette to cut it out. Download the for the PERFECT look to your address! The steps here are a little more complicated, but hopefully this will take you through them easily. There are two versions of the template you can choose from: for, or with the to print on white paper.
(These links will open Google Drive in a new tab). Open the envelope template PDF in Word. Use the 4 Privet Drive font to type in your recipient’s address.
Rotate the text 45° (, if you need it). Center the address on what will become the front of the envelope when folded. If you’re using the, print the second page of the file to get the colored back on your paper, so it shows on the inside of the envelope. Once your envelope is printed out, carefully cut along the lines, or I’ve got an here for the envelope outline, so you can use this to cut it out on your!. Crease and then glue the envelope and you’re done! Hogwarts Wax Seal I stumbled upon this and loved his attention to detail.
(He’s even the one who designed the Privet Drive font!) We were really inspired by his wax seal tutorial, so read there for all the details, but we made some changes. Our stamp is molded from a larger piece of, instead of using the coin backing. Once it was baked, Jamie sanded the face of the stamp to smooth it out, and then used the Exacto to clean up the edges. Instead of painting the glue seals, we found that melting about 1 part red crayon to 3 parts hot glue made exactly the look we were going for.
Our experiments are as follows: Top left: Painted (acryclic craft paint) hot glue, Top right: Red crayon and hot glue, Bottom left: Magenta crayon and hot glue, Bottom right (the winner): Combo of Red and Magenta crayon with hot glue. Melt a piece of hot glue stick and red crayon together and then apply to the stamp, no glue gun needed! Thank you so much for posting this information! We are visiting HP Studios this weekend so I wanted to send a ‘prospective students’ invite to my kids. They are 9 & 7 so are not technically old enough to go to school there ? I couldn’t get the font to work in Adobe so I copied some of the text and pictures into word and used the font there instead and printed on parchment. The font was awesome! I printed the envelope on A3 paper and the letter on A4 paper and that helped it fit.
I also included a ticket for the Hogwarts Express and the Knight Bus in the envelope which also went down really well with them! Thanks again!